Science & Society
- Egg Labels Are Scrambled Logic
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A new survey shows egg carton labels are confusing organic consumers. They don't really know the difference between "pasture-raised" eggs and the “free-range” and “cage-free” kind but a pasture-raised company is banking on the fact that if p ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 13 2019 - 12:33pm
- No One Is Really Shocked That Ben & Jerry's Is Anti-Science: It's A Surprise Unilever Is
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There's no politics in ice cream but if there were, you can bet Ben & Jerry's would be the official ice cream of Mother Jones and Union of Concerned Scientists and other Democrats everywhere. It's over-priced, it has all the correct so ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 20 2014 - 9:44am
- Feeding The World Of 2050
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If the world will have 9 billion people or more by 2050, we'll probably be okay. The scare stories of food riots and mass famine once promoted by 1960s Doomsday Prophet Paul Ehrlich are today only promoted by, well, Paul Ehrlich. Even organic farmers ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 22 2014 - 6:30pm
- Higher Alcohol Taxes Just Lead To Fewer Price Increases For Cheapest Alcohol
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Policy makers may think more sin taxes will cut consumption- but it doesn't really work that way. Supermarkets recognize there are a lot more poor people than rich people and so they don't mark up the same products accordingly. A paper written b ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 23 2014 - 7:30pm
- Food Fad News: Low Sugar Is The New Low Fat
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Just a few short years ago, sugar growers and packagers had to have felt pretty good. Thanks to a rash of suspect epidemiological claims about high-fructose corn syrup, and then marketing claims and labels touting a lack of HFCS (even pancake syrup, made ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2014 - 1:30pm
- Food Fear: How People Exploit Ingredient Concern And How Increasing Familiarity Can Stop It
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Scare journalism is big business. Hardly a day goes by without mainstream media promoting "X is harmful to your health" claims based on surveys, epidemiology and suspect methodology. As a result, people are taught to be afraid of Subway bread, b ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2014 - 12:35am
- Foreign-Trained Physicians Frustrated At Lack Of Residency Positions
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The United States has the world's best medical care. Wealthy people from all over the planet abandon their country's government health plans and journey to the US for elite treatment. ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2014 - 3:00pm
- Scientists Behaving Badly
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Its been a bad week for science, particularly for the science related to food production. The notoriously flawed "Seralini Study" about tumors in rats fed GMOs is being republished in another journal after having been retracted. Another paper ha ...
Article - Steve Savage - Jun 26 2014 - 6:09pm
- Calling Bee.S. On The Pollinator Apocalypse- Don't Make The Perfect The Enemy Of The Good
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Generally speaking, when a politician goes on television and says he is creating a special task force to look at a product, you know what happened; someone wrote about it in the New York Times and someone did a poll and someone else told him it would look ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 27 2014 - 6:56pm
- The Upside To Foreign Land Grabs- It Could Feed 300 Million People
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The land known as Israel today was once pretty bleak. Mark Twain spoke of the barren landscape and lack of people when it was owned by colonial European powers. Nothing much was there. But then Jews began buying it up. They planted crops and modernized ir ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2014 - 10:12pm