Costco is recalling Organic by Nature brand frozen Organic Sweet Peas due to possible Listeria contamination.
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”
13 cases of Hepatitis A: Store is offering vaccinations to those who may have eaten its Nature’s Touch Organic Berry Cherry Blend that was recalled Saturday by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. (h/t Meatriarchy)
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”
Chipotle rejects modern synthetic fertilizers in favor of suppliers who use manure on their crops. This approach may be “all natural” and “organic” and make some customers feel warm and fuzzy, but it should not come as a surprise that applying stool, feces and excrement to growing fruits and vegetables significantly raises the risk of spreading disease. Bruce M. Chassy, food science professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana scoured U.S. Food and Drug Administration data to conclude that organic food is four to eight times more likely to be recalled over safety concerns than conventionally grown products.
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Starve The World”
I compared 2014 survey data from organic growers with overall agricultural yield statistics for that year on a crop by crop, state by state basis. The picture that emerges is clear-organic yields are mostly lower. To have raised all U.S. crops as organic in 2014 would have required farming of one hundred nine million more acres of land.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Microbiologist Alex Berezow: The New York Times Should Seriously Consider Not Writing About Science Anymore
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Starve The World”
Earlier this year, the activist organization US Right to Know (USRTK), bankrolled largely by a $47,500 donation from the Organic Consumers Association, submitted Freedom of Information requests asking certain US academics for e-mails dating back to 2012. This was to ascertain whether their ‘messaging’ was being coordinating with 14 companies, including Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont, Dow and other biotechs, food industry trade groups and their communication firms. The academics had all contributed to an industry-backed website called GMOanswers.com and/or had spoken out against California’s GM food labeling proposition. Over the summer, the activists broke their ‘news’.
These headlines focused on Kevin Folta, a University of Florida researcher, because USRTK leaked his e-mails to three journalists. Two of them co-posted a PLOS blog (now removed), while the third wrote a front-page New York Times news story highlighting a $25,000 donation from Monsanto to Folta’s institution. In both cases, the reporters cherry-picked sentences from several thousand e-mails, highlighting Folta’s communications with Monsanto, often out of context, to insinuate that he is an industry shill–and thus presumably unfit to talk to the public.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer: California Becomes First State to Label Monsanto’s Roundup as a Carcinogen
h/t Adrian
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “There’s One Born Every Minute”
Chipotle sued over GMO-free menu claims
In her lawsuit filed Friday in federal court in San Francisco, the plaintiff Colleen Gallagher also alleged that Chipotle violated the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act because its food labeling is false and misleading, and deceived diners into paying more for their food.
“As Chipotle told consumers it was ‘G-M-Over it,’ the opposite was true,” the Piedmont, California resident said. “In fact, Chipotle’s menu as never been at any time free of GMOs.”
Related: A fool and their veggies.
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#Organic food accounts for 4.9-7% of food recalls, but is < 3% of food sales.
http://t.co/46Z9iaLNPv
— Chad Niederhuth (@chadn737) August 21, 2015
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Starve The World”
Premier Brad Wall says he wants to know where the leaders of three parties stand on genetically modified organisms.
The term refers to a broad category of agricultural products, including the genetically modified canola that is a mainstay of the Saskatchewan crop.
Wall said Monday GMOs was one of the topics he raised in a letter he sent to Conservative Leader Stephen Harper, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.
The letter also featured questions about equalization payments and pipeline policy.
How Clones Have Transformed the Game of Polo
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Starve The World”
Podcast: GMO opponents block bird flu epidemic solution
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”
Large-scale organic farming operations, based on a review of almost a decade of data from 49 states, are not reducing greenhouse gas emissions, says a University of Oregon researcher.
The increasing numbers of commercialized organic operations — which still make up just 3 percent of total agricultural lands — appear to contribute to increased and more intense levels of greenhouse gases coming from each acre of farmland, reports Julius McGee, a doctoral student in the UO sociology department. His study appeared in the June issue of the journal Agriculture and Human Values.
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As operations grow, McGee said, it takes more machinery to do the work. The trend, he noted, is for a focus on single rather than rotated crops, an increased use of organic pesticides and herbicides and the importing of manure-based fertilizers from other locations.
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”
The Environmental Benefits of Biotech Crops, complete with captured left-wing talking points. They hate it when that happens.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Phys Org: UNC School of Medicine researchers discovered a gene called R2d2 – Responder to meiotic drive 2 – that breaks Gregor Mendel’s century-old “law of segregation,” which states that you have an equal probability of inheriting each of two copies of every gene from both parents.
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”
Anti-GMO proponents, today, are the flat-earthers of yesteryear; they worry about falling off the edge.
“Sure you might get a variety of seed that has some beneficial traits, but no one ever took the
time to say, ‘well sure there are some beneficial traits but are they any side effects?’ These
techniques are allowed in organic production.
Or is there more to it? Are they simply enemies of humanity?
The Friends of the Earth and others who oppose such advances want you to die because they believe humans
are a plague on the Earth.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Protein deniers defy consensus;
Open any introductory biology textbook and one of the first things you’ll learn is that our DNA spells out the instructions for making proteins, tiny machines that do much of the work in our body’s cells. Results from a study published on Jan. 2 in Science defy textbook science, showing for the first time that the building blocks of a protein, called amino acids, can be assembled without blueprints — DNA and an intermediate template called messenger RNA (mRNA). A team of researchers has observed a case in which another protein specifies which amino acids are added.
“This surprising discovery reflects how incomplete our understanding of biology is,” says first author Peter Shen, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in biochemistry at the University of Utah. “Nature is capable of more than we realize.”
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”
A GMO debate goes horribly wrong:
Wednesday’s Intelligence Squared debate-the motion in favor of the benefits of genetically modified crops and foods was approved resoundingly by almost 2-to-1-infuriated GM science opponents began trashing their own carefully selected spokespeople on social media.
GMO Free USA-one of the most anti-science fringe NGOs-posted a scathing infographic on Facebook accusing Mellon and Benbrook of being on Monsanto’s payroll. “MONSANTO EXECUS PAY MELLON AND BENBROOK TO THROW DEBATE!” they screeched.
Grab a coffee and view the debate here.
The Sound Of Settled Science
The most recent mtDNA study we stumbled across, is from our perspective the final nail in the coffin of the Out-of-Africa theory. Once, twice and a third time over, separate genetic studies of Homo sapien sapiens, dingoes and now song birds, stand united in ascribing the same place of origin: Australia.
The genetic facts in these equations are incontestable, the distinctive and unique nature of the mitochondrial DNA of both the dingo and Mungo Man (WLH 3) cannot be matched to any like species on this planet.
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The insurmountable problem these genetic studies creates is obvious, if both Australian dingo and human are unique, the question that demands to be answered relates to how can it be that there is common belief that Original Australians came from Africa and the ancestor of the dingo lived in Southern India? What is puzzling is that despite the imposing evidence to the contrary, every text, university and lecturer will earnestly claim that the Out-of-Africa theory is an unquestionable fact. Equally, from the same department their books assure us that all dogs, canines and wolves share the same ancestry, but that is not true in the dingoes’ case. All of this smells like bad science and lazy thinking, but it gets worse, there are birds in the air to reconsider and reposition.