Peer Review of GMO Safety Studies Finds Significant Flaws

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GMO Awareness's avatarGMO Awareness

Studies significantly inadequate or flawed

BREAKING NEWS: a new peer reviewed study of the Ag-Biotech industry’s so called ‘long term safety studies’ has found them to be “significantly inaccurate or flawed” and lacking in proof of safety.

And these are just short-term animal feeding studies… because nearly two decades after genetic engineered ingredients have been present in the majority of processed foods found in your grocery store, NO long term human health studies have ever been performed.

Why is no research being done on the potential human health risks of GMOs? The ag-bio companies won’t let it happen.

Emily Waltz explained it back in 2009, in her article published in Nature Biotechnology: “the crop industry’s strong-arm tactics and close-fisted attitude to sharing seeds is holding back independent research and undermining public acceptance of transgenic crops.” (Read the full article here.)

Scientific American magazine agreed: “Agritech companies have given themselves veto power over the work of independent…

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the DARK Act

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Center for Food Safety has this up on signing a petition for Congress to stop bending to the food manufacturers’ associations promoting this bill.

It’s keeping people in the dark about what is in their food.  The public has a right to know what is in their food and the food manufacturers have an obligation to provide that information.

As the CFS states, they are not going to voluntarily put this on the labels.  We have seen in California and Oregon how dirty they fight to keep from putting the ingredients on the label.  Voluntary isn’t in their vocabulary.

Is @TeachForAmerica Cloaking Inequity?: Discussing the Headwind

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Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig's avatarCloaking Inequity

After several decades, Teach For America, a program that sends inexperienced teachers (typically only 5 weeks of summer training) before they are shipped off to teach on a temporary basis (primarily) in America’s toughest schools, is facing some headwind. Alumni are increasingly speaking out against the organization, many of whom who joined Teach For America with the right intentions. I suspect the high turnover at Teach For America’s internal administrative offices may also be related to similar epiphanies, but this I cannot confirm. For the last 8 years, I have taken calls from reporters who have puff pieces headed for print that extolled the virtues and soaring rhetoric of Teach For America— even more so at the start of each school year. I first received these calls because of a 2005 peer reviewed piece entitled Does teacher preparation matter? evidence about teacher certification, teach for america, and teacher effectiveness examining the effectiveness of…

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New Yorkers: Officer who choked Garner should be indicted

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Report here.  And I agree.  Watching the video, clearly Garner was not threatening the officers.  He did not have a knife in his hand, or otherwise acting in an aggressive manner.  The officer was using an illegal maneuver because….Garner was arguing with them.  Garner’s “crime” was selling cigarettes to support himself and his family. I can find no fault in that.  And the worst part is that he did not have cigarettes on him at the time of this incident.  WTH?