Scientists reveal negative impact of Roundup Ready GM crops

(NaturalNews) Five studies published in the October 2009 issue of The European Journal of Agronomy reveal the negative impacts of using Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, a formula developed specifically for the company’s line of genetically modified (GM) “Roundup Ready” crops. The papers, which were not released in the United States, offer a solid indictment against GM crops and the plight of using the Roundup herbicide. Robert Kremer, a microbiologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service, co-authored one of the five papers and offered insight into their premise during an interview with The Organic and Non-GMO Report, a monthly newsletter that offers recourse in addressing the challenges of fighting GM foods. Kremer and his colleagues began studying the effects of Roundup on soil back in 1997. They found that the herbicide was causing an increase in parasitic colonization at the roots of Roundup Ready soybeans and corn. They also observed an increase in …

Communist Chinese Government Pushes For More GM Crops

People’s Daily Online | Campaign groups and agriculture experts issued fresh warnings Tuesday about genetically modified (GM) foods.

Communist Chinese Government Pushes For More GM Crops

People’s Daily Online | Campaign groups and agriculture experts issued fresh warnings Tuesday about genetically modified (GM) foods.

Update on the War on Raw Milk

February 15, 2010 Grist By David Gumpert When the current phase of a nearly century-long government campaign to convince American consumers to abandon raw milk launched in 2006, heavy-handed intimidation tactics were the order of the day. Kentucky farmer Gary Oakes was questioned so intensively by agents from the Ohio Department of Agriculture and U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Don’t forget to eat blueberries: Scientists find they help memory

(NaturalNews) Although several studies involving laboratory animals have provided tantalizing clues that eating blueberries improves memory, could the delicious fruit actually help people retain their mental sharpness as they age? The good new appears to be “yes”. In fact, blueberries might even boost brain power. For the very first time, a study has found evidence that blueberry juice improves memory in humans. For the research project, a team of scientists from the University of Cincinnati, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Canadian Department of Agriculture worked with a group of volunteers in their 70s who suffered from early memory decline. Half the group drank the equivalent of two to two and 1/2 cups of blueberry juice every day for two months. As a control, a second group drank a different beverage that did not contain any blueberry juice. After about eight weeks, the scientists conducted learning and memory tests to see if the research participants’ cognitive abilities had undergone any measurable changes. The results, …

Petroleum-Based Plastics Being Replaced by Plant-Based Plastics

February 1, 2010 Natural News By E. Huff As the price for crude oil continues to rise over time, the cost of producing petroleum-based plastic products continues to rise with it. Alternatives such as bio-plastics, which currently cost more to produce than existing plastics, may someday become more cost effective than petroleum-based plastics. Frederic Scheer, owner of a company

Genetically Modified Wheat Now Invading Your Life

January 25, 2010 Natural News By E. Huff Monsanto, the multinational agriculture giant most known for its propagation of genetically-modified (GM) crops, has decided to resurrect its pursuit of GM wheat. Abandoned in 2004 due to opposition from American growers, merchants, and consumers, Monsanto’s GM wheat program is making a comeback. Apparently many American wheat growers have since changed

Food Reform Changes Suggested

January 15, 2010 Natural News By David Gutierrez Health care reform in the United States is impossible without tackling the country’s obesity epidemic, author and food activist Michael Pollan has warned. “Even the most efficient health care system that the administration could hope to devise would still confront a rising tide of chronic disease linked to diet,” Pollan wrote

Billions in Recent Yememi Investments and The Underwear Bomber’s Daddy

Scott Creighton American Everyman January 4, 2010 Did Daddy Warbucks sell Little Orphan Umar to the CIA? Why are we attacking the people of Yemen?  Because some kid is alleged to have sewn a big fire-cracker into his underwear then sat on it in a plane over Detroit?  Nope.  Not even close. If you want to know what this is all about, follow Daddy’s money all the way to the IMF and  Jaiz Bank . Correct me if I am wrong, but didn’t brave soldiers used to throw themselves on grenades back in the day to absorb the shock and therefore save their fellow soldiers. Isn’t there a saying about “throwing yourself on a grenade” to that end?  So the big “terrorist” plot here is to get a small amount of PETN onboard a plane and  then SIT ON IT , thus absorbing the relatively small explosion… with his ass and his 150lb body? That’s the “plan” that requires, as …

2010 Food Crisis Means Financial Armageddon

Eric deCarbonnel Market Skeptics Friday, December 18, 2009 If you read any economic, financial, or political analysis for 2010 that doesn’t mention the food shortage looming next year, throw it in the trash, as it is worthless. There is overwhelming, undeniable evidence that the world will run out of food next year. When this happens, the resulting triple digit food inflation will lead panicking central banks around the world to dump their foreign reserves to appreciate their currencies and lower the cost of food imports, causing the collapse of the dollar, the treasury market, derivative markets, and the global financial system. The US will experience economic disintegration. The 2010 Food Crisis Means Financial Armageddon Over the last two years, the world has experience faced a series of unprecedented financial crisis: the collapse of the housing market, the freezing of the credit markets, the failure of Wall Street brokerage firms (Bear Stearns/Lehman Brothers), the failure of…

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