This blog prides itself on taking a neutral stance on the GMO issue. However, I just couldn’t help but share the following video. What a great job they did with the voices. When someone on the other side produces a good video we’ll be certain to share it in response. Actually, the issues raised in the video are not too far off the mark when it comes to what the issues are with GMO crops. Continue reading “Top 5 GMO Lies”
Category: Media
GMOs and the Media
Many times it’s the numbers that are failed to be reported that are the most telling. Statistics about GMOs and their reporting in the press are frequently very biased (on both sides). We’ll attempt to gather some stories about how the media is handling the issue of GMOs around the world and let you be the judge.
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
-Popularised in the United States by Mark Twain (among others),
who attributed it to the 19th-century British Prime Minister from (1874–1880) Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881):
You be the judge…
Here are links to 2 sites, one pro-GMO (from a government agency), the other con-GMO. I’m sure that the devil lies in the details here, and a thorough reading on both sites would behoove us all.
Bt Brinjal Farmer Speaks Out
Check out this video of Bengladesh farmer, Mohammad Hafizur Rahman setting straight the record about his Bt Brinjal crop. If we can believe the translation and subtitles, he claims to have a 100% increase in yield using genetically modified Bt Brinjal (eggplant). Evidently, an earlier news report about his fields dying prematurely were unfounded (if you read the comments in this story by the Alliance for Science (Cornell), there is some push back from the original reporter covering the story). Continue reading “Bt Brinjal Farmer Speaks Out”