- Altered Genes, Twisted Truth
How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
Drucker elucidates the scientific facts about genetically engineered foods that the PR myths have been obscuring.
- Connexions Library: Food Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on food.
- The Crusade in Favor of GMO: Falsehoods and Vilification Will Not Fool the Public
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Pro-GMO campaigners often attack critics of the technology by claiming their negative views of it emanate from well-funded environmentalist groups or commercial interests in the organic food sector. The assertion is that such bodies promote falsehoods and scaremongering about GM to protect their own interests and that the GMO agritech sector has fallen victim to this.
- GE-contaminated flax seed raises concerns for Canadian organic sector
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
GE-contaminated flax seed raises concerns for Canadian organic sector. The Organic Trade Association (OTA) in Canada has called the recent discovery of contaminated flax seed in Europe â#ounacceptable,â## and said biotechnology companies must take
- GMOs: Fooling -- er, "feeding" -- the world for 20 years
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Myths and outright lies about the alleged benefits of genetically engineered crops (GE crops or GMOs) persist only because the multinationals that profit from them have put so much effort into spreading them around.
- "Lies, Lies and More Lies" - GMOs, Poisoned Agriculture and Toxic Rants
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
As as been well documented, it is the pro-GMO lobby/industry that distorts and censors science, captures regulatory bodies, attacks scientists whose findings are unpalatable to the industry and bypasses proper scientific and regulatory procedures altogether.
- Monsanto: Contamination By All Means Necessary
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
What happens when you allow commercial interests free rein over a nation state's food and agricultural policies? Consumers and farmers end up paying the price.
- Monsanto's Worst Fear May Be Coming True
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The Chipotle restaurant chain decides to make its product lines GMO-free -- a trend that may be a threat to Monsanto's goal of controlling the food industry.
- No Scientific Consensus on Safety of Genetically Modified Organisms
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
There is no scientific consensus on the safety of genetically modified foods and crops, according to a statement released by an international group of more than 90 scientists, academics and physicians.
- Organic Trade Association in Canada opposes introduction of genetically engineered alfalfa
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The Organic Trade Association (OTA) in Canada has registered strong opposition to federal permission to allow production of genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa in Canada.â#oAlfalfa is a perfect crop for Canadian organic agriculture..."
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 23, 2016
Science and its enemies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of the equally sincere lip service they pay to the ideals of democracy. And, in the same way that governments and private corporations devote considerable efforts to undermining the reality of democracy, so too they are frequently found trying to block and subvert science when the evidence it produces runs counter to their interests. Real live scientists doing real live science, it seems, are not nearly as loveable as Science in the abstract.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
What are we eating?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2018
What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else.
For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished.
How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.
- The Seeds of Spin: Decoding Pro-GMO Lies and Falsehoods
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
If you are in some way critical of genetically modified food and agriculture or have some concerns that remain unaddressed, here is a brief interpretive (satirical) guide for navigating the seedy world of pro-GMO spin.
- The So-Called Scientific "Consensus": Why the Debate on GMO Safety is Not Over
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Biotechnology seed companies, aided by advocates from academia and the blogopsphere, are using their substantial resources to broadcast the myth of a "scientific consensus" on the safety of GMOs, asserting that the data is in and the debate is over. The public relations campaign, helped along by industry groups, has caught the attention of some of the most visible news outlets in the country, with biotech advocates portraying GMO critics as akin to climate change deniers, out of step with science.
- So Shall We Reap
What's Gone Wrong with the World's Food System -- And How to Fix It
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
How everyone who is liable to be born in the next ten thousand years could eat very well indeed; and why, in practice, our immediate descendants are likely to be in serious trouble.
An expose on the fallout of the present drive for maximum food production at rock-bottom cost, as health scares spiral, rural workers are driven off the land, and poor nations are forced to export their goods in an unsympathetic marketplace.
- Transpacific Partnership and Monsanto
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) has the potential to become the biggest regional Free Trade Agreement in history, both in economic size and the ability to quietly add more countries in addition to those originally included.
- Vandana Shiva On Resisting GMOs: "Saving Seeds Is a Political Act"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Sarah van Gelder interviewed Vandana Shiva, renowned for her activism against GMOs, globalization, and patents on seeds and traditional foods.
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