GMO Purple Tomatoes Just Moved One Step Closer to Grocery Shelves – Should You Buy Them?
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) favorably reviewed genetically engineered purple tomatoes, developed by Norfolk Plant Sciences. The USDA found the genetically engineered (GE) plant is “unlikely to pose an increased plant pest risk compared to other cultivated tomatoes and is not subject to regulation …” This says nothing of GE purple tomatoes’ potential to […]
Emerging Techniques in Biotechnology Pose New Risks to the Non-GMO Supply Chain
Non-GMO Project Is it possible to create a non-GMO product using genetic engineering? While that might seem ludicrous to most of us, biotechnology companies have mounted an aggressive campaign to convince the world that the products of new genetic engineering techniques such as CRISPR are, in fact, non-GMO. Although this is completely unsupported by the […]
GMO: Myth & Facts
What They Don’t Want to Tell You About Genetically Modified Crops and Foods Claire Robinson The public is constantly told that genetically modified (GM) crops and foods are needed to feed the world’s growing population and to meet the challenges that face farmers – climate change as well as pests and diseases. It is claimed […]
Synthetic Biology – The Future of Food?
Environmental Health Symposium While we were distracted with Covid-19, lockdowns, mask mandates, and other conundrums, manufacturers of artificial food were busy at work creating the “new food economy.” Since the strategy for getting pesticide-intensive GMO crops onto your plate or your backyard is failing (see Kellogg Commits to Phasing Out Glyphosate by 2025 and Bayer […]
The Menace of Synthetic Foods
Royal Lee “There is only one test for safety and wholesomeness in food,” Dr. Royal Lee proclaims in this succinct overview of his nutritional philosophy. “That is the test of time. The test of a long history of use, over many generations of life.” Dr. Lee expounds on the ill effects of processed foods, which were pushed […]
Dirty Secrets of the Food Processing Industry
Weston A. Price Foundation WE HAVE ALWAYS PROCESSED OUR FOOD; this is an activity that is uniquely human. We cook our food—that is one type of processing–as well as ferment, grind, soak, chop and dry. All of these are types of food processing. Traditional processing has two functions: to make food more digestible and to […]
Why the Fake Food Race is Worth $3 Trillion
Joseph Mercola Industrial agriculture is a key driver of environmental destruction and ill health, yet this destructive cycle is defended in the name of affordable food and the need to feed the masses. Industrial agriculture uses 75% of available farmland yet produces just 30% of food consumed globally. Small biodiverse farms use 25% of land […]
Rat Feeding Study Suggests the Impossible Burger May Not Be Safe to Eat
Claire Robinson, Michael Antoniou The Impossible Burger is a plant-based burger, the key ingredient of which is a protein called soy leghemoglobin (SLH), derived from genetically modified (GM) yeast A rat feeding study commissioned by the manufacturer Impossible Foods found that rats fed SLH developed unexplained changes in weight gain, changes in the blood that […]
