Last August, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals stepped in and ruled the E.P.A. must either prove the safety of chlorpyrifos or prohibit its use on food. Currently prohibited, thirty-two G.O.P. lawmakers from the Senate and House Ag Committees are fighting to reverse the ban on the toxic chemical—one of several used in G.M.O. farming practices promoted by Bill Gates. Read more.
Archives for March 2022
Updated Psychiatric Manual Makes Grief, Racism and Childhood “Mental Disorders” to be Treated with Drugs
The latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), psychiatry’s “bible” that gives them the “authority” to prescribe drugs for “mental disorders,” is scheduled to be updated this month (March 2022) with new “disorders” that psychiatrists can now prescribe drugs for, which will undoubtedly put more people on their psyche drugs now. Read more.
Popular Organic Bread Company Bought Out by Staunchly Pro-GMO Corporation
Of the new guard of breadmakers the emerging big organic brands like Rudi’s and Ezekiel (sprouted grain breads) stand out, but another fast-growing option customers are falling in love with is Oregon-based Dave’s Killer Bread, which makes everything from whole grain to sprouted breads and even hamburger buns. Read more.
10 Favorite Organic Food Makers That Are Now Owned by Huge Corporations
While most organic companies pledge to continue their high standards of organic purity upon being bought out, it doesn’t always work that way in practice. For example Silk, a popular almond milk brand, actually switched from non-GMO to GMO soybeans without telling their customer base upon being purchased by WhiteWave, a spin-off company of the massive pro-GMO corporation Dean Foods. Read more.
Healthy Food is a Populist Issue
Nearly everyone is concerned nowadays about healthy food for themselves and their families. The recent surge in demand for organic food, natural health supplements, and home-cooking during the pandemic, are certainly not partisan trends. Increasing numbers of Republicans and Democrats, as well as Independents, are becoming organic consumers, that is if they can afford to buy organics, given the increasing high costs of living (housing, transportation, health care, education, taxes) in the U.S. In this regard, putting more money in ordinary people’s pockets, fighting for economic justice and supporting working class struggles are one way that we can make organic food more affordable for everyone, not just the middle-class. Read more.
Food Shortages Soon Come — What to Do?
A concatenation of events is dropping on us like an imploding building and there’s not much we can do to stop it. However, we can mitigate some of the potential damage through our individual efforts and need to get started now. Read more.
FDA Approves GMO Cattle for Food
The FDA has determined that meat from cattle bioengineered to have shorter hair — known as a slick coat — poses a low risk to consumers who eat it. This is the first time the FDA has made a low-risk determination in a bioengineered animal for food use, the department said. Read more.
Purple ‘Superfood’ Tomato Could Finally go on Sale in the US
A purple tomato genetically modified to make it rich in the beneficial pigments found in “superfoods” such as blueberries could soon go on sale in the US. A small company called Norfolk Plant Sciences applied for approval last year and is confident of getting the go-ahead. Read more.
32 Members of Congress Want to Allow Conventional Farmers to Continue Poisoning Children…and You
For years, health and environmental advocates had been calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban the dangerous organophosphate insecticide, chlorpyrifos. Science shows that levels of the neurotoxic pesticide found on conventional foods pose unacceptable risks and could harm developing babies and children, along with farmworkers forced to apply it in farm fields. Read more.
The Bloody Secret Behind Lab-Grown Meat
….several obstacles hold back a new era of widely available animal-free burgers, nuggets, and carnitas. The biggest involves something much less appetizing than chicken dumplings: the blood of unborn cow fetuses, extracted from their mothers after slaughter. Read more.