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The world's most popular weed killer can induce morphological changes in vertebrate animals, U.S. biologists studying its effect on amphibians say. "This discovery highlights the fact that pesticides... can have unintended consequences for species that are not the pesticide's target," Relyea said. No comment yet.
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Genetically Modified Foods, Plants, Animals, Additives, Body Products, Fish, Crops and Trees have had their genes manipulated, changed, and put into other species that normally they would not mate with, blend with, consume, or grow in. Delete the scoop?
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GMO corn that is further genetically modified to be “non-GMO”? Read all about the latest attempt by the biotech industry to further corrupt our food system. Delete the scoop?
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Thiamine mononitrate, disodium inosinate and pyridoxine hydrochloride are just a few of the hard-to-pronounce ingredients in a typical school lunch burger. Delete the scoop?
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Via - Community Alliance for Global Justice Institutions and corporations involved with pushing GMOs into South Africa are now partners of the Gates Foundation and they’re working to spread GMOs through out Africa. South Africa is the one country amongst Africa’s 54 countries where GMOs have been grown for several years. This is because Monsanto and various western “development” programs including USAID, used South Africa as the entering wedge to the continent—it was the biggest economy, most closely tied in to global capitalism, etc. The African Centre for Biodiversity found, and I quote, “that Monsanto controls 50% of the maize seed market…the biotech giant’s grip on the market is absolute… Delete the scoop?
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Did Monsanto actually plant genetically modified alfalfa before it was deregulated by the USDA? There is some shocking evidence that, until recently, was withheld from the public showing that Monsanto’s genetically altered alfalfa may have been set free in 2003 — a full two years or more before it was deregulated in 2005. In a letter, obtained by NaturalSociety with permission to post for public viewing, it becomes clear that the USDA may have turned a blind eye to the entire situation, allowing widespread GMO contamination of GMO-free crops. http://www.nationofchange.org/letter-shows-monsanto-planted-gmos-usda-approval-1335971971 Delete the scoop?
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West Coast salmon, an already threatened species, are the victim of a new, potentially detrimental threat according to a recent evaluation conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries Service. NOAA’s Fisheries Services identified the culprits as three pesticides commonly used in more than 100 pesticide products for home and agricultural applications including the treatment of soy, cotton, corn, grapes and Christmas trees: triflurali, oryzalin and pendimenthalin. Delete the scoop?
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VERY, VERY IMPORTANT VIDEO - A global indepth report about the very dangerous biotech juggernaut moving quickly across the globe and the enormous irreversible damage to our environment. forests, species and natural world...in a way never explained before by people from all walks of life, agroforest and health experts: Worth every minute of it. Dr. David Suzuki "What is the rush to apply these new biotech ideas when we don't have a clue what the long-term manipulation is going to be."
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January 13, 2012 5:26 AM
David Suzuki is doing great work for the benefit of all people in creating awareness about the impact of GMO on our health but also on the environment. one of the things Bayer Monsanto Pfizer ignore for shortterm profit
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New research has linked springtime die-offs of honeybees critical for pollinating food crops -- part of the mysterious malady called colony collapse disorder -- with technology for planting corn coated with insecticides. Delete the scoop?
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The debate is over: We are killing our earth, our ecosystems and, as top of the food chain, human health with the systemic use of pesticides in our moncrop, big agriculture, gmo approach to growing our now poisoned food supply. Three recent scientific studies offer compelling evidence linking pesticides to global declines in bee populations. Delete the scoop?
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Finally, public opinion around the biotech industry's contamination of our food supply and destruction of our environment has reached the tipping point. We're fighting back. Delete the scoop?
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THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY PALM OIL FARMING IS IRREVERSIBLE. According to a report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the deforestation that has already taken place in Indonesia for palm oil, and the illegal logging that is still occurring there now, indicate that most of the country’s rainforest will have been destroyed entirely by the year 2022. The mass clearing of trees for farmland disturbs the ecosystem of the rainforest by decimating rare and exotic flora and fauna. With the planting of a single crop plantation, the natural biodiversity of the rainforest is lost. The mono-crop culture that has long-plagued environmentalists in the west displaces or destroys most of the species in a single sitting, as they are unable to adapt to living within vast acres of a single crop. The environment, habitats and species that are destroyed have lived together since the dawn of the rainforest, and the damage caused by palm oil farming is irreversible. In the words of WWF employee Junaida Payne, transporting this type of agriculture to the rainforest creates ‘biological deserts’. Delete the scoop?
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(Reuters) - Scientists, environmentalists and farm advocates are pressing the question about whether rewards of the trend toward using more and more crop chemicals are worth the risks, as the agricultural as the agricultural industry strives to ramp up production to feed the world's growing population. Delete the scoop?
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The call for labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods continues to grow louder. The Just Label It campaign — with more than 500 partner organizations — is well on its way to collecting one million comments urging the Food and Drug Adminstration to mandate GE (or GMO) labeling. Delete the scoop?
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A new study shows that eating fast food is linked to a greater risk of suffering from depression. Results reveal that consumers of fast food, compared to those who eat little or none, are . . . Delete the scoop?
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Fast food can lead to obesity, heart disease, hypertension and diabetes. Avoid health problems by not eating at fast food restaurants. Here are 15 reasons you’ll never let anyone you love get near those Golden Arches 
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Fast food, particularly food from McDonald's does not decay as "normal" food does. Also, you have to plan a trip to the gym after each value meal you consume just to ensure you don't gain weight from that one meal. It's been proven that dog food might be healthier than fast food.
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In a surreal press conference, Beef Products Inc took its best shot at making up for its silence during weeks of public lashing over what has been dubbed “pink slime,” an additive in ground beef made through a high-tech process that BPI invented. (See my previous posts here and here.) The event came in the wake of major grocery chains announcing they would stop selling beef containing the filler. WATCH: ABC TV INVESTIGATION: 'Dude, It's Beef!': Governors Tour Plant, Reject 'Pink Slime' Label - ABC News http://ow.ly/9ZdsjWATCH: ABC TV INVESTIGATION: "Pink Slime and You" http://ow.ly/9Zhsa Delete the scoop?
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via @CSRWire 2,4-D and the dioxin pollution it creates are too dangerous to allow, period, but in the hands of bad actors like Monsanto and Dow Chemical the dangers increase exponentially. Delete the scoop?
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BLOG: Monsanto Land was Poisoned and the Barren Women Cried Human Fertility Today Scores Less than 50% of Levels 20 years ago So what has changed in our environment to affect mankind's fertility in such a drastic manner, and please, be assured that this is a presently occuring catastrophe Delete the scoop?
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New study, reported in the April issue of the journal Nature Geoscience Chemists have analyzed the isotopic composition of nitrous oxide – a greenhouse and ozone-destroying gas - in air samples from as far back as 1940 and found the fingerprint of nitrogen-based fertilizer. Delete the scoop?
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Outrageous Lies Monsanto and Friends Are Trying to Pass off to Kids as Science In a blatant attempt at brainwashing, the Council for Biotechnology Information (CBI) has widely circulated what it calls a Biotechnology Basics Activity Book for kids, to be used by "Agriculture and Science Teachers." Delete the scoop?
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Facing direct opposition from the public, biotechnology giants like Monsanto and Dow are now making a disturbing attempt to brainwash developing minds into accepting their genetically modified foods using blatant lies and propaganda. Delete the scoop?
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Intensive farming really emphasizes high productivity, and high input of capital investment in technology and machinery. It involves growing high yield crops on a relatively small piece of land. It requires using chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and insecticides to get rid of pests and competing crops, and using highly efficient and advanced machinery to cultivate, plant, and harvest. Delete the scoop?
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The African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) is has expressed outrage after finding that several food products, including baby cereal, maize meal, a dietary supplement for active sports people and wheat-free cereal, have tested positive for genetically modified (GM) content, but are all unlabelled. From 1 October, 2011, food producers, importers and packagers are required by law, in terms of the Consumer Protection Act and its Regulations, to label GM foods and marketing materials where the genetically modified (GM) content is at least 5%. In other words, the trigger for labelling is where the GM content is 5% or more. Delete the scoop?
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What it really comes down to this: Elected officials are abandoning the public interest and public will in the face of corporate intimidation. Delete the scoop?
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