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Nation of Change The time has come to choose between a GM based, or a non GM-based, world food supply.Genetically modified (GM) foods are often promoted as a way to feed the world. But this is little short of a confidence trick. Far from needing more GM foods, there are urgent reasons why we need to ban them altogether. 1. GM foods won’t solve the food crisis A 2008 World Ba..

Anthony GucciardiNatural Society We’ve seen similar scenarios in the past, events in which the massive financial power of multi-national corporations is able to buy out legislators who were elected to ‘represent’ voters. But now, Monsanto has set the bar even higher. Instead of just getting a few kickbacks or avoiding USDA regulation, Monsanto lobbyists have gone as far ..

In a study that’s sure to shake up the soda ban debate, Harvard researchers have linked the sugary drinks to 180,000 deaths a year worldwide, 25,000 in the United States alone. “We know that sugar-sweetened beverages are linked to obesity, and that a large number of deaths are caused by obesity-related diseases. But until now, nobody had really put these pieces together,..

Soda kills 180,000 people a yearGet short URLPublished time: March 20, 2013 18:59 Edited time: March 21, 2013 09:22AFP Photo / Timothy A. ClaryShare on TumblrTags Biology, Health, Medicine, Science, USAYour sweet tooth could be deadly: researchers have found that 25,000 people died from drinking sugary beverages in the US in 2010 – and 180,000 have died worldwide. The da..

New Legislation Would Push Genetically Modified Foods Onto Our PlatesAction Alert: We Have 1 Week Or Less to Stop Genetically Engineered Foods and Destruction of the Separation of PowersBy Washington's BlogGlobal Research, March 20, 2013Washington's BlogRegion: USATheme: Biotechnology and GMO, Law and Justice 167 31 12 235Bill Would Strip Courts of Power… And Push Geneticall..

Barbara H. Peterson Farm Wars It seems that everyone jumped on the bandwagon recently to target Whole Foods and blame it for everything from promoting GMOs to lying about them in its products. People have said that the company was taken over by Monsanto, and cannot be trusted to provide customers who enter the store with safe, non-GMO food. Previously, Whole Foods was lauded b..

TINY toxin particles in the air are causing clusters of cancer and dementia across Britain, campaigners fear.Jon Coatesexpress.co.uk Dust from wood manufacturing and recycling, and car exhaust emissions of the smallest carbon particles, are not covered by UK air pollution regulations. Yet these “nano-toxins” have alarming healthimplications, causing serious ­autoimmune d..

From Virginia Farver, Fort Collins, CO, US 3-14-13 I lost my beautiful, 29-year-old son Rich to glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) brain cancer on October 11, 2008. Early in 2008, Rich was working as a teaching assistant in Political Science at San Diego State University (SDSU), where he had received his master’s degree. He was a very kind young man who would occasionally go golf..

The human genome is packed with millions of gene switches that reside in bits of DNA that once were dismissed as “junk” but it turns out that so-called junk DNA plays critical roles in controlling how cells, organs and other tissues behave. Cambridge researchers have published a paper proving that four-stranded ‘quadruple helix’ DNA structures — known as G-quadru..

The state of Vermont is poised to become the first in the nation to mandate the labeling of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), following the recent passage of H.112 by the Vermont House Committee on Agriculture and ForestProducts (HCAFP). In an historic eight to three vote, HCAFP voted in favor of the “GMO labeling bill,” which would require producers to put labels on ..