Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s) – are they good? and/or are they bad? This debate is raging in the public realm right now as California voters narrowly defeated a measure to label them in California (Prop 37) last year and Washington State voters are about to decide if they will be the first of the states to adopt a formal labeling requirement. Trying to understand what the ‘right’ thing to do is very difficult as propaganda and murky science seem to rule the day. Both ‘sides’ of the debate use the murky science and propaganda to further their respective agendas as… Read More
Should you be concerned about GMO foods?
Up until a few years ago I had no idea what Genetically Modified Organisms were and how the food we consume each day may or may not be genetically modified but that it was becoming more and more likely that at least some of what I was eating was, in fact, GMO. With awareness comes concern. There are studies that claim to substantiate how safe these foods are; there are an equal number that come to a different conclusion. Clearly a majority of the ‘safe’ studies have been funded by the biotech companies themselves or groups with a vested interest… Read More