Economic Sense

Pending Thursday's supreme court decision on the Affordable 'Care' Act , auto industry, labor, environmental, and banking relate...

Is there justification for government intervention requiring labeling of GMO foods? In a post from a few years back, I looked at the r...

Recently CBS news reported that on a Texas ranch that GMO grass suddenly started producing cyanide and killing cattle. It turned out that th...

From The Academics Review Criticism of 'Genetic Roulette'  “It is certainly true that crop breeding changes DNA; in fact, that ...

HT: David Tribe Excerpted from: Alain de Weck * * Emeritus Professor of Immunology, Institute of Immunology (University of Bern, ...

In ‘ Maternal and fetal exposure to pesticides associated to genetically modified Foods in Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada’ the author...

Lots of times students complain that either their statistics classes used silly examples that were too simple to ever be realistic, or that ...

"There is no significant risk to monarch butterflies from environmental exposure to Bt corn, according to research conducted by a ...

 See also: Is Corn A Greater Threat than Al Queda and "ose"gate Sun SZ, Flickinger BD, Williamson-Hughes PS, Empie MW. 2010....

Dairy Product Consumption and the Risk of Breast Cancer Journal of the American College of Nutrition, Vol. 24, No. 6, 556S–568S (2005) Pub...

  Criticism of Maternal and fetal exposure to pesticides associated to genetically modified Foods in Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada: ...

The environmental impact of recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST) use in dairy production Judith L. Capper,* Euridice Castañeda-Gutiérrez...

The following tweets from Anastasia Bodnar  @geneticmaize capture the essence of of rent seeking and the impacts on the the biotech sect...

The first article below circulated the web (largely among foodies) some tie ago. Despite its many flaws (involving something as simple as...