On my show last night, Food & Water Watch executive director Wenonah Hauter debated Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Greg Conko over whether genetically-modified foods tamper with mother nature.  Wenonah says yes, Greg says no. At one point in the debate, Wenonah Hauter insisted that the big 2006 spinach recall was of conventionally-grown spinach … NOT organic.  However, we checked.  Turns out the FDA’s continue reading »

"Natural" food sounds so pure. Tampering with nature feels wrong.  So it’s easy to believe that things like chemical pesticides and genetically modified food are unhealthy.  It’s intuitive to believe that they harm the planet. But as so often happens, what we know just isn't so... continue reading »

Clueless regulators continue to pass new rules, despite the damage done by mindless enforcement of the old ones.  I’ve written about the seven-year-old who tried to open a lemonade stand in California.  Now two middle schoolers in New Castle, NY have gotten in trouble because they held a bake sale at the country fair... continue reading »

We in the media love to scare you, because if you're scared ... we know you'll watch our programs. On my Fox Business show tonight (9pm ET), I'll cover some of these bogus scare stories, including one that made the news last month: Canada announced that it will ban the chemical "bisphenol A" -- known as BPA -- which is used to make plastic bottles. The problem is ... BPA isn't toxic... continue reading »

This week, the FDA decides whether to allow genetically-modified (GM) salmon in our food supply. A biotech company engineered salmon genes to create a version of the fish that grows twice as fast. This will help the world fight overfishing and starvation.  Sounds great to me! But “natural” foods activists like Ben & Jerry’s CEO Josten Solheim are horrified... continue reading »