By Tyler Durden Tyson Foods Inc. is buying a stake in insect-protein company Protix BV. The two companies will collaborate to establish a manufacturing facility in the US to produce bug-based meal and oil, typically used in fish feed and dog food. The American meatpacker…
By Sayer Ji Known since ancient times as a “remedy for everything but death,” an increasingly vast body of scientific research reveals that it is indeed one of nature’s most potent and versatile healing agents. A few years ago, we wrote an article about nigella…
By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. , The Defender This article was originally published by The Defender — Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website. Describing the development as “a food revolution,” the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday declared lab-grown chicken meat developed by…
By Ronnie Cummins Over the past 30 years OCA and our allies across the world have fought hard against gene-spliced GMO foods and crops and the toxic pesticides and chemicals that always accompany them, exposing their dangers, limiting their market share, and in some countries…
By Neenah Payne Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, former chairman of the Nestle Group, said in 2005 that access to water is not a human right! Coca Cola, Poland Spring, and other bottlers are threatening the water supply. California and the Southwest face record life-changing droughts. China has…
By Dr. Joseph Mercola Story at-a-glance One of the latest attempts to thwart your ability to access nutritional supplements comes in the form of draft legislation that would require premarket approval for dietary supplements. In short, it would require supplements — which are food —…
By Daisy Luther Perhaps the next Revolutionary War will take place in a vegetable garden. Instead of bullets, there will be seeds. Instead of chemical warfare, there will be rainwater, carefully collected from the gutters of the house. Instead of soldiers in body armor and…
By Sayer Ji Known since ancient times as a ‘remedy for everything but death,’ an increasingly vast body of scientific research reveals that it is indeed one of nature’s most potent and versatile healing agents. A few years ago, we wrote an article about nigella…
By Patricia Burke In yesterday’s article about author Paul Brodeur (asbestos, cancer chemicals, ozone depletion, microwaves, powerlines), we looked at the demise of investigative journalism in the mainstream media. The issue is not only that mainstream journalism “could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological…
By Philip H. Howard, Michigan State University and Mary Hendrickson, University of Missouri-Columbia Agribusiness executives and government policymakers often praise the U.S. food system for producing abundant and affordable food. In fact, however, food costs are rising, and shoppers in many parts of the U.S….
By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “Gates has a Napoleonic concept of himself, an appetite that derives from power and unalloyed success, with no leavening hard experience, no reverses.” — Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, presiding judge in the Gates/Microsoft antitrust-fraud case The global lockdowns that Bill…
By Tyler Durden For all those folks working at home, or the millions of unemployed, living off of not-ready-to-eat food, such as Nestlé’s ubiquitous Hot Pockets, listen up: the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) published a warning late last week recalling…
Slower growing broiler chickens are healthier and have more fun than conventional breeds of birds, new evidence from an independent commercial scale farm trial has shown. The study carried out by researchers from FAI Farms, the University of Bristol and The Norwegian University of Life…
Op-Ed by Patricia Burke “…establishing and activating a 5G-network — as it is currently described — will contravene current human and environmental laws enshrined in the European Convention of Human Rights, the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, EU regulations, and the Bern-…
By Patricia Burke The Catholic Church has an extensive history of bringing issues of social injustice to the attention of the world community, and inviting Catholics to take actions that reflect a moral stance–such as defending migrant workers, boycotting companies (like Nestle) exploiting poor mothers…
By John Vibes The environmental non-profit Earth Island Institute has filed a lawsuit against the companies who are responsible for a very large portion of the world’s plastic waste. These companies are Coca Cola, Pepsi, Nestle, Clorox, Crystal Geyser, Mars, Danone, Mondelez International, Colgate-Palmolive, and…
By John Vibes The Coca-Cola corporation recently announced that they were able to make a few plastic bottles out of trash that was pulled from the ocean. In a press release, the company said that the creation of 300 sample bottles made from ocean trash…
By John Vibes It is estimated that people in the United States alone will spend $2.7 billion on candy for Halloween, and not many of us really think about where that money is going. Unfortunately, many of the companies behind our favorite Halloween candies have…
By Elias Marat Coca-Cola has been found to be the top polluter in a global audit of plastic waste released by the Break Free From Plastic NGO. The report, released Wednesday, shows that the transnational soft drink conglomerate is responsible for more plastic trash than…
Op-Ed by Neenah Payne “How Bottled Water Became America’s Most Popular Beverage” explains the switch from soft drinks to bottled water — now the leading growth industry for the beverage market. Americans buy over half a billion bottles of water each week when water flows…
