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Are You Worried About Your Food Being “Modified”?

Here are two areas of concern to those of us that care about the source of our food. First, here’s a 26-minute video on Genetically Modified Foods: Genetically Modified Foods
John at my local food co-op gets credit for turning me on to this much longer video (nearly two hours) called The World According to [...]

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What I’m Reading: The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved

I finished The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America’s Underground Food Movements by Sandor Ellix Katz last week. The gist of the book is all of the many ways used by people to remove themselves from the corporate food supply. Katz himself lives in what they call an “intentional community” with some [...]

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Next Up: The Tearless Onion

Of all of the important advances needed in food science, here’s one that’s sure to cause much rejoicing: Tearless Onion Created In Lab Using Gene Silencing. Now aren’t you all excited about that? Ok, enough with the sarcasm. What is it about humans that makes us think we can top the foods [...]

Filed in Fruits, Vegetables, & Herbs 5 Comments so far