Ottawa – Canada’s Competition Bureau has approved a merger between seed and pesticide companies Bayer and Monsanto, creating the largest seed and pesticide company in the world. “This is an unprecedented level of corporate control over seeds and pesticides,” said Lucy Sharratt of the Canadian…
By Brandon Turbeville and Heather Callaghan, Natural Blaze With the United States having descended into an authoritarian society, the ability to make even the most personal and important choices is disappearing every day. First, public schools began strictly enforcing vaccine policies, forcing parents to acquire exemption forms if…
By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze A year after Whole Foods was acquired by Internet retail giant Amazon, the food company is backing off its commitment to ensuring that food suppliers inform the consumer and the store itself if their food products contain GMOs. There is some confusion…
By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze A new study coming out of the University of Guelph appears to have discovered why exposure to pesticides increases a person’s risk of developing Parkinson’s disease. While many studies in the past have demonstrated a link between Paraquat and Maneb (two commonly used…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor The amount of time Americans spend in isolation and indoors is no laughing matter. The rise of technological captivation has kept people plugged into the wrong source. Instead of engaging with the world and reconnecting with nature, it’s so easy to remain…
By Haixia Yang, University of Massachusetts Amherst The antimicrobial chemical triclosan is in thousands of products that we use daily: hand soaps, toothpastes, body wash, kitchenware and even some toys. Work in our lab suggests that this compound may have widespread health risks, including aggravating…
By Rosanne Lindsay, Naturopath In our ego-driven, divide-and-conquer world, we live in a duality reality. This reality reflects a matrix of opposites: introvert vs. extrovert, beginning vs. ending, living vs. dying, mind vs. matter, wave vs. particle, self vs. other, material vs. spiritual, on vs;…
By Anna Hunt Based on recent research, it seems that there’s potential for breath-focused practices to help with ADHD, cognitive decline, and other ailments that affect our ability focus. The Brain’s Response to Breath Practices For thousands of years, Yogic masters and Buddhist sages have…
By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze The US Department of Justice, once considered the office that would protect the American economy from the fatal cancer of monopoly has now officially become the office that facilitates monopoly through legal loopholes. It’s hard to argue with the consistency of the…
By Matt Agorist The Big Pharma giant Bayer has just won approval from the US Justice Department for the $62.5 billion dollar takeover of the agrichemical behemoth Monsanto. The deal, which was solidified on Tuesday, has many people on edge knowing that Bayer, a company…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor University of Kent Scientists Discovered Novel Method of Getting Vitamin B12 Into Plant-Based Diets Without Using Biotech! Are vitamin B12 supplements really the best way to get this crucial “B” into a plant-focused diet? That’s the wrong question for someone who has opted…
By Daisy Luther The official death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria is only 64 people. With the devastation wrought last September by the powerful storm, many people questioned the veracity of that number. And it looks like they may have had good cause….
By Jeffrey A. Miron New studies are helping us to fully understand America’s opiate crisis. The standard view of the opioid epidemic blames pharmaceutical companies and doctors for excessive prescribing. An alternate view blames government for outlawing or restricting access to opioids. In this view, users overdose…
By Jon Rappoport The key factor is: be a drug company. In this case, Celgene. Their drugs are Thalomid and Revlimid. They are approved for multiple myeloma, one type of cancer. Here’s the thing. Doctors can decide to prescribe drugs for uses which are not…
By Jon Queally Thirty-nine people were arrested in California on Tuesday after approximately 500 animal rights activists organized by the Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) network staged a non-violent vigil and attempted a rescue operation at an industrial egg facility in the town of Petaluma. “These birds…
CBD oil has been making a splash on the news recently because of its increasing number of health benefits that are being discovered. From treating epileptic seizures to alleviating nausea, many people are finding relief from the use of CBD oil whatever their particular ailment…
By Sarah Abed “Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.” ― Plato When factoring the impact that war can have on civilians in any given…
By Jack Burns Researching aquatic life has long been used as a barometer for evaluating pollution levels, and according to a recently published study, opioids are now showing up in the bays in and around Seattle’s Puget Sound—serving as yet another reminder that the United…
By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze Canada has never been one for Free Speech but the last few years have become incredibly more oppressive in terms of what is allowed to be said and who is allowed to say it. We could write a lot of things about…
By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze Vaccine nazis may not be big on rights but they are great at propaganda and using the law to eliminate individual choice. In fact, they have Constitution shredding down to an art. What they can’t achieve in massive assaults on personal rights,…
