Onward Corporate Food Crusaders!
by Eric Holt Gimenez
Huffington Post
Excerpt from this article:
Seventeen agrifood monopolies (ADM, BASF, Bunge, Cargill, The Coca-Cola Company, DuPont, General Mills, Kraft Foods, Metro, Monsanto Company, Nestlé, PepsiCo, SABMiller, Syngenta, Unilever, Wal-Mart Stores and Yara International) rolled out a new report financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation […]
by Dr. Mercola
Since 2002 an artificial sweetener called neotame has been approved for use in food and drink products around the world, although so far its use appears to be very limited.
Neotame is a chemical derivative of aspartame, and judging by the chemicals used in its manufacturing, it appears even more toxic than aspartame, […]
by FarmerCathy
Mothering.com Forums
I was thinking we should make a list and have it as a sticky so we could make it easier to avoid these seed companies if you so desire.
To give a little background about Monsanto if you don’t already know. They develop and sell GMO (genetically modified organisms) seeds. Seeds that […]
by Kent Heckenlively, Esq.
Age of Autism
The masterful new book, Vaccine Epidemic, edited by Louise Kuo Habakus, M.A., director of the Center for Personal Rights, and Mary Holland, J.D., research scholar at the New York University School of Law may be the most important book yet published on the autism-vaccine controversy.
I say this as an […]
by Georgia Purdom, Ph.D.
Answers in Genesis
The extraordinary ability of certain bacteria to develop resistance to antibiotics—which are otherwise useful in speeding recovery from some illnesses—has been a hot topic on the minds of doctors, hospital staff, reporters, and the general public for several years. It is also heralded as […]
by The Bovine
Listen to an interview with Alice Jongerden on Blog Talk Radio:http://www.blogtalkradio.com/awakentoyouradio/2011/01/27/raw-milk-health-accessibility
Michael Schmidt with Alice Jongerden on stage in British Columbia.
About the interview: “Wednesday, 02 February 2011 Alice Jongerden, the founder and former operator of a 450-member Fresh Milk cowshare in Chilliwack, BC, has been under attack by the Fraser Health […]
by Taylor Leake
As anyone who frequents this site knows, our food system is becoming increasingly industrialized, with factory farms quickly replacing family and small-scale farms at a frighteningly fast pace. Using cheap and environmentally harmful farming practices and friendly government policies, massive corporate farming operations are wiping thousands of small farmers off the map (just like Walmart […]
by Barbara H. Peterson
Farm Wars
Organic is organic, or is it? It would seem that it is all a matter of perspective when one takes a stroll through the mountains of documents on the FDA and USDA websites.
The word “organic” is fast becoming a high-dollar money-maker for corporations smart enough to jump on the bandwagon […]
by Dr. Mercola
You should definitely listen to Camilla Rees, of Electromagnetic Health, interviewing Vicki Warren, the past executive director of the Institute for Bau Biology & Ecology. You’ll learn how to lower your risk of EMF exposure around your house.
Warren discusses residual magnetism, static build-up, power charges (the field emitted by the wiring in your […]
Video – Unholy Assault: Psychiatry Versus Religion, by Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights
by Jan Eastgate, President – Citizens Commission on Human Rights International
Psychiatry’s assault on religion dates back to the late 1800s. (Health Impact News Editor note: this corresponds to the time Darwin’s writings gained acceptance in science.) It was then that psychiatrists first sought to […]
William Howard Taft (1909-1913)
Photo from The History Chef
by Suzy Evans, J.D., Ph.D.
President Taft kept a family dairy cow named Pauline Wayne on the White House lawn. For two years, Pauline supplied Taft and his family with fresh milk. When Taft left office in 1913, Pauline was shipped back to her former […]
By Anne Dachel
Age of Autism
Several months ago, I interviewed British doctor Richard Halvorsen concerning the heated vaccine-autism controversy. Dr. Halvorsen had gained a fair amount of attention in the British press. I contacted him recently to get his views on the allegations of fraud against Dr. Andrew Wakefield. He minced […]
by Cooking Up a Story
In part 1, Daniel Imhoff explains the historical roots of the federal Farm Bill, arguably the single, biggest piece of legislation that effects land use in the U.S., and as he himself notes, most average citizens know little about this important bill.
The current farm bill is […]
Healthcare Blog
One of the newest health foods for pets and people is “coconut oil.” Coconut oil is a saturated-fat vegetable oil. Coconuts have always been a staple of tropical cuisines and people following a coconut-based diet. These people rarely suffered from heart disease, cancer, diabetes or other illnesses that haunt […]
by Humayun Kabir
Free Malaysia Today
SUNGAI SIPUT: The use of laboratory mosquitoes to fight dengue may turn out to be a catastrophic mistake, according to Sungai Siput MP Dr D Jeyakumar, who is a respiratory physician.
The biggest danger, he said, was that the release of large numbers of genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes into the environment […]
by NorthCentralPA.com
McDonald’s Earned More Revenue From Europe than U.S. in 2009
Washington, D.C. – Decades of trade rules that dismantled or restructured farm safety net programs in the European Union have displaced sustainable, domestic feed grain production and escalated dangerous soy imports from Latin America—and helped turn European farms into polluting factory farms while driving […]
Health Impact News Editor Comments:
Melanie Warner has written a good article on bnet.com chronicling the difficulties senators from Alaska and other salmon producing states are having in battling the approval of genetically engineered salmon that many label as “frankenfish.” Warner states that “the FDA appears to be hellbent on providing U.S. consumers with their […]
by Tom Naughton
It was yet another bang-up Super Bowl. I love it when the game is in doubt until the very end … although as a Bears fan, I didn’t mind seeing them blow away the Patriots back in 1986. I like the pomp of the Super Bowl, the hype, the […]
Health Impact News Editor Comment:
Those in alternative health circles have long known that WebMD is controlled by pharmaceutical companies. For possibly the first time, a writer for one of the mainstream newspapers (NY Times) exposes the same thing, and recommends the Mayo Clinic website as a more reliable source of information. Virginia Hefferman writes […]
Dairies seek to deliver raw milk
New bill would loosen regulations
By Christine Legere
Two raw-milk farms south of Boston are among 27 statewide that stand to benefit from legislation that would allow farms to deliver the product directly to […]
