The recent article, “What the GMO Four aren’t Telling you about biotech food,” by Dr. John Schaefer in the Aug. 26 Mad River Union is a classic example of the “fear factor” that unfortunately often affects people who are forced to deal with a new scientific discovery or technical tool and have not been adequately…
Mark Wilson: Megacorps and tribal compulsions derail informed decisionmaking about GMOs
Twenty-three years ago, I spent a wonderful week hiking with my dog Fred in the Trinities, and fell in love with those beautiful mountains. As I came to know more and more of our wonderful bioregion, my respect and enchantment only grew. But more than the light and fog of redwood groves, and long walks…
What the GMO Four aren’t telling you about biotech food
I for one am pleased to see that the Arcata Eye has morphed into an ongoing source of interesting controversy. Wisdom occasionally emerges from such controversy, but not always. Examples are the lengthy but content-free hit piece (Mad River Union, Feb. 26) in which Kevin Hoover, Rollin Richmond and Chad White assert without evidence that…
Humboldt State hosts GMO Speaker Series
Humboldt State Hosts GMO Speaker Series Humboldt State University and GMO Free Humboldt present the Genetically Modified Organism Fall Speaker Series Aug. 29, Sept. 5 and Sept. 12 on the HSU campus. Lectures are free and open to the public and will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Native American Forum, Room…
Sun Valley Done In By ‘Drift’
Mad River Union ARCATA BOTTOM, APRIL 1 – Claiming that it can no longer ensure the purity of its genetically engineered marijuana crops, Sun Valley Cannabis Farm last week shut down the last of its operations on the Arcata Bottom. The company blamed a phenomenon known as “pollen drift” for carrying genetic material from organic…
Co-op Purges GMOs From Its Signs
TUESDAY, APRIL 1 – The last holdout against our brave new world of genetically modified food and the wonders of all-GMO iPudd pudding, the Northcoast Co-op completed its banishment of the wonder substances last week. As part of its store-wide purge of all letters contained in the terms “GMO” and “pudding,” workers were spotted removing the…
Everyone Was Totally Persuaded By Our Awesome Pro-Biotechnology Column
If by totally persuaded we mean pointing out all the corporate stoogery, overfaith in science, ludicrousness & lies Monsanto’s playbook Thank you for running your delightful parody pretending to oppose the proposed Humboldt County GMO ban. You even put Rollin Richmond’s name on it, he the consummate free-enterprise bureaucrat who probably hasn’t seen the inside…
Everything You Think You Know About GMOs Is Probably Wrong
Northcoast Co-op’s GMO policy is already stained by superstition – will it fall to foolish food fashion and commit its business to a scientifically indefensible, legally laughable and ultimately unenforceable crop ban? Everyone in Arcata seems to have an opinion about genetically modified organisms (GMOs), also known as genetically engineered (GE) food or biotech.…
Member Linkage Report to the Northcoast Co-op Board, January 2014
Melanie Bettenhausen has been working with our Marketing, Membership and Merchandising team to determine the best way for the Board to support the proposed ordinance that would effectively ban the cultivation and production of GMO crops in Humboldt County. While everyone on our team is personally in support of it, there seems to be hesitancy…
CAFF’s GMO Policy
The Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) provided comments for the recent Co-op Board meeting regarding their stance on the GMO Crop Ban. They are as follows: The Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) will be deciding whether to actively support the ban based on their members’ input. We hope to be moving on getting…
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