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Food Safety Bill HR 2749 Requires Immediate Opposition

6/23/2009 - (NaturalNews) The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund has announced the immediate need to oppose a new and integrated form of the many food safety bills that have been announced in recent months as potential candidate food safety bills. HR 2749, the Food...

Loophole Allows Canadian Farmers to Import Untested Antibiotics for Use in Livestock

5/11/2009 - (NaturalNews) A loophole in federal law is allowing Canadian farmers to import unapproved and untested antibiotics with little oversight, according to an article released on April 8 in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ). Seven years after...

Food Freedom is under Assault, H.R. 759 Worse than H.R. 875

4/24/2009 - (NaturalNews) Salmonella outbreaks, food contamination, and other regulatory deficiencies over the nation's food supply during the past several years have led to a barrage of proposed legislation aimed at improving food safety. H.R. 875, H.R. 759, and...

Ginger, Turmeric, Neem Declared "Hazardous" in Thailand After Chemical Companies Try to Protect Pesticide Profits

4/7/2009 - (NaturalNews) The government of Thailand has classified 13 plants - traditionally used as herbal medicines and natural pesticides - as "hazardous substances," causing outrage among farmers and advocates of traditional medicine. The plants - including...

South African GMO Crop Failure Highlights Dangers of Food Supply Domination

4/3/2009 - (NaturalNews) Worry is building over the effects of the Food Safety and Modernization Act of 2009, otherwise known as HR 875. This is the bill currently working its way through Congress that would effectively hand over control of America's food supply...

Paylean: Drug in Conventionally Raised Meat Linked to Cancer and Heart Disease

3/17/2009 - (NaturalNews) Up until recently, U.S. pork producers were worried about tightening profit margins across their industry. Now many of them are smiling, and it's all because of Paylean, a drug that is netting them more cash for each hog they sell. Consumers...

Organic Farming is a Relationship with the Land: Interview with Myra Goodman, Part III

2/26/2009 - (NaturalNews) [This is part three of a three-part interview with Myra Goodman, co-founder, along with her husband Drew, of Earthbound Farm (www.ebfarm.com), which is perhaps the most well-known name in organic produce in America. With this article, we...

Grow It Yourself: Save Money, Help Earth, and Improve Your Quality of Life

2/23/2009 - (NaturalNews) The Telegraph reported that "26% [of residents in Britain] are growing their own fruit and vegetables" [1]. One-quarter of British populations now choose gardening at home in order to improve their quality of life during difficult times....

Organic Farming is a Relationship with the Land: Interview with Myra Goodman, Part II

2/21/2009 - (NaturalNews) This is part two of a three-part interview with Myra Goodman, co-founder, along with her husband Drew, of Earthbound Farm, which is perhaps the most well-known name in organic produce in America. With this article, we kick off an exciting,...

Organic Farming is a Relationship with the Land: Interview with Myra Goodman, Part I

2/19/2009 - (NaturalNews) This is part one of a three-part interview with Myra Goodman, co-founder, along with her husband Drew, of Earthbound Farm, which is perhaps the most well-known name in organic produce in America. With this article, we kick off an exciting,...

NAIS Threatens Access to Organic, Local and Sustainable Food

2/9/2009 - (NaturalNews) At first glance, many readers of Natural News will think the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) is nothing that concerns them because they eat only plant based foods. However, NAIS is only one part of a much bigger issue. The implementation...

USDA Backs Off Mandatory National Animal Identification Registration

1/27/2009 - (NaturalNews) In this time of deflationary pressure on all agricultural products, farmers and ranchers got a token boost at the end of December when the USDA`s Animal and Plant Health Inspection-Veterinary Service officially cancelled its Mandatory Premise...

Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Supports Genetic Engineering and Corporate Farming

1/26/2009 - (NaturalNews) Agriculture Secretary Nominee Tom Vilsack is a two-term Iowa governor (1999-2007) and a trial lawyer. He sailed through his confirmation hearing last week for the position of Agriculture Secretary, but he does not enjoy the same popularity...

A Local Market Supports Community

12/15/2008 - (NaturalNews) Can one woman change the way we eat and do business around here? It's possible, especially when she is as passionate as Cynthia Brennan. Cynthia had already started on the mission to make Bedford Hills a place where people can stroll to...

Monsanto Announces Its Exit From the Growth Hormone Business

11/1/2008 - (NaturalNews) Even the giant hand of Monsanto was not big enough to ram down the throats of consumers milk from growth hormone treated cows. It now wants to exit the artificial growth hormone business, by selling Prosilac, the unit that makes it. This...

Pesticides Make Farmers Literally Depressed

10/26/2008 - (NaturalNews) Pesticides are poison. They are used to kill living creatures. In order to kill those living creatures, humans apply the pesticides. We also eat what`s left of them. We`ve seen handlers of banana pesticide sterilized, a young couple who...

Choosing the Right Foods for Your Family Can Make a Significant Nutritional Difference

10/24/2008 - (NaturalNews) You've seen the labels before. You've heard the buzz in your grocery store aisles. Organic! Grass fed! But what is that anyway? And does it really matter if you buy organic or grass fed products? Let's start with what makes something...

White Sugar Now Coming From Genetically-Modified Sugar Beets

10/7/2008 - (NaturalNews) This year saw the first commercial planting of genetically modified (GM) sugar beets in the United States, with that sugar to hit the food supply soon after. Farmers across the country will soon be planting Monsanto's Roundup Ready sugar...

Dairy Industry Under Justice Department Investigation for Alleged Price Fixing

9/20/2008 - (NaturalNews) The U.S. government's Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is investigating whether the dairy industry has engaged in price fixing to illegally increase its profits, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. The main...

Proposal Could Lead to Growing Crops on Preserved Land

9/13/2008 - (NaturalNews) There are approximately 34 million acres of land across the U.S. that the government has paid farmers to stop growing row crops including corn and soybeans on. This land is currently designated as conserved land that is part of the Conservation...

The Frightening Diet of American Cows: Potato Chips, Chocolate and Chicken Manure

9/12/2008 - (NaturalNews) In The Physiology of Taste, written in 1825, Anthelme Brillat-Savarin wrote, "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." This is the origin of the popular phrase, "You are what you eat." It's no secret that America is facing...

Almond Growers Sue USDA to Halt Mandatory Chemical Fumigation of Raw Almonds

9/10/2008 - (NaturalNews) After having their organic almond businesses devastated by the USDA's bizarre decision requiring mandatory chemical fumigation of almonds, the almond industry is fighting back. Fifteen American almond growers have filed a lawsuit against...

No End Seen to Destruction of Farm Output Capacity and Food Shortages

8/31/2008 - (NaturalNews) Farmers are blasting the role of the food cartels in destroying farm output capacity, creating food shortages and producing monopolistic conditions. In a recent interview for Executive Intelligence Review, Frank Endres, board member of the...

No End Seen to Cartel's Destruction of Food Capacity

8/29/2008 - (NaturalNews) Farmers are blasting the role of the food cartels in destroying farm output capacity, creating food shortages and producing monopolistic conditions. In a recent interview for Executive Intelligence Review, Frank Endres, board member of the...

Utah Dairy Farmers Push to Censor Hormone-Free Dairy Labels

8/10/2008 - (NaturalNews) The state of Utah is considering imposing a ban on labeling any milk sold in the state as hormone-free. This would be a break with both federal law and the laws of all 49 other states. The controversy concerns recombinant bovine somatotropin...

Crisis Looms as Corporations Seize Control of Commodities

8/2/2008 - (NaturalNews) The global food crisis won't go away any time soon. Capitalism has the average consumer by the belly. Amid growing signs of famine and outrage, the entire chain of commodities and resources of the world are now being cornered by giant corporations....

North Dakota Farmers Sue to Overturn U.S. Ban on Industrial Hemp

7/15/2008 - (NaturalNews) A pair of North Dakota hemp farmers have filed suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals to overturn a federal ban on the production of commercial hemp. North Dakota is the only state that allows the cultivation of industrial hemp, and the state...

Mike Adams, Founder of the Consumer Wellness Center, Discusses Healthy Sweeteners

6/12/2008 - (NaturalNews) This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's The Healthiest Year of Your Life Program which can be found at (http://www.thehealthiestyearofyourlife.com) . In this excerpt, Mike Adams weighs in on sweeteners including one's to avoid and...

The Economics of World Hunger

6/7/2008 - (NaturalNews) Food has become the new gold. Investors weary of the real-estate bubble-burst have poured millions of dollars into grain futures. This has succeeded in driving up prices even more. Now we are witnessing a global panic as nations are waging...

The National Animal Identification System - Who Wins and Who Loses

3/25/2008 - (NaturalNews) The recall of 143 million pounds of beef processed over the past two years is the largest meat recall in the history of the world. The USDA had no choice following an animal group's release of videotape of "downer" cows being dragged across...

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...

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