The advent of the supermarket meant a lot of things to the average family — perhaps most notably a new focus on “convenience foods,” items we’re only now starting to realize aren’t exactly real food after all. Since then, even regular mom-and-pop grocery stores have made these foods their number [...]
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Celery is oft-overlooked in terms of its nutritional content because it’s so high in water (and because it’s usually white in America in contrast to other nations with better soil, but more on that later). But the truth is that it’s a powerhouse of nutrition and one of the most [...]
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Monsanto’s first ever GM crop, a type of genetically modified potato that was eventually derailed due to mass consumer pressure in the United States, is long gone, but now a GM version of the potato could be on its way to approval in the next year. The J.R. Simplot Company, [...]
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One of the most surprising aspects of the controversy surrounding genetically modified organisms is just how differently virtually all nations in the world treat them in comparison with the United States. Even as several other countries are either banning these crops, like France and Russia for example; or at the [...]
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The genetically modified crop and agrochemical giant Monsanto has drawn of the ire of countless thousands of health bloggers and alternative media sources in recent years as more information and studies have come out about the never-ending health and environmental risks of their special breed of “crop science.” Monsanto’s image [...]
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When I worked in the newspaper business as a reporter full-time, I had the chance to learn and experience some incredible things and meet with some remarkably interesting, impactful, and unforgettable people. Among them was Malek Jandali, a Syrian classical composer, and an ambitious and creative one at that. Back [...]
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It goes without saying that people waste way too much food, and food waste comes in many different forms. Whether we’re throwing out fully-cooked meals from restaurants daily or tossing our produce out when it gets slightly brown, it seems like we’re always inventing new ways to waste food. A [...]
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Contrary to Monsanto talking points, hybridization and genetic modification of food crops are completely different beasts altogether. Seedless watermelon for example arose through years of specific breeding techniques, and was not created in labs using the insertion of any foreign materials as with GMOs. That being said, there’s some concern over [...]
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The vast majority of the United States soybean crop is genetically modified, but more and more growers in one Midwestern state are starting to look into non-GMO soybeans according to a recent report in the state’s Petoskey News. A total of 91 percent of soybeans in Michigan are GMO according [...]
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In today’s Information Age where so many people are eager to put their own carefully-worded “spin” on things, corporations and other entities have grown quite fond of using “talking points” to peddle their own version of reality to the masses. Companies that produce genetically modified crops, such as Monsanto, Dow [...]
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