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Last month the Food & Drug Administration published its latest annual analysis of the levels of pesticide residues that contaminate the fruits and veggies and other foods we Americans routinely put on our dinner plates. The fresh data adds to growing consumer concern and scientific debate over how pesticide residues in food may contribute – or not – to illness, disease and reproductive problems.
Over 55 pages of data, charts and graphs, the FDA's "Pesticide Residue Monitoring Program" report also provides a rather unappetizing example of the degree to which U.S. farmers have come Read More
A trial set to start next week over claims that Monsanto’s Roundup weed killers cause cancer has been postponed until at least next year, according to a judge’s ruling on Friday.
The trial would have been the first of its kind to take place in the St. Louis area, Monsanto’s hometown before the company sold to German pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG last year.Read More
October 16 was World Food Day. So we thought it fitting to remind consumers why it’s critical to boycott industrially produced meat, and why we should never give up the battle to end factory farming, once and for all.Read More
When you buy certified organic processed meats (bacon, ham, salami, hot dogs, etc.) with the words “uncured” and “no nitrates” on the package, you assume you’re avoiding cancer-causing substances, right?
Not if the meat you buy also contains celery powder.Read More
Unless we stop abusing the world’s soil, we’ve got 60 years until we run out of farmable land.
“The Need To GROW", an award-winning new film narrated by Rosario Dawson, profiles three very different solutionary heroes and their Read More
What will we eat in the future? What was once an rhetorical musing has now become the critical question of our time as scientists grapple with tricky questions about life—and larders—in a climate-changing world.
Agriculture is both a key contributor to climate change and one of the sectors most vulnerable to Read More
Organic farming is a win-win for people, animals and the planet. But it’s so much more than a set of practices used to grow food.
Organic agriculture takes a holistic approach that embraces Mother Read More
The EPA—especially under Trump, but also under the next administration, too—will never ban Roundup, or any of the scores of toxic chemicals threatening our lives, without massive grassroots pressure. OCA and our allies, after 20 years of steady campaigning, have created a growing awareness and resistance against the Poison Cartel. We need to put the Poison Cartel out of business.
But we can’t do it Read More
Why is it especially urgent that we ramp up the campaign against Roundup weedkiller right now?
Because the U.S. EPA is facing a deadline to decide whether to renew—or ban—glyphosate.
There are signs that the political will to keep allowing this cancer-causing chemical to Read More
As if we needed more evidence of the dangers posed by Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller, this just in from GM Watch:
A newly published study adds to the ever-growing pile of evidence in support of the cancer-causing potential of the weedkiller active ingredient glyphosate. Glyphosate herbicides like Roundup are used on over 85% of genetically modified crops.Read More
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