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Tell President Obama and the FDA you won’t eat GMO salmon!

by Food Democracy Now! Right now President Obama and bureaucrats at the Food and Drug Administration are preparing to unleash genetically engineered salmon on the market. After years of controversial...

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Raw Milk Akin to “Controlled Substance” Prosecutor Tells Judge

by David Gumpert The Minnesota Department of Agriculture continues to push ahead with misdemeanor criminal charges involving the distribution of raw milk, meat, and eggs against farmer Alvin Schlangen...

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Family Farmers to Travel to Washington, D.C. to Take on Monsanto

by The Cornucopia Institute WASHINGTON, D.C. –   Dozens of family farmers, Plaintiffs in the landmark lawsuit Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association et al v. Monsanto,will travel from across...

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Do we really need industrial agriculture to feed the world?

The biggest players in the food industry—from pesticide pushers to fertilizer makers to food processors and manufacturers—spend billions of dollars every year not selling food, but selling the idea...

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Demand Growing for Non-GMO Corn Seed Among Farmers

  by The Organic & Non-GMO Report Excerpts: Farmers questioning the value of GMO traits in corn. Interest and demand for non-GMO corn seed among US farmers is growing, according to seed suppliers...

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Viral Gene in Genetically Engineered Foods Could Promote Disease

By Dr. Mercola I’ve previously warned of the potential dangers of genetically engineered (GE) foods for many years now, pointing out that such crops might have wholly unforeseen consequences. In recent...

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US farmers may stop planting GMs after poor global yields

by Robyn Vinter Farmers Weekly Some US farmers are considering returning to conventional seed after increased pest resistance and crop failures meant GM crops saw smaller yields globally than their...

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Food Freedom: Cottage Food Laws Taking Shape at the State Level Across the...

by Baylen Linnekin reason.com Excerpts: State laws permitting cottage foods are quickly catching up with the demand for looser regulations. Nearly three-dozen states now have cottage food laws in...

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New Report Exposes Devastating Impact of Monsanto Practices on U.S. Farmers

by Center for Food Safety Center for Food Safety and Save Our Seeds Investigate Role of Seed Patents in Consolidating Corporate Control of Global Food Supply Today, one week before the Supreme Court...

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FDA Wants to Ban Raw Cheese Despite Absence of a Single Documented Illness in...

by David Gumpert The Complete Patient (I have spent much of the last week reading a 189-page report issued jointly by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Health Canada, with the dry title, “Joint...

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“Approved” Nutrition Advice Bought Out by Processed Food Companies

New World Order Dietitians from Sentient Dietitian on Vimeo.  Health Impact News Editor Comments: The article below by Dr. Mercola explains how the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics threatens your...

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Walmart’s Big Push into Groceries is Not Good for Small Farmers

By Dr. Mercola Groceries make up more than half of Walmart’s retail sales, an amount that’s risen significantly over the past 10 years. The rise makes sense from a business standpoint, since shoppers...

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Court to Farmers: “You Don’t Have the Right to Fight the USDA!”

  by Alliance for Natural Health Once again it’s government and industry on one side, and organic farmers on the other. Action Alert! Last Friday, the DC Court of Appeals held that California almond...

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Raw Milk Hostilities Fueled by Economics, Not Food Safety

by David Gumpert The Complete Patient You might think that after half a dozen years of intense debate and a procession of legal cases in the U.S. and Canada over raw milk and food rights, that there...

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Brooksville Becomes Ninth Maine Town to Pass Food Sovereignty Law

Brian Shilhavy, Editor Health Impact News Back in 2011 we reported the story of how one small Maine town passed a “Food Sovereignty” ordinance to allow the sale of locally produced food without...

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Bloomberg Denied Opportunity to Restrict Freedom of Food Choices

by Alliance for Natural Health “Arbitrary and capricious,” the judge called it. Last year we pointed out that the mayor also has the science wrong. Last June, in an attempt to combat the obesity...

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Stop the Monsanto Protection Act today!

Update 3/14/2013 from Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance: Greetings! As we alerted you yesterday, Monsanto and Agribusiness companies have managed to insert two dangerous provisions into the Continuing...

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How GMO Farming and Food Is Making Our Gut Flora UNFRIENDLY

by Sayer Ji GreenMedInfo.com  Two studies published in the past six months reveal a disturbing finding: glyphosate-based herbicides such as Roundup® appear to suppress the growth of beneficial gut...

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“Monsanto Protection Act” Triggers a Firestorm of Protest and Public Outrage

It’s being called the straw that broke the camel’s back. Bloomberg, The New York Times, Politico—media of all political persuasions—ran searingly critical articles about the biotech rider that the...

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FDA Wants to Ban Artisanal Raw Cheese

FDA simply ignores the lack of a single documented illness in twenty-three years. Between 1986 and 2008, there is not a single documented illness in the US from listeriosis due to tainted brie or...

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