This Week in OtherWords: A Genetically Engineered Food Special Edition
In her debut guest column, Jill Richardson challenges big food companies to boast about their penchant for these modified crops if they’re so wonderful.
Consumer Choice: As American as Apple Pie
The creation of a new genetically modified apple highlights once again the need for clear labeling of this kind of food.
Big Food Fight
If the products they sell us are as great as they say, what are General Mills, Kraft, and other processed food giants hiding?
Big Food Behemoths Embarrass their Organic Offshoots
Big Food’s mobilization against California’s right-to-know law is making more green-minded consumers aware of the companies that own their favorite brands.
Poisoned Apple, 2012
Don’t fret about the genetic engineering.
Food Safety on the Butcher’s Block
Washington is using new free trade agreements to push U.S. food–and food safety standards–down the throats of other countries.
Trouble in Tibet
From Beijing’s perspective, the debt to Tibet has been paid back. Many Tibetens think differently.
IPS Fellow Saul Landau Receives Top Chilean Award
Landau accepts the Bernardo O’Higgins Award from the Chilean Ambassador for his work in human rights.