Tag: food safety
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Hungry, Homeless Houston Veteran Ticketed for Dumpster Diving
Veteran James Kelly was cited for “disturbing the contents of a garbage can” on Thursday morning of last week in front of the Hobby Center.
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The great orange juice scam
from therealfoodchannel.com: “Fresh” and “pure”? One of the great scams of the industrial food cartel is the so-called “fresh” orange juice sold in supermarkets. This one particularly galls me because for years when I was dirt poor and had very few food choices, I thought I was doing a healthy thing by buying “fresh” orange…
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US Farmers Flood Fields With Dangerous Poison to Fight Monsanto Superweeds
You’re a farmer. Season after season, you watch your fields being taken over by Monsanto superweeds, which are resistant to the herbicide Roundup. What are you going to do? You’re locked in.
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The Polarizing Practice of Eating Horses
Everyone who seriously studies French or Italian food on scholarly research trips eats horsemeat.
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Windsor votes to remove fluoride from drinking water
from windsorstar.com: Windsor on Monday joined the growing number of municipalities which have voted to end the decades-old practice of adding fluoride to the water supply in the fight against tooth decay. “A lot has changed in the last 60 years … fluoride is not the be-all and end-all to prevent tooth decay,” said Mayor…
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Morningland Dairy Destroyed By Feds
There is a reason why America’s founding fathers were willing to shed their own blood to gain independence from the crushing authoritarianism of the Crown of England.
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Regulators Discover Hidden Viral Gene in Commercial GMO Crops
EFSA has belatedly discovered that the most common genetic regulatory sequence in commercial GMOs also encodes a significant fragment of a viral gene.
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Urban Farm generates 6,000 lbs of food on 1/10th acre
from therealfoodchannel.com: Over 6,000 pounds of food per year, on 1/10 acre located just 15 minutes from downtown Los Angeles. The Dervaes family grows over 400 species of plants, 4,300 pounds of vegetable food, 900 chicken and 1,000 duck eggs, 25 lbs of honey, plus seasonal fruits throughout the year. From 1/10th of an acre,…
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Debunking GE Myths. Again.
Mark Lynas gave a long mea culpa speech at the Oxford Farming Conference, in which he apologized to the world for tearing up GE crops back in the day, and for what he described as his “anti-science environmentalism.”
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Wheat Gluten Newly Confirmed To Promote Weight Gain
New research confirms some of the basic tenets of the Wheat Belly, a book by Dr. William Davis, which argues that wheat avoidance results in healthy weight loss.
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City works on code change for controversial vegetable garden
from clickorlando.com: ORLANDO, Fla. – The city of Orlando says it’s trying to work with the couple whose front yard vegetable garden has sparked controversy nationwide by passing new regulations that would require changes to their garden, a move that would affect several others in College Park. In November, Local 6 first reported the story…
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YES ON 37 REFUSES TO CHALLENGE VOTE FRAUD!
from nomorefakenews.com: Lying down on the road in front of a truck isn’t the best way to end a political campaign, but that’s what the YES ON 37 forces are doing. In an email sent out on Nov. 9, the PR people for 37 wrote: “They [the leaders of YES ON 37] assume these [millions…
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David vs. Monsanto: How a Lone Farmer Prevailed
It all began in 1998, at which time Schmeiser had grown canola on his farm for 40 years.
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Arranging a US Famine
from foodfreedomgroup.com: At a time when the US government talks of food shortages yet is doing nothing to ensure food for its people but is doing numbers of things that seriously increase the threat and leave people more helpless, it is relevant to look at again at the famine in Ireland in the 19th century,…
