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Seventh Generation's Misleading Marketing Claims and Greenology, the Organic Alternative Organic Consumers Association exposes Seventh Generation's misleading marketing claims and lets consumers know about an organic alternative, GreenShield by Greenology PETITION ALERT: Safeguard Animal Welfare! Stop Labeling Fraud! Ban Nanotech! PETITION ALERT: Stop Feeding Chicken Feces to Cows! Did you know that cattle are routinely fed the waste from the floor of commercial chicken houses? That's feces, feathers, spilled feed, straw, dirt and anything else on the floor under the cramped birds. PETITION ALERT: American Crystal Says Yes to GMO, Say No to American Crystal A federal judge has ruled that the government illegally approved genetically engineered sugar beets without adequately considering the chance that they will contaminate other beet crops. Forced Vaccines Refused By Nurses In New York Swine Flu Vaccine: How To Protect Your Immune System from the Dangers of Vaccines Overuse of denture cream with zinc sparks lawsuits Hundreds of people claiming similar problems are suing consumer products giants Procter & Gamble Co., which makes Fixodent, and GlaxoSmithKline, maker of PoliGrip. At least 25 lawsuits from 11 states have been consolidated for pretrial hearings before a federal judge.
When an animal refuses to eat its regular feed it is oftentimes a clear sign that something is wrong with the food. Chickens refusing to eat the maize they had been fed has led to the discovery that their feed had been genetically modified to include a well-known weed and insect killer.
Boycott Kelloggs! Stop Monsanto's GE Sugar The GE sugar beet is designed to withstand strong doses of Monsanto's controversial broad spectrum Roundup herbicide. Studies indicate farmers planting "Roundup Ready" corn and soy spray large amounts of the herbicide, contaminating both soil and water. Farmers planting GE sugar beets are told they may be able to apply the herbicide up to five times per year.
USDA under Obama Administration: What has slipped under everyone's radar screen is Taylor's [Michael R. Taylor] involvement in setting U.S. policy on agricultural assistance in Africa. In collusion with the Rockefeller and Bill and Melinda Gates foundations, Taylor is once again the go-between man for Monsanto and the U.S. government, this time with the goal to open up African markets for genetically-modified (GM) seed and agrochemicals.
Hazardous Nanotech in Grocery Store Aisles Untested nanotechnology is being used in more than 100 food products, food packaging and contact materials currently on the shelf, without warning or new FDA testing, according to a report released today by Friends of the Earth.
Engineered Foods Allowed on the Market
Action Alert Safeguard Organic Standards!
FDA is Getting Serious with Tylenol Risks to Your Health The FDA is weighing a ban on combination products, which are often marketed to consumers with colds or other mild illnesses. The industry instead urged a widespread effort to warn buyers about the risks of liver damage linked to acetaminophen.
European Court Ruling spells an end to water fluoridation The beginning of the end - fluoridation must now be banned, worldwide.
Human and Animal Cancer Evidence Prompts Review of Fluoride over protests by the lobbyists for the American Dental Association and the Personal Care Products Council who oppose further evaluation of fluoride as cancer-causing, the State's Qualified Experts established fluoride and its salts as meriting the highest priority they can recommend for further review toward including fluorides on a Prop 65 list of chemicals for which warnings for risks of cancer, birth defects, and reproductive toxicity are to be publicly posted.
Vegetable Crops Medicated by Manure A new University of Minnesota study shows that vegetable crops fertilized with manure from medicated animals absorb the antibiotics right along with the nutrients. In the leaves of green onion, cabbage, and corn crops treated with manure, the livestock antibiotics chlortetracycline and sulfamethazine appeared.
OVERUSE OF ANTIBIOTICS IN MEAT PRODUCTION THREATENS PUBLIC HEALTH The routine addition of antibiotics to animal feed has enabled highly adaptive bacteria to learn how to fend off most of the medicines used to kill them. In effect, say microbiologists, by overusing antibiotics we've selected the strongest to survive, the very ones we're least prepared to defend against.
"The object of this is to make highly processed foods appear as healthful as unprocessed foods, which they are not," said Marion Nestle, a nutrition professor at New York University.
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