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An important trend, sure to continue gaining even more momentum in 2007, is organic food. The Organic Food Handbook: A Consumer's Guide to Buying and Eating Organic Food by Ken Roseboro (Basic Health Publications, U.S. $9.95/Canada $11.95) examines the growth of the organic food movement and explains why and how to shop for and eat organic.
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Although no foreign power has threatened a bioterror attack against America, since 9/11 the Bush administration has allocated a stunning $43-billion to "defend" against one. Critics are now saying, however, Bush's newest "biodefense" initiative is both offensive and illegal. The latest development, according to the Associated Press, is that the U.S.
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Americans have been growing more and more health conscious, especially after the International Journal of Pediatric Obesity predicted that half the children in the Western hemisphere would be obese by 2010.
Developing good eating habits is now an ever-growing concern.
Developing good eating habits is now an ever-growing concern.
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"The Dark Ages. They haven't ended yet." - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
A kind of political narcolepsy has settled over the American environmental movement. Call it eco-ennui. You may know the feeling: restlessness, lack of direction, evaporating budgets, diminished expectations, a simmering discontent. The affliction appears acute, possibly systemic.
A kind of political narcolepsy has settled over the American environmental movement. Call it eco-ennui. You may know the feeling: restlessness, lack of direction, evaporating budgets, diminished expectations, a simmering discontent. The affliction appears acute, possibly systemic.
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Child trafficking, labor, and slavery have plagued the cocoa industry for years. But there is an alternative! Fair Trade certification guarantees that your chocolate is free of abusive child labor AND that cocoa farmers earned a fair price that will allow their families to rise out of poverty.
Here are 5 simple things YOU can do this Valentines Day to help stop child slavery and enable children in cocoa-producing families to afford go to school!
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AS THE AMERICAN PUBLIC CONTINUES sleepwalking into a future of energy scarcity, climate change, and geopolitical turmoil, we have also continued dreaming. Our collective dream is one of those super-vivid ones people have just before awakening. It is a particularly American dream on a particularly American theme: how to keep all the cars running by some other means than gasoline. We'll run them on ethanol! We'll run them on biodiesel, on synthesized coal liquids, on hydrogen, on methane gas, on electricity, on used French-fry oil . . . !
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The Puerto Rico Project on Biosafety's blog ( bioseguridad.blogspot.com/) is the only bilingual English-Spanish online resource devoted to critical perspectives on biotechnology- as well as closely related subjects like intellectual property rights, nanotechnology, biopiracy and sustainable agroecological alternatives.
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Milk suppliers to Safeway's Northwest processing plants have stopped using an artificial growth hormone under fire by some consumer groups, the grocery chain said Thursday.
The grocer's announcement comes days after Starbucks confirmed that milk products in its company-owned coffee shops in Oregon and Washington are free of recombinant bovine growth hormone, or rBGH.
The grocer's announcement comes days after Starbucks confirmed that milk products in its company-owned coffee shops in Oregon and Washington are free of recombinant bovine growth hormone, or rBGH.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture appointed four new members to five-year terms on the National Organic Standards Board, beginning Jan. 24.
The new members are Tracy Miedema, consumer/public interest member; Tina Ellor, environmentalist member; Steve DeMuri, handler member; and Katrina Heinze, scientist member.
The new members are Tracy Miedema, consumer/public interest member; Tina Ellor, environmentalist member; Steve DeMuri, handler member; and Katrina Heinze, scientist member.
