New York has become a magnet for controversy and protest in recent months following Governor Andrew Cuomo’s approval of a mandatory vaccination law in June, which ended religious exemptions in the state. Now, with the new school year looming, a federal judge has denied a request from [...]
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There has been a lot of debate and controversy around vaccinations for the past few decades. Can flu shots lead to autism? How high is the chance of a vaccine injury? Is there still mercury in vaccines? (And yes, there is). But going back to the very basics, many people [...]
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Chemotherapy patients oftentimes suffer a tremendous amount from the procedure, which can lead to difficult side effects including oral mucositis, an extrordinarily painful and common side effect of chemotherapy and radiation. But one relatively new treatment may hold a world of promise for chemotherapy patients — red light therapy, [...]
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The Bayer corporation has officially become the “new Monsanto,” having bought the St. Louis-based agrochemical and GMO company in June of last year. Since then, many activists have been calling for a boycott of the company and its products. But Bayer’s products, including their best-selling aspirin pills, prescription [...]
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The leader of the largest organic food fraud scheme in United States history has died due to a “self-inflicted situation,” KTIV in Iowa has reported. Randy Constant, 61 of Chillicothe Missouri, who fraudulently sold millions of dollars worth of non-organic grain as if it were organic, was [...]
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Everyone buys organic for their own unique reasons, whether that may be health, animal welfare, environmental, or other, but it’s important to know that each individual brand and type of organic purchase has a different impact. In the case of eggs, it’s generally safe to say that the [...]
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“How long do I have to live? Because I have work to do,” told high-spirited Stamatis Moraitis to his doctors when he was diagnosed with lung cancer in his 60s. The answer “6 to 9 months” did not satisfy him. Stamatis’s homeland was a Greek island of Ikaria, [...]
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The Kerrygold company quickly rose to the number two spot among butter company sales in the United States in 2018 (behind Land O’Lakes), in large part because its butter is from grass-fed cows. In a market where most cattle are fed diets almost entirely composed of genetically engineered corn, [...]
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In 1995, the first insecticide-producing GMO crop (corn) was officially by approved by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Now, nearly 25 years later, the American agricultural landscape has become a toxic, deadly minefield of pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, poison-coated seeds called neonicotinoids, and other instruments of [...]
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Despite the growing popularity of the organic movement in recent years (record sales were recorded in 2018), the genetically engineered food and pesticides industry has remained extremely busy behind the scenes. Following Bayer’s purchase of Monsanto, the oft-voted “Most Evil Company in the World,” the organization immediately [...]
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