Mark Bittman
Mark Bittman weighs in: How many cheers for Cheerios?
Well, a major and venerable American brand has gone and announced that it contains no genetically modified organisms (G.M.O.'s). Cheerios is G.M.O.-free! ...
Mark Bittman: More options for “solving” world hunger than biotechnology
"It’s been 50 years since President John F. Kennedy spoke of ending world hunger, yet on the eve of World ...
Peddlers of disinformation shape GMO discourse
Influentials are the information brokers that have major media platforms and big receptive audiences. For example, on the GMO issue, ...
The Salmon Dialogue: What’s the future of sustainable, genetically engineered foods?
Elliot Entis, founder of AquaBounty, and Paul Greenberg, author of the best selling Four Fish: The Future of the Last ...
Mark Bittman criticizes choice of GE pioneers for World Food Prize
The following is an edited excerpt. If Secretary of State John Kerry’s G.M.O.-boosting speech announcing the World Food Prize at ...
Pollan and Bittman, the Morano and Milloy of GMO anti-science
The following is an excerpt. Why do food writers think they are competent to evaluate the scientific literature? I know ...
Organic industry’s credibility eroded by misinformation about GE foods
The most extreme and ill-informed of the organic advocacy groups are damaging the credibility of the entire organic industry. The ...
On GMOs, New York Times foodie Mark Bittman is a dark cloud in the brightening sky of reason
It’s challenging to name a more influential food writer than The New York Times’ Mark Bittman—nor one less informed and ...
A rebuttal to Mark Bittman’s NYT op-ed
Former FDA official Henry Miller thoroughly debunks an anti-GMO rant in the New York Times ...
Response to Mark Bittman on the “biotech rider”
The following is an excerpt. Bittman continues writes misleading claims in an attempt to distract readers from what the issue ...
What’s next for the anti-GM food movement?
The reflections and recriminations over the rejection of California’s Proposition 37 is in full swing. The measure was soundly defeated, ...
Prop 37 defeated: a retrospective
California's Proposition 37 -- which would have required labeling of genetically modified foods -- failed to pass last night. While ...