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They Laughed at the Walnut. Monsanto’s Scientists Had Already Found the Signal.

Why “food is information” had to be turned into a joke, and what the science actually shows

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Sayer Ji
Nov 13, 2026
AI-generated illustration (GPT Image 2.5). The walnut, and the young corn that RNA-interference crops were built to protect.

Wikipedia’s article about me says I “became popular promoting alternative medicine beliefs, including ancient healing practices and the claim that the appearance of some foods indicates which organs they benefit” (Wikipedia).

That sentence rests on a single source: a 2019 McGill Office for Science and Society column by Jonathan Jarry. Jarry watched a lec…

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