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'In Organics We Trust' documentary explores organic food industry

7liveonline.com

February 24, 2012

Many people buy organic foods from the grocery thinking that it's the healthy thing to do. Other people don't buy organic foods at all, thinking they're too expensive and just a scam by the food industry.

Many people buy organic foods from the grocery thinking that it's the healthy thing to do. Other people don't buy organic foods at all, thinking they're too expensive and just a scam by the food industry. Watch the interview...

'Killer Cucumber' Bug From Spain Hits Britain - Five Dead And Hundreds Sick In Germany

news.sky.com

May 27, 2011

Three people in Britain have been diagnosed with a lethal strain of E.Coli that has already killed five people in Germany.

Almost 300 people in northern Germany are in hospital and around 500 more are being tested for the infection. Organic cucumbers from Spain are thought to be the source of the bacteria, but travellers to Germany are also being advised to avoid eating raw tomatoes and lettuce.

'Mamma Chia Entrepreneur of the Year Award' to be Presented at the Slow Money National Gathering in Boulder

bevnet.com

April 10, 2013

Mamma Chia, the organic food and beverage company that originated the chia beverage category, announces the Mamma Chia Entrepreneur of the Year Award to be presented at the fourth annual Slow Money National Gathering in Boulder, Colorado on April 30.

The $50,000 award, funded by a $25,000 donation from Mamma Chia as part of the company's 1% For the Planet contribution, will be matched by Slow Money's Soil Trust, a non-profit online funding platform launched in 2012. The award will be given to a small food enterprise at the gathering's Entrepreneur Showcase that demonstrates outstanding leadership in the local food movement and exemplifies the spirit of the Slow Money Principles.

'Masked' toxins in food should be subject to safety regulations

bakeryandsnacks.com

February 19, 2013

Regulatory limits on the levels of moulds and toxins present naturally in foods produced from grain crops should be expanded to include so-called "masked mycotoxins," suggest researchers.

The warnings come from researchers based in Italy who explain that 'masked' mycotoxins - that change from harmless to potentially harmful forms of moulds when already in the body - are not currently covered by regulations. Writing in Chemical Research in Toxicology, the team note that many health experts regard mycotoxins as a serious chronic dietary risk factor; ranking them a greater risk than any potential health threats from pesticides or insecticides.

'Monsanto Protection Act' might be repealed in Senate

rt.com

May 18, 2013

The so-called Monsanto Protection Act signed into law earlier this year caused such an outrage that people around the world are planning to protest the biotech company later this month. Now a United States senator is expected to try and repeal that law.

According to the Huffington Post, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) plans to introduce an amendment in Washington that would repeal Section 735 from the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2013, a provision that has put St. Louis, Missouri-based Monsanto in the sights of environmentalists around the world.

'Only' a Quarter of Our Corn is Burned

The American Spectator

by Paul Chesser

April 6, 2011

Associated Press reports we should not hold farmers or the ethanol industry responsible for rising food prices.

There are other contributing factors, such as inflation and fuel costs, but we certainly can also include those heavily subsidized ag-fuelers in the blame game, even though AP downplays it...

'Organic' from China exposed: The shocking truth about 'organic' foods grown in the world's worst environmental cesspool

naturalnews.com

by Mike Adams

December 30, 2015

When it comes to foods, superfoods and even nutritional supplements from China, "organic" is largely a hoax. This is my opinion, of course, but I've been researching the issue quite extensively as the key decision maker for new products.

It's a fact: USDA organic standards place NO LIMITS on levels of heavy metals contamination of certified organic foods. Even further, there is no limit on the contamination of PCBs, BPA and other synthetic chemicals that's allowed in certified organic foods, superfoods and supplements.

'Organic' from China exposed: The shocking truth about 'organic' foods grown in the world's worst environmental cesspool

livingtraditionally.com

December 21, 2015

When it comes to foods, superfoods and even nutritional supplements from China, "organic" is largely a hoax. And I've come to the conclusion that "organic" from China is largely a fraud. Here's why...

First off, you're going to be shocked to learn that there is no limit to how much mercury, lead, cadmium, arsenic and aluminum is allowed in "organic" products. It's a fact: USDA organic standards place NO LIMITS on levels of heavy metals contamination of certified organic foods.

'Pink Slime' Makes Comeback as Beef Prices Spike

online.wsj.com

by Jacob Bunge and Kelsey Gee

May 29, 2014

Finely textured beef, dubbed "pink slime" by critics, is mounting a comeback as retailers seek cheaper trimmings to include in hamburger meat-just in time for Memorial Day barbecues.

Surging U.S. beef prices are helping to revive a meat product that all but disappeared two years ago. Finely textured beef, is mounting a comeback as retailers seek cheaper trimmings to include in hamburger meat and processors find new products to put it in. Sales of the ingredient-processed from beef scraps left after cattle are butchered-collapsed in 2012 after a social-media frenzy...

'Raw' Cheese from the store is Not Raw!

thehealthyhomeeconomist.com

by Sarah

September 22, 2015

In yet another case of labeling tricks and deception where store bought food is concerned, cheese produced in the United States and labeled as "raw" at the healthfood store and specialty shops is anything but.

Organic Valley, the corporate behemoth that has gone to the Dark Side where raw, fresh, organic, health giving grassfed milk is concerned is not surprisingly the worst offender of this loophole in the USDA regulations.

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