Critics of conventional farming often decry the use of herbicides. Especially glyphosate. That’s all fine and dandy, but the problem I see with the arguments some people present is they contain no substance. Take a look at a facebook post on the Kellogg’s Facebook page that I shared to my blog page to get other’s response on. […]
You may remember a while back when I wrote a post about biotech sweet corn, and how it could greatly reduce pesticide applications. Thanks to the popularity of that post (which still gets hits almost daily) I was afforded an opportunity by Monsanto to take delivery of a few freshly harvested ears of Seminis® Performance […]
Yesterday I was reviewing my blog statistics and found something interesting. One of the links bringing people in to my Occupy the Food Supply post was coming from NPR’s “Judge Dismisses Organic Farmers’ Case Against Monsanto“. I could not remember commenting on an NPR post or even reading one lately. As it turns out someone left […]
I want to repost these thoughts I had on a post by Dairy Carrie from her blog. It’s interesting that in the United States when the vast majority of us have access to food pretty readily that we seem to complain about it a lot. Many parts of the world have a hard time getting by […]
Big, evil corporate giant (read with sarcasm) Monsanto has a new product coming to market according to its blog Beyond the Rows. Sweet corn genetically modified to express the Bt insecticide trait that prevails in much of the conventional corn market. This trait allows the plant to create a toxin that is harmful to certain […]
I just got done commenting on a post at Blast Magazine entitled “Modern agriculture’s enormous environmental footprint.” My comment become long enough that I decided to re-post it here on my blog. Judging by the title of the post on Blast you can probably guess what it says for the most part, but go ahead […]