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05/09/2018 / By Mike Adams

Surprising things you never knew about the ORGANIC industry – an interview with Reuven Flamer

If you think you really know about organic products and organic certification, prepare to have your mind blown. In this eye-opening Food.news interview, I sit down with Reuven Flamer of Natural Food Certifiers, an organic certifier, to discuss many surprising things you probably never knew about organics. In this interview, we discuss topics like: How […]

01/18/2018 / By Russel Davis

Consumer concern rising: Research shows consumers are willing to pay more for organic food

Consumers appeared to be more willing to spend additional dollars on organic food products, and value organic purity in making purchasing decisions, according to a study published in the Journal of Agrobiotechnology Management & Economics. A team of researchers at the Iowa State University enrolled 129 adults aged 18 to 65 years old as part of the study. The […]

02/01/2017 / By Vicki Batts

Exposing the toxicity of the common weedkiller, Atrazine

Atrazine is a weedkiller that is quickly becoming one of the most widely used pesticides in the United States. Predominantly sprayed on Midwestern cornfields, the toxin’s presence is consistently detected in public water supplies. Much research has indicated that the pesticide is in fact capable of significant endocrine disruption, among other ill effects. Atrazine was […]

01/19/2017 / By Vicki Batts

Pesticide linked to Parkinson’s disease being sold in US, already banned in Europe

Like other pesticides, paraquat has been the subject of controversy for some time now. In Switzerland, for example, the toxic substance has been banned since 1989. The rest of the European Union has followed the Swiss’ lead, including England — even though there is still a factory there where paraquat is manufactured for export. (RELATED: […]

05/02/2016 / By Claire Rankin

Facts about cannabis and inflammation

We have all, at one time or another, experienced the discomfort of inflammation. Inflammation is a protective mechanism triggered in our body to alert us to the fact that we have some kind of physical problem. When we injure ourselves, even a small cut or scrape will cause our body to set up a process […]

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