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Bioscience Resource Project News and Views
SHORT COURSE — Genetic Engineering: Science, Technology and Politics
Would you like to know more about GMOs and why there is no scientific consensus on GMO safety? The upcoming Ithaca Freeskool course on Genetic Engineering: Science, Technology and Politics [held on 3 Sundays from 2-4pm (on 2/8, 2/22 and 3/8)] will give you a better understanding of the ongoing controversy over their use in agriculture and the food system. The course is FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Reading material will be provided. Students should bring their questions and curiosity about GMO technology. You can attend any or all of the days.
Instructor: Dr. Allison Wilson, Science Director of The Bioscience Resource Project, has nearly 30 years of experience (in and out of the lab)
PRE-REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL: For more information and to sign up for the course here. Put Ithaca Freeskool GMO Course as the subject.
Ithaca Event: Beyond the Ban: Fracking, Health and Infrastructure in NY State
IMPORTANT VENUE CHANGE: Due to Frozen Pipes at the original venue the Beyond the Ban event is now at the Sanctuary at The First Unitarian Church of Ithaca, 306 N. Aurora St., Corner of Buffalo St. and N. Aurora St., Entrances on Aurora. Nothing else has changed. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to see you at the event.
For more information see: http://bsr.wpengine.com/2015/01/steingraber-bamberger-oswald-beyond-the-ban/
EVENT – Beyond the Ban: Fracking, Health & Infrastructure in New York State from Port Ambrose to Seneca Lake
with Sandra Steingraber, Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald.
IMPORTANT VENUE CHANGE: Due to Frozen Pipes at original venue the Beyond the Ban event is now at the Sanctuary at The First Unitarian Church of Ithaca, 306 N. Aurora St., Corner of Buffalo St. and N. Aurora St., Entrances on Aurora. Nothing else has changed. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to see you at the event.
Time and Place: Thursday, February 26, 2015, from 7 – 9 pm, the Sanctuary of The Unitarian Church of Ithaca, 306 N. Aurora St., Corner of Buffalo St. and N. Aurora St., Entrances on Aurora. Doors open at 6:45pm. This event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
New York state has newly banned fracking due to its known hazards and risks. But New Yorkers are still at risk from hazardous gas facilities and pipelines, pollution, food chain contamination and other problems of the fracking boom.
Ithaca-based non-profit, The Bioscience Resource Project, is hosting Beyond the Ban: Fracking, Health & Infrastructure in New York State from Port Ambrose to Seneca Lake. Sandra Steingraber, Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald will provide an overview of post-ban fracking threats to New York state. The Bioscience Resource Project, CSI (Community Science Institute) and Physicians, Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy (PSE Healthy Energy) will have information tables and Buffalo Street Books will have books for sale at this event. read more…
How the Great Food War Will Be Won
Independent Science News has just published: How the Great Food War Will Be Won
By Jonathan Latham, PhD
Synopsis: Major agribusiness corporations, such as Monsanto, Cargill, ADM, and
Syngenta desire to fully control the global food system. Unfortunately for
them, they are held back by an image problem. As most people know, food
produced with their assistance is inferior in every respect. However, there is
one category in which they can plausibly claim superiority over other methods.
That superiority is yield. Consequently, agribusiness has directed intense
efforts at framing yield as the defining element of successful modern
agriculture. read more…
Seeds of Truth: Vandana Shiva and the New Yorker
Independent Science News has just published “Seeds of Truth: Vandana Shiva and the New Yorker,” written by Dr Vandana Shiva.
Article synopsis: Earlier this year The New Yorker published an article by Michael Specter titled “Seeds of Doubt”. Independent Science News has reprinted the reply of Dr Vandana Shiva who was the centerpiece of that article. As well as detailing its “fraudulent assertions and deliberate attempts to skew reality“, Dr Shiva calls important attention to the ongoing efforts of Monsanto and the biotechnology industry to manipulate reporting of GMO issues in the media – including the publishers of The New Yorker. She also gives her assessment of the still misunderstood Indian experience with GMO Bt cotton that was the background to The New Yorker article.
To read the full article go to: http://www.independentsciencenews.org/un-sustainable-farming/seeds-of-truth-vandana-shiva-new-yorker/
Just Released by Concerned Health Professionals of NY: Updated Compendium of Risks and Harms Of Fracking (Unconventional Gas And Oil)
Concerned Health Professionals of New York, released a second edition of their invaluable resource the Compendium of Scientific, Medical, and Media Findings of Risks and Harms of Fracking. This includes an important section documenting threats to agriculture and soil quality. The compendium is free read more…
Exposing the Toxic Secrets of Corporations and Regulators
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