by Michelle Perro, MD, MPH | Sep 24, 2015 | Environmental Toxins, Glyphosate, GMO, Pesticides, Regulations
The biotech industry’s web of attempts to buy credibility, by laundering its messages through supposedly independent academic scientists, is unraveling and beginning to reveal the influence of a huge amount of industry money on the independence of academic...
by Michelle Perro, MD, MPH | Sep 24, 2015 | Environmental Toxins, Glyphosate, Pesticides, Regulations
It didn’t take much convincing to get Mike Pietzyk to try a new weed-killing product on one of his cornfields in southeastern Nebraska. “The days of going out and spraying Roundup twice a year—those are long gone,” says Pietzyk, a second-generation grower who has...
by Michelle Perro, MD, MPH | Sep 24, 2015 | GMO, Nutrition, Parent Advice
So many have claimed that GE foods are perfectly safe, that the science is settled and only fools would deny this. However, professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies Glenn Davis Stone explains that precisely identical claims have been made before for...
by Michelle Perro, MD, MPH | Sep 24, 2015 | GMO, Regenerative Farming
Do we need GE crops to “feed the world”? Scientist Jonathan Latham explains why it is important to understand that this is a fallacy. In his words, “there is no global or regional shortage of food. There never has been and nor is there ever likely to...
by Michelle Perro, MD, MPH | Sep 23, 2015 | Article, Childhood Illness, Parent Advice
By Michelle Perro, M.D., D. Hom.Caring for children has been my entire life’s work. It requires an open mind to perform this work, particularly in our present environment that challenges the health of this very vulnerable population. For those of us who embrace the...