In Fall 2010, the University of Central Florida Administration requested the conservation easement status be lifted from the eight acres of UCF’s main campus known as the Arboretum. This tract of land has served as a teaching tool for students since 1968. In 2002, St John’s Water Management District issued that the tract of land [...]
“If we live in an environment that’s wounded — where the water is polluted, the air is filled with soot and fumes, the food is contaminated with heavy metals and plastic residues, or the soil is practically dust — it hurts us, chipping away at our health and creating injuries at a physical, psychological and spiritual level,”
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LONDON, Aug. 18, 2010 (Reuters) — Mind-altering drugs like LSD, ketamine or magic mushrooms could be combined with psychotherapy to treat people suffering from depression, compulsive disorders or chronic pain, Swiss scientists suggested on Wednesday.
ScienceDaily (July 14, 2010) — Black tea, a Southern staple and the world’s most consumed beverage, may contain higher concentrations of fluoride than previously thought, which could pose problems for the heaviest tea drinkers, Medical College of Georgia researchers say.
Dangers of Sugar Death by sugar may not be an overstatement—evidence is mounting that sugar is THE MAJOR FACTOR causing obesity and chronic disease.
Dietary Supplements, Clean Foods Next Victims of Fake “Safety” Bills McCain’s “Dietary Supplement Safety” Bill Joins Fake “Food Safety” S510 Farmers, Food and Your Freedom Under Attack… 02/04/10 – UPDATE: while the fake “Food Safety” Bill S510 remains stalled in the Senate, after our November Blitz sent more than 150,000 emails to the Senate over [...]
Its next target: a new product that could eliminate all organic alfalfa, a key food for raising organic-fed cows and pigs without any genetic engineering. The USDA is well on its way to approving Monsanto’s genetically modified alfalfa. In its own report, the USDA says that not enough consumers care enough about organic foods for [...]
The U.S. government is encouraging farmers to spread a chalky waste from coal-fired power plants on their fields to loosen and fertilize soil. The material is produced by power plant “scrubbers” that remove acid-rain-causing sulfur dioxide from plant emissions. The substance is a synthetic form of the mineral gypsum, and it also contains mercury, arsenic, [...]
Stop GMO Contamination of Organic! Don’t Let Obama’s USDA Approve Monsanto’s RoundUp Ready Alfalfa! Take Action Now! Submit comments yourself or click “GO!” to personalize Organic Consumers Association’s template letter. Don’t believe Monsanto’s greenwashing. Genetically modified organisms (GMOs), aren’t meant to feed the world or be resiliant when there are droughts and floods — they’re [...]
3-Year Project To Verify Effectiveness Of High Tunnels In Natural Resource Conservation WASHINGTON, Dec. 16, 2009 – Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan today announced a new pilot project under the ‘Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food’ initiative for farmers to establish high tunnels – also known as hoop houses – to increase the availability of [...]
