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The Biofuels Scam, Food Shortages and the Coming Collapse of the Human Population

4/23/2008 - (NaturalNews) It was one of the dumbest "green" ideas ever proposed: Convert millions of acres of cropland into fields for growing ethanol from corn, then burn fossil fuels to harvest the ethanol, expending more energy to extract the fuel than you get...

Interview With Dr. Wayne Coates: Chia Seeds (Part 2)

4/21/2008 - (NaturalNews) The following is part two of an interview with Dr. Wayne Coates, who is perhaps the world’s foremost educator on chia seeds. Dr. Coates was among the first to grow chia seeds experimentally and later for commercial purposes. An expert in...

Dispelling Common Myths About Genetically Engineered Seeds

3/17/2008 - (NaturalNews) Is biotechnology the miracle solution necessary to fix the many problems we face in the world today - world hunger, suffering third world economies, toxic pesticides, and the damaged environment to name a few? The big seed companies are...

Bad Patents, Evil Corporations and the Rise of Intellectual Imperialism

3/1/2008 - (NaturalNews) It is a defining characteristic of Western civilization that power-hungry men seek to declare ownership over all things they discover. For most of human history, such ownership efforts were focused on usable land. Owning land that could...

Ormus - Spiritual and Medicinal Gold With Incredible Healing Potential

2/24/2008 - (NaturalNews) Ormus, also known as ORMEs, m-state elements, white powder gold, or the Philosopher’s Stone, was discovered in 1975 by an Arizona farmer named David Hudson. He discovered some material in his soil that he had never seen before. He laid it...

The 2007 Farm Bill Gets More Attention Than Any Other in History

2/15/2008 - (NaturalNews) The still-unresolved 2007 Farm Bill is getting the United States in trouble with her bookies at the WTO, while diverse and powerful groups wrangle over their own interests on Capitol Hill, with consumers caught in the middle. It's like every...

The Truth About Honeybees Provide Clues to Their Disappearance

1/24/2008 - (NaturalNews) Honeybees are disappearing. Searching for likely causes leads us to find out about adulterated honey, poison in beehives and other shocking realities that few of us recognize. By now you’ve probably heard of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)....

Word of the Year Describes Eco-Friendly Eaters

1/4/2008 - (NaturalNews) Ever hear the word “locavore?” This was the New Oxford American Dictionary word of the year for 2007. A locavore is a person who chooses to eat food that has been grown and produced locally. The word was coined in 2005 by “concerned culinary...

The Silence of the Bees - A Look at Colony Collapse Disorder

12/13/2007 - (NaturalNews) Beekeepers all over the United States have been experiencing record losses of honeybees, according to Organic Consumers Association. Some states have reported up to 70% disappearance of commercial bee populations since November of 2006....

Killer Cold Virus: It's Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature

12/11/2007 - (NaturalNews) By now most of you have read about the mutant cold virus which has turned into a killer. In summary, a virulent strain of the adenovirus (Ad14) is causing serious illness and even death in young, healthy people. Adenoviruses have been known...

The Many Benefits and Uses of Sea Minerals

11/29/2007 - (NaturalNews) We humans are designed to take in trace elements. How does it work? Plants feed off of minerals in the soil. They will take up only those minerals they need for their growth and development. The plants digest these minerals by adding a carbon...

Review: The Future of Food, a must-see documentary that exposes the biotech threat to life on our planet

5/3/2007 - There is a cabal of power-hungry corporations that are systematically destroying humanity's future. These companies have taken over the food supply, injected pesticides, viruses and invading genes into staple crops, engineered "terminator" genes that...

Genetically modified rice may pack more antioxidants

3/19/2007 - (ConsumerWellness.org) Rice genetically engineered to produce more flavonoids was found to have higher antioxidant activity than unmodified rice, in a joint German-Indian study published in Metabolic Engineering. The rice was specifically engineered...

The future of food: Why GM crops threaten the sustainability of the human race (opinion)

2/23/2007 - (NaturalNews) Corporations like Monsanto are playing God with the food supply. Did you ever wonder what happens when all the genetically modified, pesticide-compatible, gene-terminated, laboratory-concocted Frankenfoods end up genetically contaminating...

Arctic seed vault to ensure safety of not losing seeds for food crops in case of global catastrophe

2/14/2007 - (NaturalNews) A new seed vault to be constructed in an Arctic archipelago aims to prevent the loss of important crop species, locking away seed samples in case of world catastrophe. The genebank, run by the Global Crop Diversity Trust, will operate...

Radical weather patterns devastate California crops, endanger residents with rare freeze

1/16/2007 - (NaturalNews) Millions of dollars worth of California crops were devastated Friday when an arctic cold snap hit the state, even in areas where such weather is rare, such as Montclair and Chino. A freeze watch was issued by the National Weather Service...

USDA approves genetically engineered rice that contaminated U.S. food supply; safety tests skipped

11/29/2006 - (NaturalNews) The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced last week that it has deregulated a genetically engineered variety of rice that contaminated the U.S. rice supply over the summer. The rice -- a special long-grain variety created by...

Global warming to usher in weather extremes, impacting crops and food supply

10/24/2006 - (NaturalNews) Much of the world is likely to experience extended droughts, heavy rainfalls and longer heat waves over the next century because of global warming, a new study has forecasted. The Western United States, the Mediterranean and Brazil are specifically...

Declining pollinator populations threaten future crops, ecosystems

10/23/2006 - (NaturalNews) The National Research Council recently released a report that suggests population trends for pollinators -- such as bees, birds, bats and other creatures that spread pollen and encourage plant fertilization -- are "demonstrably downward." Three...

Schwarzenegger vetoes Hemp Farming Act, denies California farmers economic opportunity to grow high-demand industrial crop

10/3/2006 - (NaturalNews) California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill last week that would have allowed the state's farmers to grow hemp for its oil, seed and fiber for industrial use in the production of food, paper, personal care products, car parts...

Crops being engineered for biofuels production, but ecological concerns persist

9/11/2006 - (NaturalNews) Biofuels are just one renewable energy source being considered as the price of fossil fuels continues to soar, but a group of scientists has taken the idea one step further by developing genetically engineered crops for use as biofuels. The...

Genetically engineered crops contain latent pesticides that are activated when eaten by consumers

9/7/2006 - (NaturalNews) According to a recent article from the Institute for Responsible Technology, certain varieties of herbicides used on genetically modified (GM) crops -- though inactive inside the plants they protect -- can be re-activated after consumption...

GM foods becoming an ecological disaster, warns institute

9/5/2006 - (NaturalNews) Genetically modified (GM) foods are out of control, according to an article by Institute for Responsible Technology reporter Jeffrey M. Smith. In his article, Smith notes that the bright future promised by the makers of GM foods has turned...

GM rice invades food supply; scientists baffled over source

8/21/2006 - (NaturalNews) Last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that trace amounts of a bioengineered variety of long-grain rice had been found in samples of commercial rice, and that the contaminated...

Heat wave destroys vegetable crop; warning of things to come from climate change

8/2/2006 - (NaturalNews) Europe's uncharacteristically hot summer may be causing more than sunburns, as the Association of European Fruit and Vegetable Processing Industries (EFVPI) warns that the heat is maturing produce faster than it can be harvested, which could...

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