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Posted in food activism on Mar 20th, 2012
This is the 4th of a series of 4 articles on Genetically Modified Foods. In the past three articles of this series, I have spent time explaining what GMOs are and why we need to care, identifying both the health risks of GMOs and the underlying connections between the GM companies (Monsanto) and the […]
Posted in food activism on Mar 13th, 2012
Earlier this year, I kept hearing an ad on my local news radio station (WTOP in the DC Metro Area) which made me angry. It was an ad run by Monsanto touting how they are a part of the sustainable movement. Now, sustainable to those of us who are proponents of healthy food, is defined […]
Posted in food activism on Feb 7th, 2012
In the first article of my GMO series, I gave a descriptions of what GMOs are and touched briefly on health and environmental issues that are a result. In this article, I’m going to go much more in-depth into the health issues. Because many commodity GMO crops are specifically altered to allow Monsanto’s RoundUp to […]
Posted in food activism on Jan 24th, 2012
If you are at all interested in food, then you might have heard or seen the acronym “GMO” and that it is bad for you. But what exactly are GMOs and how are they bad for you? This article is a pre-cursor to a series of articles which will go in-depth into the ways that […]
Posted in food activism on Oct 27th, 2011
In 1906 Upton Sinclair published “The Jungle”. The book was supposed to be about “the inferno of exploitation [of the typical American factory worker at the turn of the 20th Century]”. It was best known however for its scathing exposé on the Chicago meatpacking industry and their practices. The book and the disgusting practices it […]
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