What Chemicals Are in Food? Simple Solutions to Avoid Harmful Toxins in Food
How you can avoid BPA, mercury, pesticides and more chemicals in your food. I still remember the sentence I read nearly a year ago that...
Wasted food is a huge climate problem
If wasted food became its own pungent country, it would be the world’s third biggest contributor to climate change. The United Nations Food and Agriculture...
Mother Nature Outsmarts Monsanto Corn
As many predicted, the wholesale adoption of genetically modified crops on American farms led to hardy plant pests that rapidly adopted and developed resistance. Now the...
World starvation as farmers struggle to feed 9.6 billion people by 2050 – study
The global population is expected to grow by 2.5 billion people in the next 40 years. University of Minnesota researchers warn farmers are unlikely to...
USDA program to speed up processing fails to catch contaminated meat
A meat inspection program which the US Department of Agriculture hopes to approve for all domestic pork plants has frequently allowed the production of contaminated...
Eating Well Over 50
For adults over 50, the benefits of healthy eating include increased mental acuteness, resistance to illness and disease, higher energy levels, faster recuperation times, and...
Conditions for Optimal Food Storage
This will vary a bit depending on what you are storing and how you have packaged it up, but there are a few important points...
Monsanto Protection Act Promise: No Renewal Without a Vote
Write and Call Your Senators to Make Sure They’ll Vote Against the MPA! Victory! Thanks to your calls and letters to your U.S. Senators, the...
New FDA Warning: Certain Antibiotics Linked To Serious Nerve Damage
Certain antibiotic drugs cause permanent nerve damage. Here is what you need to know about the risks and what you can due to help your...
Consumer alert: Most common vitamins, including children’s vitamins, found to contain GMOs
A investigation reveals that an alarmingly large number of multivitamins and individual nutrient vitamins are formulated with ingredients derived from genetically modified corn. This is...
Monsanto and GMO lies revealed
In May 2013, two million people in over 50 countries expressed outrage over Monsanto’s desire to own the food supply through genetically-altered (and patented) seeds...
Organic Leaders Support Washington GE Food Labeling and Your Right to Know
Proposition I-522, a citizen’s initiative on the ballot on Nov. 5 in Washington state, would mandate clear labeling of genetically engineered (GE) ingredients on food...
Another Win for Monsanto: US Raises Allowable Levels of Company’s Pesticide in Crops
Biotech giant Monsanto has been awarded yet another victory by the federal government thanks to a recent Environmental Protection Agency decision to allow larger traces...
What’s the big deal about GMO’s?
Unless you live under a rock, you’ve probably been hearing about GMOs, or genetically modified organisms. What is the big deal with GMOs, and can...
Kosher, non-GMO, gluten-free, natural and organic: Top twelve things you probably didn’t know about food label claims
Are you confused about food label claims and what they really mean? That’s part of the strategy of the global food giants, of course: confuse...
Monsanto Protection Act extension hidden in spending bill
The controversial provision nicknamed the “Monsanto Protection Act” was included by House Republicans in the bill to approve funding that is required to avoid a...