Over 50% Chemicals Aren’t Tested

13Jun10

Is it any surprise that over half of all chemicals in this database haven’t had any testing done? Yes humans love to rush things don’t they?

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Tags: ACToR, chemical, database, EPA, pesticide, research, Science, toxin

How Vegetarianism Can Stop Global Warming

20Aug09

Eating meat spews out more air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions than driving cars. In fact, cutting meat out helps more than switching to a Toyota Prius (2 times as much) or eating locally (12 times as much). Unfortunately lots of people like eating lots of meat as we’ve mentioned in a previous post.

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Tags: animals, consumption, energy, food miles, freight, health, lagoons, lifecycle, Lifestyle, manure, meat, Prius, Toyota, vegan, vegetarian

Real Deal? New Test to Prove It’s Organic

02Jun09

Now a researcher in Germany has demonstrated the feasibility of laboratory testing to determine whether a carton of organic milk is what it says it is.

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Tags: academics, label, organic, research, testing

WHY ORGANIC FOOD REALLY “IS” GOOD FOR YOU

29Jan09

Growing and Eating for Nourishment, Nourishing the Future will have keynote speaker Carlo Leifert, leader of the largest, most sweeping organic food study ever done to date (http://bit.ly/171JG, http://bit.ly/gPZd). Over 30 research organizations, businesses and universities were involved in using science to get to the bottom of things. You will learn about the truth of what makes real good and healthy food at this one-day conference on Saturday, Feb 21st at the U of T Conference Centre (89 Chestnut St).

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Tags: alcohol, canning, chemicals, conference, cosmetics, farming, fertilizers, Food, Food Sovereignty, healthy living, livestock, meat, moms, mothers, organics, pesticides, pregnancy, preservation, research, Restaurants, Science, spirits, study, sustainability, sustainable, wine

BLASTED: Study on Organics vs. Conventional

09Nov08

A previous study on the health benefits between organic and your usual supermarket produce may have got it all wrong! They found no different – the problem was that they did the test on soil that was previously organically managed which would have made both conventional or organic crops about the same!

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Tags: Agriculture, comparison, conventional, design, Food, industrial, method, methodology, organic, production, research

Genetic Engineering in Your Food – Things You Need to Know

06Nov08

What in the world are we eating? As we shop the grocery store aisles or peruse the menu at a restaurant, we are becoming more and more aware that we really don’t always know what we’re eating. A big unknown is whether or not our food has been genetically engineered. Over and over again, polls show that consumers would dearly love to have genetically engineered food labelled, but governments have backed away from mandating labels. So what’s a consumer to do?

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Tags: Agriculture, cultivation, deception, dna, farmer, farming, Food, gene, genetic engineering, gmo, label, lmo, monsanto, regulation, seed, transparency

Wireless Soil Sensors Designed To Improve Farming

27Oct08

Kumar is leading an Iowa State University research team that’s developing transceivers and sensors designed to collect and send data about soil moisture within a field. Eventually the researchers are hoping the sensors will also collect data about soil temperature and nutrient content.

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Tags: Agriculture, content, Iowa, moisture, nutrient, OACC, research, Science, sensor, Soil, state, technology, temperature, university