Sunday, May 29, 2016

GMO Labels and Information Transparency

›
Recently there was a tweet by @mem_somerville with a snapshot from a letter from Senator Elizabeth Warren regarding GMO labeling legislation...
Friday, April 29, 2016

Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant on Here and Now

›
Nice interview: http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2016/03/30/monsanto-ceo-hugh-grant I particularly appreciated the commentary related to the con...

Livestock and climate change: Fact and Fiction

›
Very nice article related to livestock production and climate change. http://blogs.ucdavis.edu/egghead/2016/04/27/livestock-and-climate-ch...
Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Who's Cheating Who?...look on the menu...its local....no its organic....its sustainable...no its a super-scam!

›
Megan McArdle had a really nice piece on Bloomberg late last week titled "Dining out on empty virtue." Here's a snippet: ...

How bad, really, is meat eating? — via Jayson Lusk

›
Jayson Lusk has a nice post: How bad, really, is eating meat. He takes some EPA based carbon footprint/externality/social cost calculations...
Friday, April 15, 2016

Some thoughts and references related to a $15 minimum wage

›
 Despite a large literature finding negative impacts of minimum wage increases on employment opportunities for low skilled workers, a few st...
Friday, April 8, 2016

Do consumers have a 'right to know' about Intacta soybeans?

›
The title says it all: Sales Surge for Monsanto's Intacta Soybeans. "Monsanto Co.’s new Intacta soybeans are not only killing bug...