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bison corn food sovereignty feature

December 08, 2023

The Return of Bison, Ancestral Seeds and Community Gardens: Food Sovereignty Movement Is Taking Hold

child lead poisoning applesauce fda feature

December 08, 2023

Lead Poisoning Symptoms Reported in 64 Children Who Ate Cinnamon Applesauce Pouches

vandana shiva big ag food nature feature

December 06, 2023

Big Ag Degrades Soil and Pollutes Water — We Need a Food System That Works With Nature

grass-fed beef product usa feature

December 05, 2023

The Label Says ‘Product of the USA’ — But It Probably Came From Somewhere Else

greg gunthorp meat farms cost feature

December 04, 2023

Why Locally Produced, High-Quality Meat Costs So Much

potassium bromate food risk feature

November 30, 2023

50 Years of Research Confirms Serious Health Risks Linked to This Food Additive

big food propaganda wealth feature

November 17, 2023

Big Food Propaganda ‘Designed to Produce Wealth But Not Health’

heavy metals chocolate feature

November 16, 2023

Bittersweet: Study Exposes Hidden Dangers of Heavy Metals in Chocolate

mcdonalds fast food child mental illness feature

November 06, 2023

Fast Food Chains Score ‘Abysmally Low’ on Nutrition, High on Calories: Analysis

fast food heavy metals feature

October 26, 2023

High Levels of Toxic Metals Found in Foods Sold at Top Fast Food Chains

tyson foods protix insects feature

October 24, 2023

Tyson to Build Insect Protein Factory — Critics Say It’s About Money, Not Health or Environment

titanium dioxide food additive bread feature

October 24, 2023

This Food Additive Is Banned in the EU — But Widely Used in the U.S. to Whiten Gum, Candies, Breads and Ice Cream

organic rising common ground feature

October 20, 2023

‘Day of Reckoning Is Coming’: New Films Showcase Benefits of Organic, Regenerative Farming

lunchables school lobbying congress feature

October 19, 2023

‘Who’s to Blame’? How Lunchables Got on School Lunch Menus

October 18, 2023

Testing Reveals High Level of Toxic Pesticides in Foods Sold by Top 20 Fast Food Chains

erythritol risk heart attack stroke feature

October 17, 2023

Sugar-Free, But Not Risk-Free: Popular Sweetener Linked to Heart Attack, Stroke

crispr gene editing chicken bird flu feature

October 17, 2023

Scientists Used CRISPR Gene Editing to Make Chickens Resist Bird Flu — Here’s What Happened

vandana shiva soil healing food feature

October 17, 2023

Vandana Shiva: Soil Holds Answer to Healing Environment, Growing Nutrient-Dense Food

animal antibiotics fast food feature

October 16, 2023

Animal Contraceptive and Antibiotics in Popular Fast Foods, Testing Reveals

push farmers land feature

October 16, 2023

Who’s Behind the Plot to Push Farmers Off Their Land?

cargill amazon destruction feature

October 13, 2023

Letter to Cargill: ‘Stop the Destruction of Our Land’

poison children school lunch food feature

October 11, 2023

Chronic Poisoning of Children Is One of ‘Greatest Crimes’ of Our Times

dietary guidelines food pharma feature

October 06, 2023

U.S. Dietary Guidelines: Brought to You by Big Food and Big Pharma?

lab grown synthetic food dangerous feature

October 04, 2023

The Nutritional ‘Dark Matter’ in Your Food — And Why Synthetic Food Is So Dangerous

avocado oil spray propane feature

October 02, 2023

Is There Propane in Your Nonstick Avocado Oil Spray?

mrna vaccine shrimp farms feature

September 28, 2023

mRNA With Your Shrimp Cocktail? Biotech Firm Developing Oral Vax for Shrimp Farms

transgenic edible vaccines thomas massie feature

September 27, 2023

Vaccines Grown in Lettuce? Rep. Massie Asks House to Bar FDA, USDA From Funding Transgenic Edible Vaccines

mice aspartame slower dumber feature

September 26, 2023

Of Mice and Men: Aspartame at Doses Lower Than FDA Limits Made Male Mice Slower and Dumber

global food system broken feature

September 26, 2023

The Global Food System Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It.

bill gates food farming africa feature

September 21, 2023

5 Questions for Gates Foundation About Its Failed Food & Farming Projects in Africa