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05/14/2018 / By Janine Acero

Strawberries are the most pesticide-ridden crop you can eat

Eating fruits and vegetables is vital for overall health, but what if every juicy bite contains a cocktail of toxic pesticides? The Environmental Working Group (EWG) analyzed samples of conventionally grown produce tested by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and found that nearly 70 percent were contaminated with pesticide residues. The USDA detected a total of 230 different pesticides and […]

05/09/2018 / By Mike Adams

Surprising things you never knew about the ORGANIC industry – an interview with Reuven Flamer

If you think you really know about organic products and organic certification, prepare to have your mind blown. In this eye-opening Food.news interview, I sit down with Reuven Flamer of Natural Food Certifiers, an organic certifier, to discuss many surprising things you probably never knew about organics. In this interview, we discuss topics like: How […]

03/21/2018 / By Jayson Veley

Dietary recommendations for sugar are being made by the sugar industry itself

In this day and age, it’s incredibly important to conduct your own research and examine specific sources of information before arriving at a definitive conclusion. Money talks, as they say, and often times that money has the power to shape public opinion for better or for worse. Take the sugar industry, for example, which WakingTimes.com […]

03/08/2018 / By David Williams

U.S. beef industry makes strategic move to counter lab-grown meat with legal definition of “meat”

The era of so-called clean meat – artificial meat that was created from cells in a laboratory setting instead of being taken from real, live animals – is almost here. And the world has barely begun to try to keep up. Even the U.S. Cattlemen’s Association (USCA) has taken their sweet time in dealing with […]

11/22/2017 / By David Armstrong

Feds block herbal molecule that makes drinking alcohol less dangerous to your liver — Health Ranger

In recent weeks Natural News founder/editor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, exposed yet another monumental fail on the part of the federal government: The Feds are actively blocking the public from learning about an herbal molecule from licorice root that can be added to alcoholic beverages to dramatically reduce the liver toxicity caused by alcohol […]

10/24/2017 / By David Armstrong

Health Ranger reminds us that U.S. food safety regulators are running on corruption

It’s a new day in Washington, D.C. after Donald J. Trump defied the odds and beat the political establishment of both parties, but unfortunately, the federal bureaucracy lives on and until he has more time to cut it down to size, it will continue to make lives more difficult — and dangerous — for Americans. […]

09/27/2017 / By Tracey Watson

Organic Trade Association sues the USDA for refusing to enforce its own organic livestock standards

On January 18, 2017, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published its final rule on organic livestock and poultry production practices, known as the Organic Animal Welfare Rule. This legislation represented the culmination of 14 years of hard work by Congress and organic stakeholders, and contained rules that had to be implemented in a structured […]

05/12/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Be careful of what you buy: not all “organic” milk is really organic, report reveals

Before you purchase an expensive carton of organic milk, consider the fact that it might not be that different from all other milks filling the dairy aisle. A damning investigative report by the Washington Post sheds some light on an industry that’s massive, lucrative, and, if the report is anything to go by, underhanded. In […]

04/06/2017 / By Tracey Watson

USDA scrubs plan to test foods for dangerous levels of Monsanto’s glyphosate

The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced in March 2015 that glyphosate, the primary ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer, is a probable human carcinogen (i.e. it is likely to cause cancer in humans). Agencies around the world, including in Canada and Europe, took the warning seriously and started taking steps […]

04/03/2017 / By Amy Goodrich

Massive recall of dangerous farm-raised catfish announced

If you are a fish lover and living in Mississippi or Tennessee, then you should pay extra attention when buying catfish (Siluriformes) due to public health concerns. A Mississippi catfish processor, Lakes Farm Raised Catfish Inc., is recalling nearly 1,700 pounds of frozen catfish products after the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety […]

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