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Fruit Trees In Public Space

Mulberry Bush

Tasty, and Subversive, Too Thanks to New York Times Michal Czerwonka for The New York Times Austin Young, one of three artists who make up Fallen Fruit, tending to young trees at the Del Aire park. The project was started by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN Published: May 11, 2013 DEL [...]

Chemical Lawns

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Posted in the Everett Herald on May 7, 2013 Putting in more effort is worth it A pesticide-free park or yard does take more work, but, it can be done, and you will like the results. (Sunday article, “Pesticide-free is not so easy.”) The easy way to kill dandelions is to chop them up in [...]

Milk Losing Popularity

What to Serve The Goddess

PRETTY MUCH THE ONLY GOOD THING YOU CAN SAY ABOUT COW MILK – IS THAT IT IS FLUORIDE FREE Just like mother’s milk, cow milk is almost completely fluoride free. Even if the cow drinks fluoridated water, the milk is still almost completely fluoride free. The cow accomplishes this by producing less milk, by sacrificing [...]

Vegetarian School in NY

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NYC elementary school adopts all-vegetarian menu Associated Press  Thanks to Wall Street Journal NEW YORK — A city public school is one of the first in the nation to adopt an all-vegetarian menu, school officials said Tuesday. Public School 244, in the Flushing section of Queens, has been serving tofu wraps and vegetarian chili since [...]

Power The World With Renewables – Scientific American

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Permanent Address: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-path-to-sustainable-energy-by-2030 See Inside A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet with Renewables Click here to read the full article at Scientific American Wind, water and solar technologies can provide 100 percent of the world’s energy, eliminating all fossil fuels. Here’s how By Mark Z. Jacobson and Mark A. Delucchi  | Monday, October 26, 2009 | 180 Image: John Lee Aurora [...]

Flu Vaccine Kills Girl

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Despite Doctor’s Order, School Bans Girl for Not Getting Chickenpox Vaccine Thanks to Dr. Mercola. Visit the Mercola Video Library By Dr. Mercola A story that should serve as a wakeup call to all American parents is currently making headline news: A Staten Island kindergartner has been barred from attending school because she hasn’t been [...]

Fluoride and Uterine Cancer

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The relationship between fluoride level and uterine cancer mortality rate appears to be considerably stronger even after controlling for the effects of other confounding factors. See: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jea1991/6/4/6_4_184/_pdf

Bad Food Inflames

What to Serve The Goddess

Thanks to Mother Jones Are Happy Gut Bacteria Key to Weight Loss? Imbalances in the microbial community in your intestines may lead to metabolic syndrome, obesity, and diabetes. What does science say about how to reset our bodies? By Moises Velasquez-Manoff | Mon Apr. 22, 2013 3:00 AM PDT A few years before Super Size Me hit theaters in 2004, Dr. [...]

Factory Farm Filth

A River Of Waste: The Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms By Dr. Mercola There’s a good chance you’ve never personally seen a factory farm or CAFO (concentrated animal feeding operations) — and there’s a reason for this. CAFOs are traditionally hidden from public view. Certain states (like Iowa, where big agriculture rules the roost economically [...]

Hepatitis B Vaccination of Infants – Mercola

Teens Susceptible to Hepatitis B Infection Despite Vaccination as Infants March 26, 2013  Thanks to www.Mercola.com By Dr. Mercola By the time your newborn is 12 hours old, federal health officials recommend administering the first dose of hepatitis B vaccine. TWELVE HOURS! If you want to avoid it you must make it VERY clear to all [...]

Bill Gates Puts In A Plug For Semi-Vegetarianism

Bill Gates: Food Is Ripe for Innovation Thanks to Mashable Bill Gates is the co-founder and Chairman of Microsoft and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He also posts updated information and videos about the future of food on Gates Notes. The global population is on track to reach 9 billion by 2050. What [...]

Paleo Diet – Half True, Half False

AlterNet / By Jill Richardson  COMMENTS  Thanks to Alternet. Is the Popular ‘Paleo Diet’ a Bunch of Baloney? The Paleo diet might be more successful in generating profit for its proponents than producing health for its followers. Photo Credit: Robyn Mackenzie/ Shutterstock.com March 22, 2013  | A decade ago, we went crazy for Atkins. Now, a new grain-free, low-carb diet [...]

Is Your Medicine Vegan? Probably Not

Is Your Medicine Vegan? Probably Not by ELIZA BARCLAY  Thanks to NPR March 15, 2013 6:42 PM Enlarge image Heparin is an anticoagulant and the prescription version is made from pig, raising concerns for vegans. Rob Kim/Landov Go looking for animal products, and apparently you will find them everywhere. That’s the takeaway from the book Veganissimo A to [...]

Begging

Why People React Differently to Panhandlers (Hard Times USA) Passersby explain why they respond the way they do to people asking for help.  Thanks to Alternet. Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com/Pojoslaw February 11, 2013  | “I live my life under the Golden Rule,” Bob told me, after I asked her why she gave a dollar to a man [...]

Flu Vaccine – Ineffective and Harmful

Vaccine Propaganda Heats Up—The Latest Scandals You Need to Be Aware of February 12, 2013  Thanks to Mercola.com by Dr. Mercola A wide range of vaccine stories have been featured in the news over the past few weeks – many, no doubt, published to propagandize the updated 2013 vaccination schedules for children and adults1, 2, [...]

What’s In Flu Vaccine?

Vaccine Ingredients: http://www.healthscents4u.com/Pages/FluVaccineIngredients.aspx   Flu Vaccine Ingredients Information from www.novaccine.com Afluria flu (influenza) vaccine Manufacturer CSL Biotherapies Microorganism influenza virus Licensed 09/28/2007 Recommendations One intramuscular injection Ingredients Beta-propiolactone, Neomycin, Polymyxin B, Sucrose, Thimerosal, Mercury, Sodium phosphate-monobasic, Chick embryo cells, Potassium chloride, Neomycin sulphate, Calcium chloride, Sodium deoxycholate, Sodium phosphate- dibasic anhydrous, Potassium phosphate- monobasic. Product [...]

Christianity Before Paul

Hoffmann on “The Historically Inconvenient Jesus” Thanks to James Tabor’s Blog. It is hard to imagine Christianity surviving and spreading on the basis of Jesus’ teaching alone. That’s why Paul boasts that everything hinges on the resurrection of Jesus. I wrote a generation ago that “It was Jesus’ death, not his life, that saved him [...]

Sufism

Sufism: The Spritual Path To Preach Love, Coexistence And Peace‏ By: Said Temsamani Thanks to Eurasia Review   December 31, 2012 Morocco owes its image of a modern Muslim nation to Sufism, a spiritual and tolerant Islamic tradition that goes back to the first generations of Muslims who, for centuries, has supported religious cohesion, social [...]

Turkey’s Stonehenge

The Göbekli Tepe Ruins and the Origins of Neolithic Religion Is Turkey’s “Stonehenge” evidence of the oldest religion in the world? Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  12/26/2012  Thanks to Bible History Daily The massive stone enclosures of the Gobekli Tepe ruins (known to many as Turkey’s “Stonehenge”) may be the earliest examples of Neolithic [...]

The Cult of Christian Hunting and America’s Gun Problem

The Cult of Christian Hunting and America’s Gun Problem Derek Beres on December 18, 2012, 3:29 PM Thanks to Big Think On average, Americans slaughter 10 billion animals a year for consumption. The idea that hunting is a necessary component of our food supply is simply a myth. Yet how do we convince a culture, [...]

Was Jesus Born On Christmas?

How December 25 Became Christmas Andrew McGowan   •  12/07/2012  Thanks to Biblical Archaeology A blanket of snow covers the little town of Bethlehem, in Pieter Bruegel’s oil painting from 1566. Although Jesus’ birth is celebrated every year on December 25, Luke and the other gospel writers offer no hint about the specific time of [...]

Conservatives and Creationism

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Dinosaurs and Denial Charles M. Blow Thanks to The New York Times Last month, when GQ asked Rubio “how old do you think the Earth is?” he stammered through an answer. “I’m not a scientist, man. I can tell you what recorded history says. I can tell you what the Bible says, but I think [...]

Adverse Events from Gardasil

HPV Vaccine Adverse Events Reported to VAERS as of October 14, 2012 November 18, 2012 By Leslie Carol Botha 12 Comments Thanks to Holy Hormones Journal HPV4 Gardasil & HPV 2 Cervarix – Adverse Reactions and Deaths as reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System Janny Stokvis, HPV Vaccine VAERS  researcher and analyst has [...]

Europe Urges Ban on Mercury Amalgam

European Environmental Bureau Urges EU States to Ban Amalgam Fillings Thanks to Dr. Mercola. By Dr. Mercola In a letter to European Union (EU) member state representatives and dental experts, the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) asked recipients to support a phase-out of the use of mercury in dentistry, both in the EU and around the [...]

Calcium in Vegetables

Calcium in Vegetables Submitted by dasha on November 29, 2012 Thanks to HealthFreedoms.org You may be surprised to learn that there is enough calcium in vegetables to supply all of your daily calcium requirements. The advertising industry has led us all to believe that cow’s milk is the best primary source of this vital element. [...]

Beets, Turnips, Radishes, Col Arabi – They Beat the Winter

November 27, 2012 Cold-Proof Your Salad By MARK BITTMAN   Thanks to the New York Times. WITH all due respect to tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants and all the other vegetables we’ve enjoyed for the last few months, the champions of the moment are beets, turnips and radishes. For gardeners and farmers in all but the coldest climates, [...]

Depleted Uranium Weapons – A Great Tragedy

The Toxic Legacy of Depleted Uranium Weapons 11-26-2012 EcoWatch By Paul E McGinniss We all should be aware of the dangers posed by the world’s stockpile of nuclear weapons. The eight countries known to possess nuclear weapons have 10,000 plus nuclear warheads. And, especially post-Fukushima, we now understand firsthand the potential danger of nuclear power [...]

Mercury, Formaldehyde, MSG in Vaccines

The shocking truth about what’s really in vaccines: Mercury, MSG, Formaldehyde, Aluminum (NaturalNews) Did you know the CDC openly admits that all the following chemicals are intentionally added to vaccines? Formaldehyde, aluminum, MSG (monosodium glutamate) and mercury. Each of these toxic substances is well known to cause neurological damage, and the amounts added to vaccines [...]

British Dental Society Stubbornly Defends Mercury Amalgam Fillings

By Dr. Mercola A preliminary vote endorsing the continued use of dental amalgam has put the spotlight on the American Public Health Association (APHA), since it has long recognized the harm to the environment and public health of mercury releases. The importance of APHA getting it right on the issue of dental mercury cannot be [...]

Monsanto Buys Colleges

October 30, 2012 The chemical and fertilizer companies make large donations to medical and dental schools, thus getting their friends in influential positions so that fluoridation becomes university policy. If you doubt this, consider how Monsanto buys influence favoring GMO from the University of California at Davis. See Dr. Mercola’s article on this subject.

NM Disallows Philosophical Objections to Vaccination

New Mexico Cuts Philosophical Objections from Vaccine Exemptions October 23 2012By Dr. Mercola Thanks to Dr. Mercola   The ethical principle of informed consent means that you have the human right to be fully informed about the benefits and risks of a medical intervention and be free to make a voluntary choice about whether or [...]

Alzheimers – Type 3 Diabetes? – New York Times

Is Alzheimer’s Type 3 Diabetes? By MARK BITTMAN  Thanks to the New York Times Just in case you need another reason to cut back on junk food, it now turns out that Alzheimer’s could well be a form of diet-induced diabetes. That’s the bad news. The good news is that laying off soda, doughnuts, processed [...]

Seattle’s Pollinator Pathway

Bee boulevard: An urban corridor becomes a haven for native pollinators By Claire Thompson   Thanks to www.Grist.org Photo by Abigail Joy. Sarah Bergmann does not see herself as a political artist. Promoting social causes, raising awareness — that stuff doesn’t appeal to her. But she likes asking questions. Doing so, she says, “allows me to [...]

Arsenic in Your Rice

There’s arsenic in your rice — and here’s how it got there By Twilight Greenaway  Thanks to www.Grist.org Photo by Shutterstock.   Thanks to www.Grist.orgRice. It’s just one of the basics, right? Whether eaten on its own, or in products like pastas or cereal, this inexpensive and healthy food is a staple for Asian and Latino [...]

Flue Vaccine Increases Flue Infections

Receivers of flu vaccine more likely to catch H1N1 virus Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/037302_flu_vaccines_H1N1_infections.html#ixzz27MsdUYyq

Arsenic in Chickens and Rice

Waiter, There’s Arsenic in My Rice —By Tom Philpott  Thanks to Mother Jones | Wed Sep. 19, 2012 3:00 AM PDT 33 So simple, and yet so complicated Tamaki/Flickr As I’ve reported before, the US poultry industry has a disturbing habit of feeding arsenic to chickens. Arsenic, it turns out, helps control a common bug [...]

Vaccine Exemptions – Herd Immunity

The Latest Sneak Attacks in a Coordinated Effort to Eliminate Vaccine Exemptions September 18 2012 By Dr. Mercola The featured article in the latest newsletter from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) gets straight to the point with its headline:1 Back to School – Is the Child Sitting Next to Yours Immunized? The article goes on [...]

Starch or No Starch?

GMO Production Low

  Failure to Yield Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops Download: Failure to Yield (2009) | Oxfam Statement on “Failure to Yield” | Failure to Yield summary/issue briefing For years the biotechnology industry has trumpeted that it will feed the world, promising that its genetically engineered crops will produce higher yields. That promise has [...]

Adverse effects of immunization – admitted

Postgrad Med. 1987 Oct;82(5):225-9, 232. Adverse effects of immunization. Is prevention possible? Zimmerman B, Gold R, Lavi S. Source Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Abstract Vaccination rates must be kept high to prevent epidemics of infectious disease. At the same time, parents must be informed of the rare possibility of [...]

Vaccine Injuries – Doctors Immune From Liability – Now Do Not Warn

Find a Compassionate Doctor to Help You Prevent Vaccine Injuries September 11 2012 Thanks to Dr. Mercola Click here to see video Vaccination: It’s your health, your family, your choice. Visit the Mercola Video Library By Barbara Loe Fisher Ever since the first vaccines – smallpox and rabies vaccines – one of the most serious [...]

GMO – Genetic Roulette

How Can the Wealthiest Industrialized Nation be the Sickest? Thanks to Mercola.com By Dr. Mercola The human race is the unwitting participant in a massive science experiment, as presented in this masterful new documentary by Jeffrey Smith. Smith is one of the world’s leading authorities on the health dangers of genetically engineered (GE) foods. The [...]

Reduce Health Care Costs By Changing Diet

A Radical Alternative for Democrats and Republicans by Dean Ornish Thanks to Huffington Post This post is part of the HuffPost Shadow Conventions 2012, a series spotlighting three issues that are not being discussed at the national GOP and Democratic conventions: The Drug War, Poverty in America, and Money in Politics. Check out the Shadow [...]

Milk Myth Busted

Milk myth busted: There are far better sources of calcium for strong bones Friday, August 24, 2012 by: Madeleine Innocent Thanks to Natural News. (NaturalNews) As the truth is beginning to tumble out about diet and health care, the milk myth is deserving of a closer look. The world at large has been brainwashed into [...]

Nuclear Cover-Up Near Cleveland

Nuclear Cover-Up Threatens Great Lakes Region 08-20-2012 CounterPunch  Thanks to Eco Watch By Michael Leonardi FirstEnergy’s Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station on the shore of Lake Erie near Port Clinton. According to recent reports from the nuclear watchdog Beyond Nuclear and several Great Lakes environmental organizations, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is up to its usual [...]

Cigarettes in Australia – Plain Packages – Health Warnings

Australian court OKs logo ban on cigarette packs By By ROD McGUIRK | Associated Press – 36 mins ago REUTERS – A combination photo shows illustrations obtained by Reuters of some of the proposed models of cigarettes packs in this April 7, 2011 file photo. Australia’s highest court will rule on the world’s …more  CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — [...]

Vaccine Autism Website in England Censored

Total assault on medical free speech as British authorities threaten vaccine-autism website over its content Thanks to Natural News. Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/036801_free_speech_autism_website.html#ixzz23VCKkkCh (NaturalNews) A U.K. group devoted to helping parents customize appropriate vaccination schedules for their children has been targeted by British authorities for posting scientifically-backed warnings about the dangers of the combination measles, mumps, [...]

Old Man Santo Had A Farm

Vaccine Study

30 years of secret, official transcripts prove vaccine schedules in US and UK  are based on government lies Learn more:  http://www.naturalnews.com/036652_vaccines_government_lies.html#ixzz22Na5qGvU (NaturalNews) A comprehensive investigation into the inner workings of the  U.K.’s nationalized healthcare system has revealed a shocking legacy of  corruption and lies concerning the country’s vaccine policy. According to Dr.  Lucija Tomlijenovic, Ph.D., [...]

  Heavy metal fish: How mercury ends up on your plate By Peter Hanlon  25 Jul 2012 2:59 PM Cross-posted from Ecocentric Thanks to Grist Image courtesy of Shutterstock. Look at any seafood guide and you’re bound to come across the occasional red flag with an ominous warning: “High in Mercury.” Scary enough, but what exactly does [...]

Vaccine Adverse Reactions

Access VAERSBefore searching the data, please read the U.S. Government disclaimer http://www.medalerts.org/   Search Now  The search engine examines vaccines, symptoms, doses, dates, places, and more. It produces tables, graphs, maps, and full event reports. Online documentation and popup help messages guide you through the use of the search engine. You can also download the [...]

Organic Now Big Business

July 7, 2012 Has ‘Organic’ Been Oversized? By STEPHANIE STROM ANN ARBOR, Mich. Michael J. Potter is one of the last little big men left in organic food. More than 40 years ago, Mr. Potter bought into a hippie cafe and “whole earth” grocery here that has since morphed into a major organic foods producer [...]

GMO Corn – Bug Infested

Nature fights back – bugs devour GM Monsanto corn with a vengeance by Tony Isaacs (NaturalNews) Corn genetically engineered by Monsanto to kill western corn rootworm is reportedly being devoured by those pests with a vengeance. Thanks to heavy reliance on the genetically modified (GM) crops, the tiny rootworm pest has overtaken fields, outsmarting the [...]

High-Fructose Corn Syrup and Diabetes

High-Fructose Corn Syrup and Diabetes: What the Experts Say by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor (NaturalNews) According to the Corn Refiners Association, high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is no worse for you than any other dietary carbohydrate. Many health experts, however, disagree, warning consumers that HFCS is strongly correlated with diabetes and obesity. Today, [...]

Eat Some Dirt

June 20, 2012 Dirtying Up Our Diets By JEFF D. LEACH OVER 7,000 strong and growing, community farmers’ markets are being heralded as a panacea for what ails our sick nation. The smell of fresh, earthy goodness is the reason environmentalists approve of them, locavores can’t live without them, and the first lady has hitched [...]

Vaccinated Children – More Illnesses

Vaccinated children have up to 500% more disease than unvaccinated children by PF Louis (NaturalNews) Suspicions have been confirmed for those wary of vaccinating their children. A recent large study corroborates other independent study surveys comparing unvaccinated children to vaccinated children. They all show that vaccinated children have two to five times more childhood diseases, [...]

Nuclear Madness at Rocky Flats

Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen <http://www.npr.org/books/authors/154840105/kristen-iversen> Hardcover, 400 pages June 12, 2012 Kristen Iversen spent years in Europe looking for things to write about before realizing that biggest story she’d ever cover was in the backyard where she grew up. Iversen spent her childhood in Colorado close to [...]

Coke Indoctrinates Dieticians

    Coca Cola Company Teaching Dietitians that Sugar, Fluoride, Artificial Colors are SAFE for Children by Alliance for Natural Health We wish we could say we are surprised. Registered dietitians are now being given formal education by the Coca-Cola Company on how safe its ingredients are. The credentialing arm of the American Dietetic Association, [...]

Leukaemia Higher Near Nuclear Plants

Child leukaemia doubles near French nuclear plants-study Wed, Jan 11 2012 By Muriel Boselli PARIS, Jan 11 (Reuters) – The incidence of leukaemia is twice as high in children living close to French nuclear power plants as in those living elsewhere in the country, a study by French health and nuclear safety experts has found. [...]

Radioactive Nightmare Coming to You

A Radioactive Nightmare As fallout from Fukushima heads our way, the government turns a blind eye By Michael Collins 06/07/2012 Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email More Sharing Services 132 Millions of Southern Californians and tourists seek the region’s famous beaches to cool off in the sea breeze and frolic in the [...]

Morton Smith and the Secret Gospel of Mark

Gospel Secrets: The Biblical Controversies of Morton Smith Anthony Grafton | January 7, 2009 Adrian BellesguardMorton Smith In 1973, Morton Smith, professor of ancient history at Columbia University, shook the world–or at least the world of scholars who work on early Christianity. Fifteen years before, Smith had found an unknown document in the Mar Saba [...]

Teen Diabetics

May 21, 2012, 12:01 am Diabetes on the Rise Among Teenagers By RONI CARYN RABIN Karsten Moran for The New York Times Sara Chernov, 21, was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes when she was 16. Nearly one in four American adolescents may be on the verge of developing Type 2 diabetes or could already be [...]

Fukushima – a continuing contamination of us all

(NaturalNews) It has been more than a year now since the massive 9.0-plus magnitude earthquake and corresponding tsunami devastated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the eastern coast of Japan, sending untold amounts of nuclear radiation into the environment. And to this day, the threat of nuclear fallout is ever-present all around the world [...]

Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution

By Alexandra Le TellierMay 21, 2012, 2:41 p.m. “We’re losing the war against obesity in the U.S.,” says chef Jamie Oliver. “Our kids are growing up overweight and malnourished from a diet of processed foods, and today’s children will be the first generation ever to live shorter lives than their parents.” About 1 in 3 [...]

Chem Trails

They are called “atmospheric aerosols”. They are apparently being sprayed aloft to reflect heat back into space and reduce global warming. I really don’t know whether to believe in chem trails as non-naturally occuring. But there is some evidence that governments are spraying aluminum particles into the atmosphere, and so I remain open minded but [...]

Uranium Pollution in the US Plains

F A C T    S H E E T   “America’s Secret Chernobyl”   Uranium Mining and Nuclear Pollution in the Northern Great Plains   1. World War II ended with the nuclear bomb and introduced the use of nuclear energy for the production of electricity which caused the price of uranium to rise. Uranium mining in [...]

Low-Acid Diet for Bone Health

November 24, 2009 Personal Health Exploring a Low-Acid Diet for Bone Health By JANE E. BRODY The science of osteoporosis and its resultant fractures has long been plagued by some vexing observations. Why, for example, are osteoporotic fractures relatively rare in Asian countries like Japan, where people live as long or longer than Americans and [...]

Give Thanks For Meat

The Ethicist Contest Winner: Give Thanks for Meat By JAY BOST Published: May 3, 2012   A few weeks ago, we invited readers to make an argument for the ethics of eating meat. Thousands of readers submitted essays, and thousands more voted on the finalists that we posted online. Our panel of judges — Mark [...]

E. Coli from Raw Milk

E. coli O157:H7 in Raw Milk Sickens 33 in Oregon and Missouri Posted by Bill Marler on May 03, 2012 At least 5 children with HUS – Acute Kidney Failure The Missouri State Department of Health and Senior Services said Wednesday it now has 14 confirmed cases of E. coli O157:H7. The two new E. [...]

Pink Slime and Mad Cow Disease

Burger lovers are not having an easy time lately. Last month, news broke that the USDA’s National School Lunch Program had recently purchased seven million pounds of something delectably called “pink slime.” Soon thereafter, news reports trumpeted that pink slime hasn’t just been making its way into school lunches, as bad as that sounds. In [...]

Mercury Off-Gassing from Amalgam Filling

Ten Toxic Ingredients in Foods

The food industry is waging war on your cells with these 10 toxic ingredients by S. D. Wells (NaturalNews) Preservatives and synthetic food agents found in foods inhibit oxygen and delay the development of fungus and mold, creating a longer shelf-life for products. But after being consumed, these toxins deprive human cells of oxygen and [...]

De-Acidify the Body to Fight Cancer

Health Videos – Every Cancer Can be Cured in Weeks

Raising vegan kids easy enough for 1 mom by Taylor Summers/KTAR (April 20th, 2012 @ 8:49am) PHOENIX — Next week, a children’s book will hit bookstores called “Vegan is Love.” The book details things such as animal testing and eating habits. It’s set off a firestorm among parents and has questioned whether or not parents [...]

The B Corporation

AlterNet / By Tara Lohan   The Business of a Better World: Can a New Kind of Corporation Save Us and Our Economy? Corporations by today’s definition, are obligated to make as much money as they can. But a new kind of corporation is changing that and potentially our economy, too. April 15, 2012  | [...]

Arsenic in Our Chickens

April 4, 2012 Arsenic in Our Chicken? By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Let’s hope you’re not reading this column while munching on a chicken sandwich. That’s because my topic today is a pair of new scientific studies suggesting that poultry on factory farms are routinely fed caffeine, active ingredients of Tylenol and Benadryl, banned antibiotics and [...]

Chile Stops Use of Mercury in Vaccines

Decision Comes as WHO Meets to Discuss Global Treaty on Mercury Use WASHINGTON, April 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Chile has become the first developing country to stop the use of mercury in vaccines. In meetings with the Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs (CoMeD) held last week in Santiago, Chile, the current Vice President of the Chilean [...]

FDA Admits Vaccines Still Contain Mercury

FDA admits in court case that vaccines still contain mercury by Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) It is a common myth today that the vaccines administered to children no longer contain the toxic additive thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative linked to causing permanent neurological damage. But a recent federal case involving the U.S. Food and [...]

The Right to Sell Kids Junk

March 27, 2012, 9:00 pm The Right to Sell Kids Junk By MARK BITTMAN Mark Bittman on food and all things related. The First Amendment to the Constitution, which tops our Bill of Rights, guarantees — theoretically, at least — things we all care about. So much is here: freedom of religion, of the press, [...]

Pink Slime – And More

Factory Farms ‘Pink slime’ is the tip of the iceberg: Look what else is in industrial meat By Tom Laskawy  19 Mar 2012 7:44 AM   Photo by Cobalt123. You didn’t think I’d miss my chance to weigh in on the latest round of pink slime discussions, did you? Rather than recapitulate the horror that is your [...]

Pink Slime

How the Sausage is Made: It’s Still a Jungle for Consumers Daniel Honan on March 17, 2012, 12:00 AM     What’s the Big Idea? Over the last two weeks, pink slime has become the safe food movement’s equivalent of the Kony 2012 campaign. Over 200,000 people have signed an online petition to ban the use [...]

Why all of the milk industry’s health claims have been proven wrong

AlterNet / By Martha Rosenberg 171 COMMENTS Got Propaganda? Why All of the Milk Industry’s Health Claims Have Been Proven Wrong Marketers have been trying desperately for over a decade to increase the public’s consumption of milk, but they keep failing. Here’s why. March 12, 2012  | Photo Credit: Eskemar via Shutterstock LIKE THIS ARTICLE [...]

Prescription Drugs Containing Animal Parts

Warning to vegetarians: Many prescription drugs secretly made with animal parts Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035253_prescription_drugs_animal_parts_vegetarians.html#ixzz1pB0ePTeJ (NaturalNews) Genetically modified organisms and bovine growth hormones are in thousands of prescription drugs all over the world without any warning whatsoever. Plus, over 40% of humans are allergic to either consuming or injecting gelatin, which is the most popular hidden [...]

Making Meat Without Animals

The quest to make meat without animals You could see test tube burgers on a menu sooner than you think by Kate Lunau on Sunday, February 19, 2012 4:30pm – 0 Comments Because of concern over the environment, animal rights, or even their health, more people are adopting a vegetarian diet—see the “Meatless Mondays” movement, [...]

Protein Angst

Never mind the meat — worry about eating enough plants By Andy Bellatti 13 Feb 2012 7:57 AM   This post is part of Protein Angst, a series on the environmental and nutritional complexities of high-protein foods. Our goal is to publish a range of perspectives on these very heated topics. Add your feedback and story suggestions [...]

Factory Farm Sued for Water Contamination

Factory Farms CAFO conviction: Court holds factory farm accountable for water pollution By Kai Olson-Sawyer 15 Feb 2012 1:36 PM   Aerial shot of the Nelson Faria Dairy in Royal, Wash. Note the tiny dots that are the dairy cows congregating in the holding pens. (Image by Google Maps.) In a precedent-setting decision earlier this month that [...]

Diet and Acne

Interview with a nutritarian: Bonnie Posted on February 15, 2012 by Emily Boller Bonnie suffered from the physical and emotional pain of cystic acne since her teenage years. She tried just about every medication available to relieve the symptoms, but to no avail. Then she made the decision to replace the standard American diet with high-nutrient foods. Today [...]

Farmers Suing Monsanto

Industrial Agriculture Farmers advance in their suit against Monsanto By Jenny An 10 Feb 2012 10:03 AM   Monsanto is getting a taste of its own medicine; the company is being taken to court. In this corner, we have a corporate biotech giant with a tighter grasp on the agricultural Monopoly board than your over-enthusiastic little sister [...]

Bill Gates buys positive press spin on vaccines

Bill Gates buys positive press spin on vaccines, GMOs Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/034859_Bill_Gates_mainstream_media_influence.html#ixzz1lOlJhqbg (NaturalNews) Aaron Dykes of Prison Planet recently gave an insightful TV news presentation analyzing The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s influence over the media to promote their “world health and agriculture” agendas while soft pedaling the downside of all they’re doing. Such items [...]

January 30, 2012 DNA Turning Human Story Into a Tell-All By ALANNA MITCHELL The tip of a girl’s 40,000-year-old pinky finger found in a cold Siberian cave, paired with faster and cheaper genetic sequencing technology, is helping scientists draw a surprisingly complex new picture of human origins. The new view is fast supplanting the traditional [...]

Big Pharma Routinely Suppresses Data

Big Pharma Routinely Suppresses Data from Clinical Trials—but FDA Approves These Dangerous Drugs Anyway!   Category : Topic : Government & other Corporate tyranny (51) Health Canada & other FDA Abuses (15) Date Posted : Source Date : Jan 24, 2012 Jan 17, 2012 Help us persuade Congress to reform the agency with our Action [...]

14,000 U.S. Deaths Tied to Fukushima Reactor Disaster

Medical Journal Article: 14,000 U.S. Deaths Tied to Fukushima Reactor Disaster Fallout   Category : Topic : Environment (29) Environment Issues (12) Date Posted : Source Date : Jan 24, 2012 Dec 19, 2011 An estimated 14,000 excess deaths in the United States are linked to the radioactive fallout from the disaster at the Fukushima [...]

Monsanto & GMO

Planetary Destroyer: Monsanto by anticorruptionsociety THE BRILLIANT DOCUMENTARY “THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO” TELLS THE WHOLE UGLY STORY Paraguay farmer educates his neighbors about Monsanto: We are going to talk about the production model of GM soybeans promoted by Monsanto. It’s a true multi-national company. It’s everywhere in the world. It’s objective is to control all [...]

The Neurological Origins of Religious Belief

It has been known for some time that religious belief and behavior affect the brain—in the same way all habits, emotions and memories build neural pathways. But can we pinpoint specific chemicals, genes and clusters of neurons that give rise to religiosity, or to atheism? Rutgers University evolutionary biologist Lionel Tiger thinks we can: “Religion is [...]

Meating halfway: Americans opt for less

Meating halfway: Americans opt for less by Tom Laskawy 12 Jan 2012 8:02 AM   Photo: This Year’s Love In a New York Times op-ed, Mark Bittman flagged this story from the Daily Livestock Report that notes the USDA is now projecting that U.S meat consumption will continue to drop, representing a 12 percent decrease from 2007. [...]

Milk and Acne

(NaturalNews) We all know the advertisements where celebrities sport the milk mustache and ask `Got Milk?`. However studies suggest that a more accurate question would be: `Got milk? Got acne?` This article explores how hormones and allergenic proteins in milk could contribute to acne. At least three large-scale studies reported in the American Journal of [...]

Raw Milk Wars

New Real Fresh Milk Marketing Venture–On the Front in the Raw Milk Wars 12-17-11 Dear Natural Food and Health, Raw milk is certainly better than commercial processed milk, which is unhealthy for umpteen reasons. I support the right of people to buy, sell, and consume raw milk. In the case of raw milk, if the [...]

Preventing tooth decay in ways that do not involve fluoride

PREVENTING CAVITIES IN WAYS OTHER THAN USING FLUORIDE  12-6-11 More and more people are coming to the conclusion that we should not be drinking and eating fluoride. Some still believe that applying fluoride topically is the best way to prevent tooth decay. I disagree. I say we should avoid all fluoride. We are not doing [...]

Fiendish pharmaceutical animal testing does not help humanity

Fiendish pharmaceutical animal testing does not help humanity Saturday, December 03, 2011 by: PF Louis Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/034311_animal_testing_pharmaceuticals_inhumane.html#ixzz1fcOE8Rai (NaturalNews) Many consider animal testing necessary to produce the modern medical miracles that humans depend on. This is animal cruelty. All drugs on the market have gone through animal testing to be considered safe. Yet many still [...]

Ben Franklin – Environmentalist

What Would Ben Franklin Do? Influences of America’s First Environmentalist Posted: 03 Dec 2011 07:08 AM PST by Lauren Simenauer, cross posted from Science Progress In the late 18th century, Benjamin Franklin was something of an icon in Europe. The French hung portraits of Franklin on their walls much in the same way college students [...]