By Heather Callaghan, Editor Starbucks is always keen to cozy up to the millennial crowd, so it’s not surprising that they would grind up a Unicorn mess complete with “sparkles” on cloud whip. We’re just surprised they didn’t throw in some mermaid scales and bacon…
By Brandon Turbeville Set to become the world’s largest seed technology company, if it is successful in acquiring Monsanto – Bayer’s Adrian Percy, a global head of Research and Development with Bayer, has publicly bemoaned the fact that consumers in Europe are staunchly resisting genetic engineering…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Big news! Panera Bread Menu is Now 100% Clean. Panera has kept its promise to phase out artificial ingredients, artificial food dyes, preservatives and ingredients no one can pronounce. Even as late as 2014, the chain failed to live up to their $70 million dollar…
By Real Farmacy Feeling hungry? You may want to read the rest of this article before you head to your favorite fast food restaurant and order your usual chemical and prescription drug-ridden meal. Did you know you’re likely eating crushed beetles and or duck feathers…
By Julian Rose I am writing this in the Polish Parliament in Warsaw (The Seime). Jadwiga Lopata, founder of The International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside, myself (ICPPC President) and farmer colleagues from different regions of Poland, are in the parliament as part of…
By Catherine J Frompovich The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention literally has overstepped its authority in proposing to grant itself powers that obviously negate any rights U.S. citizens thought they had by issuing the Proposed Rule “Control of Communicable Diseases” on August 15,…
By John Summerly Nearly eight out of 10 people are coffee drinkers, according to the National Coffee Association’s 2016 report. And like anything that’s part of our daily ritual, we have burning questions — like, is coffee good for you or bad for you, or…
By Amanda Froelich In 2015, McDonald’s closed 700 restaurants to save money. 2016 doesn’t seem to be faring much better for the fast food corporation… As you might remember, the corporation ended up closing 700 restaurants around the world in 2015 – 350 more than…
By Chris Veritas The FDA is a killer organization. So superior are they, and so very post-modern, that it seems they’ve transcended meaning, analysis, and the law of cause and effect. Given their exalted status, should it really surprise that they’ve not noticed the myriad…
By SM Gibson Undercover video released on Wednesday by animal rights organization, Mercy for Animals, shows how chickens are treated before being turned into McDonald’s famous Chicken McNuggets. The graphic footage was filmed at T&S Farm in Dukedom, Tennessee by an investigator for Mercy for…
Eat Local Grown The Farmers Market is a great place to bring your kids for so many reasons! The Farmers Market allows you to provide your family with wholesome, healthy food while supporting your local community at the same time. Here’s the reality – Family…
By Joshua Krause By now, I think we all know that fast food is incredibly unhealthy, and eating it on a regular basis is a surefire way to wreck your body and mind. The purveyors of these foods (if you can call what they serve…
By Heather Callaghan Today marks the unsurprising approval from the FDA regarding new varieties of genetically engineered potatoes and apples. The approval applies to six varieties of potatoes from Idaho’s J. R. Simplot Co. and two types of apples from Canadian company Okanagan Specialty Fruits…
By Simple Organic Life Last week, McDonald’s Japan apologized to a customer after they found bits of blue plastic in an order of their Chicken McNuggets. As a result, McDonald’s has pulled a million McNuggets from the factory. Another customer found a piece of vinyl…
by Jefferey Jaxen After knocking Whole Foods around in some past articles, credit needs to be given where credit is due for the time being. Their latest release of the ‘Whole Foods Market Responsibly Grown Rating System’ is an honest attempt at cleaning up many…
By Heather Callaghan But what will you do about it? The movie documentary FED UP may not have played at theaters near you – but very recently, it was made available on DVD and online. The tagline is: “It’s time to get real about food.”…
by Jefferey Jaxen It is clear that we have just witnessed the largest single worldwide protest against a company and their products. What is also clear is the major public disgust for anything bearing the words ‘GMO’. Monsanto’s only refuge lies in massively funded mouthpieces…
by Sayer Ji A new study published in the journal Molecular Cancer has revealed a remarkable new mechanism behind how omega-3 fatty acids may combat the most fearsome disease known to humankind: multi-drug resistant cancer. Titled, “Omega 3 fatty acids chemosensitize multidrug resistant colon cancer…
by Stephanie Relfe 100,000 people in a town called Tecoma, in Victoria, Australia, are fighting a battle to keep McDonald’s away from their town, where McDonald’s wants one of its junkstores to be built near the school, naturally, because when you push food that addicts…
By Natural Blaze What could be more important than what we put into our bodies? Yeah, yeah that’s how all these preachy “health” posts begin. But really, stop and think about what you eat and absorb, and ask yourself on the most basic level if…
