Hey Homes, ‘sup? Did y’all know you was being played for a chump? Played by people with more agendas than congress. Which brings me to your statement on Monsanto’s herbicide, RoundUp, and more specifically, its active ingredient, glyphosate. You issued a press release on March 15, 2017. “New questions about the safety of Monsanto weedContinue reading “An Open Letter to California Representative Ted Lieu”
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Congressman Ted Lieu Makes Statement on His Glyphosate Concerns: The Activist Hobbyhorse Rides Again
Congressman Ted Lieu who represents California’s 33rd district (which includes Beverly Hills, Calabasas, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Palos Verdes Peninsula, and Santa Monica) issued a statement on his concerns about glyphosate. Below is his statement: REP. LIEU STATEMENT ON NEW GLYPHOSATE SAFETY CONCERNS March 15, 2017 Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington – Today, Congressman TedContinue reading “Congressman Ted Lieu Makes Statement on His Glyphosate Concerns: The Activist Hobbyhorse Rides Again”
Make America Plate Again. (Sunday Talk Show Edition)
[Voiceover] Welcome to FFN’s (Food Fetish Network) Sunday talk show, Plate the Nation; where we discuss current food issues on the nation’s plate with movers and salad shakers in the news. And here is the host of Plate the Nation, Bob Sheep-Sheerer. A Photo of Food By Unknown [Camera focuses on Sheep-Sheerer: a man inContinue reading “Make America Plate Again. (Sunday Talk Show Edition)”
How do experts determine the safe level of a chemical?
Ames points out that our test for carcinogenicity of feeding animals near-fatal doses of the chemical is flawed because, “High doses can cause chronic wounding of tissues, cell death, and consequent chronic cell division of neighboring cells, which would otherwise not divide.”
Don’t Drink Yellow Tap Water
California, chemaphobia, and the ‘Erin Brockovich chemical’ (Chromium-6) Chromium 6 found in elementary school’s drinking water On March 11, 2016, Coyote Valley Elementary School near Middletown, California (north of San Francisco), started handing out bottled water following reports that the Hidden Valley Lake municipal water supply had levels of chromium-6 higher than were allowed byContinue reading “Don’t Drink Yellow Tap Water”
Don’t Fear That GMO Ear (of corn)
Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy. – Paracelsus I had a conversation on Twitter a while ago about genetically engineered crops. One of the last tweets said, “It’s not the genetically modified food that worries me … it’s the poisoning ofContinue reading “Don’t Fear That GMO Ear (of corn)”
EWG (Yawn) Trots Out Their Decades-Old List
From a media release by the Alliance for Food and Farming As they have done for the last 20 years, today the Environmental Working Group (EWG) issued its annual so-called “dirty dozen” list concerning pesticide residues and produce. In an attempt to re-spark interest in its list, EWG debuted a new fruit in the numberContinue reading “EWG (Yawn) Trots Out Their Decades-Old List”
Look for the Non-GMO Seal of Approval on the Package; it’s Your Sign of Assurance That You are Getting Lower Nutrition at a Higher Price.
Many [people, even those with digital watches,] were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place, and some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the oceans. Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide toContinue reading “Look for the Non-GMO Seal of Approval on the Package; it’s Your Sign of Assurance That You are Getting Lower Nutrition at a Higher Price.”
In Defense of (Processed) Food
New-agers are the sort of people who name their child Raspberry.
Organic Pesticides and Labels: Good for the goose and all that…
This caught my eye this morning: American Council on Science and Health President Hank Campbell was on the airwaves Saturday with host Mike Olson and an organic trade rep to talk about labeling GMOs. Most fun was when the organic trade rep sputtered at the notion that there should be complete transparency on food labelsContinue reading “Organic Pesticides and Labels: Good for the goose and all that…”
Nullius in Verba 