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Synopsis: For the first time ever, our children are growing up less healthy than we are. As the rate of cancer, infertility and other illnesses linked to environmental factors climbs ever upward each year, we must ask ourselves: why is this...
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The information for the average gardener on late blight was incomplete and conflicting ”“ far too little to guide a sensible approach. The most prevalent advice was “It's terminal. Kill all your plants.” Here's what master gardener Amy LeBlanc I...
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Is your lawn perfectly manicured but only contains un-edible plants? Why not transform your backyard into an edible garden. Imagine never having to shop for salad or veggies again, how much would you save? Watch this video of an urban family in LA...
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Whether it's the surplus chicken from a factory farm snuck into your kids meal in the form of chicken nuggets or the cheese made from hormone-laden milk made acceptable on WIC food lists, it's really no secret: the role of the USDA's Food...
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A program to test pesticides to make sure they do not affect human hormone systems will be compromised by an Office of Management and Budget order allowing data from studies by pesticide companies to substitute for new studies, according to some...
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Our culture has allowed the health care industry to become so powerful and disproportionately lucrative that it is now in the business of illness rather than health. In one disconcerting example, a cancer physician, returning from an extended...
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"The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America's Emerging Battle Over Food Rights" by David E. Gumpert, foreword by Joel Salatin.
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In this 4-part series, journalist, environmentalist, and author of Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds, Claire Hope Cummings speaks out on behalf of the natural world, and for a new approach to solving the environmental,...
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Some history of the organic agriculture movement: How would consumers seeking chemical-free fruits and vegetables, brown eggs and bulgur wheat find the precious yet rare commodities they prized?
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Gross overcrowding and anesthetic-free castration, tail-docking, and
ear-cutting are all standard practice on the modern farm. And animals
aren't the only ones harmed by factory farms.
