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What Do Those Food Labels Mean Anyway: An Examination Of Words Like ‘Non-GMO,’ ‘Organic, and ‘Natural’

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What Do Those Food Labels Mean Anyway: An Examination Of Words Like ‘Non-GMO,’ ‘Organic, and ‘Natural’
‘Non-GMO, Organic and All-Natural:’ What On Earth Do Our Food Labels Mean Anyway? There’s no two ways around it: we live in a deceitful age. Blame politics, blame advertising, blame the internet–the truth is we can’t escape from a certain amount of flat-out bullshit in our lives. You could go so far as to say that if modern humans were fish, bullshit would be the medium we swim in.… Read the rest

How A Massive $10 Billion Dairy Merger Is Going To Affect Your Milk– And Your Grocery Bill

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How A Massive $10 Billion Dairy Merger Is Going To Affect Your Milk– And Your Grocery Bill
How A $10 Billion Dannon Bid For One of the U.S.’s Largest Organic Dairy Manufacturers May Affect Your Bottom Line Mergermania is back, and bigger than ever, when it comes to your food. First we had agrichemical giant Bayer AG bidding for another gas giant of the agriculture and chemical industry, Monsanto, in a buyout bid worth some $60 billion. That was rebuffed, but investors and people with an interest in the food industry and how the GMO purveyors are moving forward paid close attention.… Read the rest

Buy Organic: Here Are Ten Foods You Should Never Skimp On

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Buy Organic: Here Are Ten Foods You Should Never Skimp On
Avoiding Pesticides and Herbicides: Ten Foods You Absolutely Must Buy Organic By now we have all heard about Monsanto and its anti-environmental, genetically-modified crops. And as horrible as Frankenfood is, what’s possibly even more dangerous about the agri-chem company is the wild overuse of its signature herbicideRoundup. The main ingredient in Roundup is glyphosate, which the World Health Organization has listed as probably cancer-causing.… Read the rest