Archive for the 'Organic food' Category

How to be organic … a little help

If you are looking for a little help on how to go organic, give this site a shot - www.theorganicreport.org

Monsanto and what they have to say about your food

I stumbled across this today. Big business, government officials, GMO, etc.
In order for the FDA to determine if Monsanto’s growth hormones were safe or not, Monsanto was required to submit a scientific report on that topic. Margaret Miller, one of Monsanto’s researchers put the report together. Shortly before the report submission, Miller left Monsanto and [...]

Who owns organic/natural foods companies?

Mergers in the Food Industry - Updated June 16, 2004
Know who you are giving your money to. For example:
Odwalla Juice and Fresh Samantha (juice) are owned by Coca-Cola.

Coca-Cola prohibits unionizing: WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire — Edgar Paez, of the Colombian trade union Sinaltrainal, was joined on Monday by Teamster representatives, the AFL- CIO, members of [...]

Best & Worst Seafood Choices

Polluted, mercury fish. It’s something we should all avoid.
Have you ever found yourself sitting at the restaurant, pondering what to order from the fish selection? What fish is high in mercury? Which species is being over fished? Which fish is considered sustainably harvested seafood?
How about printing out a little Pocket Seafood Selector [...]

Genetically modified GMO / unapproved corn sold by mistake for the past 4 years.

The federal government kept it secret for three months that genetically modified corn seed was sold accidentally to some U.S. farms for four years and may have gotten into the American food supply.