The Open Market Blog

• By: Gregory Conko
• 07/26/2007

Molecular Biologist Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., was one of the most fascinating men I have ever had the pleasure to know. So, it was…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 03/09/2007

By now, approximately one million people have asked me, “So, have you seen those news reports that organic food is causing a rise in food…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 03/09/2007

The Nationl People’s Public Radio show “Few All Things Considered” had an interesting segment on daylight savings time last night. As readers should know,…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 03/02/2007

Last summer’s outbreak of E. coli contamination in packaged spinach that killed at least three people and sickened more than 200 others has now…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 02/28/2007

Yesterday’s New York Times reports on a new study published in the Lancet, which questions those who advise pregnant women to cut back…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 02/20/2007

For years, we at CEI have warned that the European Union was using multilateral environmental agreements not just to defend its trade-obstructing precautionary regulation from…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 02/06/2007

Sure, everyone’s heard that a US Department of Agriculture regulation governs the size of the holes in Swiss Cheese. But, did…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 01/22/2007

Today’s Wall Street Journal has a feature (link here for subscribers) article discussing DuPont’s renewed efforts on crop biotechnology. DuPont “announced…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 01/19/2007

Last year, global biotech crop acreage increased more than 13 percent from 2005. By year-end 2006, 10.3 million farmers in 22 countries were growing biotech…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 10/17/2006

A couple of months back, US Congressman Patrick Kennedy drove his car into a security barricade near the Capitol building early one Thursday…