Kyrgyzstan to Switch to 100 Percent Organic Agriculture
Heather Callaghan – Kyrgyzstan is only the second country in the entire world to implement a 100% organic agriculture plan.
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8 Signs the World is Undergoing a Paradigm Shift
Tim Bryant – Wake-up and participate, for we are in the early stages of a revolutionary paradigm shift.
8 Secrets to Living Beyond 100 from the World’s Healthiest People
Christina Sarich – In a lost kingdom high in the Himalayan mountains, live a people with incredible secrets for longevity.
Defending the Imperative for Real Food and Real Farmers
Julian Rose – Are you eating real food, grown by real farmers? Why not?
Neonics Causing Bee Collapse with ‘Limited to No Benefit’ for Farmers
Alex Pietrowski – Why are we still using neonicotinoids?
The Top 24 Anti-Inflammatory Foods
Mae Chan – Anti-inflammatory foods are essential in controlling certain chronic illnesses.
There Is Only One Solution To GMO Labeling – All Else Is Futile
Natasha Longo – Here’s why labeling GMO foods is an exercise in futility and why there’s only one way to ensure the public is informed about what’s in their food.
The Only Way to Get the Most Nutrition From Eggs
Natasha Longo – Not only are raw eggs one of the most perfect foods available, but they offer you a nutrient dense profile that you won’t get from a cooked egg.
Revolutionary Family Shows True Meaning of Self-Reliance
Cole Mellino – By growing all of their food themselves, except staples such as wheat, rice and oats, they are able to eat fresh and delicious, organic food for $2 a day per person.
Why You’re Being Deceived By Food Labels and Calories
Karen Foster – Consumers who simply glance at labels before they toss food into their grocery carts may not be eating what they think they are.
Radically Sustainable Earthships
Video – Here are some very cool videos of how earthship homes are made.
Practical Aquaponics for Growing Nutritious Vegetables
Video – Learn more about aquaponics and how to create a practical aquaponics system.
6 Notoriously Misleading Food Terms Used to Trick Consumers
Arjun Walia, Collective-Evolution Waking Times Our modern day food industry has become quite the debacle, with chemicals being sprayed all over our fruits and vegetables, to genetically modifying to processed food. As a result, the world has seen a large resistance to modern day food practices, and the resistance continues to grow, and for good …
How to Create a Self-Sustainable Food System
Dr. Mercola Waking Times Industrial chemical-based agriculture, which produces the vast majority of US food crops, is actually destroying the soil that makes the growing of food possible in the first place. This is not true in other countries. Worldwide, 70 percent of the food is grown in backyards or small farms. That number is …
Organic Label Fraud – Pesticides Found on 45 Percent of Organic Produce & 77 Percent of Organic Grapes Test Positive
April McCarthy, Prevent Disease Waking Times The most common recommendation made by health experts in the area of produce selection is to choose “organic” varieties for maximum health benefits. We trust organic label certifications because they are supposed to comply with organic standards set by national governments and international organizations. Synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers …
Are Organics Really Better?
Margie King, Green Med Info Waking Times Organic agriculture is booming. More and more people believe organics are better for our health than conventionally grown fruits and vegetables. But what does the science say? Researchers from Sweden and Pakistan wanted to know whether organically grown produce was in fact better for human health. They undertook …
How Much Do Labels Really Tell You About How Eggs Are Produced?
April McCarthy, Prevent Disease Waking Times There is no doubt that consumer awareness and concern about the lives led by animals raised for food is on the rise. Ethical concerns are playing an increasingly important role in purchasing decisions. It seems that egg producers — perhaps more than any other — have responded to this …
Toxic Combo of Roundup and Fertilizers Blamed for Tens of Thousands of Deaths
Dr. Mercola Waking Times The public’s appreciation of the toxicity of glyphosate—the active ingredient in Monsanto’s broad-spectrum herbicide Roundup—is still limited, despite highly damning research being published. The fact that Monsanto marketed Roundup as “environmentally friendly” and “biodegradable” probably has a lot to do with this general lack of insight. More people are apt to …
5 Things to Consider When Ordering Seafood
Kaye Spector, EcoWatch Waking Times Ever think about where your seafood comes from? You might be surprised to learn that much of the seafood sold in the U.S. is imported—frequently from places where health, safety and environmental standards are weak or non-existent. And less than 2 percent of seafood imports to the U.S. are inspected for …
Study Finds Organic Milk More Nutritious Than Conventional Milk
Kaye Spector, EcoWatch Waking Times Organic milk contains significantly higher concentrations of heart-healthy fatty acids compared to milk from cows on conventionally managed dairy farms, a study led by a Washington State University (WSU) researcher has found. While all types of milk fat can help improve an individual’s fatty acid profile, the team concludes that organic whole milk does so even better. The …