The kitchen at the epicenter of the major E.Coli outbreak in Calgary, Fueling Minds, is a full-service catering company with a "strong commitment to sourcing organic and locally grown seasonal ingredients."

Fueling Minds website: https://t.co/3meObqwgQ5 https://t.co/Ug8Tk3Hxqv

— The Food Professor (Dr. Sylvain Charlebois) (@FoodProfessor) September 12, 2023

Organic packaged salads tied to E. coli outbreak in 6 states

The Take Away:

There is no independently-produced evidence in the scientific literature that organic foods offer consistent nutritional or safety advantages over conventional foods. Some claimed advantages, like higher levels of antioxidants or omega-3 fatty acids or phenols, may not be advantages at all, say scientists. Other differences may be the result of whether a cow was grass fed or grain fed and have nothing to do with whether it was raised organically. Claims that organic crops are more “nutrient dense” have not been consistently supported in independent studies.

Via Genetic Literacy Project;

The bright yellow rapeseed flowers that adorn the British countryside have largely disappeared after crops this season failed.
 
The flaxen dandelion – used to make rapeseed oil – is a common sight on farmland in late spring but has suffered a downturn partly due to flea beetle larvae infestations, Farmers Weekly reported.
 
Farmers have struggled to control the pest after the EU banned neonicotinoid seed treatments in rapeseed crops six years ago.
 
A number of hectares of the crop completely failed, and any others that made it through the tough winter months then had to contend with the flea beetle – leading to a very small rapeseed crop

Genetic Literacy Project: French court rules sweet grapefruit, barley, wheat and 2500 crops, developed by mutagenizing seeds with toxic chemicals or gamma rays yet often sold as organic, are GMO, must be labeled and cultivation banned

Dear HyVee,

It pains me to write this letter. You are my “go to” grocery store. I really like your store, I buy groceries from you and I love that your roots are in the Midwest. But, lately, I have noticed that you are falling into the “marketing fear” that all us farmers dread.

ACSH;

In a press release, the DOJ said that one of the lead plaintiffs’ attorneys, Timothy Litzenburg, who helped land a $289-million hit job against Monsanto has been arrested for the attempted extortion of $200 million from another chemical company involved in the production of Roundup.
 
If the company (which the Wall Street Journal identified as Nouryon) did not cough up the money, Litzenburg would send in a “parade of horribles” (i.e., cancer patients) like he did to Monsanto, according to an affidavit. He also promised a “40 percent stock loss” and a “public relations nightmare.” But if Nouryon complied with his demand, then he would intentionally lose the case, just like the Black Sox in the 1919 World Series.
 
And, as it just so happens, Litzenburg has a buddy in Carey Gillam, a former journalist who left Reuters under troublesome circumstances (see image) and subsequently took a job with the anti-GMO activist organization U.S. Right to Know (USRTK). USRTK, a corporate front group that is primarily funded by the organic industry, routinely smears and spreads disinformation about biotech scientists.

The antisemitic Congresswoman from Minnesota has a problem.

My God. Props to @bloisolson for sharing.

From @IlhanMN’s crisis manager Ben Goldfarb:

“Does anyone in the team have a relationship with Blois? Someone should probably reach out to talk off the record and shut it down with him AS WE DO WITH THE STRIB” [emphasis added]

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— Nick Solheim (@NickSSolheim) June 13, 2019

Thread reader for the twitterless.

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The real war on science: Geneticist Kevin Folta excluded from gardening workshop after orchestrated anti-GMO social media attacks