Coatings on Fresh Produce and the 2023 Apeel Controversy, Edible Films: Extending Shelf-Life and Preserving an Appealing Appearance

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OrganicEye (White Paper) The FDA has created groups of specific related foods for the purpose of establishing acceptable tolerances and/or to set limitations for the use of direct human food ingredients. Waxes and coatings fall under the category of surface-finishing agents. These are “…substances used to increase palatability, preserve gloss, and inhibit discoloration of foods, […]

Uproar Over ‘Apeel’ Food Coating Sheds light on Big Ag’s Capture of Organic Food Agencies

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Brenda Baletti Agribusiness watchdog OrganicEye this week petitioned the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish formal regulatory oversight for the public and private organizations that determine what products can be labeled organic. The request comes after a recent social media controversy surrounding a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded synthetic fungicide and fruit coating — […]

Models or Measures of Climate Change: Why Does It Matter?

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Kenneth P. Green Much of our understanding of anthropogenic climate change, and much of the debate over climate science and climate policy is based on information generated via mathematical modeling. Rarely, if ever, do we see much discussion of empirical measurements of climate change; global average temperature and sea level are rare exceptions. … The […]

Models or Measures of Climate Change: Why Does It Matter?

a blackboard with a bunch of diagrams on it

Kenneth P. Green Much of our understanding of anthropogenic climate change, and much of the debate over climate science and climate policy is based on information generated via mathematical modeling. Rarely, if ever, do we see much discussion of empirical measurements of climate change; global average temperature and sea level are rare exceptions. … At […]

Bad Policy Assures a Perpetual Sense of Burning Crisis

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El Gato Malo Forest fires are big, mediagenic events. The pictures are dramatic. The smoke they produce can spread for hundreds, even thousands of miles and can make life downwind unpleasant, even deadly for weeks on end. They are also widely misunderstood and being used to make outlandish claims in favor of “climate policy” that […]

The Sick Cycle Carousel

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Mike Stone Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. People are su8ering from the same set of non- specific symptoms that they encounter each and every year, and it is declared that a influenza outbreak is upon us. A few months pass, and despite the vaccines and treatments, the symptoms persist. However, the flu […]

“virus” FOIs – Canadian Food Inspection Agency, David Martin, PH Wales, Cardiff & Vale – no records, no science!

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Christine Massey Canadian Food Inspection Agency agents destroy animals based on “viruses” they cannot show existMay 10, 2023:The people at Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) confessed to having zero scientific proof of the existence of any alleged “virus” that they claim has ever affected livestock/food in Canada, see pg 15/16 … Image: Syaibatulhamdi @ Unsplash