California’s Proposition 37 Is about Ideology, Not Science
Tomorrow I hope to see that Proposition 37 has failed in the election. Proposition 37 is a measure in the state of California to require mandatory labeling of food containing genetically modified...
View ArticleFact Check:Five Reasons to Buy Organic
I came across a sign entitled “5 Reasons to Buy Organic” at my local grocery store. Some of the reasons struck me as being inaccurate, or at least misleading, so I decided I would take a quick look at...
View ArticleA Bevy of Food Fads In One Small Cup
Grocery shopping can be a fun exercise for the skeptical mind. There’s not an aisle of my local big box store anymore where I can’t spot some sort of overblown food fad on display: organic cupcake mix,...
View ArticleGMO Labeling: Consumer Protection or Fear Mongering?
The use of Genetically Modified Organisms, better known as GMO, is an area of debate among skeptics. GMO is actually a broad term that has a lot of moving parts. Forced labeling for consumer foods...
View ArticleOrganic Ghost Detector
Organic food labeling is marketing, not science. Organic marketers utilize any bit of data that can be spun to promote a significant difference, producing a constant drone of nonsense. This week an...
View ArticleTell GMO Producers To Stop Being So Organic!
One of the common arguments against the use of genetically modified organisms (GMO), specifically plant GMOs, is that it allows farmers to spray “toxic” chemicals to kill various pests from bugs to...
View ArticleThe Glyphosate Zombie… Again
The sad truth of reading my social media feeds is that I see at least one article a day on glyphosate. Glyphosate, aka RoundUp, is an over 40-year-old herbicide that has the advantage of being toxic to...
View ArticleOh, The Organic Sweet Corn Irony
I must have laughed for a good five minutes the other day when I heard the news story I am reporting on today. I immediately thought about writing about it here, but then I paused for a moment as I …...
View ArticleIs There a Scientific Reason to Make Foods More “Natural?”
Skeptics are very familiar with the use of the appeal to nature by pseudoscience peddlers such as the Food Babe and others. Foods with “chemical” ingredients are to be avoided according the these...
View ArticleFDA Smackdown on GMO Fear Mongering
In my estimation, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) incur fear mongering of the highest order, perhaps second only to vaccines, if at all. For reasons that escape me there has been a concerted...
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