(Organic Slant) Monsanto Corporation gets owned by 11 year old boy Birke Baehr: What’s wrong with our food system? 11-year-old Birke Baehr presents his take on a major source of our food — far-away and less-than-picturesque industrial farms. Keeping farms out of sight promotes a rosy, unreal picture of big-box agriculture, he argues, as he […]
Pigs fed a GMO diet exhibited health problems more than pigs fed a comparable non-GMO diet
Organic Slant) Pigs fed a diet of GM corn and soy experienced numerous adverse health effects, including sever stomach inflammation and an enlarged uterus according to a new peer-reviewed long-term feeding study. Published in the Organic Systems Journal, the peer-reviewed study analyzed 168 just-weaned commercial pigs for 22.7 weeks, or just over 5 months. Half of the […]
Feminine Hygiene Products are Laced With Hazardous Chemicals
(Organic Slant) Common feminine care products used by millions of women are laced with hazardous chemicals including carcinogens, toxins and endocrine disruptors, a new report reveals. Hazards of exposure to these common products include reproductive harm, cancer and endocrine disruption. Entitled Chem Fatale, the report released Wednesday from Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE), an organization advocating “a […]
Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead – Health Documentary
(Organic Slant) 100 pounds overweight, loaded up on steroids and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, Joe Cross is at the end of his rope. In the mirror he saw a 310 lb man whose gut was bigger than a beach ball and a path laid out before him that wouldnʼt end well— with one […]
Where is the West Coast Fukushima fallout?
(Organic Slant) During the weeks after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the West Coast of the United States started receiving fallout radiation within 4 days. Precipitation maps may pin point where the fallout was deposited. The bad thing is that it looks like March was a very wet month for precipation. That means most likely that […]
U.S. energy secretary leaves Fukushima stunned and shocked with first visit in two-and-a-half-years
(Organic Slant) After two-and-a-half years of radioactive particles traveling across the Pacific Ocean to the U.S. Pacific coastline from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plants, the U.S. energy secretary is finally taking a closer look. U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said that he expects deepening cooperation with Japan over the high-stakes cleaning up and decommissioning […]
FDA supports the use of irradiation as a form of “electronic pasteurization” on domestically produced conventional food
(Organic Slant) FDA has approved irradiation of meat and poultry and allows its use for a variety of other foods, including fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, and spices. The agency determined that the process is safe and effective in decreasing or eliminating harmful bacteria. Irradiation is just another reason to choose organic food. Food irradiation (the application […]
BPA in Dialysis Machine Components May Be Toxic to Patients’ Cells
(Organic Slant) Levels of bisphenol A (BPA) in components of dialysis machines may be toxic to the immune cells circulating in kidney failure patients’ blood, according to a study that will be presented at ASN Kidney Week 2013 November 5¬-10 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA. Study: “Toxicity of Bisphenol A in Hemodialysis: […]
Intestinal Bacteria Linked to Rheumatoid Arthritis
(Organic Slant) Researchers have linked a species of intestinal bacteria known as Prevotella copri to the onset of rheumatoid arthritis, the first demonstration in humans that the chronic inflammatory joint disease may be mediated in part by specific intestinal bacteria. The new findings by laboratory scientists and clinical researchers in rheumatology at NYU School of Medicine add […]
One in 2000 People in the UK Silently Carry Human Form of Mad Cow Disease
(Organic Slant) A new study published in the British Medical Journal has found twice as may British citizens than was previously thought may be carrying the human form of “mad cow disease.” The disease, also known as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), emerged after widespread exposure to contaminated beef in the food chain. It is a debilitating brain […]