Reaping Profit After Assisting on Health Law
WASHINGTON — Washington’s health care revolving door is spinning fast as the new online health insurance marketplaces, a central provision of President Obama’s health care...
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Monsanto Decimates Their Credibility
Monsanto’s “Bt corn” is equipped with a gene from the soil bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), which produces Bt toxin—a pesticide that breaks open the stomach...
The FDA Allows Shocking High Levels of Radiation in Food
Internal ingestion of radiation from nuclear power accidents is the most dangerous kind of exposure. As you may know the American Medical Association (AMA) recently...
GMO Labeling Law Proposed in New York
New York joins the vanguard group of nearly two dozen states trying to pass a law requiring labeling of food or food products containing genetically...
What Are Food Labels You Can Trust? Sorting Helpful Claims from Ridiculous Ones on Nutrition Facts Panels.
You’ll never read a food label or nutrition facts label the same way after you learn these 7 misleading food label pitfalls to avoid. I’ve...
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...
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...
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...