By Daisy Luther If nothing else, the water disaster in Flint, Michigan proved that we can’t just accept it when officials claim that a water source is safe for drinking and cooking. This terrible lesson has been repeated in many municipalities across the country, and the…
By Daisy Luther A new law quietly passed last December contains a waiver of informed consent that eliminates the requirement of pharmaceutical companies to let you know if a medication or vaccine given to you or your child is experimental. Wow. One last Christmas surprise…
By Daisy Luther If you prefer to avoid genetically modified foods, here’s another one to avoid. GMO potatoes will be joining GMO apples at a store near you very soon – if they aren’t there already. Last week, the FDA added their approval (again) to…
By Daisy Luther You probably saw the article last week about the massive recall of Sargento products. As it turns out, the Sargento products are only a drop in the bucket – there are 130 more products out there and the FDA is under a…
By Daisy Luther If a food company invented a new version of a typical food and then packaged it in a box without the ingredients, etc. listed on the packaging, there would be quite the outcry. So why is it that Okanagan Specialty Fruits is allowed…
By Daisy Luther If you’re always looking to save a dime and reduce waste, here’s something that most people throw away which has an abundance of uses. The humble banana peel. The classic cartoon prank of putting it on the floor for folks to slip…
By Daisy Luther This is one of the weirdest stories I’ve heard in a long time. So very weird that I have to call BS (baloney sandwiches) on the whole darned thing. Last week, 8500 people were sent to the hospital in Melbourne, Australia during…
By Daisy Luther This year, the flu shot gauntlet has fired the starting gun with a study that makes it sound like only crazy hippies protect their children from the annual injection. In an extremely biased article presented as news instead of opinion (which, as…
By Daisy Luther A scathing new study has put artificial sweeteners under the spotlight and is supporting what health writers have been saying for years. The researchers have found that most of the previous studies into the sweeteners touting their alleged “health advantages” over using…
By Daisy Luther As they say on Game of Thrones, “Brace yourselves. Winter is coming.” One of the best ways to brace yourselves for the onset of cold weather, winter storms, and potential power outages is to prep your home for the season. And this…
By Daisy Luther By now, you may have heard some murmurs about another sinkhole in Florida, and that it might be leaking radioactive particles into some body of water or another. The information out there is vague. Sinkholes are not an uncommon phenomenon in Florida….
By Daisy Luther In the worst real-life game of “Would You Rather” ever, many Florida residents would far prefer to risk contracting the Zika virus than to be sprayed like a bug. This week, protesters showed up in gas masks to let the Miami Beach City…
By Daisy Luther Manhattan, Kansas is in the news due to a mysterious illness sweeping through schools and making hundreds of children ill. Natural Blaze reports: Symptoms include the necessity to go home due to stomach issues like nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. At first, officials thought…
By Daisy Luther Thursday morning, residents in Boston witnessed a bizarre and disturbing event that sounds like something out of a Hitchcock movie: 47 dead birds fell from the sky over their neighborhood for no obvious reason. And it wasn’t just dead birds… Investigators are working…
By Daisy Luther Life hacks are all over the place at the minute (seriously, they’re everywhere) and some are really good – but often they’re more Martha Stewart than Grizzly Adams. Here are a few life hacks that are applicable not only to regular everyday…
By Daisy Luther There was a time when “FDA Approved” was a vote of credibility. We could purchase a product and feel safe because the government watchdogs had checked it out thoroughly before allowing it to be sold. Now, “FDA Approved” means “The company that…
By Daisy Luther Sick people go to the hospital to get well, but there’s now even more scientific evidence confirming that a visit to the hospital may leave a person even worse-off than they were to begin with. And now we know why. A brand…
By Daisy Luther Monsanto – the company we all love to hate as they spread their chemically-laden tentacles across the planet – took a big legal hit today. And by big, we mean an amount that would boggle the minds of most of us ordinary mortals. A…
By Daisy Luther Around the world, governments have recently been issuing an unsettling call for their citizens to become more self-reliant. Just this week, the governments of both Germany and Czechoslovakia warned that people should be prepared for ““be prepared for the worst case possible scenario.” But…
By Daisy Luther Now that glyphosate has been denounced by the World Health Organization, there’s a new spray in town from our friendly neighborhood purveyor of poison, Monsanto. It hasn’t yet been approved, but given the history of blatant collusion between Monsanto and the government,…
