The Netherlands Says NO to Glyphosate, Monsanto’s RoundUp Herbicide!
RawforBeauty.com reports that The Netherlands just joined a growing list of countries banning Monsanto’s Round-Up herbicide. Netherlands parliament decides to ban Monsanto´s RoundUp Herbicide Following...
View ArticleIt’s called SCIENCE! New Harvard study fingers neonics as the key driver of...
Mother Jones says scientists have stumbled on to the definitive cause of bee colony die-off – neonicotinoids. Only strongly suspected before now. It’s a hard-knock life, scouring the landscape for...
View ArticleThe Price of Your Right to Know: Calculating the hidden costs of genetically...
Slate takes a look at the industry’s fight to keep food ingredients secret. The impassioned quest to label foods made with genetically modified organisms is heading for the states. “Don’t think that...
View ArticleWhat the Ingredients in Coca-Cola and Pepsi Actually Do to Your Body-It isn’t...
PolicyMic.com explains how Coke and Pepsi are removing some ingredients but not all the bad stuff. Coca-Cola and Pepsi have both announced they will remove brominated vegetable oil, a somewhat...
View ArticleSugar-coating food science the Big Food way
Mother Jones details how the food industry tries desperately to cover up any link between sugar and health issues in food. Food companies have spent billions of dollars to cover up the link between...
View ArticleCan y your diet increase your risk of cancer? The Conversationn discusses
The Raw Story explains… six groups can reduce your cancer risk. 1. Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables Unfortunately, there is no “cancer prevention superfood”; it is a combination of food variety that...
View ArticleYogurt as junk food? Some have more sugar than Hostess Twinkies
Raw for Beauty reports. (NaturalNews) If you are a fan of the 1990s hit comedy series Seinfeld, perhaps you remember the episode in which Jerry and his friends began to suspect that the frozen yogurt...
View ArticleImagine a world without hazelnuts, makers of Nutella have and it’s bleak
5 Ways Climate Change Is Ruining Your Breakfast. Welcome to the worst breakfast-related crisis since Lord of the Rings: There might be an impending Nutella shortage. And there’s a good chance the...
View ArticleThese Climate Scientists Are Telling You What They Really Think
Researchers explain why they feel frustrated, angry, worried, and helpless in the global warming debate. Angry. Worried. Frustrated. Anxious. Such are some of the words that Australian climate...
View ArticleWhat if the bees die? All of them…
by Robert Hunziker Bees are some of the busiest, most industrious creatures on planet Earth. Basically, they mind their own business whilst performing pollination chores that ultimately provide...
View ArticleThe Wealth Gap Between Rich And Poor Americans Is Affecting Our Diets
Americans’ diets have gradually been improving, but the gains aren’t being shared equally across socioeconomic lines, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical...
View ArticleGood question: Why Is the USDA Buying Submachine Guns?
Modern Farmer asks good questions. “Submachine guns, .40 Cal. S&W, ambidextrous safety, semi-automatic or 2 shot bur[s]t trigger group, Tritium night sights for front and rear, rails for attachment...
View ArticleAmerica’s Pathetic, Negligent Energy Policy
by Robert Hunziker America’s national energy policy is not green; it is dark & oily, backward, cloddish, and out of touch with the realities of today’s world of modern technology. It’s archaic....
View ArticleFirst rusting lawn furniture now: Zero-calorie sweeteners may trigger blood...
The Verge reports on the latest problem with zero calorie sodas. Artificial sweeteners don’t have calories — so why are these mice getting fat? When artificial sweeteners are in the news, it’s rarely...
View ArticleThat will also leave a mark: Coke and Pepsi concede that maybe soda is bad...
The Washington Post wonkblog explains: In an ambitious pledge announced on Tuesday, the U.S. soda industry is committing to cut America’s calorie intake from beverages by 20 percent over the coming...
View ArticleEPA: Those Bee-Killing Pesticides? They’re Actually Pretty Useless
Now they tell us? Mother Jones explains… So, there’s this widely used class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids, marketed by chemical giants Bayer and Syngenta, that have emerged as a prime suspect...
View ArticleWell this is depressing: The Exercise Cost of Soda and Juice
The Atlantic has the bad news. What if nutrition labels told people exactly what calories meant, in practical terms? A bottle of Coke could dole out specific exercise requirements. The calories herein,...
View ArticleOh crap! Researchers fear antibiotics may cause some livestock to spread...
Raw Story reports… Giving animals antibiotics may make them sicker and could lead some to spread even more salmonella than they would have otherwise, U.S. researchers experimenting on mice said. The...
View Article(HORRORS!) British Goat Cheese Secretly Made From Non-Goat Milk
Modern Farmer has the expose! In an echo of the horsemeat scandal that rocked the UK last year, a new survey has found that a significant number of samples of goat cheese contain unadvertised dairy......
View ArticleShocking New Study Indicates Everything You Thought You Knew About Milk Is Wrong
Wait until the industry gets hold of this from Alternet. SPIN baby SPIN! Recently published research suggests that milk may actually make bones brittle and might lead to earlier mortality. The study,...
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