“Any authorisation of GM food should always be accompanied by risk assessments and a comprehensive evaluation of traceability and labelling options. The plans presented by Timmermans this week blatantly contradict this. The bill is not only a deathblow to sustainable agriculture but also an affront to democracy.” – Anja Hazekamp MEP Read more.
Archives for July 2023
California Proposes to Hijack Regenerative Agriculture
California has unilaterally decided to define Regenerative Agriculture. It is a subnational government with no formal role in the Regenerative Agriculture movement. It has a state government with entrenched bureaucracies, such as The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), that regulate and condone some of the world’s worst excesses in industrial-scale Degenerative Agriculture on the planet. Read more.
New Genetic Engineering – small cause, big effect
Here’s an excellent article about the European Commission’s GMO deregulation proposal, by the journalist, former MEP, and expert on GMOs Benedikt Haerlin. He has been around long enough to have witnessed the failed promises of the first generation of GM crops in the 1990s and early 2000s. Read more.
Eat this to Think Better for the Next Six Hours – and Beyond
Important work presentation on the schedule? Big exam coming up? During an ordinary day, your brain performance will gradually decrease as you become cognitively fatigued, possibly leaving you in a fog the moment you need your brain to be at its best. Nature comes to the rescue once again, however, as snacking on a tasty berry snack may be all you need to boost your brain function — and ace your upcoming task. Read more.
18 Medicinal Properties of Cucumbers
Eat them raw and you get a juicy crunch. Cucumbers, however, do more than just serve as a refreshing feature of salads, sandwiches, slaws, pickles, noodles, cocktails and more. This popular produce pick, a member of the Cucurbitaceae family along with melon, squash and pumpkins, has been used in traditional medicine since ancient times for its unnumbered health benefits. Read more.
Hormone Replacement Therapy in Jeopardy
The screws continue to tighten on compounded bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (cBHRT), the future of which is in peril. We need your help to support a US Senate sign-on letter telling the FDA NOT to limit access to these treatments. Action Alert! A letter being circulated in the Senate by US Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) urges the FDA to enact policies that allow patients to continue using compounded bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (cBHRT). Read more.
PFAS Report puts FDA in Cross-Hairs
Our report showing supermarket kale to be contaminated with toxic chemicals is getting picked up far and wide. Help us maintain the momentum and call for a ban on toxic PFAS “forever chemicals.” Action Alert! Last week, we launched a national campaign on the back of our pilot study showing 7 of 8 supermarket kale samples to be contaminated with PFAS “forever chemicals,” suggesting much wider contamination of our food supply with these chemicals than the FDA wants to acknowledge. Read more.
Free Speech Victory! Court Pushes Back Against Censors
A federal judge has found that the Biden Administration likely violated the First Amendment by working with major social media companies to censor speech it didn’t like. Action Alert! U.S. District Court Judge Terry Doughty issued a preliminary injunction barring federal officials and agencies, including the Surgeon General, the Secretary of Health, the Justice Department, and the FBI, from having any contact with social media firms for the purpose of discouraging or removing First Amendment-protected speech. Read more.
How to Prevent Sepsis Mortality: Part 2
The peer-reviewed scientific literature clearly suggests that global sepsis mortality could be reduced drastically and millions of premature deaths could be prevented. Patients should receive appropriate treatment with standard care, in combination with coenzyme Q10, melatonin, very high dose vitamin C, curcumin, nigella sativa seeds, and optimal doses of other essential nutrients discussed below. Read more.
“Toxicology is not a Political Science,” Ex-FDA official weighs in on WHO aspartame news
Industry experts and trade groups are decrying the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer’s pending addition of aspartame to a list of possible carcinogens for humans as unscientific and politically motivated. Read more.