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04/18/2016 / By Julie Wilson

Costco funds organic farming practices to keep up with consumer demand

Last year Costco became the largest organic food retailer in the U.S., selling $6.1 billion worth of produce and about 83 million rotisserie chickens, according to The Seattle Times. Consumer demand for organic food is so high that the retailer can hardly keep up, which is why Costco is setting its sights on organic food […]

04/14/2016 / By Julie Wilson

GMO seeds are NOT ALLOWED in Russia

It wasn’t long ago that Americans had absolutely no clue about the definition of a “GMO;” in fact, most people had never even heard of the term, but those times are long gone and there’s no turning back. Today, not only have the large majority of people heard the word “GMO,” but they possess a […]

04/13/2016 / By Julie Wilson

Monsanto’s lethal Roundup contaminates beer making process in U.S. and Germany

Despite having a long-standing reputation for producing the world’s purest beer, Germany may no longer be able to claim that title after testing showed the beverage to be laced with a deadly herbicide thought to be the root cause of many of today’s modern diseases. In early March, the Munich Environmental Institute discovered flaws in Germany’s […]

03/16/2016 / By Julie Wilson

Huge win for Americans: DARK Act officially defeated!

Today marks a beautiful and victorious day for the organic industry, health food advocates and consumers alike. A bill that would have stripped individual states of their right to label GMOs has been narrowly defeated in the Senate. Coined the “DARK (Deny Americans the Right to Know) Act” by its opponents, the bill is overwhelmingly […]

03/10/2016 / By Julie Wilson

The Netherlands, France, Italy and Sweden block vote to renew Monsanto’s glyphosate license, calling for further safety assessments

Biotech giant Monsanto is finally suffering the consequences of poisoning people and the environment with their cancer-causing herbicide, Roundup. Monsanto, which is on record for operating like a vicious mafia, was called out by the World Health Organization last spring when it declared that Roundup’s primary ingredient, glyphosate, is “probably carcinogenic.” Since then, a string […]

03/10/2016 / By Julie Wilson

Judge rules in favor of all-natural farmers and anti-GMO scientists, indefinitely banning GM maize in Mexico

For nearly three years now, seed giants Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont Pioneer and Dow Chemical have been prohibited from growing genetically-modified maize in Mexico, an area that first domesticated the crop more than 8,000 years ago. The ban went into effect after a federal judge suspended authorizations to grow GM maize in 2013, but an attempt […]

01/27/2016 / By Julie Wilson

Farmers try to sue over genetic pollution from GMOs as Monsanto’s discredit bureau attempts to deflect blame

Nearly a year has passed since the world’s largest seed giant was forced to pay $2.4 million in restitution to farmers in seven states, following the discovery of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready wheat growing in Oregon. Because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had not approved GE wheat, the finding sent shock waves through the industry, […]

01/25/2016 / By Julie Wilson

Monsanto sues California, says its ‘undemocratic’ for listing glyphosate as a carcinogen

One of the world’s most hated companies, Monsanto, is like a bull in a china shop, angrily destroying everything in its path, including people and the resources we need so desperately to survive. Monsanto’s Roundup, for which the primary ingredient is glyphosate, is one of the most widely used herbicides. Over the last two decades, […]

12/15/2015 / By Julie Wilson

Regulatory agencies rubber-stamp more GMOs despite pesticide contamination in our food and everyday products

When considering the health impacts related to pesticides, we normally think of chemical-laden foods; however, another threat that receives a lot less attention is contaminated cotton. Recently, scientists from Argentina published a report finding that 85 percent of cotton-based feminine hygiene products contained glyphosate, the primary ingredient in Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup, Natural News reported last […]

12/11/2015 / By Julie Wilson

Call to action: Sign the proxy letter to remove corporatist shill from the National Organic Program

The superior food quality standards placed on organic food in the U.S. are under attack by corporate representatives from Big Agra who have crept their way onto the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB). In recent years, the board has lost its transparency, favoring and even granting, anonymity to large-scale producers in violation of organic standards, […]

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