GE Crops Continue to Proliferate Unchecked
Despite growing consumer resistance, more GE foods are being released without our consent or choice.
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Truvia Sweetener A Powerful Pesticide
You have to love how the food marketing industry feeds us everything they want us to know. Stevia, the ‘natural’ ingredient used in Truvia sounded like a great option. Now it turns out genetically modified food processing gives the industry some cover by saying “erythritol is not derived from corn or dextrose feedstock; it is derived from the yeast organism.”
Read MoreA Movement Of Movements
People are connecting the dots. Between industry’s corruption of our food and farming systems, and corporations’ attacks on our state and local rights. Between secretly negotiated international trade agreements, and corrupt federal government officials.
Read MoreScientific American’s Unscientific Disinformation on GMOs
Is America’s most trusted science magazine is spreading disinformation on behalf of a failing and desperate industry, in utter disregard of scientific integrity and the overwhelming evidence of hazards to health and the environment? Judge for yourself.
Read MoreThe Smell Of Gut Bugs
People with elevated levels of hydrogen and methane on their breath tend to be more overweight than others according to new research. The culprit is M.smithil and points to a connection between obesity and gut bugs.
Read MoreGMO Myths, Truths from Earth Open Source
Over 90% of Americans believe we should have the right to know about genetically modified ingredients in our food. Earth Open Source has a long fact sheet that points out the myths and truths about of many of the arguments made about GMO foods.
Read More5 Grocery Shopping Tips For A Healthier Lifestyle
These tips can make your next trip to the grocery store whole lot healthier for you.
Read MoreRussia: Tough Regulations For GMOs Planned
Russia will soon adopt a tough legislation to limit the cultivation, import and use of GMO in feed production for livestock, according to the Russian Minister of Agriculture, Nikolai Fyodorov. He stated that GM products are still making their way to the Russian market, and this issue is prepared to be settled on the legislative level.
Read MoreForeign Buyers Spurn U.S. Corn
U.S. corn is still the most expensive corn in the world. That’s one of the upsides for genetically modified seed. Unfortunately, GMO seed doesn’t always do well with drought.
Read MoreWikiLeaks: US Targets EU Over GM Crops
Cables show US diplomats working directly for GM companies such as Monsanto. In response to moves by France to ban a Monsanto GM corn variety in late 2007, the ambassador, Craig Stapleton, a friend and business partner of former US president George Bush, asked Washington to penalise the EU and particularly countries which did not support the use of GM crops.
Read MoreHow Chronic and Subchronic Health Effects Can Be Neglected for GMOs, Pesticides or Chemicals
Scientists corroborated the decade-long criticism by public interest organizations such as the Organic Consumers Association, Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, that unreliable tests have been used to assess the safety of food and products containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
Read MoreLab Rats Freak Out On Genetically Engineered Food
Student science class experiment has added result of altered food preferences and food choices. Seeing the impacts of eating genetically modified junk food on lab rats first hand, the students began eating real food again — the whole, fresh and lively kind.
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