Cornell Alliance for Science
Visiting fellow at the Cornell Alliance for Science and the author of The God Species: How the Planet Can Survive the Age of Humans
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Mark Lynas
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FROM Mark Lynas
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Superstition over Science in Europe's GMO Policy? Science and ideology are in conflict in Europe, as many nations have accepted the science of climate change but are rejecting the science of genetically modified organisms, or GMO's. That's lead to a dangerous contradictions in public policy, according to a former anti-GMO activist who's warning against rejecting that technology.
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Big Food Aims at the Socially Conscious, but Is the Food Healthier? Chipotle, the national food chain that claims to be a healthier fast food alternative, upped the ante recently in trying to follow its motto of "Food with Integrity." Last week the company announced its food menu was going to be GMO-free , no longer containing ingredients derived from genetically engineered plants.
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