Since Common Core educational standards have taken root across the country, many activists and journalists have sounded the alarm about the increasing corporatization of our educational system. As this flow chart shows, the connections run deep, and the strongly pro-GMO Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was arguably the single greatest driving [...]
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The Biotech and GMO food industries have long spent big bucks on lobbying to influence public opinion, but it’s not just the hearts and minds of our Congresspeople that Monsanto and others are after: they also have a long history of going after children as well. Perhaps the most glaring [...]
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While it is becoming easier to find organic and non-GMO food options, it’s also getting harder and harder to find them from companies that don’t have ties to Big Food, and pro-GMO CEOs for that matter. Popular brands such as Silk and most recently Annie’s Homegrown have been bought up [...]
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Bill Nye the Science Guy has long been an ambassador for science to the television-watching masses both young and old, but most of the time it’s him doing the talking and the audience at home the listening. On Nov. 5, a vast audience of Reddit users had the opportunity to [...]
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The unfortunate reality of the world we live in today is that organic farming is still seen as anything but conventional (and organic food is also still seen as a specialty item, for that matter). But if Ashmeet Kapoor gets his way, the term “organic” will be actually be abolished [...]
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While the vast majority of food on supermarket shelves in the United States, and in school lunches for that matter, contains ingredients from crops that have been genetically modified, five school districts in the ‘Land of 1,000 Lakes’ are taking the initiative to give parents and students more choice in [...]
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Nine-year-old Daniel Bissonnette gained widespread attention for an epic speech at the March Against Monsanto event in Vancouver, and now he’s taking on the Halloween candy industry. As Bissonnette, a leader among young food activists and health conscious kids, points out in the video below, Americans consume about $2 billion [...]
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Genetically modified foods are banned or at least labeled throughout most of the world, with the vast majority of GMOs currently being grown in just six countries according to a recent report from Friends of the Earth. But in America, they are commonplace, with almost 90 percent of corn, 94 [...]
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The grassroots movement for food integrity has done a lot of good in the world, especially thanks to the powerful reach of social media. Graphics, articles, and other content has reached countless millions of people and has helped light the way to a brighter food future at a time when [...]
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