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In reply to the discussion: Michael Pollan as GMO ‘denialist’ dupes credulous New York Times [View all]HuckleB
(35,773 posts)52. Pollan, Other Activists Fear Monger With Ignorance -- AGAIN!
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Ok, let's look to the scientists for safety of 'food additives,' where most are exposed to GMOs.
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2013
#1
YOU: Reject Pollan on GMOs, not a scientist. ME: Fine. Read this knowing that GMOs = food additives.
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2013
#6
Food additives derived from GMO corn, GMO soy, GMO canola, GMO cottonseed are indeed 'GMOs.'
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2013
#11
I said you were in la la land, and then you further prove it with your response.
HuckleB
Oct 2013
#13
The science-based links are at odds with the business-based links. Got cognitive dissonance?
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2013
#19
SEE POST #1, please note depth and breadth of analysis of currently abysmal state of affairs.
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2013
#21
Hardly. Here are all the links separated from the news aggregating sites you're so fond of dissing.
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2013
#23
That translates into a whole lotta recent science w zero relevance of personal attacks on M.Pollan.
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2013
#24
The update was to my own post which lit up the yellow tab for MY POSTS and linked to this old post.
proverbialwisdom
Jan 2014
#48
PRESS RELEASE > Environmental Chemicals Harm Reproductive Health: Ob-Gyns Advocate for Policy Change
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2013
#2
Nope, The American Society for Reproductive Medicine & The American College of Obstetricians and Gyn
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2013
#7
GMO's are mainly consumed as food additives which scientists, not Pollan, are assessing in my links.
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2013
#12
No need to be rude. The whole world (slightly exaggerated) apart from the US is wrong? Snort. nt
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2013
#16
Oh, please, it's a PRESS RELEASE backed by 57,000 ob-gyns + 7.000 reproductive medicine specialists.
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2013
#8
RECOMMENDED Press Statement, along with Pollan's brilliant 'Food Rules: An Eater's Manual.'
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2013
#26
Check it out. DISCLAIMER: Recognized experts, although I have no familiarity with Robbins or event.
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2013
#31
Please see http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-09-03/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-NEW-PROTEINS
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2013
#33
Ah, I see you've posted from the highly respected science magazine Elle
EvolveOrConvolve
Oct 2013
#35
Go figure. Your source cynically parses words or is woefully uninformed.
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2013
#38
"This is not a hit piece on Michael Pollan" - I'd hate to read what the author does consider
muriel_volestrangler
Oct 2013
#40
If that's your understanding, may I suggest due diligence necessitates additional reading?
proverbialwisdom
Jan 2014
#49