Editor’s note: This article was first written in September 2016 and has been republished to shine a light on how government interests sometimes put farmers in difficult positions. With foreign interests taking over U.S. farming and meat production operations, food waste and foreign control of U.S. interests have become [...]
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A story that Port of San Francisco customs seized 300,000 pounds of rat meat to be sold across the U.S. as chicken meat has been circling around since at least 2016. But a year later, it suddenly went viral, and a few websites claimed that the FDA issued a [...]
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What’s the truth about raw milk, and is it really healthy for you? It’s a question that’s being hotly debated not just among government officials and small farmers, but also among people who believe that human beings should only eat plant-based diets and those who still enjoy milk, [...]
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As far as prescription drugs go, few nations are more hopelessly addicted than the United States, where direct-to-viewer TV drug advertising is not only the norm, it makes up huge percentages of national network TV commercials. Surveys show that doctors know far too little about nutrition, and instead rely on [...]
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The Cornucopia Institute, a public interest organization and watchdog group for organic food and agriculture, has officially released a call-to-action report about fraudulent activity at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and its organic standards program. The presented materials call into serious question their commitment to protecting the integrity [...]
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Have you ever wondered why RAW milk is illegal? While the main argument by the FDA is that it has a higher chance of having Salmonella, E. coli, or Listeria bacteria, the same can be said for many types of sushi and unpasteurized cider, believe it or not. Yet [...]
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In the past we have heard about arsenic only in the context of being used as a rat poison or in pesticides up until 1970. Today, every month there is new information coming out concerning high arsenic levels in foods that we eat with no regulations present. Organic and inorganic [...]
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The diet soda business is not exactly doing that well for many reasons, chief among them the scientific literature coming out condemning them as bad news for our health. Most people know about the dozens of studies linking aspartame and other artificial sweeteners to serious health risks, but did you [...]
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It goes without saying that FDA-approved drugs are ironically one of the most dangerous things you could put in your body. Even drugs that are correctly taken still cause over 100,000 deaths per year, and oftentimes drugs are pulled from shelves only after they are shown to cause serious health [...]
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