The friendly bacteria that live in our guts are essential for good health. What do these beneficial bugs do? Probiotics are the opposite of antibiotics, which kill bacteria. (There are trillions of them, outnumbering the cells in our body 10-to-1.) They help prevent colitis-related colon cancer, protect you from food poisoning, strengthen the immune system, […]
They Will Harvest Food That Should Not Be Consumed
Scores of experts and analysts have feared for months that it would happen, and now it has: Radiation from the heavily damaged nuclear power plants at Japan’s Fukushima complex has made it into the food chain. 1,946 known lethal radioactive isotopes are spewing from Fukushima Reactors throughout all of Japan all the time now. Bluefin […]
Chipotle’s ‘Farmed and Dangerous’ comedy series criticizes industrial farming practices
Farmed and Dangerous is a satirical film, an original comedy series produced by Chipotle Mexican Grill that explores the outrageously twisted and utterly unsustainable world of industrial agriculture. The show tells the story of an idealistic boy who falls for a girl whose father, Mr. Marshall, works for farmers planning to raise cows on petroleum pellets, […]
Fukushima radiation effecting world food supply safety
Last March radioactive cesium spewed from the wrecked Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant over rural areas containing rice fields. It also was dispersed into the atmosphere and into the sea. The radiation contamination is working its way into the food supply and is being found in meats, milk, fungi and plants. In the fall, in the […]
Headache Most Common Adverse Experience In Neotame Study
Neotame (E961) is the next generation of artificial sweetener and flavour enhancer. Critics say it is even more toxic than aspartame, and call for independent research to evaluate its effects. Headache was the most common adverse experience in human studies. As its patent for aspartame was running out, Monsanto developed a new, more potent version […]
The Omnivore’s Dilemma – A Natural History of Four Meals – Michael Pollan Book
What should we have for dinner? The question has confronted us since man discovered fire, but according to Michael Pollan, the best-selling author of The Botany of Desire, how we answer it today, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, may well determine our very survival as a species. Should we eat a fast-food hamburger? […]
In Defense of Food – An Eater’s Manifesto – Michael Pollan Book
In Defense of Food shows us how, despite the dauting dietary landscape Americans confront in the modern supermarket, we can escape the Western diet and, by doing so, most of the chronic diseases that diet causes. Food. There’s plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend […]
BPA Present In Canned Foods For Kids
A new report released by the Breast Cancer Fund has found that Bisphenol A (BPA) is highly present in 6 different canned foods marketed specifically towards children. Every food sample tested positive for the chemical, with Campbell’s Disney Princess and Toy Story soups testing the highest. Exposure to BPA, used to make the epoxy-resin linings […]
All Jacked Up Movie
How jacked up do our kids have to get before they notice what we’re doing to them? “ALL JACKED UP” is an angst-driven portrait of four teenagers who discover the truth about their obsessive, addictive, and emotion-fueled eating habits. All this brought on by their parents, schools, and our abusive food system that profits from […]
Ingredients – Movie
INGREDIENTS is a journey that reveals the people behind the movement to bring good food back to the table and health back to our communities. At the focal point of this movement, and of this film, are the farmers and chefs who are creating a truly sustainable food system. Their collaborative work has resulted in […]