If you get money from a corporation, are you for sale?It’s obviously a silly question, since almost everyone in America signs the backs of checks ratherr than the front of them, yet much of the public tends to think that if a scientist gets funding from the government or a corporation, they are mandated to produce a specific, pre-chosen result, even though those same people would not agree that...
read moreA new survey finds that how 40 percent of people function is a scientific mystery - because only 60 percent of people start their mornings with coffee.This is baffling in a country where $18 billion annually is spent just on specialty coffees. read...
read moreA Supreme Court decision in Reed v. the Town of Gilbert (which concerned the constitutionality of certain standards for or restrictions on signage in a town in Arizona) may mean that process-specific food-labeling initiatives are likely to be deemed unconstitutional by federal courts.
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If you prefer an organic toxic pesticide over a synthetic one, or prefer food created with older genetic modification rather than the modern kind, then you are willing to pay more for those values.And it was only a matter of time before companies followed the...
read moreIf you walk into a store and think you are buying vegan food and it turns out to be made of meat, are you going to be outraged?That is at the heart of a mayonnaise controversy that has been whipped up by Hampton Creek, which makes vegan food and has a mayonnaise they want to sell as mayonnaise. But Federal law put a stop to just slapping a name on a fake product over 70 years ago, that is...
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