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• The Power of Moms

  
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  Dear Moms ” If every Mom knew how awesome they are , every problem in the world would be fixed.” – Kid President When I watched the following video,  my heart giggled. My soul glowed and I thought of all the times when I stopped, looked and listened to the glory of childhood…and sometimes even joined in ...
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• Weekend Reading

  
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  Keep the heat on Health Canada: http://www.stopnosodes.org Here’s what’s keeping this pharmacist engaged and sometimes outraged: Health Canada explicitly puts the financial interests of homeopathy manufacturers above broader public health goals. From the BC Medical Journal, Health Canada licenses ...
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• Natural GMOs Part 163. The Lurker: How A Virus Hid In Our Genome For Six Million Years

  
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  Carl Zimmer working skilfully at his craft of telling a compelling science story: ...HIV belongs to a class of viruses called retroviruses. They all share three genes in common. One, called gag, gives rise to the inner shell where the virus’s genes are stored. Another, called env, makes knobs on the outer surface ...
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• Bee Deaths Create Crisis for Crops

  
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  Our nations bees are vanishing. Every winter for the last six years, more than a third of all bee colonies in the U.S. have simply ... gone. Now the decimated bee population has finally reached critical mass. According to an industry wide survey, there will no longer be enough bees in the U.S. to pollinate our almond, ...
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• ‘Nothing improves an economy as efficiently as agriculture’–Bill Gates to US Senate

  
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  Bill Gates visits a site of the East African Dairy Development project, which is funded by his foundation; researchers based in Nairobi at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), a CGIAR centre, provide technical and other backstopping to this project, which is led by Heifer International (USA) (photo ...
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• Why the Food Industry Loves to Scare Us Into Eating Scarier Food

  
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  People can be so convincing. Especially when it comes to food. Humans love enthusiasm. We adore showmanship and passion. Attend a four-hour long Bruce Springsteen concert or the Super Bowl, and see if you don’t leave feeling inspired and renewed in the human spirit (if also a bit exhausted…and broke). It’s why ...
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• Greening our meat: A vegan conservationist speaks out, and considerately, on controversial food issues

  
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  Meat , ink and watercolour on paper (15 x 11″), created 25 April 2012 by artist Kristy Modarelli for the The Aldas Project: 366 Drawings for Good, a year-long project conducted by artist in 2012. Vegan and conservationist Mark Tercek, president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy , the largest environmental ...
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• Life Running Out of Control (video)

  
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  In the mid 1980s, scientists unlocked the genetic keys to manipulating our world. Suddenly everything seemed possible! There would be no more hunger or malnutrition; diseases would be vanquished and poverty wiped out. But twenty years on the situation looks very different. From the loss [...]
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• Kenya’s newly elected government advised to be bullish on agricultural biotechnology and genetically modified foods

  
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  Cynthia Onzere, a staff member in the animal biotechnology laboratories of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), in Nairobi, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Evelyn Katingi). ‘A newly elected government provides a country with a rare opportunity for a fresh start—and President Uhuru Kenyatta’s ...
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• GM Crops and Water – A Recipe for Disaster

  
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  A fully referenced and illustrated version of this article is posted on ISIS members website and is otherwise available for download here.Genetically modified foods are a threat to our dwindling water supplies; they are less water-efficient and contaminate fresh waterby Dr Eva SirinathsinghjiGenetically Modified (GM) ...
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• How To Make And Use Compost Tea

  
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  – The Ultimate Organic Fertilizer  byoldworldgarden             Compost tea is the perfect way to boost your plants growth and obtain higher yields – NATURALLY. Better yet, you can make it for free using your own compost!  We keep our garden productive year after year by following a simple and ...
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• Vinegar Friday -- Watch out for GMOs!

  
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  TGIVF! Its been one heck of a week! Between my grandbaby being born on Tuesday and our having the lovely little Lady Laura staying with us since Monday, I havent had the chance to get much work done. Thats why todays post is going to be super short. I wrote about petroleum in distilled ...
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• ‘Nature’ takes a hard look at the ‘messy middle ground’ — the ‘difficult adolescence’ — of GM crops

  
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  Cover of a special issue of ‘Nature’ on GMOs, 2 May 2013. The leading British science journal Nature has published a special issue on GM crops: Promise and reality   (2 May 2013). This hub of updated science-based information on GM crops includes feature news stories, commentaries, a podcast and more. ...
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• Meet ‘Rosé’, Del Monte’s New Red-Fleshed GMO Pineapple

  
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  It sounds harmless enough, like something youd serve on special occasions. But Del Montes red-fleshed Rosé pineapple is special for another reason: its genetically modified.
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• News for Foodies – April 2013

  
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  Subscribe now http://foodintegritynow.org/2013/03/20/welcome-to-food-integrity-now/ On Wednesday, April 24, 2013, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) introduced Bills to the Senate and House of Representatives that would require food manufacturers to clearly label any product containing ...
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• Hybrid Seeds vs. GMOs

  
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  Hybrid Seeds. Genetically-modified (GMO) seeds. Heirloom seeds. The labels often confuse people. Not a single day passes without some well-meaning reader leaving a comment like this one: "GMOs are perfectly safe. Farmers and gardeners have been cross-breeding seeds like this for thousands of years. Take off your ...
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• Can we get GMO labeling? Monsanto hates the new Right-to-Know Bill

  
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  Do Americans have the right to know what’s in our food? Do we have the right to choose to NOT eat Genetically Modified (GMO) food? The next round in the years-long battle has begun, as Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Congressman Pete DeFazio (D-OR) introduce the Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act ...
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• FDA Receives 1.5 Million Public Comments Opposing GMO Salmon

  
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  Last weeks FDA deadline on the pending approval of genetically modified salmon saw nearly 1.5 million comments oppose the approval.
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• Monsanto’s Roundup Herbicide Linked to Obesity, Cancer, Heart Disease and Autism

  
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  Roundup, the best-selling glyphosate-based herbicide marketed by Monsanto, has been linked to several new health risks including obesity, autism and cancer, according to new research.
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• Why is there a Crab Shell Coating on Your Fruit?

  
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  Bananas have undergone lots of changes in recent years, mainly being bred for excessive sweetness and flavor. But last summer, scientists at the 244 th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society reported the development of a spray-on coating that could be available to slow the browning of ...
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