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Create Your Very Own Backyard Pharmacy: The 10 Most Useful Medicinal Plants For Your Garden

Create Your Very Own Backyard Pharmacy: The 10 Most Useful Medicinal Plants For Your Garden

Alternative Medicine Zone
Waking Times

Would you like to create your very own backyard pharmacy by growing medicinal plants?

There’s no better way to use whatever extra space you have at home than to create a garden space where you can grow medicinal plants.

In fact, even if … More

June 18, 2013 | By | Reply More
Glyphosate (Roundup) Carcinogenic In the Parts Per Trillion Range

Glyphosate (Roundup) Carcinogenic In the Parts Per Trillion Range

Sayer Ji, Green Med Info
Waking Times

An alarming new study finds that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup weedkiller, is estrogenic and drives breast cancer cell proliferation in the parts-per-trillion range. Does this help explain the massive mammary tumors that the only long term animal feeding study on More

June 17, 2013 | By | Reply More
GMOs Quietly Pushed For Commercial Growing in The UK

GMOs Quietly Pushed For Commercial Growing in The UK

Aaron Jackson, Guest
Waking Times

Currently there is no commercial growing of Genetically Modified (GM) crops in the United Kingdom, only an experimental trial of GM Wheat which started in 2012, but now the Prime Minister’s personal scientific adviser; Sir Mark Walport and others are pushing an agenda to allow … More

June 13, 2013 | By | 5 Replies More
Fight GMO: 7 Easy Steps to Start Saving Your Own Seed

Fight GMO: 7 Easy Steps to Start Saving Your Own Seed

Christina Sarich, Staff Writer
Waking Times

Does your Aunt Martha grow the best organic Meyer lemons in all of Florida? Do you have a favorite tomato plant in your yard that was grown from heirloom seed, and was never treated with chemical fertilizer? Do you buy your produce like … More

June 11, 2013 | By | 3 Replies More
What Everyone Needs to Know About Monsanto Before It’s Too Late

What Everyone Needs to Know About Monsanto Before It’s Too Late

Christina Sarich, Staff Writer
Waking Times

Sometimes called Mon-satan, there is a reason that people are up in arms about Monsanto, more than any other Big Pharma company. Monsanto is to be dealt with swiftly – more than Dow Chemical, more than Syngenta, more than the hundreds of other companies … More

June 8, 2013 | By | 48 Replies More
Top 10 Reasons to Bring your Kids to the Farmers Market

Top 10 Reasons to Bring your Kids to the Farmers Market

Rick D., Eat Local Grown
Waking Times

The Farmers Market is a great place to bring your kids for so many reasons! The Farmers Market allows you to provide your family with wholesome, healthy food while supporting your local community at the same time.

Here’s the reality- Family farmers need … More

June 8, 2013 | By | 1 Reply More
Mexico Protests Monsanto With a Carnival of Corn

Mexico Protests Monsanto With a Carnival of Corn

Alex Mensing, Waging Nonviolence Contributor
Waking Times

On May 25, an estimated two million people across 50 countries participated in the global March Against Monsanto. Organizers estimate that these protests against the U.S.-based transnational biotech corporation were one of the largest days of coordinated action in history. Yet, despite … More

June 7, 2013 | By | 1 Reply More
Where are the “Food Shortages” When We Waste More than 40% of Total Food from the Global Supply?

Where are the “Food Shortages” When We Waste More than 40% of Total Food from the Global Supply?

Christina Sarich, Staff Writer
Waking Times

Why are Americans tossing out more than $165 billion in food annually – from fork to landfill – when there is so much concern that we can’t grow enough food for the world population without utilizing GMO seed or the proverbial fatted calf made … More

June 7, 2013 | By | 1 Reply More
How Agriculture Can Provide Food Security Without Destroying Biodiversity

How Agriculture Can Provide Food Security Without Destroying Biodiversity

Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD, Green Med Info
Waking Times

According to conventional wisdom, the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte (pop. 2.5 million) has achieved something impossible. So, too, has the island of Cuba. They are feeding their hungry populations largely with local, low-input farming methods that enhance … More

June 6, 2013 | By | 1 Reply More
Allergies to Monoculture Food Crops Growing

Allergies to Monoculture Food Crops Growing

Case Adams, Naturopath, Green Med Info
Waking Times

Not so long ago a family farm produced a myriad of crops for the family and local community, including vegetables, corn, squash, cabbage and others. Today’s farms are a different proposition altogether, and monoculture food production is not only proving to be … More

June 4, 2013 | By | Reply More
How I Fell for Farmers’ Markets

How I Fell for Farmers’ Markets

Jill Richardson, Guest Writer
Waking Times

I’ll never forget the first time I went to a farmers’ market. I hated it.

Like many who buy food only from the grocery store, I didn’t realize that local farmers can’t produce every food all year round. I didn’t expect pineapples or anything, … More

June 3, 2013 | By | 7 Replies More
Before the Fall: Evidence for a Golden Age

Before the Fall: Evidence for a Golden Age

Steve Taylor, New Dawn
Waking Times

If you asked them what life was like in prehistoric times, most people would conjure up an image like the famous opening scenes of 2001: Space Odyssey – groups of hairy savages grunting and jumping around, foaming at the mouth with aggression as they … More

May 31, 2013 | By | 15 Replies More
North Carolina Law Would Make It Illegal to Expose Monsanto

North Carolina Law Would Make It Illegal to Expose Monsanto

Will Potter, Green Is The New Red
Waking Times

Two million people in 52 countriesmarched against Monsanto last week in protest of genetically-modified food and in support of consumer choice. There’s international pressure on this GMO giant like never before.

But proposed legislation in North Carolina would make it … More

May 31, 2013 | By | 18 Replies More
Genes Are Not The Problem, It’s The Food Genius

Genes Are Not The Problem, It’s The Food Genius

Karen Foster, Prevent Disease
Waking Times

Two-thirds of disease would vanish if society could revert to the way it did certain things just 100 years ago. The emphasis on faulty genes is misplaced and a misguided attempt to cast blame on a culture that has lost its way in terms … More

May 30, 2013 | By | 3 Replies More
Superweeds Spreading at Warp Speed

Superweeds Spreading at Warp Speed

Linda Wells, Pesticide Action Network
Waking Times

The near-exponential spread of herbicide-resistant “superweeds” across U.S. farmland is reminding us all that no matter how much the Big 6 pesticide corporations invest in research and development, they can’t outsmart Mother Nature. In just the past two years, the number … More

May 29, 2013 | By | 6 Replies More
Is Outrage Over the Monsanto Protection Act a Turning Point for the Food Movement?

Is Outrage Over the Monsanto Protection Act a Turning Point for the Food Movement?

Michele Simon, Guest
Waking Times 

In March, when I first wrote about how the biotech rider—called the Monsanto Protection Act by its vocal opponents—undercut the constitutional concept of separation of powers, it seemed hardly anyone (other than the usual advocacy groups) was paying attention. But then a lot of people … More

May 28, 2013 | By | 6 Replies More
Hey Monsanto, Did You Hear That?

Hey Monsanto, Did You Hear That?

Dylan Charles, Editor
Waking Times

This past Saturday, May 25th, 2013, millions of people worldwide publicly protested against Monsanto, the corporation that has become the driving force and the figure head behind the effort to monopolize control of food and to genetically modify staple crops to become dependent on … More

May 27, 2013 | By | 11 Replies More
Consumers Will Soon Have Devices In Their Hands To Detect GMO and Toxic Foods

Consumers Will Soon Have Devices In Their Hands To Detect GMO and Toxic Foods

Marco Torres, Prevent Disease
Waking Times

In the not too distant future, consumers will be able to run on-the-spot tests for environmental toxins, GMOs, pesticides, food safety and more with their smartphones and other hand-held devices.

Every human being on every developed nation on Earth, whether living in a rural … More

May 27, 2013 | By | 11 Replies More
In Defense of (Raw) Milk

In Defense of (Raw) Milk

Eleni Roumeliotou, Green Med Info
Waking Times

There is plenty of clinical and nutritional evidence that milk, this hailed “natural” drink, is the source of numerous immunological, gastrointestinal and perhaps neurological disorders. While it is important to acknowledge these facts, it is equally necessary to remember that the milk we More

May 24, 2013 | By | 6 Replies More
China Destroys 3 US Shipments of GM Corn

China Destroys 3 US Shipments of GM Corn

Sayer Ji, Green Med Info
Waking Times

Could the global tide in support of GMOs be turning? A new report reveals that the formerly pro-GMO Chinese government, one of the largest consumers of GMO food crops in the world, is beginning to crack down on GM corn shipments from the More

May 23, 2013 | By | 2 Replies More