Fluoride-free Flyers at No Cost at Natural Health Journal

By David Augenstein

The Journal of Natural Food and Health is offering new fluoride-free flyers at no cost. This powerful flyer enables you to quickly educate others on the real dangers of artificial fluoridation of drinking water and the importance of freedom of choice in personal health and medical decisions and treatments.

Why is this so important now? Forty-one percent of teens are now overdosed on fluoride water and have permanent white or brown spots on their teeth, according to the CDC, while older Americans suffer from numerous disorders made worse by fluoride.

Jazz for Cows

By The New Hot 5

The New Hot 5, American-based jazz band, plays for a herd of cows in Autrans, France.

Suffolk Co. NY to hear proposal to ban chemtrails

Dec. 11 Update: The Dec. 6 public hearing prompted legislators to send the bill to the Suffolk County Health Committee to vote on at the Dec 15 meeting, and, if it passes, will go before the Suffolk County Board for a vote on Dec 20. (Video of hearing at bottom.)

By Rady Ananda
Food Freedom

On Dec. 6, New York’s Suffolk County government will hold a public hearing on a proposal to ban aerial spraying of aluminum oxide, barium, sulfur, and other salts into the air over the county without first filing an Environmental Impact Statement with and receiving approval from the county’s Department of Health Services, Division of Environmental Quality.

Exempted from the proposed ban are aerosol spraying operations for agriculture, and for lyme disease, Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), West Nile virus (WNV), and other disease vector control operations.

Saving Nutritional Supplements: A Battle For Nature, Truth, and Life Itself

By Adam Diskin

We know how hard people are fighting now to save the economy, to stop the wars, to prevent more nuclear power plants, mountain top mining, fracking, and more drilling, to stop genetic engineering, and incredibly importantly – save our farmers and ranchers. [Image]

But what is happening to supplements is little noticed but is of ultimate importance. The battle to save supplements is a battle to save nature and the accumulated wisdom of thousands of years of using it to heal.

CA recalls raw milk that tested clean; targets agtivist Mark McAfee

By Rady Ananda
Food Freedom

In another frenzy by freaked out regulators, the California Dept of Food and Agriculture recalled raw milk products from Organic Pastures Dairy Co. in Fresno, after five children became ill and admitted to drinking raw milk from OPDC.  Tests confirmed, however, that the products did not contain the variety of E. coli known as O157:H7 from which the children suffered.

“Each month [the California Dept of Public Health] tests all Organic Pastures’ products for pathogens,” explained owner Mark McAfee in a public statement. “In addition, Organic Pastures uses a third party for pathogen testing multiple times per week. All these tests have been negative.”

Global milk war ramps up as citizens face off with regulators

By Rady Ananda
Food Freedom

The battle for food freedom intensifies across the planet as citizens assert their right to raw dairy products unadulterated by drugs and genetically modified ingredients – in the face of authorities seeking to restrict our food choices and to criminalize entrepreneurs who operate outside the monopolized factory food system.

The State of Maine recently sued farmer Dan Brown for selling food and milk without State licenses, despite a local law that permits it. “Blue Hill is one of five Maine towns to have passed the Local Food and Community Self-Governance Ordinance,” explains Family Farm Defenders.

Get Sauced for the Holidays and Earn $1 Million Dollars

By Dave Hirschkop

Does your family tussle over who’s got the best spinach-artichoke dip during holiday get-togethers? Can good times turn into a shouting match over whether Mom’s secret ingredient kicks Grandma’s salsa to the curb?

That competitive spirit and the creativity and pride that go with it are just what Dave’s Gourmet (www.davesgourmet.com) is looking for. The company that produces award-winning salsas, sauces, dips and spreads sold around the globe is looking for a few game contenders to spice up its product line.

12 Easy Gourmet Recipes for a Vegetarian Thanksgiving

By Jerry James Stone
TreeHugger

The holidays can be a challenging time for both vegans and vegetarians. But they don’t have to be, especially with these simple and innovative recipes from our Green Wine Guide. They are so tasty, even the most staunch carnivore will want second helpings.

And while we have some really wonderful recipes here, such as Baked Pumpkin Fondue and Persimmon and Basil Pizza, don’t forget to check out our other seasonal recipes here. And don’t worry, we didn’t forget about dessert, like our Beer-Poached Pears with Chocolate Sauce.

Read more at TreeHugger

How Green Is Your Thanksgiving Menu?

By Kiera Butler
Mother Jones

So you’ve got your free-range turkey. Your potatoes are strictly heirloom varieties. The cranberries for your sauce come from the local organic bog. Feeling pretty good about your Thanksgiving dinner, are you? Not so fast: The environmental footprint of food isn’t always what you’d expect.

Last Thanksgiving, PBS Need to Know took a hard look at the subject, from a diverse range of perspectives. In its podcast, which is definitely worth another listen, we hear from geophysicist Gidon Eshel, NASA agronomist Cynthia Rosenzweig, bestselling author Anna Lappé, agricultural analyst Philip Thornton, and animal rights activist Tara Oresick.

What Drugs Was Your Thanksgiving Turkey On?

By Martha Rosenberg
AlterNet

So far, 2011 has not been a great year for turkey producers. In May, an article in Clinical Infectious Diseases reported that half of U.S. meat from major grocery chains–turkey, beef, chicken and pork–harbors antibiotic resistant staph germs commonly called MRSA. Turkey had twice and even three times the MRSA of all other meats, in another study.

In June, Pfizer announced it was ending arsenic-containing chicken feed which no one realized they were eating anyway, but its arsenic-containing Histostat, fed to turkeys, continues. Poultry growers use inorganic arsenic, a recognized carcinogen, for “growth promotion, feed efficiency and improved pigmentation,” says the FDA. Yum.

On a Turkey Farm, 4-H Meets Slow Food

By Kiera Butler
Mother Jones

For the past few weeks, I’ve been blogging about the two heritage turkeys that my friends and I have been raising in our backyard. But our turkeys aren’t Berkeley natives. They spent the first ten days of their lives on the Thode Family Farm in Sebastopol, California. There, the four Thode kids raise dozens of turkeys every year for a collaboration between their 4-H club and the local Slow Foods chapter. Back in September, I visited the farm to learn more about this cool partnership.

The turkey whisperer above is Zach Thode. A soft-spoken 21-year-old, Zach is the veteran turkey farmer of the family. Seven years ago, he and a few friends began raising heritage turkeys for their 4-H club.

10 Counterinsurgency And ‘Psy-Ops’ Tactics Companies Use Against Protesters

Image: fh via flickr Army psychological operation soldiers

By Robert Johnson
Business Insider

Environmental activist Sharon Wilson showed up to an oil industry event in Houston last week and caught a startling glimpse into how the fracking industry approaches residents in towns where they drill.

Wilson recorded industry insiders confirming they hire military psychological operation veterans, and use procedures pulled straight from the Army’s counterinsurgency manual.

Public Enemy No. 1: Review of Cannabanomics

By Robert C. Koehler

“Play faster!” he cried, wildly, over and over. “Play faster!”

The dame who was tickling the ivories complied, out of control herself. The music revved to a dangerous velocity — oh, too fast for decent, sober, well-behaved Americans to bear — and . . . well, you just knew, violence, madness, laughter were just around the corner. The year was 1936 and, oh my God, they were high on marijuana, public enemy number one.

The scene is from Reefer Madness, arguably the dumbest movie ever made — but smugly at the emotional and ideological core of American drug policy for the last three-quarters of a century. The policy, which morphed in 1970 into an all-out “war” on drugs, has filled our prisons to bursting, created powerful criminal enterprises, launched a real war in Mexico and presided over the skyrocketing of recreational drug use in the United States. The war on drugs just may be a bigger disaster than the war on terror.

Squeeze This Rice, and It Drips Blood

By Cathryn Wellner
Care2.com

Put away the Halloween costume. This is not a vampire joke. Chinese scientists at Wuhan University have been working on a genetically modified rice that can yield a human blood protein called human serum albumin (HSA).

Normally HSA protein is manufactured by the liver and harvested the same way any other blood ingredients are, through donations. In heavy demand for both medicinal (severe burns, cirrhosis of the liver, hemorrhagic shock) and laboratory (vaccines, drugs, cell cultures) uses, HSA is in perennially short supply.

The Feds Knew: 50 years of fracking-induced earthquakes

By Rady Ananda
Food Freedom

Washington’s Blog posted some info last August confirming that the US federal government has long known of the link between fracking and earthquakes, as well as the link between deep well fluids contaminating shallow drinking wells. As more info keeps coming out, this collection should serve as a handy resource for those confronting (or occupying) well sites or state regulatory agencies.

Medical Marijuana Mayhem

By METROFARM.COM

When Matthew Cohen’s crop of medical marijuana became the object of a great tug of war between Mendocino County and the United States of America, many paused to ask…

>Which government should be in control: local or federal?

This Saturday at 9am Pacific, the Food Chain Radio show with Michael Olson hosts Matthew Cohen, Mendocino County Medical Marijuana Farmer and Allen St. Pierre, Director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), for a conversation about who should control medical marijuana.

Chicken of the Sea’s Tuna Recipe for Disaster

By Greenpeace USA

Check our newest video by Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Mark Fiore that takes a closer look at the industry’s destructive practices.

Take one random floating object, attach a radio beacon so you can find it later, drop it in the ocean and return later with a giant net and scoop up everything in sight. That’s how Chicken of the Sea catches tuna using fish aggregating devices (FADs) and it’s a recipe for disaster for our oceans.

Guerilla Gardening @ OWS

By OCCUPY TOGETHER: The Short Films

This social and cultural EVOLUTION is taking root in hundreds of cities across the planet and showing little sign of losing momentum. In Zucotti Park (NYC), site of the first OCCUPATION, there are inspiring stories emerging. At every corner of the park is the exchange and the fomentation of ideas.

http://vimeo.com/channels/occupytogether#31533066

New International Report Shreds Japan’s Carefully Constructed Fukushima Scenario

By John Daly
OilPrice.com

According to IRSN, the amount of the radioactive isotope cesium-137 that flowed into the ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant between March 21 and mid-July reached an estimated 27.1 quadrillion becquerels.  Cesium-137 can cause burns, acute radiation sickness and even death at sufficient doses. It can contaminate food and water and, if ingested, gets distributed around the body, where it builds up in soft tissues, such as muscles. Seafood anyone? asks John Daly.

Image at Radioactivity and Thyroid Cancer

Protest against feds focuses on raw-milk: 100 Gallons Distributed at FDA

By Bob Unruh
World Net Daily

Protesters distributed an estimated 100 gallons of raw milk in front of the offices of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration today during a rally that prompted the federal agency to issue a statement defending its crackdown on the product.

The event was organized by the Farm Food Freedom Coalition and a spokesman for the rally, Max Kane, told WND that a caravan of vehicles collected the supplies of raw milk, then traveled to Silver Springs, Md., to the FDA offices for the protest.