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California’s Preposterous Prop 37
October 18 2012
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On Election Day, California voters will decide on another food labeling ballot initiative, one that is being watched intently by the food industry. If it passes,…
Trade Agreements
July 7 2011
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It’s almost every other word out of their mouths. The President and Members of Congress talk about jobs all the time. President Obama is bragging about crating 2 million new…
GE Crops Under Attack
January 6 2011
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I remember as a boy hoeing weeds in our corn fields and pulling weeds in the bean fields. I recall the plant damage that our corn suffered from root worms and corn bore. Along came…
GM Sugar Beets
October 21 2010
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There is no limit to the mischief that the environmental whackos can cause. You never know where they will strike. They have found a judge in the U.S. District Court of Northern…
Set the Record Straight
July 29 2010
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For two years now, environmentalists have wanted to pass legislation to cap greenhouse gases. Put a tax on carbon. Don’t touch the rain forests. We want “sustainable” agriculture.
Well,…
GM Crops Under Assault
June 24 2010
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I have been very critical of the liberal position of the New York Times editorial page, but not today. My compliments to Pamela Ronald, a professor of plant pathology at the University of…
Biotechnology on the March
March 18 2010
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As we fought the weather challenge last fall, I couldn’t help but marvel at how the corn was still standing like trees – straight and tall. It was almost Christmas. Thirty or forty years…
GM Crops Blessed By the Vatican
August 6 2009
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Maybe you missed this, but I think it is significant. The Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Science has endorsed genetically modified crops. It’s good to have the Pope on our side. The Vatican is…
Frito Lay
February 8 2000
I never thought of Frito com chips as Frankenstein food. Is Frito-Lay, the maker of the top 10 U.S. snacks telling me that there is something wrong with my Doritos? Surely if I wash them down with a little tequila it will be alright!
Why would Frito-Lay jump on the Greenpeace bandwagon? I guess I understood when Heinz and Gerber said they wouldn't use genetically modified products in their baby food.
This action by Frito-Lay is a giant over reaction. The public is not concerned by…
