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| 1) | 12/2/08 | This Time, a Proper Welcome for the Biotech Tortilla Remember the StarLink biotech corn scare? Back in October 2000 a handful of environmental activist groups (organized by an organic-food-fetishist religious cult connected to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi) used a |
| 2) | 1/18/07 | Hey, Starbucks! I'll Take Mine De-Calf . . . -- Generated by XStandard version 1.7.1.0 on 2007-01-18T15:12:42 -->On Tuesday, Starbucks announced that most of its West Coast and New England coffeehouses will no longer be serving dairy products from cows given Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH), a synthetic supplement that stimulates milk production. At this rate of capitulation to activist pressure, look for Starbucks to take the |
| 3) | 12/21/06 | Infected Lettuce? Blowhard Activists? Zap’em Both Yet the FDA hasn't approved irradiation for widespread use, primarily because of a campaign run by anti-tech reactionaries like the Organic Consumers Association, Ralph Nader's Public Citizen, and the increasingly misguided Consumer ... |
| 4) | 10/19/06 | Divide Grows Between Biotech Reality and Activist Rhetoric David Blaine's got nothing on the minions of the anti-biotech movement. Greenpeace -- the godfather of the anti-GMO cabal -- has sent 1,500 "detectives" across France to "out" ... |
| 5) | 8/21/06 | Puffed Rice While the Center for Science in the Public Interest complained to The Washington Post about the lack of government oversight of crop science, the group conceded that "there is no safety risk." ls target=_blank>trade embargo on U.S. long-grain rice -- which the Japanese Health Ministry said |
| 6) | 6/30/06 | Declare Your Independence Offending groups include, but are not limited to, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, the Environmental Working Group, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Organic Consumers Association... |
| 7) | 6/14/06 | Could Some Mad Cows Be 'All Natural'? The common thread running through activist mad-cow campaigns is that "corporations" (defined as those who raise more than ten head of cattle and haven't gone "organic") are the mad-cow culprits. (See here, here, and |
| 8) | 1/11/05 | NY Times’ Jane Brody: Benefits Of Biotech Crops Today, The New York Times' Jane Brody -- whose three decades of work has made her among the nation's most trusted health writers -- used her weekly column to lambaste the technophobic scaremongers trying to terrify us about genetically enhanced (GE) food. Brody explains that very little actually separates GE food from the organic products so often recommended -- not to mention marketed -- by biotech foes. With so much |
| 9) | 11/4/04 | Biotech Bans Falter While voters in Marin County went the way of the Luddite and approved a ballot initiative on Tuesday banning genetically engineered (GE) crops, three other California counties resoundingly rejected similar proposals. "It's a good day for Butte County," California rice farmer Doug Rudd told the Sacramento Bee... |
| 10) | 10/21/04 | Luddites At The Polls Despite editorials condemning such measures in San Louis Obispo and Butte counties, this misguided anti-science movement is spreading coast to coast, from Hawaii to |
| 11) | 9/15/04 | Real Scientists Debunk Organic Myths The Center for Consumer Freedom recently addressed an American Chemical Society symposium on organic food, explaining the dirt-covered money trail from organic food companies and politically-motivated foundations to the practitioners of food-scare campaigns. a> And citing over-hyped scares like mad cow disease (which has popped up on organic farms ... |
| 12) | 8/4/04 | Frankenfood Fiction The neo-Luddites from organizations like Greenpeace and the Organic Consumers Association are probably dancing in the fields -- the organic fields -- after a tiny county in... |
| 13) | 5/26/04 | Genetic Scaremongers Defy 'Reason and Conscience' Still, it would be nice if reckless green groups (including Greenpeace, the Organic Consumers Association, and the Institute for ... |
| 14) | 5/24/04 | To Catch A (Seed) Thief a> The Organic Consumers Association is promoting a press release that warns of "5 million Percy Schmeisers."plot to disrupt and forcibly |
| 15) | 4/20/04 | Bring In The Clowns Food scare artisans, animal liberation radicals, and organic food pushers are gathering under the Earth Day big top to peddle their pet causes. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is staking out its own ring in the Earth Day circus, with plans to distribute veggie burgers outside of Burger King restaurants. PETA president Ingrid... |
| 16) | 3/29/04 | Good News: The Bad News Is Wrong Click here to read the full speech. a> The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI): You may know them as "The Food Police." |
| 17) | 2/17/04 | Don't Worry, Eat Happy The media bombards us with stories about mad cow disease and PCBs in salmon to the point that we feel like we're navigating a minefield every time we go to the fridge. Groups like the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) and the |
| 18) | 1/27/04 | Busting The Myth Of Organic Food As we pointed out in the Orlando Sentinel: "During the Christmas season, it was hard to open a newspaper without reading assurances from Ronnie Cummins, director of the Organic Consumers Association, that organic beef provided a safety net from mad ... |
| 19) | 1/6/04 | Mad Cow Bloody Propaganda Of The Week Mad Cow USA author John Stauber bears much of the responsibility for circulating this false theory. Ronnie Cummins of the Organic Consumers Association is also guilty of spreading this rumor-turned-urban-legend, as... |
| 20) | 12/31/03 | Mad Cow News Update: Day Eight Mad Cow disease"; a third says that "organic beef is the safer option for families concerned about mad cow disease." Organic Consumers Association president and mad cow scaremonger Ronnie Cummins... |
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