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| 1) | 4/22/08 | Saving The Planet, One Empty Stunt At A Time As we told The New York Times yesterday, “If these PETA nuts are only showering 18 times a year, we have a new reason PETA stinks. When science and substance don’t cut it, leave it to groups like PETA to repackage their propaganda as a trendy “green” gesture. |
| 2) | 4/10/08 | Time to Eat More Fish They found that mothers who ate the most seafood during their pregnancies had babies who scored the highest on developmental tests. This result flies in the face of activist-driven conventional wisdom, but it has the virtue of actually being true. In fact, only the women in this study who ate more fish than the federal government recommends were able to ... |
| 3) | 4/1/08 | Environmental Groups Join Nationwide Canned Tuna Promotion * “It just turned out that way. * Of course, we would have had rolling blackouts, too, but that’s beside the point. ” In response to today’s sea-change in activist politics, The New York Times has fired* its long-time food columnist, who will no longer have any sources for future scare columns about fish. |
| 4) | 7/17/07 | Congress Honors Norman Borlaug mod=hps_us_at_glance_opinion">Today, the United States Congress bestows the country's highest civilian honor, the Congressional Gold Medal, on agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug. And last month, the authoritatively named Irish Doctors Environmental Association published a scathing condemnation of biotech crops in the Irish Medical Journal. The Journal ... |
| 5) | 4/26/07 | Quote Of The Week -- Generated by XStandard version 1.7.1.0 on 2007-04-26T14:08:08 --> Food activists have a long and illustrious history of bending (or flat-out ignoring) science to advance their agendas (Exhibits A, B, C, D, and |
| 6) | 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" ... |
| 7) | 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 |
| 8) | 8/1/06 | Threats To Biotech Food, French And Otherwise In July the usual gang of activists unleashed a vicious series of attacks on biotech foods, agricultural products which are doing more and more to feed the world, especially poverty-stricken Third World countries. Last seen |
| 9) | 6/21/06 | REPORT: Capital Fish Get A Clean Bill of Health Today the Center for Consumer Freedom unveils Safe Fish, our comprehensive investigation into mercury levels of fish sold in the Washington, DC area. Notably, tuna, a frequent poster-fish for reckless mercury scare campaigns (see here, here, |
| 10) | 6/8/06 | Green Scaremongering By The Numbers Eco-activist group Greenpeace's prospects just got a little browner. Perhaps a little exhausted by frightening Africans away from life-saving biotech crops, the green nuts let their mask slip briefly in a handout denouncing nuclear power. The "fact sheet" released to the press was apparently a draft copy and read: " |
| 11) | 2/21/06 | More Good News From The Fish Wars The science world is buzzing with the latest news from the Seychelles, a group of over 100 islands in the Indian Ocean whose inhabitants eat fish. "From all the reports we had seen about mercury and its impact on development," said Rochester's Dr. Philip Davidson, " |
| 12) | 2/13/06 | WTO To EU: Enough Is Enough Last week the World Trade Organization ruled against the European Union's (EU) ban on genetically modified food (GM food, or GMOs). The funny thing, the Journal points out, is that: In reality, farmers have been genetically modifying crops for millennia through hybridization. But the EU denying Western farmers the opportunity to export their crops to European consumers isn't the worst thing about the ban, the Journal continues: More ... |
| 13) | 2/9/06 | Sins Of Omission In The Mercury Scare Campaign Yesterday the environmental groups Greenpeace and the Sierra Club flooded the news media with press releases (see here and here for examples) screaming... |
| 14) | 1/12/06 | The Envelope, Please... "Detroit's Poor Should Pay More" Award Given to Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick for proposing a new tax on fast food. "Lawyers Gorging on Pop Torts" Award Given to the Public Health Advocacy Institute's Richard Daynard for his defense of ... |
| 15) | 12/14/05 | Zambia Allows Its People To Eat Good news from Africa: The government of Zambia, in the midst of a food crisis, has altered its anti-GM (genetically modified) food policy, allowing millions of starving Zambians access to food aid. As a result of activists' pressure, when |
| 16) | 11/16/05 | Wish Luddite Vandal A Bon Voyage To Prison French activist-turned-farmer-turned-activist Jose Bove got a ticket back to prison yesterday for his role in destroying a field of corn. But European pressure and intimidation, including scaremongering by Greenpeace, |
| 17) | 9/20/05 | Scientists Denounce Scaremongering Activists Perhaps the most experienced practitioner is the Environmental Working Group (EWG), which continually tries to frighten us about harmless amounts of pesticides in our food, and specifically mercury and PCBs in ... |
| 18) | 9/6/05 | How Europe Starves The World's Poor "The European Union and fellow traveling anti-biotech activists may well succeed in bottling up the next wave of genetically improved crops that aim directly at helping poor farmers in the developing world," writes Reason magazine science correspondent Ron Bailey. a> Citing advances that could fight blindness in a half-million of the world's poor each year, the creation of disease-resistant fruit, and the prevention of "... |
| 19) | 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 |
| 20) | 1/4/05 | ActivistCash - The Reverse Directory Our award-winning ActivistCash.com website profiles food cops bent on controlling our diets and ironically inhumane animal rights activists. a> No doubt Friedrich is a fan of the Kucinich-planned Department of Peace, responsible for crafting |
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