As we become more health conscious and choose leaner meats, Americans are increasingly pushing red meat to the side and opting for chicken instead. On average, we eat 84 pounds of chicken meat per person per year. While we may think we are doing the right and healthy thing, America’s new obsession with chicken meat […]

Do you really know what is going to be on your plate when you purchase seafood? There’s a good chance you don’t — and maybe you don’t want to know. Seafood laced with antibiotics is flooding the marketplace here in the U.S., and if that isn’t disturbing enough, most of this seafood is coming from […]

Marijuana might have earned a reputation for giving people “the munchies”, driving them to crave snack foods while under the influence, but a new study shows that the drug could actually be a surprisingly effective way to help combat the obesity epidemic that is killing Americans. Hemp may also offer benefits that can help support […]

Although sweet potatoes are an important staple food for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, this versatile, orange root tuber can be added to many other meals all year round. While sweet potatoes have been used for ages by many cultures around the world, until recently they weren’t a regular sight on American kitchen tables outside of […]

When it comes to health, “cannabis” is the new buzzword. While this all-natural remedy has been around for thousands of years, scientists are still learning about its many different uses, including the impact it has on human health. So far, research has taught us that cannabis may be effective for combating cancer, reducing and/or eliminating […]

For more than two decades, the EPA has managed to cover up the deadly truth about biosolids, but with the release of “Biosludged” – a documentary exposing the hazards of using treated sewage as fertilizer and the EPA’s tactics of silencing anyone who attempts to get the truth to the public – the agency will […]

Consumers are increasingly realizing the benefits of natural foods, and it appears their voices are finally being heard as new legislation has been proposed in California and Montana that will make it easier for local small food entrepreneurs. A new law in Montana would allow homemade food to be sold and consumed and encourage the […]

How can a science website lose credibility any faster than to praise the work of a known biotech huckster and hack? They can’t. Yet, that’s exactly what Scientific American (SciAm) has gone and done, by glorifying the “work” of Jon Entine, the ultimate shill and charlatan for GMO, who also happens to be a racist, wife-beating, corporate fraud science […]

The details behind why the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decided to fire Dr. David Lewis, a brilliant microbiologist who blew the whistle on biosludge, is a familiar story. The EPA decided they would rather create fake data in order to “help” states, counties, and municipalities rid themselves of biological waste. For many years now, biosludge has been declared completely safe to be  dispersed on […]

A coalition of nearly 325 groups representing farmers, beekeepers, farmworkers, food safety advocates, and religious adherents has issued a formal letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) urging the government agency to immediately overturn three proposed mergers by six of the world’s largest and most influential chemical and industrial agricultural corporations. The letter states […]

Members of the Punjab Legislative Assembly in Pakistan recently expressed concerns that chicken feed imported from India had been found to be contaminated with pork meat. Though the claims had not been fully substantiated, they sparked immediate concern in a predominantly Muslim country, where for religious reasons, pork may not be consumed at all. Lawmakers […]

Tobacco has come a long way, baby, and it’s always been about the profits. It was the “first crop grown for money in North America,” reports Health Literacy World Education, as well as the primary cash used by the Jamestown settlers in 1612. Tobacco profits also financed the Revolutionary War. The first cigarette making machine was built in 1881 and those […]

The United States started adding fluoride to its drinking water soon after the end of the Second World War, and for over 70 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confidently asserted that this practice is necessary to prevent tooth decay. Interestingly, the U.S. is one of very few countries that still […]

Allowing farmers to use raw sewage sludge or biosolids from wastewater treatment plants as a fertilizer is one of the greatest environmental crimes many people have never heard of, according to Mike Adams, an award-winning investigative journalist, internet activist, and science lab director known as the “Health Ranger” and founder and editor of NaturalNews.com. After […]

Linus Pauling Ph.D. (1901 – 1994) was a scientist’s scientist during a period of history when the primary role of the discipline was a diligent search for truth, not corporate sponsorship. Pauling’s youthful genius and inquisitiveness to discover just how and why atoms form bonds with molecules and create structures guided his entire life. He is considered as “the founding father of modern biochemistry,” […]