The food industry, like Big Pharma, controls the FDA and USDA
Jonathan Benson Natural News The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) recently released a report highlighting the widespread influence of the food industry over food safety…
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Orwellian DoubleThink: Illness is Health
Orwellian DoubleThink Series, part 4 Activist Post The primary duty of the regulatory agencies responsible for ensuring public health in our Orwellian world apparently is…
Herbal Supplements Face New Scrutiny by Feds
Laura Landro Wall Street Journal Elderberry extract and acai to boost the immune system. Black cohosh to lessen the discomforts of menopause. Soy capsules to…
Gov’t Employees Say Interference Threatens Public Health
Kate Sheppard Mother Jones In the past months, more than 1,400 Americans have become sick after eating salmonella-tainted eggs, and half a billion eggs have…
The Quiet Invasion of Genetically Modified Crops
Spence Cooper Friends Eat According to the USDA, Roundup Ready seeds were planted on about 95 percent of all sugar-beet acreage earlier this year, and will be…
US pushing drugged, vaccinated, chlorinated chickens on the world
Rady Ananda Food Freedom After over half a billion eggs were recalled from two factory hen layer operations in Iowa,[1] New York lawmakers proposed mandating…
Food Safety Act: More Government Without Accountability
Jonathan Emord NewsWithViews You learn a lot about members of Congress from the bills they introduce. The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) tells…
Nationwide meat recall announced
CNN Zemco Industries in Buffalo, New York, has recalled approximately 380,000 pounds of deli meat that may be contaminated with bacteria that can cause a…
Food for Thought: Taking a Stand Against Genetically Modified Organisms
Evan Folds Encore Ever heard of genetically modified organisms (GMO)? I dare say that the majority of the population eats them in abundance on a…
Federal Judge Revokes USDA Approval Of Monsanto’s Genetically Modified Sugar Beets
Michael Liedtke Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge has revoked the government’s approval of genetically altered sugar beets until regulators complete a more…
USDA plans to require ID for interstate livestock
Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Federal officials looking to head off livestock disease outbreaks are drafting regulations that would require farmers to identify animals…
E. Coli Outbreak Causes Recall of 1 Million Pounds of Ground Beef
Marcu Wohlsen Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — A meat processor recalled about 1 million pounds of ground beef products Friday after seven people were sickened…
Federal Court Victory: Almond Farmers Can Challenge USDA Pasteurization Rule
The Cornucopia Institute Onerous Rule has Devastated California Raw Almond Producers WASHINGTON, DC – A federal appeals court ruled today, overturning a lower court decision, that…
H.R. 5577 The Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act and the Organics Loophole
Barbara H. Peterson FarmWars H.R. 5577 Exempts the USDA Certified Organics Industry from the labeling requirement and testing even if producers use GMO processing ingredients….