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Why You Can Now Kiss Organic Beef, Dairy and Many Vegetables Goodbye
AlterNet / By Ari LeVaux alternet Jan 31, 2011 The USDA ruled that farmers are now free to plant GE alfalfa, and USDA won't even keep track of who plants it where. The implications are huge. Monsanto has been trying for years to gain approval for its genetically modified Roundup-Read...
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So How Do You Make Clean Water?
Cleaning Your Tap Water of Toxins Has Toxic Consequences by: A.K. Streeter, Tree Hugger, Alternet January 14, 2011 In replacing chlorine as a disinfectant in drinking water, we now have something turning out to pose possibly more serious health risks. This recent NPR story headline,...
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Tips for a New Year of Healthy Eating, Including Getting Nuts
Pistachios (©photo by xandart, courtesy of morgueFile.com) Determined to keep your New Year's resolution to eat healthy in 2011? We hope you do, but we know it's not going to be easy. We're told that only 71% of people who make New Year’s resolutions maintain them past two weeks. And coming ...
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USDA Fires Organic Farming Specialist for Expressing Opinion
Mowing Oats & Sweet Clover (© Image courtesy of Roxbury Farm, CSA) The free exchange of ideas being essential for a healthy democracy, it was particularly disturbing to learn that Mark D. Keating was terminated as an Agricultural Marketing Specialist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
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Fresh Salsas from a Family Farm for a Healthy Treat
Denise and Bernie's Driving Goats (photos courtesy of Szarek Farms) Szarek Farms is a great example of the old maxim, "necessity is the mother of invention". A small greenhouse grower in Central New York, the husband and wife team of Denise and Bernie Szarek cultivates tomatoes, peppers, fruits a...
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Millions of American Families Struggle with Hunger
A Healthy Walk with Dad (photo by Phaedra Wilkinson, courtesy of morgueFile.com) The U.S. is the world’s wealthiest nation with obesity rates that are the highest in the world, yet millions of American families are struggling to get enough to eat. Besides getting help from government, people ...
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La Quercia’s World Class Prosciutto from Iowa
La Quercia's Founders (Images courtesy of La Quercia) Herb and Kathy Eckhouse founded La Quercia to create premium quality American prosciutto. Their appreciation for prosciutto grew out of the three and a half years they lived in Parma, Italy, prosciutto's area of origin. Their ambition to c...
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The Connecticut Beekeeper Who is Truly an Artist
Founder Marina Marchese and the rest of the folks at Red Bee are passionate about the culinary delights of honey. Their philosophy is that every bottle of their artisanal honey is a gourmet food and can be tasted and evaluated much like wine, each one having a unique flavor profile determined b...
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Love the Judge Who Saved us From Genetically Modified Sugar Beets
Sometimes, things just come right. One brave judge has put his foot down and said NO to modified sugar beets. The growers are screaming that the price of sugar will go through the roof. There won't be enough Roundup to go around to poison the ground. Oh my. What a shame. Sugar will be ...
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Senate Passes Bill That Addresses Food Safety. Sort of.
Months after her 2-year-old son died from eating a fast-food hamburger tainted with E. coli in January 1993, Diana Nole of Gig Harbor, Wash., went to Capitol Hill and asked Congress to overhaul the nation's food-safety laws. Now Congress could be on the verge of passing a sweeping measure that N...
