tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579549341020421678.post3660931306031527942..comments2024-01-16T13:06:15.270-06:00Comments on Climate Change: The Next Generation: Why GMOs won’t feed the world (despite what you read in the New York Times) [re: ridiculous op-ed by Nina Federoff -- how much did the GMO companies pay the NYT for that piece of junk?]Tenney Naumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843130378338023902noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579549341020421678.post-19700876930168335302011-08-24T11:48:27.094-05:002011-08-24T11:48:27.094-05:00Andy, I appreciate your comment, but I believe a s...Andy, I appreciate your comment, but I believe a simple google search would list plenty of recent research articles that describe the drawbacks now of using GM crops and Monsanto pesticides. This blog is not a scholarly blog. I repost articles that seem to be important to me, in my opinion, in other words.Tenney Naumerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11843130378338023902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579549341020421678.post-36783325002971203262011-08-23T20:16:24.931-05:002011-08-23T20:16:24.931-05:00Federoff boasts that GMOs reduce pesticide usage, ...Federoff boasts that GMOs reduce pesticide usage, but an analysis of 13 years of commercialized GMOs in the United States actually found a dramatic increase in the volume of herbicides used on these crops that swamped the relatively small reduction in insecticide use attributable to GMO corn and cotton during that same period.<br /><br />I don't see a reference for the above data. I saw links for other claims, but can't you footnote this damn thing? If you found it, why do I have to duplicate your work? So often, 'no footnotes' is what passes for liberal scholarship. And I'm as liberal as anyone.<br /><br />AndyAndy Kippenhannoreply@blogger.com