Provided by Organic Consumers Fund
National surveillance for Lyme disease began in 1982 and since then the number of reported cases has grown over 25-fold. Between 1990 and 2015, the number of reported cases in the U.S. doubled. The disease has also spread geographically.
Read moreColorectal cancer, which includes both cancers of the colon and rectum, is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States.
Read moreAt "Berks Family Residential Center," kids contemplate suicide as their mothers go on hunger strike.
Read moreHave you ever eaten butter by the spoon? Butter without toast to prop it up or eggs to fry in it — butter for its own tangy, full-flavored, exquisite sake?
Read moreIts pollinator seed giveaway was a huge hit, but some advocates challenge the flower mix.
Read moreFolks, we are living in exciting times, in which the industrial economy is giving way to the information economy. Since agriculture was the last economic sector to move from the agrarian to the industrial economy, it will be the last to exit.
Read moreHow long do you hope your children or grandchildren will live? Do you think you or your loved ones will live 60 more years? If so, you’ll be around to witness the end of food production on the planet. Unless, that is, we become conscious of the crisis and evolve.
Read moreThe Los Angeles-based law firm of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman and co-counsel Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., filed three bundled complaints last week on behalf of 136 plaintiffs from across the country who allege exposure from Roundup weed killer caused them to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Read moreOfficials at a medical school in New York State say they will investigate a faculty member who, according to internal documents released last week by a federal court in California, put his name on a paper partially ghostwritten by employees at Monsanto, the giant agricultural chemicals company based in St. Louis, Missouri.
Read moreThe New York Times reported Tuesday (March 14) that a former high-level EPA official collaborated with Monsanto to bury the truth about Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller.
According to the Times, and other news outlets, Monsanto and the EPA official may have conducted a cover-up in order to protect Monsanto’s billion-dollar flagship product from being taken off the market.
For decades, the evidence has been mounting that Roundup causes cancer. Yet even after a panel of 17 scientists with the World Health Organization unanimously agreed that Roundup is a “probably carcinogenic,”
Read more