As the United States media continues to focus on the coronavirus, vaccinations, and political theater, a battle is unfolding in Mexico over genetically engineered corn. Mexico shocked the U.S. agribusiness world recenlty by announcing a ban on the cancer-linked glyphosate herbicide produced by Bayer/Monsanto as well as a [...]
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When we think of the best foods to eat at night, raw honey might not pop into our heads because of how sweet it is, and eating anything sweet before bed typically doesn’t end well. But raw honey is different because of its natural composition, to the [...]
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The genetically modified food experiment was first unleashed on the unsuspecting public in the mid-1990s with the FlavrSavr tomato, a product that was ultimately rejected and removed from the market. Since then, the creation of new-spliced genetically engineered crops and foods has continued, as detailed in documentaries like ‘GMO OMG!,’ [...]
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Is your favorite organic company owned by a huge corporation or is it truly organic and independent? When it comes to this growing movement for clean food, we have to take the good with the bad, something that millions of consumers wrestle with every time they head to the grocery [...]
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Organic food has exploded in popularity, but one sector that hasn’t quite caught onto the growing trend is the wine industry. While organic food is now found everywhere from Walmart to drug stores, organic wines are few and far-between. The focus on filling that gap, and providing a high end [...]
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A wise person once said, “if we know who buys our NASCAR drivers, shouldn’t we know who buys our politicians?” Helping to fill that void is young entrepreneur Nick Rubin, who created a browser plugin (aka a web-based app) at age 17 to help citizens find out exactly who’s [...]
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It goes without saying that virtually everyone would prefer to eat food grown without the use of synthetic pesticides, herbicides and other chemicals and unnatural techniques like genetic modification, but many of them face the same obstacle: higher prices. Organic food was allowed to become a specialty item despite its [...]
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The genetically modified food experiment has continued on without clear, common sense text based labeling for decades since it was first introduced without our consent in the mid-1990s, kicking off with the failed “FlavrSavr” tomato experiment. Since then, GMOs have become commonplace in the American diet at a [...]
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About 400,000 women undergo breast augmentation surgery each year, 75 percent of whom do so for cosmetic reasons and the rest for reconstruction after breast cancer, according to the Washington Post. These women place the utmost confidence in professionals that their health will be protected, but are the risks [...]
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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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