By Linley Dixon, PhD, The Cornucopia Institute The Wall Street Journal opinion piece “Organic Farming Is Not Sustainable” published May 15, 2014 by Dr. Henry Miller misrepresents the industry and is riddled with factual inaccuracies. Dr. Miller attempts to discredit organic agriculture’s environmental benefits on…
By Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association After 20 years of battling Monsanto and corporate agribusiness, food and farm activists in Vermont, backed by a growing Movement across the country, are on the verge of a monumental victory—mandatory labels on genetically engineered foods and a ban on…
By Jeffrey Green Natural farmer Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms recently discussed the science and costs behind factory farming versus natural methods on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. While factory farms create uninhabitable dead zones and antibiotic-resistant diseases across the world, agriculture methods that replicate…
by Alex Pietrowski Some will blame the doctors who are swift to prescribe pharmaceuticals; others will blame patients and their desire for a quick fix; perhaps some will think the over-use of antibiotics in factory farms and dairy products is mostly to blame. Likely, it…
The movie that started it all! The Meatrix (www.themeatrix.com) spoofs The Matrix films and highlights the problems with factory farming. Instead of Keanu Reeves, The Meatrix stars a young pig, Leo, who lives on a pleasant family farm… he thinks. Leo is approached by a…
By Anne Gordon Would you eat chicken that ate arsenic and banned antibiotics? You probably already have. When eating that delicious nugget, or scrumptious chicken salad…. do you ever wonder how the tender, juicy, and appealing shades of pink get to your dinner plate? Welcome…
by Daisy Luther Making a trip to the grocery store these days is like running a gauntlet. From one side you are assaulted by food-like substances in brightly labeled packages, some even touting exaggerated health benefits from the toxins within. From the other side, you…
Slaughterhouses and meat and poultry processing plants use large volumes of water to clean carcasses, machinery, work surfaces and floors. The wastewater can cause harmful algae blooms, kill swaths of fish and expose local communities to bacteria that cause gastrointestinal illness. By Natasha Gilbert Slaughterhouses…
By Antony Sammeroff Over the last few decades, farming has changed dramatically. Human labor has mostly been replaced by machinery, and few farms still raise more than one type of animal. Factory-farms, where animals are raised in tight spaces, given drugs, injected with hormones, and…
By Neenah Payne The Dutch people are rising up to protest destructive WEF climate law The World Economic Forum-controlled Dutch government announced an end to modern farming – putting harsh controls on nitrogen, and spelling the end to thousands of family farms. They want to liquidate…
By Rosanne Lindsay, Naturopath The current and predicted food shortages are planned, by design, under The United Nations Sustainability Agenda. If you’re just hearing about it now, you missed the warnings of food shortages that came earlier, recommending a diet of insects. In 2013, the…
By Kit Knightly Since the “bird flu outbreak” first hit the headlines OffG has been predicting how the inevitable agenda would unfold. The first impact was as obvious as it was predictable – the price of chicken and eggs went up, this was just another…
By Jeff Thompson The United States is now facing a severe baby formula shortage and all the data only points to things getting worse. As of early April, approximately 30% of popular infant formula was out of stock at stores across the nation. CVS, Target,…
By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “Gates has a Napoleonic concept of himself, an appetite that derives from power and unalloyed success, with no leavening hard experience, no reverses.” — Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, presiding judge in the Gates/Microsoft antitrust-fraud case The global lockdowns that Bill…
By Whitney Webb and Raul Diego, The Last American Vagabond One of the most politically-connected yet scandal ridden vaccine companies in the United States, with troubling ties to the 2001 anthrax attacks and opioid crisis, is set to profit handsomely from the current Coronavirus crisis….
By Neenah Payne Kenyans and Ethiopians swept the NYC Marathon this year for 1-2-3 in the men’s race and women’s race. Geoffrey Kamworor of Kenya won $100,000 for his victory and another $10,000 for breaking 2:10 with a finish of 2:08:13. Kamworor won in 2017 and was…
By Brian Miller Farm subsidies are perhaps the ultimate, but secret, third rail of American politics. While entitlements are discussed out in the open, farm subsidies are rarely talked about – even though they are the most expensive subsidy Washington doles out. All told, the…
By Sara Tipton Making changes to the way we’ve always done things is often difficult for most people. We get in ruts and comfort zones, and our society makes it easier to be stuck in a consumer mindset as opposed to a sustainable one. But…
By Daisy Luther One of the most common reasons that people give for not prepping is the cost involved. People seem to have this mental image of a bedroom or basement dedicated to being filled to the rafters with cans of Chef-Boy-Ardee. They imagine someone…
Op-Ed by Catherine J. Frompovich As I sit in SE Pennsylvania writing this article on May 12, 2019, I have to confess nothing here is normal weather-wise! Hey, it’s supposed to be springtime. However, it’s damp, dark—almost like at the pre-sunset hour; raw—bone-penetrating raw temps—at…
