Agriculture

How Farmed Fish Degrades Our Health and the Environment – Better Options Included

April 30, 2018 by Michael Edwards
Last updated on: April 30, 2018

More than 1 billion people across the world rely on fish as their main source of protein. Consequently, the world’s oceans are in trouble with marine life plummeting. More than 80 percent of the world’s fisheries are either considered fully… [read]

GMO Apples Are Sold On Amazon

April 5, 2018 by Michael Edwards

GMO Arctic apples are being sold on Amazon. There is no notice that the food is GMO. There’s nothing illegal about this; GMO foods do not have to be labeled. If you’re wondering what they look like and what to… [read]

Coffee, Glyphosate Levels, and Shorter Pregnancies

April 3, 2018 by Michael Edwards
Last updated on: April 3, 2018

Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, is the most commonly used herbicide in the world. Nearly 300 million pounds of Roundup is sprayed on U.S. farms every year. A small Indiana study found that more than 90 percent of pregnant… [read]

GMO Corn Bathed in Glyphosate is Now Vermont’s Top Crop

March 13, 2018 by Michael Edwards
Last updated on: April 25, 2018

Vermont’s Agency of Agriculture, Food, and Markets eventually released the data from January in response to a public records request after three years of not publishing the information. The newly published data covers the years 2014-2016 and reveals a dramatic… [read]

Record Levels of Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs Found in Grocery Store Chicken

January 25, 2018 by Kristina Martin

Researchers in the United Kingdom have found that supermarket chickens have a higher proportion of Campylobacter bacteria than they did ten years ago. Drug-resistant Campylobacter is a major cause of concern for health officials, with more than 300,000 infections a… [read]

GM Rice From China – They Don’t Want It, So We’re Getting It?

January 25, 2018 by Michael Edwards

Genetically modified rice developed in China has passed safety inspections by the U.S. FDA, the first step for the rice to be exported to the U.S. The good news is that neither China nor the U.S. has approved the genetically… [read]

Your Grass-Fed Beef is About to Get More Expensive

January 22, 2018 by Kristina Martin
Last updated on: January 22, 2018

More people want to consume meat in a more humane or ethical way, and grass-fed beef has been a large part of that equation. The grass-fed beef market is on the verge of a crisis though, as the levels of… [read]