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FDA Counts Million Signatures for GMO Labeling As Only One:  WTO Treaties Are the Reason

FDA Counts Million Signatures for GMO Labeling As Only One: WTO Treaties Are the Reason

The rights to choose our own food, buy food from sources we choose, and manage our health as we see fit: All of these are on the verge of disappearing. Nations, including the US, are kneeling to the powers that created them, not to their own people.

March 31, 2012 with 1 Comment
Criminalization of Family Farms: Non-CAFO Pigs Declared Illegal

Criminalization of Family Farms: Non-CAFO Pigs Declared Illegal

All family-farmed pigs in Michigan are about to be banned and the farmers declared felons. Factory farms are exempt! Michigan is criminalizing healthy, humane family farms so that Agribusiness has no competition.

March 27, 2012 with 8 Comments
Junk Science Inadvertently Proves That Agribusiness Is Killing Us

Junk Science Inadvertently Proves That Agribusiness Is Killing Us

Recent studies claim that red meat reduces life spans and that saturated fats are causing lowered sperm counts. But do they? Examination demonstrates something startlingly different!

March 14, 2012 with 2 Comments
Pseudo Meat Coming Soon: Agribusiness As Usual or Boon to Humanity?

Pseudo Meat Coming Soon: Agribusiness As Usual or Boon to Humanity?

In this commodities-defined world, where meat purchased from supermarkets is already far removed from the real thing, it may be possible to fool people. Mother Nature, though, is a different matter.

February 20, 2012 with 0 Comments
The Future of Food: It’s Up to You (video)

The Future of Food: It’s Up to You (video)

Agribusiness doesn't care about your health, food quality or choice. They care only about profits. To this end, they're buying and stealing every aspect of our food supply, from the land to the seeds to the genes themselves.

February 18, 2012 with 1 Comment
Nanoparticles Added to Food, Drugs, and Vaccines Proven to Damage Health

Nanoparticles Added to Food, Drugs, and Vaccines Proven to Damage Health

Nanoparticles, routinely and increasingly used in prepared foods and pharmaceutical drugs, have been found to damage the ability of chicken intestines to absorb nutrients, possibly including necessary vitamins, and to cause immune system activity.

February 13, 2012 with 7 Comments
Monsanto and BASF Pull Out of Europe: Good News or Sleight of Hand?

Monsanto and BASF Pull Out of Europe: Good News or Sleight of Hand?

Monsanto and BASF have no reason to care whether the people of Europe want their GM garbage. They're on the verge of total victory. Their poisons will be sold everywhere with impunity. Here's how.

February 2, 2012 with 5 Comments
The Big Guys of Faux Organics Are Cramming Coexistence with GMOs Down Our Throats

The Big Guys of Faux Organics Are Cramming Coexistence with GMOs Down Our Throats

Whole Foods Market, Stonyfield Farms, and Organic Valley are selling out organics to genetically modified products - and want us to help them do it.

February 1, 2012 with 7 Comments
FDA’s Gutless Refusal to Ban or Limit Antibiotics in Factory Farms

FDA’s Gutless Refusal to Ban or Limit Antibiotics in Factory Farms

The FDA, in thrall to Agribusiness and Big Pharma, has again refused to protect the public's health. Quietly, they reneged on their promise to ban the use of antibiotics in agribusiness, not even opting to limit the practice.

January 2, 2012 with 0 Comments
Loss of Probiotics & Enzymes: ‘Harmonizing’ World Trade Puts Canadians’ Health at Risk

Loss of Probiotics & Enzymes: ‘Harmonizing’ World Trade Puts Canadians’ Health at Risk

Canada is on the verge of banning nearly all probiotics and enzymes as "unsafe". Thousands of Canadians are dependent on these natural and safe products for their health—and in some cases, even their lives. Food is now, first and foremost, a traded commodity.

December 3, 2011 with 1 Comment
Conglomer-Ate: The Consolidation of American Factory Pseudo Food

Conglomer-Ate: The Consolidation of American Factory Pseudo Food

Supermarkets are not in the business of providing wholesome food from farms. Their business is making profits off whatever can be passed off as food. ... The moral is simple: If you want to change the world, change how you eat.

November 28, 2011 with 0 Comments
New Zealand Becomes Codex Alimentarius Incarnate: Food As Commodity, Not Nourishment

New Zealand Becomes Codex Alimentarius Incarnate: Food As Commodity, Not Nourishment

Proposed New Zealand legislation—thus far sliding through the legislative process like a greased pig—will force controls on food production that can only favor multinational growers and threaten the existence of all small operations. It treats foods as a commodity and eliminates the presumption that people can grow and access their..

November 26, 2011 with 24 Comments
The Source of Food Is None of Your Business, Says WTO.

The Source of Food Is None of Your Business, Says WTO.

Do you want to know what country produced the food you eat? Too bad, says the World Trade Organization (WTO). That's a barrier to free trade, so you don't get to know. ... It's all about making it easy for multinational corporations to cram their crap down our throats.

November 20, 2011 with 13 Comments
Fake Meat Is Coming, Fresh from the Lab

Fake Meat Is Coming, Fresh from the Lab

Lab-grown meat is already being portrayed as a "real animal flesh product". I suppose it is, in the same sense that one can purchase a genuine copy of a fake Dior, as was versified by satirical songwrite Allan Sherman. Scientists are on the verge of mass-producing genuine fake meat. Yummm!

November 12, 2011 with 7 Comments
GM Potatoes Headed for Europe’s Supermarket Shelves

GM Potatoes Headed for Europe’s Supermarket Shelves

There is no legitimate reason to allow even the testing of the Fortuna GM potatoes. There is no need for them. Therefore, there is no legitimate reason to accept the risks inherent in genetically engineered potatoes. The only one who stands to benefit is BASF.

November 7, 2011 with 3 Comments
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