Hazards, Issues & Diseases
Coca-Cola and its products are becoming boycotted garbage due to the growing public awareness concerning companies who are supporting the defeat of GMO labeling. Now, you can tell this mega-corporation that while the $3.2 million spent to help defeat Proposition 37 in California and I-522 in Washington may have worked before, the organization is about to lose millions more in public product support. We have a right to know what is in our food, and nothing will stop the grassroots efforts to rid the world of GMO for good.
Victory! The EPA was urged by public health advocates, environmental groups, and organic farmers alike to deny an ’emergency’ request to use propazine on superweeds invading 3 million crops of GM cotton in Texas.
In the wake of the CDC anthrax release, the agency head has issued a report that admits to sloppy work ethics at the biolab
Big wins can happen in small places. The West Virginia State Supreme Court finalized a big blow to the biotech giant Monsanto this month, finishing a settlement causing Monsanto to pay $93 million to the tiny town of Nitro, West Virginia for poisoning citizens with Agent Orange chemicals.
When someone is diagnosed with stomach cancer at the age of 70, the prognosis is usually bleak. For now-74 Danny of Donegal, Ireland, doctors said he only had weeks to live. But against their recommendations, he decided to go with a natural treatment method to rid his body of cancer and continue forward in the game of life. Wheatgrass is what helped him keep living to this day.
Most farmers in El Salvador prefer to source their seeds locally, and aren’t interested in Monsanto’s GM seed. Farmers have successfully used indigenous seed, and have never needed to rely on biotech for a viable seed source. Indigenous seeds make sense not only economically, but environmentally, as well.
Retired California dentist Stan Rutner was diagnosed with lung cancer which had metastasized into his brain. After a round of unsuccessful chemo treatments, his condition worsened with pneumonia from radiation inflammation and he was hospitalized. Stan’s doctors told him he would be gone in a few weeks. Stan’s daughter Corinne recommended cannabis to treat Stan’s condition – or at least help…
Heavy metal toxicity has become all too common a condition in today’s polluted environment. How can one reduce and eliminate heavy metals from the body safely?
When it comes to cancer treatments and research, scientists are typically looking for solutions at a molecular level. But, a new study suggests investigating cancer cell metabolism could be even more effective. Specifically, this study demonstrated how green tea compounds work to fight cancer by interrupting the cancer cells’ ability to grow and flourish.
Human trials for the GMO banana have begun in Iowa. Volunteers are offering up their blood samples after eating bits of banana tinged with orange, receiving $900 for their subjection to the latest biotech concoction. This is the first human trial in the US on a genetically engineered banana that has been altered to contain higher levels of beta carotene, which our bodies then convert to Vitamin A. This is the second food that biotech has tried to engineer to boost Vitamin A levels, since they are low in developing countries, and the cause of serious disease of malnutrition.
Civil society groups today expressed alarm at an increase in dengue fever incidence, leading to an emergency decree, in a town in Brazil where releases of genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes have been taking place. The promise was to create genetically modified mosquitoes that would end dengue, but instead there has been an increase.
Essiac tea has been used by thousands to help eradicate cancer, but it’s also been useful for treatment of AIDS, leukemia and thyroid disease. The original, high quality four-herb formula is important.
A recent decision by the Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream to phase out all GMOs and only source fair trade ingredients means many of their flavors will be changing, but where food transparency and integrity are concerned, these changes will be all positive.
In an appalling attempt to patent yet another seed, Monsanto has resorted to fraud to try to gain rights to a tomato which contains a naturally occurring resistance to a fungal disease called botrytis. The tomato is not genetically modified, but Monsanto manipulated documents to make the plant look ‘invented’ by biotech when the plant’s true maker is Mother Nature, herself.
A new report suggests that families near agricultural fields being sprayed get their children out of town. The study also found that pregnant women after the first trimester had an increased risk of their infant becoming autistic with the exposure closer to the due date being the most harmful to the fetus.
