January 30th, 2012 | Additives, Food Security, Our Food, almonds, California, FDA, feature, GAPS, grain-free, health, nuts, organic, pesticide, raw, SCD
All the good stuff is under attack. Being on the GAPS diet we eat a lot of almonds, in fact I just finished making almond-cashew and honey cookies tonight. If anyone has a good source of almonds please let me know!
By Michael Doyle
WASHINGTON — A federal judge has again upheld U.S. Agriculture Department rules requiring treatment of raw almonds, in the latest blow to organic farmers in California’s San Joaquin Valley.
The mandatory pasteurization or chemical treatments protect consumers from salmonella. The requirement to apply them is also well within the Agriculture Department’s power, a federal judge ruled this week.
January 25th, 2012
The following is the third installment of a three part investigation by Nelle Maxey into the wide-ranging environmental and socio-political implications for Canada of the recently signed US-Canada cross border security deal and ancillary agreements related to the Regulatory Cooperation Commissio ...
January 24th, 2012
The following article is reposted from www.gaia-health.com and details this latest attack on food freedoms under the name of Codex Alimentarius. Sign the petition here to put a stop to this insanity. In the latest update on this issue from www.nzfoodsecurity.org an analysis of the food bill is given ...
January 18th, 2012
ETC Group News Release 17 January 2012
Big Agribusiness Influence Threatens to Override Public Interest in Greed Revolution
A new 30-page report that documents the growing influence of agribusiness on the multilateral food system and the lack of transparency in research funding has been re ...
January 18th, 2012
In 1994 when Canada, US and Mexico first signed NAFTA into being, Subcommandante Marcos and the Zapatistas rose up to defend the little they had left. They have been fighting ever since. In my book Subcommandante Marcos is the original Anon. Slowly, but more rapidly now, the rest of us are waking up ...
December 19th, 2011
Alex Rossi, India correspondent reports on the most recent surge of suicides in India. This has been going on for more than a decade now. I remember how shocked I was when I first learned of this terrible situation, since then it has only gotten worse. Monsanto and other corporations in the Big Ag w ...
November 19th, 2011
In Michigan, food stamps are worth double at farmers markets, which means more healthy food for low-income shoppers and more customers for local farmers.
A Double Win for Fresh Food by Oran B. Hesterman
Detroit is home to the longest-running public farmers’ market in the country, as wel ...
November 18th, 2011
It is a delight to see more articles popping up lately discussing how us foodies need to put our differences aside and focus on ending this despicable practice of factory farming. Absolutely. I spent a little bit of time volunteering at the Food not Bombs kitchen set up for the people down at Occupy ...
October 14th, 2011
I'm compiling this post this from various emails we've received today. The images are by Heather Passmore and are posted so you can use them however you think best--print them out to hand out at #occupyvancouver or post them as your profile photo on facebook, use them on your blog, email them to fri ...
October 12th, 2011
Please see this incredible website: fearlessrevolution.com for more information on the original Consumer Bill of Rights as well as a detailed explanation of any amendments made to it and why.
THIS IS HUGE! THE CONSCIOUS CONSUMER BILL OF RIGHTS POSTER IS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD HERE
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