Moratorium on GMOs in South Australia Extended Until 2019
South Australia has announced that it will extend its moratorium on all genetically modified crops until at least 2019. According to Governor Minister Leon...
FDA Begins Process of Phasing Out Antibiotics Used in Meat
Finally, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is taking a small step towards addressing today's rampant growth of antibiotic-resistant illnesses by launching a program...
Scientists Fight to Overturn Logging Bills that Threaten Yosemite National Park
A group of over 200 scientists, including biologists and ecologists, among others, have written a letter to Congress in hopes that it will overturn...
Is Chick-fil-A Moving in the Right Direction?
There is good news (sort of) from the fast food industry this week. After blogger Vani Hari (aka The Food Babe) wrote a post...
2035 Diabetes Numbers Predicted to be HUGE
According to the sixth edition of the Diabetes Atlas, released by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) this November, 10 percent of the entire world...
Dangerous Ingredients in Our Food – But Banned Elsewhere
While many of us like to think of America as fairly progressive, when it comes to some things we may be a bit behind...
Fukushima Update – Cleanup Delayed
The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) has announced that cleanup work in the towns surrounding the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, which was scheduled to...
Bayer and Syngenta File Lawsuits to Overturn European Ban on Pesticides
In response to the European Union's ban on three neonicotinoid pesticides linked to the deaths of millions of bees, chemical corporations Bayer CropScience and...
China Says No to GMO Corn
China has recently rejected a large shipment of corn imported from the United States, due to the discovery of contamination by a strain of...
Thank You
"In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that...
