13 Lies GMO Labeling Opponents are Recycling in Washington State
It’s déjà vu all over again. Last year a coalition of out-of-state, multinational biotech, pesticide and junk food corporations spent nearly $46 million to narrowly...
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SunRidge Farms: Organic snacks, sustainable facility
Packed in snack bag in the car on my recent trip to Virginia were organic and Non-GMO snacks from SunRidge Farms. SunRidge sent me three...
Mosquito Spraying Ineffective and Toxic to Wildlife and Humans
Scientists at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation sent a letter yesterday to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service asking that the agency abandon a...
Researchers Assess the Impacts of Living in a Chemical Soup
Inside Oregon State University’s Sinnhuber Aquatic Research Laboratory are rooms lined with tanks filled with thousands of zebrafish—silver, striped, one-to-two-inch creatures often found in home...
How to Create Your Own Personal Survival Seed Bank
You have probably heard of seed saving, where you save a plant’s seeds or tubers at the end of a growing season to serve as...
The GMO labelling debate erupts in the US
US votes are getting ready for a food fight. When Washington voters decide Initiative 522 this northern autumn, they will do more than determine whether...
GMO’s – The Most Dangerous Invention EVER
I just don’t understand how some humans can be so utterly stupid, so greedy, so crazed for short term profits, so corrupt for political or...
Danger of GMO Vitamins
It is crucial to avoid GMO sources of any kind. Highly toxic, GMOs are associated with the development of deadly diseases in animals, including endocrine...
Aspartame Linked to Leukemia & Lymphoma in Groundbreaking Study
Each year, Americans consume about 5,250 tons of aspartame in total. 86 percent of this aspartame (4,500 tons) is from the consumption of diet sodas....
‘Globesity’: US Junk Food Industry Tips Global Scales
From Mexico to Qatar, obesity rates are soaring to unprecedented levels. The alarming trend is damaging economic performance, as well as the health of millions...
Relationship Between Landscape Simplification and Insecticide Use Explored
A new UCSB study that analyzed U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Census of Agriculture data spanning two decades (1987-2007) shows that the statistical magnitude, existence,...
Eating an Anti-Cancer Diet (Without Breaking the Bank)
I wrote recently about my decision to feed our toddler an “anti-cancer” diet. Mind you, I wasn’t claiming that by feeding my child certain foods,...
Obama Administration’s Secret Trade Agreements Threaten Food Safety and Promote GMOs
If you think the U.S. government is doing a sub-par job of keeping your food safe, brace yourself. You could soon be eating imported seafood,...
Oregon Governor Bans Canola Production Citing GMO Contamination Risks
Center for Food Safety Gov. John Kitzhaber (D-OR) signed a bill into law last week, banning commercial production of canola—also known as rapeseed—until 2019 inside...
Seed Freedom, Not GMOs, the Answer to Malnutrition and Hunger
What happens to the seed affects the web of life. When seed is living, regenerative and diverse, it feeds pollinators, soil organisms and animals—including humans....
‘Eat Drink Vote,’ a useful illustrated guide to food politics
From the cover of Marion Nestle’s “Eat Drink Vote” The story of how pizza became a vegetable in school lunches in the introduction of Marion...