Tag Archives: Plastic Bottles
Second Study Backs BPA Link to Heart Disease
The chemical bisphenol A (BPA) is used in clear plastic bottles and food-can liners, and has been linked to diabetes, heart disease, breast and prostate cancers, and reproductive abnormalities. In a second report published in PLoS ONE, researchers established yet again that people with higher levels of bisphenol A in their urine are more likely [...]
Full StoryReport: Bisphenol A found in Nearly All Canned Food
According to Consumer Reports Magazine, the chemical Bisphenol A has been found in almost all of the 19 name-brand canned foods they tested including Progresso vegetable soup, Campbell’s condensed chicken noodle soup, and Del Monte Blue Lake cut green beans– the chemical was even found in organic canned foods and canned foods labeled “BPA-free.”
Bisphenol A [...]
World’s first town to ban bottled water
When local resident’s learned a water bottling company, Norlex Holdings, planned to tap an underground reservoir in the town, truck the water up to Sydney and then send it back for sale in bottled form, the 2,000 residents of Bundanoon decided to ban bottled water from their town. They will vote by a show of [...]
Full StoryInteractive ‘Smart’ Food Coming To A Supermarket Near You
Our entire food chain has been altered beyond recognition. Thanks to genetically modified seeds, crops, toxic pesticides, and fertilizers, the produce in your local supermarket is only half as nutritious as the produce your grandmother bought.
Salmonella outbreaks are common place. Our fish are contaminated with pharmaceutical residues. With genetically engineered crops in such wide circulation, [...]
