Roundup Ready 2 Yield as much as Conventional Soybeans?
Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson Gore Vidal once wrote that “I told you so,” was the most satisfying sentence in the English language. If so, then the imminent launch of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready 2...
View ArticleThe Goodman Affair: Monsanto Targets the Heart of Science
by Claire Robinson and Jonathan Latham, PhD Richard Smith, former editor of the British Medical Journal, has jested that instead of scientific peer review, its rival The Lancet had a system of throwing...
View ArticleHow “Extreme Levels” of Roundup in Food Became the Industry Norm
By Thomas Bøhn and Marek Cuhra Food and feed quality are crucial to human and animal health. Quality can be defined as sufficiency of appropriate minerals, vitamins and fats, etc. but it also includes...
View ArticleRuthless Power and Deleterious Politics: From DDT to Roundup
By Evaggelos Vallianatos Morton Biskind, a physician from Westport, Connecticut, was a courageous man. At the peak of the cold war, in 1953, he complained of maladies afflicting both domestic animals...
View ArticleGE Soybeans Give Altered Milk and Stunted Offspring, Researchers Find
By Jonathan Latham, PhD Pregnant goats fed with genetically engineered (GE) soybeans have offspring who grow more slowly and are shorter, according to a new Italian study (Tudisco et al., 2015)....
View ArticleOrganic Farmers Are Not Anti-Science but Genetic Engineers Often Are
by Elizabeth Henderson At one of the public brainstorming sessions for the New York Organic Action Plan, an organic farmer made an impassioned plea for support for “independent science” and told us...
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