A U. S. District federal judge has revoked a previous government ruling in favor of genetically altered sugar beets until regulators thoroughly review the effects of GM crops on other foods. Judge Jeffrey S. White ruled that sugar beet growers cannot use the GM seeds from over 1 million acres of biotechnology beets that have been planted across the western half of the United States this year. These scientific seeds make up over 95% of the current sugar beet crop. The judges ruling will greatly disrupt sugar production as over 50% of sugar manufactured in this country come from sugar beets. …read the rest of this entry »
Chicago, IL (May 22-23) – Fourth Annual Green Festival, the largest sustainability event in the world, will take place at the city’s historic Navy Pier. Don’t want to pay for the ticket? No problem, just bring your old cell phone and you’re in! …read the rest of this entry »
A few years ago a scandalous report surfaced about the FDA stopping several shipments of contaminated fish imported from hatcheries in China. There were many environmental news reports that followed, all focused on the unsafe practices in aquaculture technologies and the unfair advantage importers may have over American fisheries due to differing standards in bringing seafood to the American table.
But a lot has happened since the 2007 report. China hosted the Beijing Olympics and in order to assuage fears of tourists, they enacted new safety standards and a top down approach to monitoring and testing fish. In a perfect world this would suffice, but we do not live in a perfect world. According to Linden Ellis of Business Forum China online, where there is government control and regulation there also lies corruption …read the rest of this entry »
Is the overuse of antibiotics in animals leading to resistant strains of bacteria, called MRSA (methicillin resistant staph) in humans? Workers handling animals are routinely getting sick, and in some cases the results are life threatening. …read the rest of this entry »
A new report from the International Journal of Biological Sciences has found Monsanto’s three most popular varieties of GM corn (NK 603, MON 810, and MON 863) to cause organ damage in rats, contrary to an earlier study done by Monsanto that led to U.S. government approval of these GM seeds.
The French study completed by Joël Spiroux de Vendômois, François Roullier, Dominique Cellier, and Gilles-Eric Séralini from the universities of Rouen and Caen, was much more comprehensive and included six ‘reference’ groups, or control groups, which ate non GM corn. The test rats were fed for 90 days, and unlike the Monsanto study, were fed a much higher content of GM corn. (Monsanto’s study fed their animal subjects only 11% GM corn.) …read the rest of this entry »
Support healthy lifestyles, enhance good nutrition, and encourage Americans to make daily, sensible life-choices – that’s the mission of the Fifth Annual Chicago Health Freedom Expo (June 12-14, 2009) – a premier natural health event.
As their web site states:
It’s economics, really. The more natural health products people use, the fewer drugs they buy. The pharmaceutical industry is taking steps to slow the shift toward natural healthcare. With the support of the medical establishment, Big Pharma is striving to gain monopolistic control over the use of drugs and make them the only measure available to treat illness.
The Health Freedom Expo is a dynamic three-day event featuring the most prominent keynote speakers (Nicholas Perricone, Chef Alex Jamieson, Joseph Mercola to name a few) …read the rest of this entry »
Denver, CO (May 2-3), Chicago, IL (May 16-17) – Green Festival, the largest sustainability event in the world, will make its eighth trip through America when it visits Denver May 2 and 3 at Colorado Convention Center, and Chicago May 16 and 17, at the city’s historic Navy Pier. …read the rest of this entry »
A new report from the International Journal of Biological Sciences has found Monsanto’s three most popular varieties of GM corn (NK 603, MON 810, and MON 863) to cause organ damage in rats, contrary to an earlier study done by Monsanto that led to U.S. government approval of these GM seeds.
