(NaturalNews) -In a move to gain total control of the farming industry, three resolutions have been proposed in the state of Missouri. Saint Louis, Missouri is the home of biotech giant Monsanto’s headquarters. These laws have been deceitfully written to appear to support modernization and progression in farming, while in reality their passage will severely limit the rights of small farmers to reuse organic seeds and preserve livestock lines. Read the rest of this entry »
(NaturalNews) – San Diego County in California is considering implementing Laura’s Law, which would give the state’s second most populous county – home to over three million people – the uncontested right to force psychiatric medication upon its residents. Read the rest of this entry »
(YesMagazine) – The book Harvesting Justice isn’t just a look at the world’s most exciting food justice groups—it’s also a knockout organizing tool. Read the rest of this entry »
(TedX) – Author and activist Anna Lappe takes on the billion-dollar business of marketing junk food, soda, and fast food to children and teens. With diet-related related illnesses alarmingly on the rise, pervasive marketing of junk food to kids is downright dangerous. The food industry says its up to parents to raise healthy kids. Read the rest of this entry »
(Youtube) – In taking on the Monsanto Protection Act last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart faulted Congress for being mostly unaware that the legislation protecting businesses that want to sell genetically modified foods was hidden in a bigger bill. Stewart compared the process of getting Monsanto passed to buying porno, then hiding it under a bigger purchase that might include, say, Mountain Dew and Funyuns. Read the rest of this entry »
(NaturalNews) – As you may recall, the Associated Press (AP) released the results of a groundbreaking investigation it conducted back in 2008 concerning the presence of pharmaceutical drugs in the water supply. In this report, it was revealed that at least 41 million Americans are exposed daily to tap water containing trace amounts of antibiotics, sleeping pills, and even sex hormones. Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (CollectiveEvo) – 3 Facts Everybody Should Know About Monsanto – Read More Here
Also: (FoxNewsInsider) – Could Dairy Industry Sneak Aspartame Into Your Milk? – Read More Here
(NaturalNews) – Apparently discontent with its more than $13.5 billion-plus in annual sales, genetic modification kingpin Monsanto has been trying for the past four-or-so years to extract billions more dollars from rival DuPont for alleged patent infringements involving its genetically-modified (GM) Roundup-Ready soybean technology. Read the rest of this entry »
(NaturalNews) – Red palm oil has burst onto the health scene as a miracle food, helping to heal everything from cardiovascular disease to Alzheimer’s to cancer. However, as it becomes more popular worldwide, a dark secret has come to light. Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (AVAAZ) – Petition: Monsanto vs. Mother Earth – Read More Here
(Examiner) – Once again the Obama administration has used its favorite rainbow colored distraction to sneak by brutally fascist legislation right under supposed liberals’ noses. Much has been made of the Supreme Court’s marketing ploy of paying lip services to gay marriage, just in time to help Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s former employer, Monsanto, write their own protection act and have it smuggled through congress. Read the rest of this entry »
(NaturalNews) – Federal sequestration measures that came into effect on April 1 are making it impossible for many cancer clinics across the country to administer conventional care to patients, and particularly to those on Medicare. Consequently, thousands of cancer patients with taxpayer-funded insurance coverage are being turned away, according to reports, as clinics simply do not have the capacity nor the funding to administer expensive pharmaceutical-based treatments such as chemotherapy. Read the rest of this entry »
(WorldTruthTV) – As few as one diet soda daily may increase the risk for leukemia in men and women, and for multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma in men, according to new results from the longest-ever running study on aspartame as a carcinogen in humans. Importantly, this is the most comprehensive, long-term study ever completed on this topic, so it holds more weight than other past studies which appeared to show no risk. And disturbingly, it may also open the door for further similar findings on other cancers in future studies. Read the rest of this entry »
(WorldWarD) – Uruguay launches a nationwide public debate over marijuana legalization – Its government deserves our full support Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (WorldTruthTV) – Hungary Destroys All Monsanto GMO Corn Fields – Read More Here
(NaturalNews) – A breakthrough report on the nutritional density of genetically-modified (GM) corn crops demolishes all existing claims that GMOs are “substantially equivalent” to non-GMOs. Entitled 2012 Nutritional Analysis: Comparison of GMO Corn versus Non-GMO Corn, the paper reveals not only that GMO corn is greatly lacking in vitamins and minerals compared to non-GMO corn, but also that it is highly toxic and filled with deadly crop chemicals like glyphosate (Roundup). Read the rest of this entry »
(OrganicPrepper) – A genetically modified rose by any other name may smell sweet, but it could still have frankenthorns that might independently detach themselves and lop off your finger while you’re smelling it. That’s not unlike a trip to the grocery store these days. There are a lot of ugly surprises in pretty, charmingly-named packages.
(RussiaToday) – Abby Martin highlights Diana Reeves, founder of GMO Free USA, for her activism against the deceitful tactics of big agro-business, and calls out US Senator Roy Blunt, for his long list of shady dealings, exposing his latest attempt to undermine the democratic process by trying to anonymously push the Monsanto Protection Act through a senate budget bill Read the rest of this entry »
(MediaRoots) – Safety and security, or steps toward segregation? If passed, a proposed bill in Kansas would pave the way for discrimination and dehumanisation through vague language calling for quarantine of people with “infectious diseases,” part and parcel of regressive measures tending toward soft fascism. Read the rest of this entry »
(NaturalNews) – Sugary sodas and aspartame-laced diet sodas can all be purchased with taxpayer money via the federal food stamp program. It’s called the “Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program” (SNAP), and it provides free food credits to 42 million Americans who use the credits to purchase junk food, birthday cakes, sodas and more. Read the rest of this entry »
(OrganicPrepper) – Being prepared for the unexpected is what my website is all about. We’ve talked about what you should store and about becoming more self-reliant. We’ve discussed health and the evil agendas that appear to be afoot. We’ve bemoaned the ridiculous laws and the encroaching police state. We’ve made lists of what you should have, where you should live, and how you should fortify your home. Read the rest of this entry »
(NaturalNews) – Children are not the only ones at high risk of developing the chronic neurological disorder narcolepsy in conjunction with the pandemic swine flu vaccine Pandemrix, according to a new study. The latest among several in recent years to link the two, the new paper found that people age 20 and younger have a roughly tripled risk of developing narcolepsy if they get the H1N1 jab, while people 30 and younger have about a doubled risk. Read the rest of this entry »
(Reuters) – The Maryland legislature approved the use of marijuana for medical purposes on Monday, and Governor Martin O’Malley has said he would sign the measure and make Maryland the 20th state to legalize medicinal cannabis. Read the rest of this entry »
UPDATE: Since publication of this story this morning, yet another oil spill has come across the wire – a CP Rail spill from a derailment in northern Ontario – raising the total of spills this past week to SIX.
(CommonSenseCanada) – It’s been another appallingly bad week for proponents of pipeline safety and new oil infrastructure. If the industry’s woeful historical record – from the Exxon Valdez to BP’s Gulf of Mexico catastrophe to Enbridge’s trashing of the Kalamazoo – isn’t enough to turn people off of new pipelines and tanker routes, this slew of recent spills should seal the deal. Read the rest of this entry »
(NaturalNews) – New data released by Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) shows once again that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster is far from over. Despite a complete media blackout on the current situation, levels of Cesium-137 (Cs-137) and Cesium-134 (Cs-134) found in produce and rice crackers located roughly 225 miles away from Fukushima are high enough to cause residents to exceed the annual radiation exposure limit in just a few months, or even weeks. Read the rest of this entry »
Fresh asparagus dripping with butter. Small, sweet early strawberries. Tender, delicate baby lettuce. Sweet cobbler offset by tart, tangy rhubarb. Fresh dainty peas blanched for just a few seconds so that they burst in your mouth. Read the rest of this entry »
(SLHS) – Do you know what’s in your food? Concern about genetically modified foods is rising, particularly in the wake of the ‘Monsanto Protection’ Act being signed into law. In this episode of the Smells Like Human Spirit Podcast, Guy Evans is joined by community activist Leiha Maldonado to discuss GMOs, Monsanto, the food justice movement, and more. Enjoy! Read the rest of this entry »
(TrutherGirls) – Everyone who would ever consider taking antidepressants MUST know this: They can literally turn you into a raving madman within days and cause you to kill yourself or someone else.A large meta-analysis showed SSRIs can cause mania, psychosis and violence in people with no prior history of such conditions or behavior. Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (Care2) – Tumors Linked to Genetically-Modified Corn – Read More Here
Trader Joe’s, Aldi, Whole Foods, Marsh among stores that will reject GE fish
(FriendsoftheEarth) – A coalition of consumer, health, food safety and fishing groups today launched the “Campaign for Genetically Engineered (GE)-Free Seafood” by announcing that several major grocery retailers representing more than 2,000 stores across the United States have already committed not to sell genetically engineered seafood if it is allowed onto the market. Read the rest of this entry »
(NaturalNews) – It’s amazing how coconut oil has recently been acknowledged for the healthy oil that it is after having been vilified for decades as a heart attack oil. Now it’s been discovered to boost even brain health. Read the rest of this entry »
(ExposingTheTruth) – Are humans, as a recent Natural News article states, losing the ability to experience emotions? Recent research published March 20th, 2013, in open-access journal PLoS titled “The Expression of Emotions in 20th Century Books”, cited by the Natural News article, found a significant decrease in the communication of emotions in both the United States and Britain’s written word. Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (TarSandsBlockade) – Dispatches From Exxon’s Spill Zone, Day 2 – Read More Here
Also: (InsideClimateNews) – InsideClimate News Reporter Threatened With Arrest at Ark. Oil Spill Site – Read More Here
(RussiaToday) – Thousands of gallons of oil have spilled from a pipeline in Texas, the third accident of its kind in only a week. Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (WhyDontYouTryThis) – Gluten Confirmed to Cause Serious Weight Gain, or ‘Wheat Belly’ – Scientific Research – Read More Here
(Shape) – You think the FDA has your back? Sure, they recently proposed two new regulations to up food safety measures, specifically how food processors and farmers can work better to keep their fresh products free of dangerous bacteria (remember that killer cantaloupe outbreak from 2011?). But while it may seem like the government is out to protect us from bad–even fatal–food-borne illnesses, which cause some 3,000 deaths a year, they don’t completely have our best interest–or health–in mind. Read the rest of this entry »
(ABC10News) – Two years later, the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan may be affecting the health of young children in San Diego.
“We should take this very seriously,” said Joseph Mangano, the executive director of the New York-based Radiation and Public Health Project, which researches the impact of nuclear power. Read the rest of this entry »
(AmericanThinker) – CVS employees, and the rest of America, had better get used to turning over personal health information like their glucose levels and body mass index to their insurers – and to the federal government. Read the rest of this entry »
(NaturalNews) – Doctors used to think that if they drained a sick person’s blood it would purge the “evil” infection or disease right out of the body, but all that did was make the ill person much weaker, unable to fight off whatever was invading their body, and the patient was then highly likely to lose the battle for life, and in less time. Read the rest of this entry »
Yet another mass killer on violence-causing anti-depressants
(PaulWatson) – Newly released court documents confirm that ‘Batman’ shooter James Holmes was taking the anti-depressant drug Zoloft before he conducted his massacre in an Aurora theater last July, underscoring yet again the prevalent yet underreported connection between psychotropic drugs and mass shootings. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – The FAA announced a temporary no-fly zone would be enacted indefinitely over the Arkansas oil spill. With word that an Exxon employee was controlling the airspace, though, speculation pointed to the idea the oil company was trying to keep the media away. Read the rest of this entry »
(NaturalNews) – After intense lobbying by Kraft Foods Global Inc. and Kemin Food Technologies, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), has agreed to reverse existing regulations that prohibit the use of three toxic meat preservatives. Read the rest of this entry »
(AJC) – Since NATO began its “War on Terror” in 2001, heroin production in Afghanistan has increased 40 times and an estimated 1 million people have died as a result. Speaking last month in Vienna at the annual UN session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Viktor Ivanov, the head of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service, said that the drug remains the primary factor of instability in the country. Read the rest of this entry »
(StormCloudsGathering) – Barack Obama’s signing of ‘The Monsanto Protection Act’, or H.R. 933 is really only small part of a much bigger pattern and corruption and collusion between Monsanto and the U.S. government. Read the rest of this entry »
(NaturalNews) – The things you think about and dwell on throughout your day have a direct effect on your stress levels, which regulate how much cortisol, or stress hormone, is produced in your body. And new research published in the journal Health Psychology has found that meditation, and particularly mindfulness thinking, can help lower stress and cortisol levels, which in turn can help you lose excess weight and avoid developing “cortisol belly.” Read the rest of this entry »
(GuessingAgain) – My friend posted this with the comment “R.I.P. Bees.” Pretty accurate.
Beeologics’ acquisition announcement explains that Monsanto plans to incorporate all the biological research that Beeologics has conducted over the years into its own programs for developing more GMO systems. Monsanto has also seized control of a key product that is currently in the Beeologics development pipeline that supposedly “help[s] protect bee health.” Read the rest of this entry »
(NaturalNews) – Of all the threats to humanity today, none is more destructive than modern-day “evidence-based science.” And by the word “science,” I don’t mean the humble pursuit of knowledge using genuine scientific methods. What I mean is the dogmatic, corporate-driven brand of distorted science based on falsified evidence, bribery of gatekeepers and corruption of government regulators. Read the rest of this entry »
(NaturalSociety) – Still think that the Fukushima nuclear meltdown of 2011 never affected the United States public? Young children born in the United States West Coast, right in the line of fire for radioactive isotopes, have been found to be 28% more likely to develop congenital hypothyroidism than infants born the year before the incident. Read the rest of this entry »
