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10 GMO Foods Have Entered Our Food Supply By Stealth

  • Spence Cooper
  • May 9, 2013

About 80 percent of all processed food on grocery shelves contains genetically engineered (GMO) ingredients, including GMO high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) used as a sweetener in virtually everything from cereal to ketchup. The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly against the Sanders Amendment to the Fa... Read More »

Undercover In An Industrial Slaughterhouse â” Part 2

  • Spence Cooper
  • May 7, 2013

Conover believes we have Upton Sinclair to thank for the federal meat inspection effort, adding that his book "The Jungle" frightened the nation so thoroughly in 1906 that Congress passed legislation mandating inspection the same year. Upton Sinclair's novel describes the life and violence of a fa... Read More »

Why Well-Known Personalities Are Posing Naked With Dead Fish

  • Spence Cooper
  • May 2, 2013

Fishlove, an organization against overfishing, is an ongoing photographic project that invites well-known personalities across the globe to make a bold stand to stop over-fishing. Fishlove's website features photographs of naked well-known personalities in provocative poses with dead and extinct bo... Read More »

Japanese EEL At Risk of Extinction

  • Spence Cooper
  • May 1, 2013

Although the move is not legally binding, the Japanese Ministry of the Environment recently designated the Japanese eel as a species at risk of extinction and on its red list of endangered freshwater and brackish water fish. According to the ministry, the species has declined by an alarming 90 perc... Read More »

Bill Gates Embraces Fake Meat

  • Spence Cooper
  • April 30, 2013

Bill Gates recently penned an article on Mashable in support of fake meat and even shamelessly plugged two venture capital companies he's invested in -- Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins -- suggesting their products are at least as healthy as meat and more sustainable. Gates points out that the g... Read More »

Breakfast: Nordic Food Lab Sautees Hissing Cockroach

  • Spence Cooper
  • April 24, 2013

The good people at the Nordic Food Lab in Copenhagen claim to investigate old and new raw materials and techniques, and develop knowledge and ideas for the Nordic region and the world. But we would have never dreamed slicing open a hissing cockroach, simmering, sauteing it and serving the hisser fo... Read More »

Meet The Kid Dow & Monsanto Don’t Want You to Know

  • Spence Cooper
  • April 23, 2013

When Birke Baehr was 8-years-old he read a post online over his mother's shoulder about mercury being in HFCS-high fructose corn syrup. Birke writes that when he started looking into "this thing about HFCS I just got more and more curious, and it led me to discover all of the things I talk about in... Read More »

World’s #1 Bottled Water Seller Wants to Privatize Water Supply

  • Spence Cooper
  • April 23, 2013

Doug Hornig and Alex Daley with Casey Research comment on how the World Bank's Ismail Serageldin put it so succinctly: "The wars of the 21st century will be fought over water." With that revelation in mind, the 68-year-old Nestle chair Peter Brabeck has raised some cogent issues regarding water. B... Read More »

Abattoir Alternative: Stress-Free Death

  • Spence Cooper
  • April 9, 2013

Stefanie Retz, an agricultural scientist from Kassel University, is conducting a study together with colleague Katrin Juliane Schiffer and the farmers at Bunde Wischen organic cattle farm in Schleswig, Germany. Spiegel Online's Günther Stockinger points out that in this study, instead of killing c... Read More »

Palm Oil Linked to Deforestation & Animal Extinction

  • Spence Cooper
  • April 8, 2013

Palm oil is used by manufacturers in the production of food, body products, cleaning agents, soap, and makeup. Most pre-packaged snack foods made by large corporate-giants such as Nestle contain palm oil. But Rolf Skar, a senior forest campaigner with Greenpeace, among others, claims palm oil is on... Read More »

Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Refuse to Sell GE Fish

  • Spence Cooper
  • April 2, 2013

A Friends of The Earth News release announced that several major grocery retailers representing more than 2,000 stores across the United States have committed not to sell genetically engineered seafood if it is allowed onto the market. The FDA is conducting its final review of a genetically enginee... Read More »

Despite Strong Opposition, Obama Signs Monsanto Protection Act

  • Spence Cooper
  • March 28, 2013

Despite strong opposition from consumer groups, President Barack Obama has signed H.R. 933 into law, which contained the Monsanto Protection Act. Food Democracy Now collected signatures from more than 250,000 Americans urging Obama to veto the bill, and points out that with the passage of the Monsa... Read More »

Why Is Big Food Suddenly Begging For GMO Labeling?

  • Spence Cooper
  • March 15, 2013

As a result of savvy marketing, Whole Foods Market has successfully achieved brand recognition as a health food store without really even being one. Sure, Whole Foods sells some organic food, but they also have been known to sell unregulated Argentinean asparagus, wintertime air-freighted mangoes, ... Read More »

Big Food Lobbies To Criminalize Whistleblowers

  • Spence Cooper
  • February 28, 2013

In a recent article by Washington, DC based journalist Will Potter, author of Green Is the New Red, which documents corporate attempts to silence activists, Potter discusses how Big Ag lobbyists are pushing for new state-level laws to prevent consumers from learning how food is produced. These AG-g... Read More »

Wal-Mart Pork Supplier Continues Use of Small Gestation Crates

  • Spence Cooper
  • February 26, 2013

Seaboard Foods, the No. 3 U.S. pork producer based in Kansas, and supplier to Walmart, was forced to drop its claim of using "The most humane practices throughout the animal's life" The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission mainly because of ... Read More »

USDA Threatens to Layoff All Meat Inspectors

  • Spence Cooper
  • February 25, 2013

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack has threatened to furlough all U.S. meat inspectors for two weeks because of automatic spending cuts scheduled for March 1. The federal agency has said it would give at least 30 days' notice to employees. And according to the USDA, if the budget cuts take effect, up to on... Read More »

New Farm Bill Gives Monsanto Immunity to Courts

  • Spence Cooper
  • January 25, 2013

Food Democracy Now has urged its members to stop what they're calling the Monsanto Protection Act. The grassroots organization claims the provision to the House Agricultural Appropriations Bill "fundamentally undermines the concept of judicial review and would strip judges of their constitutional m... Read More »

Flame Retardant in Soup Bowls Can Enter Body Via Hot Food

  • Spence Cooper
  • January 24, 2013

Melamine is a flame-retardant used to make adhesives, industrial coatings, plates, cooking utensils, and other plastic products. When melamine is mixed with resins it has fire retardant properties due to its release of nitrogen gas when burned or charred. Melamine has been used in China for years a... Read More »

FDA Tacitly Approves GM Salmon Over Holidays

  • Spence Cooper
  • January 24, 2013

The FDA has cleared the way for the first approval of a genetically engineered animal for human consumption, claiming genetically engineered salmon that grows twice as fast as normal is not a threat to the environment. Opponents argue the GM salmon will be the start of concerted efforts to create o... Read More »

Modern Wheat is Nothing Like Wheat Your Grandmother Ate

  • Spence Cooper
  • January 15, 2013

Author and preventive cardiologist William Davis, MD, makes the astounding claim that the modern form of wheat is a sham, and isn't real wheat at all. "The wheat products sold to you today are nothing like the wheat products of our grandmother's age, very different from the wheat of the early 20th ... Read More »

Coffee Brewers Secretly Swap Robusta For Arabica Beans

  • Spence Cooper
  • January 10, 2013

In addition to a price increase and reduction in packaging size, some months ago I noticed the brand of Colombian coffee we usually buy lacked that distinctive aroma only Colombian coffee beans have when the can is opened. And the usual rich, full coffee flavor seemed flat, and even slightly bitter... Read More »

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