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

Factory Farming Is Among Top 8 Killers

12May09

Taxpayers are demanding that government enforce existing regulations and create more stringent rules to limit the excess and greed in banking, insurance, housing, and on Wall Street. But, in the rush to regulate, we can’t forget to oversee industrial agriculture. It is one of our most polluting and dangerous industries. Like the financial sectors, its practices have not been well regulated for the last thirty years. Let me run down a few of the major problems that have developed because of our poorly regulated U.S. agriculture.

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Tags: Agriculture, Burger King, chemical, CSR, Environment, factory, farming, industrial, KFC, McDonald's, pollution

Black Gold Bankruptcy: 4 Things to Beware Of

27Apr09

Wrecking good soil is like wrecking the foundations of your house. It’s costly and it’s dangerous (not to mention the possibility of having the roof collapse on your head). The destruction of healthy, nutritious soil costs US agriculture $20 billion a year [1]. Topsoil (the stuff you get when you jab your hand into the first 6 inches of dirt) is vanishing faster than you can say, “Duh” in a third of the world’s food growing land.[1]

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Tags: Agriculture, chemical, Compost, conventional, crisis, environmental, erosion, organic, Soil Management, tillage, topsoil, waste

The Store Wars – Organic food versus chemicals and GMOs

26Dec08

“A small and very funny animation of a parody of star wars, made to alert people about some of the serious problems of producing and eating food using dangerous synthetic chemicals, Genetically Modified Organisms, allowing big corporation interests control the food chain, and other problems that helps to destroy nature and the health of people. As this animation shows, producing and buying organic food on smaller and more ethical stores is the best solution for many of these problems.
BUY ORGANIC, FOR YOU, FOR OTHERS AND FOR NATURE.”

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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