Brian Shilhavy, Health Impact News
There is troubling news this spring as many US farmers are switching from traditional food crops such as wheat and corn to cotton, which is selling at all time highs. Cotton today is seen to be a very profitable crop in 2011. This is troubling for several reasons.
First, as we […]
Health Impact News Editor Comments: Producers of GM crops have come up with even more new ways to get GM soy into your diet: change the fatty acid structure to include Omega 3 fatty acids to eliminate your need to get them from fish! It is called “SDA-enriched soy.” The new GM soy contains […]
by GM WATCH
NOTE: Below is an article on how how Silvio Berlusconi derailed an anti-GM crop ban at the behest of the U.S. We only know about what happened thanks to Wikileaks.
Despite the repeated efforts of some in the mainstream media to downplay the significance of the Wikileaks’ cables, they have been revelatory in […]
by Emelie Peine
Think Forward
On February 18, Republicans in the House of Representatives defeated an obscure amendment to the House Appropriations bill by a 2-to-1 margin. The Kind Amendment would have eliminated $147 million dollars that the federal government pays every year directly to Brazilian cotton farmers. In an era of nationwide belt tightening, with […]
by Food Freedom
On Saturday, April 2, Blue Hill became the third town in Maine to adopt the Local Food and Self-Governance Ordinance. The Ordinance was passed at Blue Hill’s town meeting by a near unanimous vote. This comes on the heels of the unanimous passage of the Ordinance in neighboring towns, Sedgwick and Penobscot, […]
by Dr. Mercola
Victoria Inness-Brown conducted a personal two and a half-year experiment on the effects of aspartame, probably the worst of the artificial sweeteners on the market.
Her experiments resulted in the book, My Aspartame Experiment: Report from a Private Citizen, as well as the shorter summary version Are Your Diet Sodas Killing You? Results from My […]
by Lita Cosner and Gary Bates
Creation Ministries International
An icon of evolutionism. Apes-to-humans often shows ancestral hominids as dark skinned.
Credit: <http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/The-Top-Ten-Daily-Consequences-of-Having-Evolved.html>
What’s wrong with this picture? More blatantly than most, it typifies the racism inherent in a lot of human evolutionary progressions. Did you notice that […]
Gwen Olsen, author of Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher, sheds light on the relationship between the FDA and the major pharmaceutical companies. www.GwenOlsen.com
by NATALIE AKOORIE
Stuff.co.nz
A Hamilton toddler who was mistakenly injected with a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer when he was just six weeks old has developed a rare form of leukaemia.
Chace Topperwien began chemotherapy for the M7 strand of acute myeloid leukaemia on his second birthday last month, but doctors cannot tell […]
by Dr. David Jockers
(NaturalNews) One of the most popular supplements in our society today is protein powder. These powders come from a variety of different sources and a number of unique manufacturing processes. Unfortunately, 95% of commercial protein powders have toxic ingredients that could be slowly inflaming your body and depleting your cellular nutritional stores.
Protein […]
‘Entombed’ pollen is identified as having sunken, wax-covered cells amid ‘normal’, uncapped cells. Photograph: Journal of Invertebrate Pathology
by Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent
guardian.co.uk
Honeybees are taking emergency measures to protect their hives from pesticides, in an extraordinary example of the natural world adapting swiftly to our depredations, according to a prominent bee expert.
Scientists […]
By Dr. John Briffa
The EpochTimes
It is easy to believe that fat is fattening. Compared to carbohydrate or protein, fat is rich in calories. However, the evidence does not link eating fat with obesity.
Eating low-fat diets is quite ineffective for weight loss. The evidence suggests that fat is not fattening. Understanding how this […]
by Ginger Taylor
Adventures in Autism
The state of Maine is considering, get this shocker, passing a law to prevent forced vaccination.
End of the world… I know.
So yesterday I hopped up to the state house when I heard that they were having debate on this bill. Turned out they were also considering a bill […]
by Jonathan Benson
NaturalNews
(NaturalNews) Refusing to comply with state-sanctioned protocols for cancer treatment — even when they cause immense pain and suffering, and possibly even a more rapid death — can get you tried for murder if a loved-one under your care with cancer ends up dying. A Massachusetts woman currently faces murder charges […]
by Monica G. Young
(NaturalNews) We’re ashamed that exploitation of children for profit was once tolerated in America: such as children as young as five shackled to machines while working 16-hour days in factories, or black children auctioned and sold as slaves. Yet future generations will look back on our era too with shame: a […]
By Ken Roseboro
The Organic & Non-GMO Report
Jason Wells, a farmer in Milton, Iowa, who grows both non-GMO and organic corn, says that the non-GMO corn variety he grows produces higher yields than genetically modified varieties.
Other farmers prefer non-GMO
Wells has grown a Pioneer Hi-Bred non-GMO corn variety called 34YO2. In 2009, Wells says the corn […]
by Chiots
Not Dabbling In Normal
Growing your own food isn’t just about saving money, it’s about so much more. I truly believe that as humans we posses an innate desire or need to take a hand-on role in the production of the food we consume. Whether through growing your own, foraging in the […]
by Mary Clare Jalonick
USA TODAY Your Life
Walking into her neighborhood grocery store in Washington, Kathleen Merrigan saw a beautiful display of plump strawberries and a sign that said they were local produce. But the package itself said they were grown in California, well over 2,000 miles away.
The popularity of locally grown food — which many […]
by Sherry Baker
NaturalNews
(NaturalNews) Millions of Americans take antidepressant drugs — most are Prozac and related antidepressant medications in the class known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). A gigantic money maker for the drug giants, the SSRIs bring in billions to Big Pharma a year. They are promoted and prescribed as safe treatments […]
by Christina England
VaccineTruth
Just when we thought the world could not get any more insane, it does! News came in today of a study entitled ‘Inhibitory Effect of Breast Milk on Infectivity of Live Oral Rotavirus Vaccines’ advising nursing mothers to delay breast-feeding until after vaccinations. According to the authors this is because breastfeeding lowers the vaccines […]
