By: isaacschumann
Great post, Keith, nothing to add. You should do a future piece on the work of Gebisa Ejeta, a recent winner of the world food prize and a professor in my hometown at Purdue and a friend of my...
View ArticleBy: Keith Grubb
Can I get an Amen, that there is a huge amount of “Peddling Irrantional Climate Fears”?
View ArticleBy: Neven
What we do know is that after 14 years of consumption there has been not a single instance of harm to human health or the environment Smoking causes lung cancer? Nonsense. There is no single instance...
View ArticleBy: Jarmo
As far as science is concerned there is no case agains GM foods. This case is far more interesting as an example of what we choose to fear and what we choose to accept as “normal”. Obesity epidemic and...
View ArticleBy: Pascvaks
As always, the Newspaper business, and today the NewsMedia business, and to some extent the Weblog business, is about selling things and making a profit. It’s NOT about the truth of anything. It’s...
View ArticleBy: Gaythia
I think that this is yet another subject that calls for an analysis with greater complexity. In the first place, the technology of making genetic changes in food crops has been with us, in some form,...
View ArticleBy: Alexander Harvey
I think that the natural interest in, and wide publicising of, genetically engineered bioluminescence, a common first step in proof of principle, has understandably helped to conjure up the spectre of...
View ArticleBy: Keith Kloor
@7 & 8: Thanks for the smart questions and perspectives. You both make excellent points, and this is a topic I’d like to write more on, so you’ve given me good…er…food for thought.
View ArticleBy: Zajko
I agree with #7 here. Is concern over herbicides/pesticides irrational? It’s hard to prove an acute case of poisoning, so is it rational to douse our food in as much of the stuff as possible – short of...
View ArticleBy: Artifex
My main worry about GMOs is that they may be a little bit too successful. The boost in productivity comes in exchange against general diversity. This is dangerous in the sense that we are in a...
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