Farmer's Daughter
Viewpoint: Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen list of ‘pesticide soaked’ conventional fruits and vegetables contains a confession and caveat: conventional produce is healthy
The Environmental Working Group recently released it’s 2023 Dirty Dozen list. This annual propaganda allegedly ranks the fresh produce with ...
Viewpoint: LEGO’s ‘The Organic Garden’ — Exclusive promotion of organic farming provides a misleading picture of agriculture
My brothers and I loved playing with LEGOs growing up. We would make little farms and towns. We had houses ...
Why antioxidant genetically-modified purple tomatoes are considered a ‘super food’
With a couple swaps of genetic material, these purple tomatoes turn a deep purple when ripe. Why? Because they’re loaded ...
Viewpoint: Environmental Working Group’s ‘Dirty Dozen’ scaremongering — Consumers reject fear-based environmentalist disinformation
Consumers encounter so many mixed messages on produce, ranging from the Dirty Dozen‘s disinformation to the just-eat-your-veggies slogan. How do we ...
Viewpoint: Why consumers will ignore new ‘bioengineered’ labels
The USDA’s mandatory labeling for bioengineered crops (f/k/a GMO) went into effect January 1st. But will it actually change consumer ...
Viewpoint: ‘Feel-good purchases’: This farmer believes the ‘regenerative agriculture movement’ is the latest fad promoting misconceptions about conventional farming
The public’s fascination with regenerative agriculture is relatively new. But many people seem to think it’s a way to “fix” ...
Viewpoint: Phase out neonicotinoids? Walmart’s new farmer mandates promote alarmist misinformation about bee health
Walmart is making two big asks from its producers. First, it’s encouraging fresh produce suppliers to “protect, restore, or establish ...
Worth the higher price tag? What benefits are you really getting when you garden using organic seeds?
Whether a seed is labeled organic or not depends on the parent plant. If the parent plant was only treated ...
Why grow GMOs? A farmer explains 4 environmental benefits of crop biotechnology
Unfortunately, biotechnology has taken quite a beating in public perception. We’ve seen activists’ smear campaigns disseminating misinformation. The most ridiculous ...
Viewpoint: EU approves new herbicide resistant GMO soy for human and feed consumption, but won’t allow its farmers to grow it
[EU regulators recently] approved Bayer’s new XtendFlex soybeans for food and animal-feed use. Bayer’s latest GMO is resistant to three ...
Viewpoint: H&M clothing should drop its commitment to organic fabric, embrace GMO cotton
Dear H&M: I saw your recent commercial regarding sustainability. It shares your commitment to change your production now to help ...
Viewpoint: ‘GMO,’ ‘non-GMO,’ ‘Organic’—let’s put an end to meaningless food labels
Food labeling has reached a feverpitch. But it hasn’t made shopping for healthy food any easier. A recent survey by the International ...
Plaintiffs may struggle to prove Roundup causes cancer in upcoming glyphosate trials
Bayer’s Monsanto is facing thousands of lawsuits from plaintiffs claiming exposure to glyphosate gave them cancer. Last August, a jury ...
A farmer’s ‘naughty list’: Activists, celebrities and lawyers who spread the most misinformation in 2018
That’s right: it’s almost time for the jolly old fat man to visit homes around the world to deliver presents ...
Farmers, here’s what the public wants to know about food
Tyson Foods is the biggest U.S. food company .... [E]arlier this year it formed the Trendtellers Council and packed it ...
Edible GMO cotton could supply protein to 600 million people daily
It turns out cotton seed is a great source of protein, except it’s currently toxic for humans. Cotton naturally produces gossypol, ...
Despite FDA safety data, media promote glyphosate scare stories to drive readership, farmer says
FDA Testing Finds No Glyphosate Residues in Over Half of Commodities Tested. And what they did find was well within ...
Will glyphosate-cancer lawsuits block development of safer pesticides?
Dewayne Johnson sued Monsanto because he claimed the Round-Up he sprayed as part of his job as a schoolyard groundskeeper ...
Viewpoint: Anti-GMO activists copy negative rhetoric of politicians to win public support
There is a reason that political campaigns run negative advertising–it works. This close to a national election you’ve probably seen plenty ...
Viewpoint: Powerful new food industry group promises to promote science-based policies—but will it?
Four of the largest food companies have combined forces to form a new advocacy association. Danone North America; Mars, Incorporated; ...
Viewpoint: USDA’s GMO labeling proposal is ‘the right way to do it’
After two years of waiting, the USDA has finally published its proposed regulations to implement labeling of genetically modified crops ...
6 ways GMO crops help farmers and consumers
Genetically modified crops provide a lot of benefits for farmers, including less pesticide applications and increased yields. These benefits are ...
Food industry, NaturalNews on Santa’s ‘naughty list’ for bumbling GMO issues
'Tis the season! Just in time for holiday merrymaking, Santa has given me a sneak peak of his 2014 Naughty ...
Why Chobani reversed course, making yoghurt only from milk from cows not fed GMO grain
At the beginning of the year, I reported that Whole Foods had stopped selling Chobani yogurt over a spat the grocery store ...
Consumer Reports challenged for spreading misinformation on GMO labeling campaigns
Consumer Reports is widely known as a respectable organization that reviews and tests products on behalf of consumers. It is ...
Kashi Go Lean Crisp cereal goes non-GMO and nutrition plummets
Take a look at Kashi's Go Lean Crisp! cereal. The company, which is actually owned by Kellogg's, has recently received ...
Claim that most countries other than US ban GMOs myth debunked
Have you heard the line about GMOs being banned in all other countries? It's the old argument that if every ...
Unpublished study showing GMOs cause sterility in hamsters touted by anti-GMO acitivists
A Russian study claiming that hamsters who consume genetically modified soybeans give birth to sterile offspring should not be taken ...
