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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According to the official CDC statistics, antibiotics are so widely prescribed in the United States that they almost add up to the population of the country as a whole — a rate of 883 prescriptions per 1,000 people overall. Among these prescriptions, the most common type given [...]
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Rachel Parent, a young GMO Freedom activist who has been speaking out against the harmful effects of GMOs for 2 years, appeared on CBC News in Canada and was seemingly thrown to the wolves when she was forced to debate business tycoon Kevin O’Leary about genetically modified foods (or [...]
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With consumers becoming more and more aware of the genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and other harmful synthetic ingredients in their food, companies are scrambling to find new ways to do what they’ve been doing to unsuspecting shoppers for years: to make them think what they’re buying is all-natural even [...]
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Contrary to Monsanto talking points, hybridization and genetic modification of food crops are completely different beasts altogether. Seedless watermelon for example arose through years of specific breeding techniques, and was not created in labs using the insertion of any foreign materials as with GMOs. That being said, there’s some concern over [...]
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Heart disease and cancer are the top two killers of Americans among disease conditions according to the CDC, and both are preventable by making the correct diet and lifestyle choices. Despite this, hundreds of thousands continue to die from heart disease and cancer each year, and rates of chronic disease [...]
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