How Eating Organic Can Prevent Toxic Algae Blooms
Toxic algae blooms like the one going on in Florida, Lake Erie and elsewhere are practically all connected with farm runoff. Find out how buying organic can prevent these massive algae blooms.
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Does Eating Organic Really Make a Difference?
Despite the evidence, many of us still ask whether it is worth it to buy organic foods. If you have any doubt, here’s the crucial evidence along with a video illustrating just how toxic non-organic foods are.
Quercetin Halts Cancer Growth Including Leukemia
Medical scientists have established that quercetin, a constituent of a number of fruits and vegetables halts the growth of various types of cancers.
Organic Farming Supports Greater Species Biodiversity
Research from Oxford University has determined that organic farms support at least 50% more species of pollinators and 34% more species in general.
U.S. Organic Food Sales Continue Their Rise Despite Challenges
Despite continued challenges from higher prices, a new study conducted by SPINS has found that organic food sales in the United States have continued to rise in both volume and dollars. A survey by the Organic Trade Association also determined…
Is BPA Toxicity Being Overblown or is Endocrine Pollution Being Underrated?
Research being presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the AAAS is shedding doubt that current levels of human exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) is disrupting hormones to the extent characterized by many. Are we really safe from hormone disruptors?
Why the News is Wrong: We Need to Eat Organically
Recent research from Stanford University and the subsequent headlines from Reuters, NBC News, the New York Times and other mass media outlets have it all wrong: Choosing to grow and eat organic foods has little to do with nutritional content. Humanity must increasingly...
GMO Corn Worsens Drought Damage with Rootworm Outbreak
The damage of the 2012 drought to the corn crop in the U.S. has been worsened by an outbreak of resistent rootworms created by GMO Bt corn seeds and a lack of crop rotation by conventional farmers according to pest management experts.
Are Two-Headed Fish Linked to Waterway Dead Zones?
The recent study commissioned by the JR Simplot Company that illustrated selenium levels in local waterways could be raised without risking trout deformities has provoked public outcry…
UN Says 25% of World’s Land Degraded
The United Nations report on global food and agriculture just released has characterized a fourth of useable land mass around the world as “highly degraded” and increasingly poorly suited for feeding the world’s burgeoning population. The report, the State of the World’s Land...
