Tag: food safety
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Is America’s Food Safety System at Risk for a Terrorist Attack?
According to the Government Accountability Office, the United States’ food supply isn’t prepared for a major disaster.
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#BingeAndPurge: Do You Want Lies With That?
Fukushima reactor No. 4 vulnerable to catastrophic collapse // Amish farm kids remarkably immune to allergies: study // How Researchers Came Up With Nutrition Requirements // Chemist declares fluoride to be ‘one of the greatest public health threats of modern times’ // Charges against Rick Simpson withdrawn // Arizona bans funding to Planned Parenthood in…
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Loblaws to remove artificial colours and flavours
from theglobeandmail.com: Loblaws, Canada’s largest grocer, is banishing artificial colours and flavours from its signature President’s Choice line of products… Although it’s a challenging task, particularly when it comes to candy and other vibrantly-coloured confectionery items, the decision was sparked in response to growing demand for natural products, according to Ian Gordon, senior vice-president of…
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How Vegetable Oils Replaced Animal Fats in the American Diet
from theatlantic.com: Reprinted from The Happiness Diet: The by-products of pork production meant that the burgeoning metropolis [Cincinnati] was also home to many tanneries, boot makers, and upholsters. Animal fats were hot commodities, as they were rendered and molded into soap and candles. Breaking down pigs was a highly efficient process known as the disassembly…
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The Enviro Reporter on Fukushima Radiation Dangers, Including Radioactive Nori
from enviroreporter.com: Media coverage of Fukushima Daiichi’s multiple meltdowns contamination of the Pacific Ocean and America’s air, water, soil, food and drink took a giant leap when NBC G4-TV’s Attack of the Show! had this reporter on to discuss the gravest single environmental threat facing the world… Enviroreporter.com’s detection of high radiation from sea mist…
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Food Stamp Rolls Increase 70% from 2007, Projected to Keep Increasing Until 2014
from cryptogon.com: The Congressional Budget Office said Thursday that 45 million people in 2011 received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, a 70% increase from 2007. It said the number of people receiving the benefits, commonly known as food stamps, would continue growing until 2014. Spending for the program, not including administrative costs, rose to $72…
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World’s cheapest food in USA; At what cost?
from foodfreedomgroup.com: In 2010, Americans spent just over 9 percent of their disposable income on food (5.5 percent at home and 3.9 percent eating out). This is a dramatically lower percentage [than that] spent just decades ago in the early 1960s, when over 17 percent was spent on food, and even more of a “bargain”…
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Call to action – Join the demand to investigate Michigan DNR director over forced shooting of baby piglets in cold blood
from naturalnews.com: There is nothing more pathetic, ugly and insidious than a tyrannical government thug who uses his power to destroy the lives of law-abiding citizens. Today, we have witnessed the outrageous acts carried out by jack-booted scumbags in Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) who masterminded armed raids on two ranches in that state,…
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Proposed ‘Natural Health Products Bill’ in New Zealand would fine individuals $50,000 for making a cup of unapproved herbal tea
The health freedom of New Zealanders is under very serious threat, as the federal government there pushes to pass a bill known as the Natural Health Products Bill (NHPB), or Bill 324-1, that will bring the nation into compliance with the overbearing and authoritarian food and health restrictions found in Codex Alimentarius, the so-called world…
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Debate Heats Up Over Poultry Inspection Proposal
from foodsafetynews.com: Critics say privatization puts consumers at risk; FSIS says modernization will prevent illnesses, save tax dollars. If you listen to both critics and proponents of a new U.S. Department of Agriculture proposal to expand a pilot poultry inspection program, you might wonder if they’re talking about the same thing. In January, the USDA’s…
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Study: EPA-approved GMO insecticide responsible for killing off bees, contaminating entire food chain
from naturalnews.com: Early last year, leaked documents obtained by a Colorado beekeeper exposed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) illegitimate approval of clothianidin, a highly-toxic pesticide manufactured by Bayer CropScience that the regulatory agency knew was capable of killing off bees . Now, a new study out of Purdue University in Indiana has not only…
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GE ‘EnviroPig’ Project Stops Research
This week, the University of Guelph, the Canadian university that developed the genetically engineered (GE) “Enviropig,” announced it is closing down its research. The Center for Food Safety (CFS) is now calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to stop any work on approving the GE pig.
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Huge Rooftop Farm Is Set for Brooklyn
Brooklyn is fast becoming the borough of farms. On Thursday, Bright Farms, a private company that develops greenhouses, announced plans to create a sprawling greenhouse on a roof in Sunset Park that is expected to yield a million pounds of produce a year — without using any dirt.
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Monsanto Threatens to Sue Vermont if Legislators Pass a Bill Requiring GMO Food to Be Labeled
The world’s most hated corporation is at it again, this time in Vermont. Despite overwhelming public support and support from a clear majority of Vermont’s Agriculture Committee, Vermont legislators are dragging their feet on a proposed GMO labeling bill.
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A Populace Pink Slimed
A trio of governors and a duo of lieutenant governors last week dined on pink slime burgers and pronounced them mouth-wateringly-delicious-and-nutritious as TV cameras rolled on their barbecue in a Nebraska factory that manufactures the stuff.