Credit Suisse has been making headlines recently, but for all the wrong reasons. If funding the Dakota Access Pipeline wasn’t enough reason to dislike the bank, how about their involvement in 2 additional massive monopoly makers? The food and energy markets have huge mergers which will allow the corporations to dominate at our expense. These […]

A recently released “state of the science” review by the Pesticide Action Network International (PAN) contains a wealth of research that documents the adverse environmental and human health impacts of glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides.  The review’s findings emphasize the need for these compounds to be permanently phased out. Health and environmental advocates say the monopoly on what […]

A doctoral student from a prestigious Chinese university has claimed that a national GMO testing center has actually been forging maintenance records on dozens of GMO projects for years. China’s Ministry of Agriculture has promised to open an investigation into the PhD student’s allegations. Wei Jingliang, a former PhD student at the Chinese Academy of […]

A recent article by the editorial board at USA Today has announced, for the first time in USA Today’s illustrious 34 year career as an unbiased purveyor of current events, that a presidential candidate is unfit for the job. The person whom this judgment has been passed on is none other than Donald Trump. This […]

Monsanto, one of the world’s leading producers of foods containing genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, recently announced that they were getting away from the GMO game slightly as they have purchased a new technology from the Broad Institute. This new method, CRISPR, which stands for Clustered Regularly-Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, allows scientists to manipulate DNA […]

Nearly 1.7 million “new cancer cases” will be diagnosed this year in America, according to estimates from the American Cancer Society.  If that isn’t unsettling enough, the World Health Organization (WHO) predicts cancer rates will skyrocket over the next 20 years. The organization has hypothesized that global cancer incidence will rise by about 70 percent! But, […]

If you still use any product made with canola oil, be prepared to toss it. Although canola’s origins, according to TheKitchn.com, indicate that “canola was created through traditional plant cross-breeding by removing two things found in the rapeseed plant,” today nearly all canola oil is genetically modified. That’s reason enough to remove it from home and stop buying products […]

Backyard chickens have exploded in popularity. They can provide your family with a delicious source of protein from their eggs and/or meat. They can also provide a life lesson for your children in the care and keeping of a flock, their poop can enrich barren soil and, due to their intricate social network, you can enjoy hours […]

Jane Goodall, Ph.D., DBE has one of the most impressive list of accomplishments in environmental science and the anthropological study called ethnology. At 26 years of age, she journeyed to Tanzania with an overwhelming passion, camera and notebook. Goodall became a sensation in National Geographic Magazine, demonstrating a remarkable behavioral understanding of free-living chimpanzees. In fact, she learned more about these mammals than […]

In what was truly a miraculous ruling, the United States Supreme Court came to the unanimous conclusion that human genes cannot be patented. Among the many thousands of patents ruled invalid, Myriad Genetics’  patent on BRCA breast cancer genes was finally brought to an end. The company wanted royalties from anyone who researched or even […]

First lady Michelle Obama has made it her mission to reform America’s school lunch programs, focusing more on healthier foods and less on foods that are rich in calories but low in nutrition. While not all Americans are happy with the effort, her “Let’s Move” initiative to make lunches more nutritious and, thus, students healthier, […]

According to agricultural researcher Charles Benbrook,Ph.D., 1.6 billion kilograms of Roundup have been spewed globally since 1971. (One kilogram is approximately 2.2 pounds.) With more than 90% of USA corn grown from genetically engineered seeds, there’s little doubt that, whoever’s crunching corn chips that aren’t organic, are munching glyphosate in every bite. A Frito-Lay product fits the category, as Natural News reports. “Recent tests conducted on […]

Early last year, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IACR) announced in an article published in Lancet Oncology that it had updated glyphosate’s status to “probably carcinogenic,” based on strong evidence from animal studies and “limited evidence” from human studies. Despite this classification, however, vast quantities of non-organic crops are still deliberately doused […]

A study led by researchers from Thailand has revealed the dangers of genetically modified soybeans. The study found that genistein, the most prevalent phytoestrogen found in unfermented soy, is a substantial cancer-causing agent. Soybeans contain a variety of isoflavones capable of disrupting the endocrine system. Estrogen is a steroid hormone that is often affected by […]

Health-boosting supplements have steadily increased in popularity over the last several years. It’s really no surprise that many supermarkets and other retailers have done their best to cash in, but many people do not realize that cheaper alternatives to natural, organic products often come with their own undisclosed price tags. What you may save in […]