Tag: pesticides

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
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
Colony Collapse Disorder Is a Fraud: Pesticides Cause Bee Die-Offs

Colony Collapse Disorder Is a Fraud: Pesticides Cause Bee Die-Offs

Heidi Stevenson, Green Med Info
Waking Times

Years ago, Gaia Health informed that bee dieoffs are a direct result of pesticide nerve agents called neonicotinoids. The term, Colony Collapse Disorder, is fraudulent, designed to direct attention from the known cause. Agribusiness, the poison manufacturers making death-producing pesticides, is the other More

May 16, 2013 | By | 5 Replies More
Lethality of Roundup ‘Weedkiller’ Extends Beyond Plants To Humans, Study Suggests

Lethality of Roundup ‘Weedkiller’ Extends Beyond Plants To Humans, Study Suggests

Sayer Ji, Green Med Info
Waking Times

A shocking new study finds that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide, “…may be the most biologically disruptive chemical in our environment,” capable of contributing to a wide range of fatal human diseases.

A new report published in the journal Entropy links … More

April 26, 2013 | By | Reply More
10 Ways to Protect Children From Pesticides

10 Ways to Protect Children From Pesticides

Pesticide Action Network
Waking Times 

Today’s children are sicker than children were two generations ago.

From learning disabilities and autism to childhood cancers and more, a startling number of diseases and disorders are on the rise. And the science leaves little room for doubt: pesticides and other toxic chemicals are … More

April 5, 2013 | By | 3 Replies More
The Risky Business of Eating in America – Is Inorganic Arsenic Giving Us Cancer?

The Risky Business of Eating in America – Is Inorganic Arsenic Giving Us Cancer?

Jill Richardson, Guest Writer
Waking Times

Long before human beings decoded the human genome or split the atom, they discovered that arsenic is very good at killing things. The ancient Romans prized it as a murder weapon because it could be mixed into food or drink without altering its color, … More

March 14, 2013 | By | 5 Replies More
Lose Your Lawn

Lose Your Lawn

Jill Richardson, Guest Writer
Waking Times 

Turning your lawn into something more beautiful and useful would save time and money while curbing pollution and water usage.

Have you taken your hounds fox hunting lately? You haven’t? Well, maybe you’ve gone to visit a friend’s estate in a horse and carriage? … More

March 6, 2013 | By | 9 Replies More
Who Will Save The Honey Bee? EU Mulls Pesticide Ban While US Set to Approve More

Who Will Save The Honey Bee? EU Mulls Pesticide Ban While US Set to Approve More

Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer
Waking Times

There are a number of grave ecological crises nagging at the status quo of modern life. Though the mainstream media prefers not to cover the enduring impact of events like Fukushima, the Deepwater Horizon or Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder, the truth remains … More

February 26, 2013 | By | 9 Replies More
Pesticides May Increase Risk of ADHD in Children

Pesticides May Increase Risk of ADHD in Children

Margie King, Green Med Info
Waking Times

If you had any lingering doubts, here’s yet another good reason to opt for organic fruits and vegetables when shopping for your family. A team of scientists from the University of Montreal and Harvard University have discovered that exposure to organophosphate pesticides is … More

February 20, 2013 | By | Reply More
Industrial Agriculture

Industrial Agriculture

Pesticide Action Network
Waking Times

Humans have been farming for 10,000 years. Sixty years ago, after World War II, we started industrializing U.S. farming operations through a mix of policy decisions and accidents of history. This method of farming is neither inevitable nor efficient. More to the point, it can’t … More

January 30, 2013 | By | 2 Replies More
GE Crops and Unsustainable Agricultural Practices are Destroying our Planet’s Soil and Food Supply

GE Crops and Unsustainable Agricultural Practices are Destroying our Planet’s Soil and Food Supply

Dr. Mercola
Waking Times 

Genetically engineered crops and food products pose a threat to your health, resistance to disease, soil, and the global food supply. The biotech industry is riddled with corruption as companies clamor to sink their claws into the marketplace first, to get their seeds into farmers’ … More

January 21, 2013 | By | Reply More
Beekeepers Expect “Worst Year For Bees”

Beekeepers Expect “Worst Year For Bees”

Paul Towers, Pesticide Action Network
Waking Times

“We’re facing the extinction of a species.” That’s what one Midwest-based large-scale commercial beekeeper told me last week at the annual gathering of the American Honey Producers Association (AHPA). And he meant it.

Bee losses have been dramatic, especially in recent years. … More

January 21, 2013 | By | 1 Reply More
Hemp – One Of The Most Healthy Recyclable Substances Around

Hemp – One Of The Most Healthy Recyclable Substances Around

Becca Wolford, Contributing Writer
Waking Times

Hemp has long been known to be a clean, renewable resource. It can be grown with little to no fertilizer and pesticides; in fact, it has natural pesticides. It enriches and heals the soil it is grown in, cleans the air, and … More

January 12, 2013 | By | Reply More
8 Ways Microbes Can Save Us From Ourselves

8 Ways Microbes Can Save Us From Ourselves

Sayer Ji, Green Med Info
Waking Times

Could bacteria and related microbes, widely believed to be a primary cause of disease, explain how we are capable of surviving through the self-created chemical nightmare of industrialized society?

Environmental chemical exposures number in the tens of thousands among industrialized populations.  Our water, … More

December 22, 2012 | By | Reply More
Nightshades… Can Produce Your Worst Health Nightmares!

Nightshades… Can Produce Your Worst Health Nightmares!

The Health Coach, Contributing Writer
Waking Times 

Some of your favorite foods may be ruining your life.

To eat or not to eat, that is the question which has become critical to ask for so many of us.

Especially where it concerns diet –> the “ONE SIZE FITS ALL” approach … More

December 19, 2012 | By | 4 Replies More
Study Links Pesticides to Bumblebee Destruction… Again

Study Links Pesticides to Bumblebee Destruction… Again

Elizabeth Renter, Natural Society
Waking Times

In today’s news from the desk of Captain Obvious—scientists have found that pesticides may be contributing to the decline in bumblebees. Yes, apparently we needed another study for this. That study, led by biologists with the University of London, looked at what happened … More

December 13, 2012 | By | Reply More
Are Pesticides Causing Your Food Allergies?

Are Pesticides Causing Your Food Allergies?

Emily Main, Rodale’s
Waking Times

New research about chemicals in your tap water and on your lawn could cause you to break out in hives.

No one knows what causes food allergies—they’re one of the great mysteries that science has yet to solve. But it’s doubtful that any allergist … More

December 12, 2012 | By | 2 Replies More
Why Is Pesticide Used As An Ingredient In Infant Formula?

Why Is Pesticide Used As An Ingredient In Infant Formula?

Sayer Ji, GreenMedInfo
Waking Times

Why is cupric sulfate – a known herbicide, fungicide and pesticide — being used in infant formula? And why is it displayed proudly on product labels as a presumably nutritious ingredient?

Used to kill fungus, aquatic plants and roots of plants, parasitic infections in aquarium … More

December 8, 2012 | By | 13 Replies More
The Dirt on Peak Fertilizer: What You Need to Know about Big Ag and Farmland

The Dirt on Peak Fertilizer: What You Need to Know about Big Ag and Farmland

Lisa Garber, Natural Society
Waking Times

We take so much for granted: water, food, clean air, and the earth we walk upon—which, by the way, is changing for the worse under our very feet. Thanks to aggressive farming techniques by factory farms, our soil is becoming depleted of necessary … More

December 8, 2012 | By | Reply More
Healthiest Foods Out of Reach For The Majority of The Population

Healthiest Foods Out of Reach For The Majority of The Population

Natasha Longo, Prevent Disease
Waking Times

To say that the cost of healthy living is out of reach for most people would be an understatement. Low to middle-class subsets of the population have difficulty affording their own rent and mortgage payments let alone clean organic and unprocessed foods. Nutritionally sound … More

December 6, 2012 | By | 15 Replies More