The Flavor Of Your OJ Is A Chemically-Induced Mirage
Wikimedia Image Ben Popken The Consumerist There’s a dirty secret in your glass of orange juice. Even though it says “not from concentrate,” it probably…
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Organic v. Monsanto: 270,000 Organic Farmers Sue Monsanto
Image by NatalieMaynor, licensed under Creative Commons Danielle Magnuson UTNE More than 270,000 organic farmers are taking on corporate agriculture giant Monsanto in a lawsuit filed March…
Read the Fine Print Before Selling at the Farmers Market (Video)
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Third Maine town passes food freedom ordinance
Garden Hen/Wiki Commons image Food Freedom On Saturday, April 2, Blue Hill became the third town in Maine to adopt the Local Food and Self-Governance…
How vegetables can give you that golden glow
Scientists prove that your five a day make you more attractive – by subtly altering your skin colour Photo: Nottingham University Chris Arnot Guardian Most…
Reponse to False Accusations about OCA’s Funding
Organic Consumers Association response to the recent article Food Freedom Betrayal. Dear Friends of the Organic Consumers Association, It’s too bad some of our would-be…
5 Simple Ways To Prepare For The Coming Food Crisis
Dees Illustration Activist Post Recently there has been an incredible flurry of news reporting about food shortages and the pending global food crisis. Everyone who…
USDA Certified Organic’s Dirty Little Secret: Neotame
Barbara H. Peterson Farm Wars Just when we thought that buying “Organic” was safe, we run headlong into the deliberate poisoning of our organic food…
Ingredients of Transition: Community Supported Farms, Bakeries and Breweries
Transition Culture Getting LOCAL FOOD INITIATIVES (3.10) and some of the PRACTICAL MANIFESTATIONS (3.9) that your initiative wants to do off the ground can be…
Radical Homemade Prosperity
Caught in the consumer trap? Radical Homemaker Shannon Hayes discovered that producing what she needs at home lets her live on a fraction of what…
4 Simple Ways to Minimize Household Chemicals
Mary Hickcox, RN Activist Post We are addicted to chemicals: bleach, ammonia, window cleaner, toilet bowl cleaner, drain cleaner, shampoo, body wash, laundry detergent, fabric…
A Major Legal Victory in the Fight for Hormone-Free Milk
After two years, a federal court has ruled that Ohio’s ban on the labeling of dairy products as hormone-free is unconstitutional. Jeff Deasy Alternet After…
More Creepy Than GMO, Nanotech Organic?
Bill Lilliston Think Forward The idea that engineered nanomaterials (involving the manipulation of materials at the molecular level) would be allowed in certified organic food…
New FDA Regulations to destroy small organic farms
David Gutierrez Natural News A proposed law to bring farms more directly under FDA supervision could be the death of small organic farms, natural food…