Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a chronic progressive disorder of the nervous system that affects the person’s ability to move. According to the CDC, every 3 out of 100,000 people in the US died from this disease in the 1980s, in the early 2000s that number doubled. A recent [...]
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Every year the Environmental Working Group (EWG) publishes a report on the most pesticide-contaminated vegetables and fruits on the market. The list is called The Dirty Dozen, and consists of produce that is important to buy organic, or use a special wash to remove the pesticides. The list changes [...]
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As far as massive chemical and GMO food giants go, the Midland, Michigan based Dow Chemical company is far from well known in comparison with the two most disliked corporations in recent history, Bayer and Monsanto. But the company is now drawing the ire of a wide spectrum of [...]
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It’s becoming harder and harder to avoid GMOs, synthetic pesticides, preservatives and other chemicals in our food, especially considering that most Americans seem to eat by taste only and have no problem accepting these unnatural foods are the “new norm.” When it comes to healthy eating, most [...]
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The McDonald’s Corporation is a fixture in American life, and has been going back several decades. But could the immense popularity of this corporation and its many imitators and spin-offs be a huge reason for the seriously threatening health outcomes in this country? It’s a question we should [...]
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When the Trump administration approved the toxic pesticide chlorpyrifos from the Dow Chemical Company, with whom they have an extra cozy relationship since Inauguration Day in January 2017, a public outcry ensued that was ultimately unsuccessful. The chemical has been linked to severe developmental delays in children and [...]
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Most people know the Bayer corporation because of its medications, including prescription drugs and over-the-counter staples like Bayer aspirin. But Bayer’s agricultural, GMO and pesticide divisions are not nearly as well known, similar to the sordid history of the company itself, which has roots as a chemical and explosive [...]
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The agricultural industry’s chemical purveyors, Monsanto included, pride themselves on being “sustainable,” but time and time again we see that these promises don’t exactly hold water. Case in point: the latest incident of large-scale ecological harm caused by agricultural chemicals, this time involving a relatively modest leak of over 165 [...]
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As if there were not enough pesticides in our food thanks to Monsanto and chemical companies, Donald Trump recently brushed shoulders with Dow Chemical executives and gave the company a “gift” that serves them, but puts thousands of children’s health at risk. After countless hours of hard work on banning [...]
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Multiple recent reports exposed conventional foods manufactured in China as fake and even toxic: scams involving rice that contains plastic, fake eggs made from chemicals and many food items containing high levels of arsenic. Now that country-of-origin labeling has been removed by Congress (for meat anyway), and companies are struggling to find [...]
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