The Farmer's Daughter USA

Hi, I'm Amanda! My family farms corn and soybeans in Southwest Michigan. I'm also a practicing attorney.

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It used to be that agriculture's biggest concern was overzealous regulators on the local, state, and federal level. But with the advent of social media and new technologies, the creation of fear-based food marketing has been on the rise. Unfortunately, the target of that marketing is usually young … [Read more...]

Biotech in animal agriculture becoming a reality

Biotechnology, particularly of food products, is usually a divisive issue. Debates tend to get heated, common ground is hard to come by, and compromises are rare. But what if genetic engineering could help find a truce between two groups that, to put it mildly, hardly ever see eye-to-eye? The … [Read more...]

New York PTA misguided on GMOs

What do the penalties of passing a stopped school bus, sign language as a second language, and the availability of genetically modified foods in school cafeterias all have in common? These are all issues, among others, that the New York Parent Teacher Association will vote upon at its upcoming … [Read more...]

Non-GMO Skinny Pop Popcorn

I bet it was really hard for the makers of Skinny Pop Popcorn to verify that this bag of popcorn was made without genetically modified popcorn.... because, you know, there is no genetically modified popcorn. This is precisely the type of marketing gimmick that makes me wish the United States … [Read more...]