Genetically Modified Crops in the Food Supply: The Threat to Your Health
www.farmtoconsumer.org - May 19, 2011
The case against genetically modified (GM) crops has been growing for years. While there are no long-term studies on the health effects of eating food from GM crops, even short-term studies have raised very troubling questions. ...
Read moreEveryday Organic: Global food
www.sltrib.com - May 17, 2011
Environmentally conscious small farms are key to creating global food sustainability. It’s as plain to see as the red raspberries ripening outside my door, and the prospect is every bit as delicious. Imagine taking our current ...
Read moreNational Trust's Wimpole Home Farm seeks online farmers
www.bbc.co.uk - May 05, 2011
A National Trust farm is to be run by online subscribers voting on which crops to grow and livestock to rear. For a £30 annual fee, 10,000 farm followers will help manage Wimpole Home Farm, in Cambridgeshire. The National Tr...
Read moreAre you enjoying your daily chemical cocktail?
www.grist.org - April 28, 2011
Chemicals and additives found in the food supply and other consumer products are making headlines regularly as more and more groups raise concern over the safety of these substances. In a statement released this week, the American...
Read moreOrganic agriculture: deeply rooted in science and ecology
grist.org - April 22, 2011
Organic farming is often falsely represented as being unscientific. However, despite the popular assumption that it sprang full born from the delusions of 60s hippies, it has a more extensive, and scientifically respectable, prove...
Read morePesticide Exposure in Womb Affects I.Q.
blogs.nytimes.com - April 22, 2011
Babies exposed to high levels of common pesticides in the womb have lower I.Q. scores than their peers by the time they reach school age, according to three new studies. The research, based on data collected in New York and Cal...
Read moreUSDA moves to let Monsanto perform its own environmental impact studies on GMOs
www.grist.org - April 21, 2011
In early April, the USDA made what I'm reading as a second response to Judge White, this one even more craven. To satisfy the legal system's pesky demand for environmental impact studies of novel GMO crops, the USDA has settled up...
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