Unlike most of the top candidates, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has a long history of speaking out against big corporations, factory farming, and the Biotech giants. As early as 1994 he was fighting against companies such as Monsanto using chemicals that impact human and animal health. He was [...]
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Hillary Clinton Hires Former Monsanto Lobbyist to Help Run 2016 Campaign for President.
It’s become well known in the alternative media that the Monsanto Company is more than just a producer of synthetic chemicals and genetically modified seed; it runs far deeper than that. The St. Louis area-based company also wields enormous political influence, seen in the success of former executives like Michael [...]
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Peer-Reviewed Study Shatters FDA’s Biggest Lie about GMOs
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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Twenty Documented Reasons American Soy is Closer to an Overt Toxin a Than Health Food
By Judy Wein Soy is one of the most highly debated topics in the nutrition community. As always, do your research. Below are some of the top documented reasons to avoid soy: 1. Soybeans contain large quantities of natural toxins or “anti-nutrients”. First among them are potent enzyme inhibitors that [...]
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Organic Farmers Say They’re Hemhorraging Thousands Because of One Problem the USDA Refuses to Address
Even as United States consumers begin demanding more and more organic foods, organic farmers themselves are struggling with the realities of life in a system that seems set up for genetically modified crops to thrive. Subsidies for corn and soybeans are the norm here, and while farmers who wish to [...]
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Six Highly Controversial U.S. Food Practices That Could Make Their Way to Europe Thanks to the TTIP
Activists everywhere are taking aim at the infamous TTIP including the famed TV chef Jamie Oliver, and for good reason: there’s a very real chance that the agreement could force unhealthy American style food on the world in general. Many people report stomach aches and other ailments they suffer [...]
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The First-Ever “Organic Fish” is Coming to a Supermarket Near You But Critics Say the Rules Aren’t Strict Enough
The system is far from perfect, but the USDA has strict guidelines for most things organic, including animals raised for food like cows and chickens. In order to be certified organic and to earn the famous USDA green-and-white seal, the animals must be given a diet of organic feed, [...]
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If Only GMO Farmers Would Adopt This Man’s Plan for Going Organic (And Boosting Profits Too)
The explosion of organic food sales has left many people with one important question: where exactly is all this new food coming from, anyway? Short of deceiving customers, it seems that GMO farmers are going to have a lot of extra product laying around in the coming years if [...]
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Non-GMO Going Mainstream as Hershey’s Pledges to Remove Them from Some of its Favorite Products
For several years after the introduction of GMOs, millions consumed them without even knowing, their health suffering in the process as companies like Monsanto profited handsomely. But now that the cat is out of the bag, those same consumers are rejecting foods containing GMOs in droves, so much so in [...]
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Farmers Shut Down Motorways, Demanding Land Rights and a Ban on GMOs (with Video)
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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