Tamar Haspel
Revising 10 fact-based perspectives on entrenched food myths: Gene editing is good, diet soda is fine, organics is not the answer
I’ve been trying to suss out true and false to the best of my inevitably human, imperfect ability, and for ...
‘Illusion of causality’ and why we trust our own experiences more than science
Did you cut out sugar and feel more energetic, take vitamin C and stop getting colds, switch to eating only ...
Monsanto, GMOs and journalism ethics: Science writer Tamar Haspel responds to HuffPost attack on her work
[On August 6], HuffPost published a hit piece about me. It was about conflicts of interest, and I think it’s ...
There’s little evidence showing diet soda is harmful—so why do experts recommend we avoid it?
Low-calorie sweeteners represent just about everything that’s wrong with our diet. They’re mostly synthetic. They play to the human preference ...
Viewpoint: CRISPR crops have a chance to avoid the trust issues that plague GMOs
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on [July 18th] released a report on how to address the most pressing problems of American ...
Organic foods have less pesticide residue than conventional produce—but does it matter?
I’ve been following these issues for a long time, and I’ve seen a lot of evidence that organic foods have ...
Viewpoint: GMO debate’s name-calling, death threats and ‘anti-science’ rhetoric bad for agriculture
What has the world come to when people get death threats for expressing an opinion about agriculture? The toxicity of ...
Viewpoint: Organic food fight over hydroponics about money—and that’s how farming should be
Sustainable farming can’t actually be sustainable if farmers can’t make money doing it. So there’s a certain irony in the organic ...
Challenging food movement: Small, organic farms not key to fixing food system
[Buying food from small, local, organic farms] cannot fix that chemical-intensive system that crowds out biodiversity, depletes the soil, pollutes ...
Media shouting match over neonicotinoids isn’t helping bees
[Bees have] become pawns in the ag wars, the subject of dueling bee-death narratives. In one of those story lines, pesticides ...
National Academy of Sciences says GMOs safe for humans and environment, but no panacea
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genetically-engineered crops are as ...
Is organic really more sustainable?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When you pony up ...
Farm subsidies have potential to incentivize conservation practices in ‘Big Ag’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. This month, I set ...
Big Food broke ‘spirit, letter’ of law in campaign against WA state’s GMO labeling initiative
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The nation’s largest food ...
Truth about ‘food movement’ may surprise you
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . Ask ...
‘SmartLabels’ not good enough for GMO critics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Proponents of mandatory GMO ...
Setting aside the debate over GMOs, what are the problems in our food system?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I have a theory. It’s ...
WHO’s IARC: Red meat is as ‘dangerous’ as glyphosate (and 476 other carcinogenic threats)
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The World Health Organization's ...
Glyphosate: Real risks, benefits of poster child for GMO debate
PHThe GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It’s hard to talk ...
Wash Po’s Tamar Haspel addresses conflict of interest charges
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [This post is excerpted ...
GMO chicken could solve avian flu crisis, saving millions of birds, if only if….
The solution to avian flu, the virus responsible for the devastating eradication of chicken and turkey flocks across much of ...
Food and ideology don’t mix: There’s not one way to feed world
There’s an unbreachable divide between advocates of modern conventional agriculture and, essentially, everyone else, from the mainstream (organic, local, anti-GMO) ...
Corn: Debating the importance of corn in feeding the planet
For the Union of Concerned Scientists, Ricardo Salvador writes, in part: Nowhere is the power and prowess of agricultural science ...
Corn? Yes. Importance of corn in feeding planet
There’s a strong case that field corn, used as a grain, is the single most important food crop on the ...
Overwrought debate over GMOS diverts Africa from addressing food crisis
Say the words “green revolution,” and people take sides. ... As polarizing ideas go, though, the green revolution’s got nothing on ...
One baboon gene could vastly improve lives of millions of African farmers
With one gene, molecular geneticist Steve Kemp may someday be able to boost the success of small farms across a huge swath of ...
Is organic grass-fed beef healthier than grain fed?
Almost always, when I talk to scientists and farmers about food supply issues — whether it’s farm size, organic methods, ...
GMO American chestnut tree unique among GM innovations
It was nearly 400 years ago that the Pilgrims sat down with the Wampanoag to share the feast that is ...
