Economic Sense

Should we be concerned that demand for corn for ethanol will lead to increased prices of corn based food products for consumers? I'm mor...

Marketing Myth: Overzealous use of antibiotics in beef production is contributing to resistance to antibiotics essential to human health. Th...

If you read my previous entry you might say OK, so what about the environment? What good does it do to provide consumers with healthy food i...

McDonalds has been in the news lately for its unhealthy menu. People like to blame unrestrained capitalism for the poor choices people make ...

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Thanksgiving was not about the Pilgrims embracing diversity and thanking the Indians (otherwise known as Native Americans) for helping them ...

(reprint from Nov '06) George Washington certainly felt that the celebration of Thanksgiving could not be divorced from any religious co...

In the book "What's So Great About America" Dinesh D'Souza points out that the three truly western institutions of science...

With approaching elections, debates about embryonic stem cell research have been given lots of attention. While issues of ethics have been b...

A colleague, who certainly carries views of the more liberal and left wing flavor commented on how out of bounds our state’s concealed carry...

"Would I prefer that the world was nothing but organic agriculture? Yes. But on the other hand GM crops have a much higher yield per ac...

While organic foods provide us with a sense of nostalgia for 19th century agriculture, its claims of safety, sustainability, and ‘greenness’...

Roundup Ready technology (GM) has allowed for 5.4 million pounds of glyphosate herbicide to substitute for 7.2 million pounds of other chemi...

Many pundits try to characterize global warming as a golem created by greedy corporations. Much environmental policy is developed under this...

Just as many of the models that are predicated on anthropogenic global warming are built on poor assumptions, many of the policies proposed ...

Many of the projections that the media, rock stars, and grant greedy academics are using to build a ‘consensus’ on human influenced (lets ca...

According to the European Union, food classified as GM contains genetic material that has been altered in a way that does not occur naturall...

The debate over president Bush's possible veto of legislation regarding federal funding of stem cell research has been falsely character...

Why are groups like CSPI and Green Peace so opposed to transgenic crops? Perhaps the most egregious perception that they try to perpetuate a...

CSPI and groups like them are very hypocritical to go after agribusiness the way they have KFC. Our food would be much healthier if these gr...