Non-Organic Foods and Weight Gain
For months I was trying to lose those pesky three or four pounds, but no matter what I did, I just couldn’t break the barrier. Until this week! Believe it or not, I switched to organic-almost-everything, and the pounds fell off. Can I be 100% certain it’s due to organic food? No. But odds are pretty good that it’s related. For one, I didn’t exercise anymore than usual — in fact, I may have exercised...
GMO Labels May Not Discourage Shoppers
Companies might be afraid to slap a GMO label on their food because they fear fewer people will eat it, but a recent study indicates this may not be the case, depending on demographics. The research focuses on the relationship between two primary questions: whether respondents are opposed to GMOs in commercially available food products and if they thought products containing GMOs should be labelled. “When you look at consumer...
Does India’s GMO Cut the Mustard?
Amidst concerns that India’s GMO mustard variety could potentially hurt human health and damage mustard’s natural gene pool, the Modi government in India will have to decide on the status of the new seed. Chief developer of the GM mustard is Deepak Pental, a Delhi University professor, and he claims the variety can push up yields by 25-30 percent over non-GM varieties. What isn’t clear, however, is the research...
Glyphosate Lawsuits
Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s best-selling herbicide Roundup, is one of the most commonly used herbicides in the world. Back in March The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced that they consider glyphosate to be “probably carcinogenic to humans.” Now people are beginning to sue. The glyphosate lawsuits claim Monsanto knew more about...
Did GMOs Save the Papaya?
The ringspot virus Joni Kamiya’s father runs a third-generation papaya farm located on Oahu’s North Shore. This is all the more reason to listen up when she touts the benefits of GMOs in the papaya – it’s one thing to hear the positives of GMOs from biotech company advocates, quite another from someone who benefits from them personally. The papaya ringspot virus was prevalent for decades and managed for a long...
RESOLVING THE CONTROVERSY
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