Environmental Toxins
also known as environmental toxicants
Reading Scientific Studies: With a Perspective on a Mock GE Study
There has never been a more important time than the present to understand not only genetically engineered organisms, but the research behind their propagation and promotion. The science of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) or genetic engineering (GE) is rapidly evolving, and their introduction has altered and affects all aspects of our well-being, including: Our health and the environment Agriculture Food manufacturing Medical products New applications of existing tools are constantly...
Floating Wetlands: A Possible Solution to Urban Pollution
Floating wetlands are man-made artificial platforms that support the growth of aquatic plants in water that is typically too deep for them. There is an expanding technology that is gaining popularity in urban areas that involves installing multiple floating wetlands in rivers that pass through the cities. The plants that take up residence in these artificial islands can take up excess agricultural nutrients and lock up chemicals and toxic metals. This can help prevent the development of algal...
Do We Need GM Crops to Feed the World?
This well-researched article examines the claim and validity of whether or not we need GM crops to feed the world.Read More
Dirty Money, Dirty Science
The biotech industry’s web of attempts to buy credibility, by laundering its messages through supposedly independent academic scientists, is unraveling and beginning to reveal the influence of a huge amount of industry money on the independence of academic...
Rocky Road for Roundup
It didn’t take much convincing to get Mike Pietzyk to try a new weed-killing product on one of his cornfields in southeastern Nebraska. “The days of going out and spraying Roundup twice a year—those are long gone,” says Pietzyk, a second-generation grower who has...
GM Foods: A Moment of Honesty
So many have claimed that GE foods are perfectly safe, that the science is settled and only fools would deny this. However, professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies Glenn Davis Stone explains that precisely identical claims have been made before for...
How the Great Food War Will Be Won
Do we need GE crops to "feed the world"? Scientist Jonathan Latham explains why it is important to understand that this is a fallacy. In his words, "there is no global or regional shortage of food. There never has been and nor is there ever likely to be. India has a...
A Pediatrician’s Viewpoint
By Michelle Perro, M.D., D. Hom.Caring for children has been my entire life’s work. It requires an open mind to perform this work, particularly in our present environment that challenges the health of this very vulnerable population. For those of us who embrace the...
How We Read Scientific Studies
The science of genetic engineering is rapidly evolving, and it is changing the environment, agriculture and food manufacturing and consumption in profound ways. New applications of existing tools to genetically modify plants and animals are under development around...
Are all forms of Bt toxin safe?
There are many types of Bt toxin in the wild and in genetically engineered plants; research has raised safety concerns relating to some of them. Declaring them all safe is premature, and here’s why. Thus far, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has concluded...
GMO Questions and Answers
How are genetically engineered (GE) crops different from those that are not genetically engineered? The short answer is that the genes used in genetically engineered crops are often not from an organism that is similar to the crop. The GE genes may introduce...
THE BIG 5 LIST: Top 5 Childhood Diseases On The Rise
Many authors claim that Genetically Engineered (GE) foods are safe by "scientific consensus", and that we have nothing to worry about. But the day-to-day clinical experience of doctors treating children leads us to believe that we should not be easily reassured,...