Have We Forgotten How To Talk To Each Other?
In the world we live in, too often we forget that the person we disagree with is a person; someone with their own hopes and dreams, challenges and failures, inspirations and aspirations.
Tag: GMOs
My Experience Attending Table For Twenty
On July 5th, I was invited to attend an event called “Table For Twenty”, a celebration of twenty years of biotechnology in crops. Too often, we spend our time defending…
Why I’m Not An Organic Farmer
Pesticides, GMOs, Roundup, super-weeds, evil wheat, big Ag and a hundred other buzz-words are touted as the failure of modern agriculture’s quest to feed the world. Organic farming is proclaimed as the solution to these problems, as the future of sustainable agriculture. The reality is, as I will tell you in this post, that the opposite is true; conventional farming, not organic, is better for the environment and can sustainably and safely feed a growing world.
Are Farmers Killing Bees?
There has been a lot of talk about pesticides and GMOs and their impact on bee health. Apocalyptic predictions are being made about the effect of insecticides on bees, claiming that farmers…
Is The Customer Always Right?
There is a growing number of consumers that are uncomfortable with current agricultural practices. Use of genetic modification, concerns over animal welfare, and the perceived disappearance of family farms is…
The Cinderella Crop of the Prairies
Rapeseed. The crop with quite possibly the worst imaginable name to try and market as a health food source. A plant with undesirable components, such as erucic acid and glucosinolates,…