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How do you grow sunflower sprouts? Start your own seedlings without plastic pots? Should you save seeds? These are just a few of the questions people interested in homesteading ask themselve…
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Can Food-Focused Medicine Cure Food-Related Disease?
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So-called “modern” food, produced through industrialized, chemical-intensive farming practices, is causing a host of chronic, hard-to-diagnose and hard-to-treat heal…
Read moreMonsanto Papers’ Journalists Win Huge Prize
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Congratulations to Stéphane Foucart and Stéphane Horel for winning the 2018 European Press Prize for their exceptional research in the The Monsanto Papers.
Foucart and Horel won the investigati…
Food & Farm Act: Our Best Hope for Healthy Food, Farms and Soil
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You’ve heard it said before: No Farms, No Food.
But let’s not forget: No Soil, No Farms.
A few years ago, the United Nations warned that on average, the world ha…
Organic Consumers Association and Handsome Brook Farm Announce Settlement of Legal Actions Concerning Pasture-Raised Eggs
Handsome Brook Farm and the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) today announced that they have resolved a consumer-protection action OCA filed against Handsome Brook in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on August 29, 2016, concerning Hands…
Read moreRoundup Causes Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, Scientist Says in Federal Court
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It’s been an eventful week in federal court in San Francisco as expert witnesses face off on the science surrounding glyphosate, the key active ingredient in Monsanto…
Read more‘Spinning Science and Silencing Scientists’ on the Dangers of Glyphosate
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What happens when Monsanto doesn’t like what the World Health Organization (WHO) has to say about its flagship product, Roundup weedkiller?
The chemical company convinces …
Monsanto’s Roundup Weedkiller Destroys Life in Humans and Our Soils
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We’re only beginning to learn the importance of healthy gut bacteria to our overall health—and the relationship between healthy soil and …
Read moreBugs and Farmers: Changing the World
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Bugs—and farmers—are shaping the entire world.
That’s the message, or at least part of the message, Jonathan Lundgren delivered in his TEDxBrookings talk on regenerat…
Fowl Project
A mighty band of citizen activists, along with the Nebraska Farmers Union, are taking on a city council and a corporate giant. And they need your help.
Retail giant Costco wants to build the largest chicken factory farm in the U.S., in Fremont, Nebraska. The city’s elected officials have approved the project. But the people and farmers in surrounding cities, whose lives will suffer the most, are fighting back.
Costco and the Fremont City Council are singing the same old tired tune, that a giant factory farm will bring jobs to the city.
What they don’t want Fremont residents to know, is that those jobs will be low-paid and dangerous, that the water pollution generated from another huge factory farm will be devastating for Nebraskans, whose water is already badly compromised by agricultural runoff, and that local farmers will get ripped off under contracts stacked in favor of the retail giant.
We’re so impressed with what Nebraska Communities United is doing to stop this project—including organizing workshops to help local farmers farm profitably, sustainably and independent of corporate control, that we’re asking for your help.