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rs stories first hand monsanto isn t a perfect company and there are aspects of their business with which i have problems i am in particular concerned about animal testing and field workers but i m not convinced they are the monsatan or the most evil company in the world that they are commonly made out to be another take away is that we all really want the same things safe and sustainable agriculture we might disagree on exactly what that looks like but the breeders i met were no evil henchmen they were caring and passionate people who took pride in their work if i could create squash that hardy melons that sweet tomatoes that flavorful or watermelon that juicy i would be proud too i personally had a great time and would highly recommend the experience to others posted in uncategorized 7 comments vegan cheese update eden foods hero bees elephant artists july 2 2014 real vegan cheese a quick update on the real vegan cheese project that i have previously written about technical work on the project is also coming along nicely but the team really needs your support so they have launched a new crowd funding campaign check out the video below you can also check out this article in the eastbay express called inside the ethical cheese lab by sam levin please support this project if you can not only could it make a really awesome and yummy product but it offers a great model for getting people more interested in and knowledgeable about science one of the great things about diybio groups is the opportunity for students and the general public to learn and get involved i even got to do a little cloning work myself eden foods and birth control the christian owned craft store hobby lobby has been in the news recently due to their opposition to paying for birth control under health care law a decision which was recently supported by the supreme court despite much public outcry but what is your favorite soymilk tainted by religious irrationality to find out have a look at organic eden foods quiet right wing agenda eden foods doubles down in birth control flap by irin carmon and for what it is worth you can also read the response from the president of eden foods i do also wonder how this will affect the argument by some vegans that they should be exempt from vaccine mandates for religious reasons is it possible we could see other vegan owned companies denying coverage for the yearly flu shot i am far from a legal scholar so i would love for someone to school me in the comment section hero bees i find that many people are very quick to uncritically accept stories of amazing or surprising animal abilities and behaviors and tend to ascribe human characteristics and motivation to such behavior i get it it for lack of a better word humanizes the other while i certainly believe that the gulf between human and animal is an artificial one of semantics i think that taking a skeptical look at anthropomorphism is important especially since it is anthropocentric and that we should examine individual cases critically animals need not be like us in order to matter recently a video of bumblebee rescuing another bee from a spider web in a swift and bold move has been making the rounds but professor of biology dave goulson explains that what the video actually shows is a second bee comes crashing in falls on its back and thrashes around a bit as the second bee flails around on its back it looks in one frame as if it stings the spider in fact what one can see is the rear leg of the bee which happens to line up with the tip of the abdomen for a moment it is too long and thick for a bee sting the spider runs away and the bees break free as bumblebees usually do from spider s webs so sorry this is not a noble brave act much as i might like it to be this is just two clumsy bees trying to find their way home painting elephants every now and then i will see a post about elephants that can paint sometimes it is even touted as a way to raise money to protect elephants but upon closer examination this practice is generally one of tremendous exploitation and abuse so it was nice to hear this myth addressed in a recent presentation from scot bastian for the seattle skeptics you can listen to the presentation here and find the companion post here posted in uncategorized 1 comment the fear babe part 6 castoreum june 28 2014 yesterday i wrapped up a five part series on veggie burgers and just when i thought i was finished with the fear food babe vani hari and her nonsense up pops this gem do you eat beaver butt in this video hari informs viewers that tons of strawberry or vanilla flavored foods in the grocery store are flavored with a substance from a beaver s butt hidden under the name natural flavors because it is cheaper than using the real ingredients this substance called castoreum is an aromatic secretion from glands at the base of the beavers tail and is a cruel product of the fur trapping industry castoreum is indeed approved as a food ingredient but is all the hype over beaver butt in your vanilla soymilk really justified not really as michaeleen doucleff reports for npr in 2004 the food industry used only about 300 pounds of the beaver extract according to according to the fifth edition of fenaroli s handbook of flavor ingredients an industry bible of sorts that s a mere drop in the bucket compared with the amount of vanilla extract used and in 2011 the vegetarian resource group asked five companies that make vanilla flavoring if they used any beaver extract all of them said no the average consumer is unlikely to encounter much if any castoreum at the grocery store where it is more likely to be encounter is at the perfume counter a desire to avoid castoreum is perhaps one point of agreement between the food babe and i but contrary to what she would have us believe castoreum simply isn t commonly used in food anymore so it makes little sense to be telling people as hari does to avoid all products that contain natural flavors if in doubt about a particular product or ingredient simply contact the manufacturer be informed and empowered not fearful see does beaver tush flavor your strawberry shortcake we go myth busting by michaeleen doucleff social media and isolation monsanto castoreum on the reality check podcast posted in uncategorized 3 comments the fear babe part 5 gmos june 27 2014 today i am going to wrap up my five part series on an article called think twice before you buy this type of burger by the food babe aka vani hari gmos lastly hari warns her readers that if the burger contains anything derived from corn or soy you can almost guarantee it comes from genetically modified seeds unless it is certified 100 organic the problem with this she states is that such foods have been linked to toxicity allergic reactions and fertility issues and have not been studied for their long term effects on our health wow that sure is an eye opener except that it isn t true in reality genetically modified foods have been the subject of thousands of studies attesting to their safety and do not pose a risk beyond that posed by other more publicly accepted breeding methods infographic on 4 ways to breed crops by scrambling genes see frankenfood fears by skepticalvegan gmo labeling by skepticalvegan the food babe is anything but an expert on gmos by joe schwarcz posted in uncategorized leave a comment the fear babe part 4 msg june 26 2014 today i shall continue my 5 part series on think twice before you buy this type of burger by the food babe aka vani hari msg next up on the list of things that scare the food babe is monosodium glutamate msg a food additive that gives dishes a deep and savory or umami taste the belief that msg is a harmful food additive is so pervasive that it is often taken for granted that it is something to be avoided the list of symptoms attributed to msg are diverse and range from flushing and headaches to heart problems to cancer and everything inbetween but decades of research have failed to demonstrate a clear and consistent relationship between msg ingestion and the development of these conditions at most researchers have uncovered a small segment of the population with might be sensitive to msg but even this is based on limited and not very consistent evidence regardless of the evidence public fears have driven many food manufactures particularly of products marketed to both the vegan and natural foods communities to avoid the use of straight msg and to often proudly label their food as having no msg but if few veggie burger manufacturers actually add msg what is all the fuss about hari informs us that there are several hidden sources of msg found in vegetarian meat substitutes for once hari is actually somewhat right though it would be more correct to say free glutamate while the natural food industry generally eschews crystalline msg they have found many natural sources of glutamate such as yeast extract and fermented soy to serve the same flavor enhancing function as msg but just as with msg these sources pose no real danger in fact having sources rich in glutamate in your diet can be a good thing soy sauce miso tomato sauce mushrooms and balsamic vinegar are all relatively common glutamate rich foods do you sprinkle nutritional yeast on everything there might be a reason for that glutamate americans aversion to msg could even be negativity impacting public health efforts in some cases studies have shown that sodium levels in foods can be significantly reduced without an accompanying loss of flavor if msg is used it could be potentially useful to replace some of the salt in certain dishes with msg see the safety of msg by jack norris is umami a secret ingredient of vegan activism by ginny messina the secret vaguely racist history of msg fear mongering by dan nosowitz the monosodium glutamate story cornell college posted in uncategorized leave a comment the fear babe part 3 tvp nitrite june 25 2014 on monday i wrote about an article called think twice before you buy this type of burger by the food babe aka vani hari which is basically a case study in chemophobia today i continue my 5 part series on this article textured vegetable protein tvp nitrite hari s next problem is with textured vegetable protein tvp a high protein soy product that is used in various foods including some veggie burgers according to hari tvp is filled with artificial and natural flavors msg colorings emulsifiers and thickening agents including nitrosamine which is a carcinogen no one should be consuming in reality this is just a blanket appeal to chemophobia one issue mentioned that may be a concern is that of nitrosamines a class of compounds which are created from added of naturally occurring nitrite during the processing cooking and digestion of certain foods that have been implicated in certain cancers this actually forms part of the basis for anti hot dog bacon processed meat campaigns by vegan organizations such as the pcrm but little nitrite is converted to nitrosamines under normal conditions and the evidence for harm from consuming high nitrite foods is not conclusive while at the same time there is growing evidence of the positive physiological roles of nitrite according to a more recent report from the european food safety authority epidemiological studies do not suggest that nitrate intake from diet or drinking water is associated with increased cancer risk evidence that high intake of nitrite might be associated with increased cancer risk is equivocal and what s more even if we ignore the seemingly overstated nature of these concerns highlighting soy as a dangerous source of nitrosamines is misleading the precursor to nitrosamines nitrite can be found in many foods particularly in certain meats grains and leafy vegetables in particular often at significantly higher levels and while some surveys do show vegetarian diets having above average intakes of nitrite their source as with the general non vegetarian population is mostly from vegetables where the presence of vitamin c might mitigate the formation of nitrosamines and the calculated amounts generally do not exceed the conservative eu acceptable daily intake adi the fda for their part does not believe that meat analogs pose a risk to consumers either the scogs report estimated the maximum daily nitrite consumption for a vegetarian eating meat alternatives prepared from soy protein to be 0 04 mg kilogram kg body weight or 2 8 mg for a 70 kg person the report estimated daily per capita intake of nitrite from other foods of plant origin and cured meats to be about 2 4 mg and daily exposure to nitrite from saliva to be 15 mg the report estimated that nitrite formed in the intestine from reduction of ammonia or organic nitrogen compounds contributed about 90 mg day given the relatively minor potential contribution of soy protein to total nitrite exposure and the fact that no data were submitted to document the current levels of nitrites or nitrosamines in soy protein isolates fda is not persuaded of the necessity for establishing specifications for acceptable levels of these compounds so you can probably enjoy your veggie burger in peace any nitrite in soy should not present a problem for the average vegan consumer and testing of soy protein isolate found no detectable nitrosamines additionally when researchers in taiwan looked at nitrite exposure from soy they found an inverse relationship with the type of cancer under investigation due to an inhibitory agent in soy all in all i remain unconvinced that avoiding soy is warranted on the basis of nitrite concerns see nitrate in vegetables from the european food safety authority tvp and msg by jack norris posted in uncategorized leave a comment the fear babe part 2 canola oil june 24 2014 yesterday i wrote about an article called think twice before you buy this type of burger by the food babe aka vani hari which is basically a case study in chemophobia today i continue my 5 part series on this article let s seem what we have next canola the second issue with veggie burgers pinpointed by the food babe is the use of cheap oils along with soy oil corn oil sunflower and safflower oil hari illustrates this point with canola oil but once again hari plays the chemophobia card by invoking the specter of hexane like with soy hexane is used sometimes in the processing of canola and some other oils and also as with soy protein hexane is present only in trace amounts in the finished product if at all and is likely of little concern beyond the repeat of hexane fears hari further informs us that overconsumption of these cheap oils are causing an abundance of omega 6 fatty acids in our diets which increases the risk of inflammation heart disease obesity and prostate and bone cancer while omega 3 6 balance is important for vegans canola actually has a decent 3 to 6 ratio when compared to other common cooking oils and is a healthy source of ala in general 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