Bill Nye’s TV show on Netflix was designed to make “science” palatable to the masses and to appeal to a wide audience on topics that the mainstream population supposedly does not know a whole lot of information about. The show titled ‘Bill Nye Saves the World’ was allegedly created to [...]
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“What’s being done to our food in the name of profit?” It’s an omnipresent question that becomes more important with each passing year. Our produce is being gassed, sprayed with chemicals, and even genetically manipulated to the point where it’s becoming and harder to keep track of how many different [...]
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Several years ago I delighted (and cringed) watching the classic Morgan Spurlock documentary Super Size Me, during which the award-winning filmmaker ate nothing but McDonald’s for an entire month, and received more than a few shocking health diagnoses along the way. Needless to say Spurlock didn’t do so [...]
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When the state of Vermont passed what would have been the first-of-its-kind, text-based GMO labeling law in May 2014, it was a cause for celebration; a vital first step in the fight to empower consumers the way over 60 countries around the world already have. But recently the hard [...]
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The United States Food and Drug Administration originally decided that GMO crops are “safe” for consumption thanks to one controversial method — employing the doctrine of so-called “substantial equivalence.” This doctrine said that lab-created GMOs and regular crops are basically equal, and it only came about because of the Bush [...]
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Small farmers, fed up with being sold out to foreign interests, are fighting back against GMOs and other excessive regulations in new and creative ways across the world. Genetically modified organisms have been foisted upon countries ranging from Haiti to Iraq and everywhere in between, and now farmers in [...]
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Popular TV show host and food activist Jamie Oliver has become one of the biggest and most famous spokespeople for the clean food movement, and he’s thrown his support behind organic and healthier food plenty of times in the past while working for a better food system. But now the [...]
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As the issue of genetically modified food continues to work its way into the public consciousness, more and more local groups are hosting debates on the subject. The foods, which were foisted upon the American public with little or no choice and continue to remain unlabeled, have drawn the ire [...]
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The Biotech and GMO food industries have long spent big bucks on lobbying to influence public opinion, but it’s not just the hearts and minds of our Congresspeople that Monsanto and others are after: they also have a long history of going after children as well. Perhaps the most glaring [...]
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