How to Heal Yourself in 15 Days

By Mike Adams
Natural News

Can you really heal yourself in 15 days? Without using prescription drugs, vaccines, chemotherapy or surgery? Absolutely!

Your body strives to heal itself automatically, every single day. The only thing that really needs to happen for your body to begin healing itself is for you to remove the barriers to healing — the barriers that are holding you back right now.

The tiny, squiggly dividing line between safe and unsafe food

By Meadow Larkin

For those who want to know what the big deal is about raw milk, in two words it’s good bacteria, killed off by pasteurization.  People drink raw milk because they seek good bacteria.  (Raw milk dairies are tested for diseases so this issue should not be confused with diseases.)

BPI Sues to Keep Ammonia Beef Records Private

By Helena Bottemiller
Food Safety News

The ammonia beef saga has taken an interesting twist.

Right before the New York Times published an article questioning the pervasive use of ammonia in beef processing, lawyers at Marler Clark, LLP, a food safety litigation firm based in Seattle, sent a formal request to Iowa State University seeking public records related to the research a University professor did on the safety of ammoniated beef. Beef Products Inc. (BPI), the company that pioneered the ammonia processing technique, has since filed a suit seeking a court order against the university to prevent public records from being released.

Got milk justice?

By Karen Selick
National Post

Sitting in a courtroom listening to someone read 40 pages of closely written legal text is not something that I would ordinarily describe as a treat, but it was a genuine privilege to be in court last Thursday with dairy farmer Michael Schmidt to hear his acquittal on 19 charges relating to the distribution of raw milk.

Bronx Men Arrested for Candy Posession

By Brendan Brosh
NY Daily News

Bronx men to file $2M suit against city after cops arrested them for ‘crack’ that was really candy

A drug bust of two Bronx men wasn’t all it was cracked up to be – and now they’re looking for a sweet payday from the city.

Turning Cancer on and off with Diet

By T. Colin Campbell
VegSource.com

This is Professor T. Colin Campbell PhD’s FULL presentation at the 2003 VegSource Healthy Lifestyle Expo.

In the 45 minute talk, Professor Campbell discusses the powerful evidence demonstrating that animal protein is one of the most carcinogenic substances people are regularly exposed to.

Just Say No 2 GMO

By SayNo2GMO

Schmidt Wins: Raw Milk Co-ops Legal in Canada

Court case heats up raw dairy debate in Canada

By Darcy Wintonyk, ctvbc.ca

An unprecedented court decision in Ontario upholding the legality of raw milk co-ops may help the legal battles of a B.C. farmer and force Canadian regulators to legalize the sale of unpasteurized dairy, according to raw dairy experts.

Durham, Ont., farmer Michael Shmidt was found not-guilty on 19 charges related to selling unpasteurized milk Thursday.

US Canadian Alliance for Raw Milk Launch Set for Date of Schmidt Verdict

By Canada Free Press

TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA –  In response to the increasing government offensive against raw dairy farms, U.S. and Canadian Alliances for Raw Milk (ARMs) were launched this month. These Alliances for Raw Milk (US ARM and Canadian ARM) and Family Farm and Food Freedom plan to promote connections between natural farmers and dairies and families who want fresh, wholesome and healthy natural food choices, based on their nutritional education and food traditions.

Codex Alimentarius: Control Food and You Control People

By Robert L Pritchett
Mac Blog

Ever heard of Codex Alimentarius? Trapping wasps is done by creating a trap that allows them in, but does not allow them out. That is basically what Codex Alimentarius does for us. It lets us in, but does not let us out. It went into effect in the USA as of December 31, 2009.

Is the Obama administration about to eat the foodies for lunch?

Food Irradiation Facility

By David Gumpert
Grist

These are heady times for foodies—you know, the people who love farmers markets and community supported agriculture (CSAs), and hate Big Ag. They’ve turned the documentary movies “Food Inc.” and “Fresh!” into big hits. And they’ve turned “Slow food” into a generic term (there actually is an organization  by that name that boasts more than 100,000 members in 132 countries).

A seeming army of foodie bloggers (of which I am one) sees the hand of Big Ag’s pesticides and feedlot practices (Monsanto, Con Ag, Tyson, etc.) in the explosive growth of chronic disease, and genetically modified food. It’s a neat good-guy/bad-guy scenario, with only one wild card: Is the U.S. government with or against the foodies?

World Veterinary Agency to Probe Meat-Climate Link

By Agence France-Press

PARIS—The world’s top authority in farm animal health announced on Thursday it would launch a study into the role of meat in climate change.

The report, carried out by independent experts, is expected to be published “by the summer,” Bernard Vallat, head of the World Organization for Animal Health, known by its French acronym of OIE, said in Paris.

Supermarket News Forecasts Non-GMO Uprising

By Jeffrey M. Smith
Huffington Post

For a couple of years, the Institute for Responsible Technology has predicted that the US would soon experience a tipping point of consumer rejection against genetically modified foods; a change we’re all helping to bring about. Now a December article in Supermarket News supports both our prediction and the role the Institute is playing.

Behind Mass Die-Offs, Pesticides Lurk as Culprit

White-nose Syndrome, named for the tell-tale white fuzz it leaves on bats’ ears and noses, has killed more than a million bats in the northeastern United States.

By Sonia Shah
Yale Environment 360

In the past dozen years, three new diseases have decimated populations of amphibians, honeybees, and — most recently — bats. Increasingly, scientists suspect that low-level exposure to pesticides could be contributing to this rash of epidemics.

Ever since Olga Owen Huckins shared the spectacle of a yard full of dead, DDT-poisoned birds with her friend Rachel Carson in 1958, scientists have been tracking the dramatic toll on wildlife of a planet awash in pesticides. Today, drips and puffs of pesticides surround us everywhere, contaminating 90 percent of the nation’s major rivers and streams, more than 80 percent of sampled fish, and one-third of the nation’s aquifers. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, fish and birds that unsuspectingly expose themselves to this chemical soup die by the millions every year.

The Ecological Impacts of Animal Agriculture

 

Building a manure lagoon

By Mia MacDonald
Farm Sanctuary Magazine

Numbers sometimes tell a story better than words can. First: 86 million. That’s the number of acres planted with corn in the U.S.  Next: 4.35 million — the total number of U.S. acres planted with vegetables (130,000 of those acres are broccoli). This means that the acreage of U.S. farmland apportioned to growing vegetables is a mere 5 percent of what’s devoted to growing corn. That’s a real problem, since a majority of that corn won’t feed people, but rather animals — specifically, the approximately 10 billion farm animals raised and slaughtered in the U.S. each year.

Benefits of Beet Juice Exceed Expectations

By Kim Evans
Natural News

The health benefits of beet juice aren’t well known, but they are profound. Beet juice is best known as a blood purifier and blood builder that helps in the creation of red blood cells. Russian longevity researcher, Mikhail Tombak, Ph.D., tells us that beet juice improves blood structure and cures diseases of the circulatory system, large intestine, and digestive system. Tombak also shares that beet juice dissolves stones in the liver, kidneys and bladder. Not bad for a common item found in most grocery stores.

S 510: Small Farms Under Attack AGAIN

By Shelly Roche

Food Stamp Program Takes Steps to Encourage a Whole Foods Diet

By Jeremiah Smith
Natural News

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), administered by the USDA, helps low-income individuals and families put food on the table. It is commonly and historically known as the Food Stamp Program. The new name was adopted following enactment of the 2008 Farm Bill, which brought many new changes including expanded coverage and funding to promote nutrition. In an attempt to help improve eating habits and combat the obesity epidemic, SNAP has created incentives for the purchase of nutritious foods. A number of nonprofit groups are participating in this effort to offer such incentives at the point-of-sale.

New Study Confirms Organic Food Far Healthier than Conventional

By David Gutierrez
Natural News

Organic produce is nutritionally superior to so-called “conventional” produce, according to a comprehensive review conducted by researchers from the University of Aix-Marseille for the French food agency (AFSSA) and published in the journal Agronomy for Sustainable Development.

Three Approved GMOs Linked to Organ Damage

By Rady Ananda

In what is being described as the first ever and most comprehensive study of the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, researchers have linked organ damage with consumption of Monsanto’s GM maize.