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This Week in OtherWords: A Genetically Engineered Food Special Edition
In her debut guest column, Jill Richardson challenges big food companies to boast about their penchant for these modified crops if they’re so wonderful.
Consumer Choice: As American as Apple Pie
The creation of a new genetically modified apple highlights once again the need for clear labeling of this kind of food.
Big Food Fight
If the products they sell us are as great as they say, what are General Mills, Kraft, and other processed food giants hiding?
Big Food Behemoths Embarrass their Organic Offshoots
Big Food’s mobilization against California’s right-to-know law is making more green-minded consumers aware of the companies that own their favorite brands.
Poisoned Apple, 2012
Don’t fret about the genetic engineering.
Tomato Tampering
Scientists have figured out a way to genetically engineer the flavor back into industrial tomatoes that taste no better than their shipping cartons.
Killing Fields
Genetically modified crops are part of a war against Mother Nature.
Let’s Resist Herbicide-Resistant Crops
For farmers, fishermen, and consumers working to rebuild the fragile local food economy, a new kind of corn engineered to withstand toxic weedkillers is a disaster.
Consumers Need to Know about Those Newfangled Ingredients
Between 70 and 80 percent of the processed foods Americans eat contain genetically modified ingredients.
Resolve to Keep Science Experiments off Your Dinner Table in 2012
Engineered crops have steadily increased over the past 15 years, despite the lack of independent research on their long-term effects on human health and the environment.
Engineered Foods
You don’t even have to be smart to eat them.
The Problem with Genetically Engineered Alfalfa
From Maine to Mexico and beyond, Monsanto and other transnational corporations are trying to control seeds, land, water, and other key resources.
North Korea: Why Engagement Now?
Geopolitics drove the U.S.-China detente. It could do the same between Washington and Pyongyang.
Sticking Together in Tough Times
With more workers facing long-term joblessness, the unemployed are working together for change.