by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 22, 2018 | Agriculture, Critical Thinking, GMOs
Genetically modified disbelief and the lonely road to the sorcerer’s stone It’s an issue that is much debated and one that parties on both sides of the argument are impassioned over when it comes to food safety and nutrition. The hot topic, of course, is...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 19, 2018 | Agriculture, GMOs, Science
How GMOs can save civilization (and probably already have) A Long History of Genetic Modification Humans first began collecting and growing edible grains, fruits and roots, and corralling wild animals for meat, milk, and material goods thousands of years ago. Ever...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 29, 2018 | Agriculture, GMOs, Organic Food
Organic Food Isn’t Better For Your Health – Gid M-K; Health Nerd – Medium Environmentally friendly? Maybe. Healthy? Probably not An ongoing argument that I’ve had with almost every “clean eater” that I’ve ever met is about...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 26, 2018 | Agriculture, GMOs
A scientist didn’t disclose important data-and let everyone believe a popular weedkiller causes cancer Does a common herbicide cause cancer? Over the past several years, that question has stirred up no shortage of controversy, with international health agencies...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 6, 2017 | Agriculture, Humor, Organic Food
Six reasons to always buy organic – The Method – Medium Writing for the National Review, Julie Kelly recently attacked the organic industry by calling it a scam. Such an attack on their bottom line prompted a quick response from the Organic Trade...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 15, 2017 | Agriculture, GMOs, Science
Six reasons to always buy organic – The Method – Medium Writing for the National Review, Julie Kelly recently attacked the organic industry by calling it a scam. Such an attack on their bottom line prompted a quick response from the Organic Trade...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 8, 2017 | Agriculture, GMOs, Science
Memoirs of a Monsanto Shill I have stopped reading newspapers. Not because of all of the stories raising fears about chemicals, cancers, industry domination and planet devastation, but because of all of the horrible things I am finding out about this Risk-Monger...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 5, 2017 | Agriculture, GMOs, Science
The Rats that Kill – Kevin Folta – Medium Five years ago the news rocked the world. Images of three grotesque rats penetrated social media, and were bannered across the headline space of thousands of websites. The image came from a scholarly paper that...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 2, 2017 | Agriculture, GMOs, Pseudoscience, Science
Probiotics Are Useless, GMOs Are Fine, and Gluten Is Necessary The biggest nutrition fads of the last few years have all taken huge blows in the last week. But will anyone listen? Over the last seven days, a roster of myth-busting nutrition studies were published...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 14, 2017 | Agriculture, GMOs, Pseudoscience, Science
Farm Babe: The internet’s biggest culprits of fake news in agriculture | AGDAILY Recently, I got a pretty awesome notification from Facebook – they now allow you to report fake news. Fake news has been a very big problem online in all facets of life, but...
