Posted August 28, 2013
The Michigan Right to Farm Act (MRFA) still serves as a model for protecting and encouraging local, sustainable food systems that work. The law protects individuals who wish to farm or otherwise use their land to produce food from being targeted by their cities and townships for elimination. Backyard chicken farmers or families that grow their own fruits, vegetables, and herbs, are recognized as having the freedom to do so by MRFA, so long as they follow generally accepted agricultural and management practices. Read more.
Archives for August 2013
Medicaid is Drowning Our Kids in Toxic Psychiatric Drugs!
Posted August 28, 2013
The number of children on Medicaid taking antipsychotic drugs has tripled in just ten years—and shockingly, many of them are under the age of three. Read more.
ANH-USA Files Brief in Free Speech Case
Posted August 28, 2013
This time it is the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) which is acting lawlessly and trying to censor science about natural health products. Read more.
What if Beer Companies Told the Truth?
Posted August 28, 2013
Would your still want to kick back with a cold beer if some of their labels say, “Brewed with pure Rocky Mountain spring water, GMO corn syrup, and fish bladder”? Read more.
Vitamin C Lowers the Harmful Effects of Air Pollution, Study Finds
Posted August 28, 2013
Vitamin C is one of the most important antioxidants on Earth, and its ability to aid tissue growth and repair is well-known. Vitamin C can also guard us against the negative effects of air pollutants such as car exhaust and power plants. Read more.
Prescription Drug Death Epidemic Continues: Can Big Pharma Be Stopped?
Posted August 26, 2013
Death by prescription drug continues to be a major health problem in the United States, as Big Pharma remains influential and dominant in traditional medical practice. Read more.
Even Pro-Glyphosate Scientists Admit Chemical-Resistant ‘Superweeds’ May Destroy Future of Herbicides, GMOs
Posted August 26, 2013
According to a 2008 study published in the journal, Pest Management Science, rapid adoption of Roundup-Ready crops by many American farmers back in the 1990s has led to a corresponding rapid manifestation of superweeds, which now plague millions of acres of conventional crop land, not to mention roadsides, wilderness, and other areas where their seeds have spread. Read more.
ACTION ALERT — Tell Your Senators to Oppose Sen. Durbin’s Dietary Supplement Labeling Act
Posted August 2, 2013
Just as Congress is preparing to recess until the second week in September, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) reintroduced legislation that would deal a deadly blow to nutritional supplements. This bill is an attempt to move us one step closer to a full FDA pre-approval system for supplements. That would just make supplements very expensive, like drugs—if you could get them at all. Read more and TAKE ACTION to write to your senators immediately and tell them to stop Sen. Durbin’s attack on your right to use supplements. We don’t need this new legislation—all we need is for existing laws to be fully enforced.
New European Food Safety Guidelines Affirm Methodology, Findings of Seralini’s GM Corn Lab Rat Study
Posted August 22, 2013
After vehemently criticizing a researcher’s groundbreaking study and inappropriately calling into question the validity of his rigorous scientific research methods, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has made a surprising about-face. The agency recently vindicated Professor Gilles-Eric Seralini’s published paper on the long-term health damage caused by eating Monsanto’s genetically-modified (GM) NK603 corn, affirming that the study is, in fact, valid. Read more.
CVS Pharmacies ‘Bribing’ Customers to Abandon Medical Privacy Protections
Posted August 22, 2013
The CVS/pharmacy corporation recently launched a new pharmaceutical marketing scheme that pushes customers to fill more drug prescriptions at its stores by enticing them with the company’s “ExtraCare Rewards Program.” But in the new program, customers must first surrender their medical privacy rights protected under HIPAA by signing them away. Read more.