Despite all science showing it is unjustified and a French court overturning a moratorium that had no legal or scientific basis, the Prime Minister of France, Jean-Marc Ayrault, has declared that France will continue to ban any genetically modified food despite objections from its own scientists and those across the EU and the...
read moreIn 2012, you'd have to be crazy to get into the cereal business. The start-up costs are high, margins are low and competitors are gigantic. Food scientist Mike Abrams and business partner Chuck Mason think they can make a go of it because they have an edge; caffeine. Cappuccino Crunch is toasted rice flour cereal made with coffee.Can they market that to kids? Why not? The Starbucks...
read moreThe Gallic War showed Julius Caesar as a great military leader, proof that even 2070 years ago politicians who get stuff done got farther ahead than politicians people simply liked. It is also the first instance of a military commander documenting a campaign, so we know quite a bit. read...
read moreBeef Products Inc.(BPI) has had enough, it seems. A lawsuit filed in a South Dakota state court goes after ABC News, Inc. for defamation over its"pink slime" coverage, claiming the network damaged the company by misleading consumers into believing it is unhealthy and unsafe.They are also going after ABC news anchor Diane Sawyer and the Departure of Agriculture microbiologist...
read moreIn a recent ScienceDebate questionnaire response, speechwriters for Candidate Mitt Romney tried to distinguish themselves from speechwriters for President Obama on education(1), and then proceeded to say the exact same thing Candidate Obama said in 2008 about education - that the union system of protecting the teachers who have been around the longest rather than rewarding the ones who are the...
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