Tag: organics
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4/29 Binge & Purge: Feeding The Fast Food Nation
SCOTUS hears arguments over genetically modified seed sales // Tests find HIV-like virus in bushmeat // Life insurance companies own $2B of stock in fast food chains
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organic farming has sold out & lost its way
from julian rose: The dreams of the early organic pioneers have been subsumed into a rush for global supply chains, strict regulations and fast-selling brands. Back in 1975, when I first started converting my farm to organic agriculture, there were no standards for production and no rule book. Just a few people committed to weaning…
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Inspector General Report Finds Lax USDA Organic Oversight
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) oversight of organic food has been lax since the agency’s organic program was launched in 2002, according to a recent Inspector General report.
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on 81st birthday, oregon man gives company to employees
from seattle times: Scores of employees gathered to help Bob Moore celebrate his 81st birthday this week at the company that bears his name, Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods. Moore, whose mutual love of healthful eating and old-world technologies spawned an internationally distributed line of products, responded with a gift of his own — the…
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2/11 binge & purge: codex, cocktails & cola cancer
video: how organic is organic? codex alimentarius cohorts wage war against food* (more on codex alimentarius here & here) pharma says: stop selling unlicensed natural health remedies* food stamps at record 32.8m* china recalls 170 tons of melamine milk* flashback: another melamine-tainted milk scandal in china* nyc cracks down on eggs in cocktails* soft drinks…
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11/12 binge & purge: coke, milk, maize & limp
US acad. of family physicians lets coke sponsor health advice* kellogg’s claims cocoa crispies can boost your child’s immunity* kraft turns hostile in $16b bid for cadbury* flashback: kraft attempts buyout of cadbury for $16.7b* dean foods pulls bait-and-switch on ‘organic’ silk soymilk* join the organicconsumers.org’s national boycott of ‘organic cheater’ brands* monsanto pulls high…
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10/22 binge & purge: sweet scams, recalls, gates & vilsack
high-fructose corn syrup produces toxic chemical ‘hmf’ when heated … but meanwhile, junk food industry front groups fight back* organic baby food recall: plum organics apple & carrot* north korea food shortage ‘desperate’* ethiopia faces large food shortfall* un says more investment in agriculture needed to tackle world hunger* bill gates: gm foods conflict threatens…
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Secret Service Locks Down DC So Michelle Can Shop Organic
Let’s say you’re preparing dinner and you realize with dismay that you don’t have any certified organic Tuscan kale. What to do? Here’s how Michelle Obama handled this very predicament Thursday afternoon: The Secret Service and the D.C. police brought in three dozen vehicles and shut down H Street, Vermont Avenue, two lanes of I…
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pure food obsession is latest eating disorder
from guardian: Eating disorder charities are reporting a rise in the number of people suffering from a serious psychological condition characterised by an obsession with healthy eating. The condition, orthorexia nervosa, affects equal numbers of men and women, but sufferers tend to be aged over 30, middle-class and well-educated. The condition was named by a…
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top 6 ways to identify & avoid gmo foods
from food freedom: Recent polls across the world have consistently shown that, if they had a choice, 90% of people would actively seek to avoid GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in their food. Unfortunately, GMOs are taking over our farmland so quickly, it is virtually impossible to avoid eating GM foods… unless you know what to…
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obama’s “organic” garden ruined by “sewage sludge for fertilizer”
from buzzlog: New homes are full of questions and possibilities. What color to paint the walls? How to arrange the furniture? What to plant in the garden? The Obama family must have asked a lot of those same questions when they moved into the White House. However, the first lady’s dreams of growing an organic…