Mark Bittman
Foodie movement leaders call for aggressive ‘progressive’ agenda to counter Trump
... As of today, the president-elect has yet to nominate an agriculture secretary, but the food movement is rightly aghast ...
Mark Bittman: GMO labeling law could increase transparency on food production
President Obama recently signed the weakest [GMO] labeling law imaginable, and to most of the food movement, this felt like ...
Mark Bittman on labeling: It’s counterproductive for us to provide nutritional information
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I have been developing, ...
Mark Bittman: Food movement has bigger issues to tackle than GMO labeling
There is some talk about the food movement’s winning. I’m not even sure such a thing as a food movement ...
‘Stop farmers from being a science experiment; Get glyphosate off the market’
The issues surrounding G.M.O.s — genetically modified organisms — have never been simple. They became more complicated last week when ...
GMO critic NY Times foodie Mark Bittman says dangers of crop biotechnology “overrated”
In a reversal, New York Times food writer, Mark Bittman--a frequent critic--says the dangers of GMOs is exaggerated. He contends ...
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 ...
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 ...
Who really deserves a food prize?
Food writer Mark Bittman argues against the biotech-focused winners of this years World Food Prize ...
Why do GMO’s need protection?
The following is an excerpt. The override is unnecessary as well as disgraceful, because the U.S.D.A. is already overly supportive ...
Food movement loses battles but will win war
While support for GE food labels has never been stronger, the incessant drumbeat of misleading and outright false industry advertising ...