As Aquabounty gets closer to FDA approval for genetically modified salmon, we need to take a closer look at this issue. Do you really want to eat salmon with genes from other fish, without even knowing it? Andrew Gunther’s blog explores the issue: News that an “efficient and environmentally sustainable” genetically modified (GM) salmon...
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Source: Jill Richardson’s Blog Apparently not. Shauna Ahern of the famous Gluten-Free Girl blog is paid to write a blog for the National Pork Board. She just wrote a piece about a factory hog farm she visited and how wonderful it was. Here’s an excerpt: The entire place felt warm. Even though there were...
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Robert Kenner’s documentary Food, Inc. claims that it is “lifting the veil” over the way our food is farmed and produced. And it is a veil of secrecy that our government and corporations would like to maintain. There have been many books on the subject of the industrialization of our food system (such as...
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Raj Patel’s Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System (Melville House, 2008) is a sweeping study of the frightening impacts of trade liberalization on food production and distribution. This 319 page-long argument (not including notes) can be a bear to get through, partly because at times it feels like the...
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Back in 2004 Deborah Koons Garcia (wife of the late Jerry Garcia) made this documentary about genetically modified food. It features visionary Andrew Kimbrell and reveals the greed of the corporation Monsanto.
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