Center for Food Safety today expressed deep concern over the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) decision to approve a first-of-its-kind genetically engineered (GE) apple that doesn’t brown after bruising or slicing. The apple, developed by the company Okanagan Specialty Fruits, uses a relatively new form…
By Natural Blaze The mini-documentary below, Under Cover Farmers, follows three mid-scale farmers who stopped tilling their soil and started planting diverse cover crops. The amazing results were immediate. This no-till method reduces or eliminates the need for irrigation, herbicides, and fertilizers for growers of…
by Julian Rose Intro: Julian Rose lays out a pragmatic model for bringing together local and regional food production and consumption. Julian has had more than 30 years experience in this field; selling the great majority of his organic farm produce within a ten mile…
by Catherine J. Frompovich Probably nothing is more contaminated at its source—the cow—than modern, non-organic milk! Modern factory farming practices, which produce cows’ milk, just about guarantees it’s probably chock full of antibiotics, GMO-feed-glyphosate-residues, growth hormones (BST), pus induced by hormones, plus other natural stress…
By John Vibes, True Activist After spending over a year in Iceland’s National Museum, the last McDonalds meal sold in the country will now be going on display at the Bus Hostel in Reykjavik. The world-famous fast food chain shut down its Iceland locations in…
By Heather Callaghan Raw milk has been featured in two different recent comedy shows… The characters on popular comedy show, Portlandia, recently experienced pure ecstasy while imbibing unpasteurized milk. They could just swear they were smarter, more fit and more fluid after milking cows and…
by Tess Pennington The Incredible Edible Park is a 7.5-acre public park that grows enough food, vegetables and fruits to feed 200,000 needy persons a year. Once a weeded, unused piece of land owned by the electric company is now a productive community garden. This…
By Legalize Seeds After Pennsylvania’s Department of Agriculture adopted a policy restricting the Simpson Seed Library in Mechanicsburg, PA from sharing locally saved seed, several states have followed suit, threatening the continued existence of seed libraries. Seed laws exist to regulate entities that sell or…
In a ruling Thursday lauded by Costa Rica’s anti-GMO activists, the country’s Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court, or Sala IV, struck down the government’s regulatory framework on genetically modified organisms, declaring the process of approval for GMO projects unconstitutional. Source: The Tico Times In the court’s opinion, Chief Justice Gilbert Armijo Sancho…
By Waking Times Video – It was “supposed” to be harmless to humans and animals—the perfect weed killer. Now a groundbreaking article just published in the journal Entropy points to Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, and more specifically its active ingredient glyphosate, as devastating—possibly “the most important factor…
By Heather Callaghan The Australian government wants its people to literally “recoil in horror” if they ever dare to have a taste of unpasteurized fresh milk. So much so, they are forcing raw milk producers to contaminate their future milk goods with a bittering agent…
By Heather Callaghan A San Francisco based, synthetic biohacker group has made hundreds of headlines for creating cheese without the use of cows. Young biohackerspace people from BioCurious and CounterCultureLabs make up the group. They beat out 243 other groups to take first place at this…
By Kristina Bravo, Take Part For years, Carl’s Jr. has stuck to a tried-and-tested method to market its hamburgers:Enlist blond women (in one case, for equality, a brown-haired male) to peddle them—in slow motion—on TV. But it seems that sex is no longer enough to…
By Rachael Bale, Center for Investigative Reporting After our investigation revealed just how much dangerous pesticides it takes to grow strawberries, many people wrote to us saying they would start buying organic. But even that won’t fully address the problem: When they are starting out,…
“I am not a scientific experiment” The Mexican Chapter of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal has called on the Mexican government to ban the planting of genetically modified (GM) maize in the country. The decision cited the importance of maize as one of three principal staple…
by Brian Berletic Organic farming is of course environmentally and socially sound, but many critics have argued it simply cannot compete with industrial farming which uses chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and even genetically modified crops. However, a new study conducted by UC Berkeley challenges that…
By Heather Callaghan Dear reader: Are you one of these “new technology rejecters”? Apparently you will be the one getting a label if you don’t want GMOs or nanoparticles in your food. Read on… Previously, research from North Carolina State University and the University of…
Image Credit: Flickr / Katy Warner Provided by True Activist and Real Farmacy It would be fair to assume that there are three ingredients in McDonald’s French fries: potatoes, oil, and salt. But if you assumed that you’d be far from correct McDonald’s began a…
By Heather Callaghan Remember when the Corn Refiner’s Association got mad about all those concerns about high fructose corn syrup? And they came out with those public relations ads where the stupid parent raises a concern and the smart parent says “What? That’s it’s made…
By Jon Rappoport Note: To those few of you who are spending big bucks to fund GMO-labeling ballot measures, I’m taking you to school in this article. Read the whole thing, especially the last part. If you want more lessons, get in touch. Okay. Here…
