What’s Wrong with GMOs?

19Oct09

By now most people know that GMO stands for Genetically Modified Organisms. But how do GMOs affect us, the food we eat, and the environment? Jeffrey Smith, founder of the Institute for Responsible Technology provides a solid general overview in this interview.

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Tags: education, GMO Jeffrey Smith Genetics Genetically Modified Organisms environment health food safety technology science

FDA Admits It Did Only Half the Food Safety Checks

22May09

A frankly distubring article today by Mary Clare Jalonik at the Associated Press.  According to the article, FDA ’conducted only about half the state food safety audits it promised in the two years before the recent peanut salmonella outbreak.’

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Tags: FDA, food and drug administration, Food Safety, regulation

Killer Bugs in Our Pork

20May09

We don’t put antibiotic drugs in baby food or cereal and yet agribusiness keeps giving them to healthy animals. Now we’re creating superbugs that our drugs can’t kill.

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Tags: antibiotics, factory farming, hog farms, industrial agriculture, MRSA, pathogens, pathology, pig, pork, resistant, staph, swine flu, virology, viruses

Swine Flu Kills 68 Lightning Fast

25Apr09

The Mexican Outbreak of Swine Flu has killed 68 people and sickened over 1000. Experts are saying it’s only a matter of time before a huge pandemic will break out – similar to the Spanish Flu virus of 1918 that killed 40-50 million people worldwide. Surprisingly no one talks about its links to factory farming or cramming animals in tight spaces so you can cook up something like this. This is another example of how dangerous our broken food system has become.

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Tags: avian flu, CDC, centre for disease control, disease, dna, factory farming, Food, Food Safety, food system, genetic, health, hospital, influenza, Medicine, mexico, organization, outbreak, pandemic, SARS, spanish, swine flu, vaccine, WHO, world

Cheap Food as Charity? Shaky Foundations?

20Apr09

Sunny gives a video summary of the first 2 panels (low income food access and locally sustainable food supply) at the Ontario’s Test Kitchen Conference.

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Tags: Alison Blay-Palmer, alternative, ALUS, change, conference, Daily Bread Food Bank, distribution, environmental services, Food, GET, income, Janet Poppendieck, kitchen, land, Local Food Plus, Marin Organic, Ontario, reform, security, sink, Society, solutions, sovereignty, STOP, sustainable, Sweet Charity, system, use, video, Wayne Roberts, YuRanch

12 Foods To Buy Organic & Clean

28Mar09

Sheryl Eisenberg (This Green Blog) summarizes the latest list put out by the Environmental Working Group, a major US environmental and human health watch dog.

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Tags: chemicals, environmental, ewg, Food Safety, group, healthy living, organics, pesticides, poison, toxic, working

Peanut Butter Scares in Over 40 States!

22Jan09

Peanut butter products continued to disappear from store shelves Tuesday as more grocery chains and specialty companies joined a growing list of precautionary recalls.

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Tags: butter, centralization, contamination, conventional, crackers, distribution, factory, Food Safety, health, industrial, packaging, paste, peanut, processing, salmonella, scares, sourcing

Speaker Biographies for the 2009 Organic Conference

11Jan09

The speaker biographies for the ‘Growing for Nourishment’ Nourishing the Future 2009 Organics Conference are up and running for your viewing pleasure.

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New Rules Blast Organic Livestock Farmers!

07Dec08

Unfortunately, it has taken the groups that represent organic farmers over 30 days just to understand the true meaning of the complex USDA draft rule and to develop the many needed and major revisions. While the draft rule that the USDA presented would effectively clamp down on factory farm scofflaws, it would also probably put out of business the majority of all family-scale livestock farmers in the United States. This is unacceptable.

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Tags: Agriculture, business, department, family, farmer, industry, livestock, organic, regulation, regulatory, USDA

Food Matters – The Movie (Dead Serious!)

05Dec08

“With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and ourtendency to rely upon pharmaceutical drugs to treat what’s wrong with
our malnourished bodies, it’s no wonder that modern society is getting sicker. ‘Food Matters’ sets about uncovering the trillion dollar
worldwide “Sickness Industry” and giving people some scientifically verifiable solutions for curing disease naturally.” – James

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Tags: antibiotics, cancer, chemical, diabetes, diet, diseases, Food, health, healthy living, herbicide, hormones, obesity, pesticide, security, sovereignty, toxin