The Truth About Pesticides and Mortality
Eating a lot of fruits and vegetables lowers all-cause mortality. People who consume a wide variety of them are far less likely to suffer from various chronic diseases. And science figured this out long before organic produce was being mass consumed...
Merge-Santo - New Threat to Food Sovereignty
Posted on: Saturday, March 26th 2016
Posted By: GMI Reporter
Now, world agriculture has three mega-mergers in play: Merge-Santo - New Threat to Food Sovereignty. If we act, we can stop the Big Six from becoming the Titanic Three.
As ETC first...
EPA Proposes Extended Ban on Neurotoxic Pesticide Sprayed on Crops
by Julie Fidler
Posted on November 1, 2015
Banned for household use since 2000.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Friday a proposal that would ban a pesticide commonly sprayed on citrus fruits...
Why You Can’t Separate GMOs from their Biotech Chemicals
by Christina Sarich
Posted on October 24, 2015
A hazardous storm on our health.
A glaring omission from almost all biotech discussions of genetically engineered crops is the fact that not one, but a host of chemicals is required to...
34000 Pesticides and 600 Chemicals Later: Our Food Supply is No Better for It
by Christina Sarich
Posted on October 18, 2015
More than 34,000 pesticides derived from about 600 basic ingredients are currently registered for use in the United States by the EPA. Industrial agriculture (meaning...