{"id":9427,"date":"2013-08-30T05:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=9427"},"modified":"2013-08-25T11:45:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T15:45:38","slug":"miscellaneous-food-policy-links-gmos-lobster-and-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/9427","title":{"rendered":"Miscellaneous Food Policy Links: GMOs, Lobster, and Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Amy Harmon had a great <a title=\"Golden Rice: Lifesaver?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/08\/25\/sunday-review\/golden-rice-lifesaver.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> on golden rice &#8212; and the paranoia surrounding GMOs &#8212; in last Sunday&#8217;s <em>New York Times<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;ve missed Harmon&#8217;s excellent piece on orange rust and the use of GMOs to combat crop diseases, you can find it <a title=\"A Race to Save the Orange by Altering Its DNA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/28\/science\/a-race-to-save-the-orange-by-altering-its-dna.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In this\u00a0<em>New Yorker<\/em>, James Surowiecki&#8217;s <a title=\"Clawback\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/financial\/2013\/08\/26\/130826ta_talk_surowiecki\" target=\"_blank\">column<\/a> was dedicated to the collapsing price of lobster&#8230; and to how restaurants have failed to adjust.<\/li>\n<li>Again on the topic of GMOs, Grist magazine had a good three-part series on the topic: parts <a title=\"The GM Food Debate: Where Do We Begin?\" href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/food\/the-genetically-modified-food-debate-where-do-we-begin\/\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a>, <a title=\"The GM Safety Dance: What's Rule and What's Real\" href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/food\/the-gm-safety-dance-whats-rule-and-whats-real\/\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a>, and <a title=\"Genetic Engineering vs. Natural Breeding: What's the Difference?\" href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/food\/genetic-engineering-vs-natural-breeding-whats-the-difference\/\" target=\"_blank\">3<\/a>\u00a0(ht: Jayson Lusk).<\/li>\n<li>Tom Friedman <a title=\"Kansas and Al Qaeda\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/08\/11\/opinion\/sunday\/friedman-kansas-and-al-qaeda.html\" target=\"_blank\">discovers<\/a> the food price&#8211;conflict nexus&#8230; <a title=\"Do Food Prices Cause Political Unrest?\" href=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/do-food-prices-cause-political-unrest\/\" target=\"_blank\">two years too late<\/a>\u00a0(ht: Hal Brands).<\/li>\n<li>Economic Logic <a title=\"Why Is the Agricultural Sector Still Protected in the US?\" href=\"http:\/\/economiclogic.blogspot.com\/2013\/08\/why-is-agricultural-sector-still.html\" target=\"_blank\">discusses<\/a> my most recent working paper, the one with Nick Carnes on agricultural protection in the US (ht: Economic Logician).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Harmon had a great article on golden rice &#8212; and the paranoia surrounding GMOs &#8212; in last Sunday&#8217;s New York Times. 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