I have three important real food and sustainable items I want to share with everyone today: 1. Green and Black Chocolate Green and Black has announced an exciting change in their line of organic chocolates – the company is moving their entire line of products produced worldwide over to Fair Trade status. This change will […]
Category: Activism
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If you haven’t already began noticing just how much discussion is taking place in the world about how our food is produced, what we are eating, and how it might be killing us – now is the time to start listening. Michael Pollan appeared on the Oprah Show this week. He is the best-selling author […]
What are your food habits? The way we develop our relationship to the food we eat says a lot about us – it can show just how far we are willing to go in order to locate good sources for food. It can also show how in touch we are with the important issues surrounding […]
This startling story hit the wires on Sunday, December 27th of this week. Oswaldo Juarez, 19, of Peru came to the United States to study English. He became ill with a cough that wouldn’t go away, and then began to experience “rattling” lungs. The strain, XXDR, has never before been seen in the United States. […]
Are we going to continue to allow our government to dictate what we can and cannot put into our own bodies? Say it ain’t so! Raw milk is once again come under the radar, this time in America’s Dairyland – The state of Wisconsin. On Monday, December 21 2009, Max Kane will face prosecution in […]
Help Organic Consumer’s Association to obtain the support of one million people against Monsanto to put a stop to corporate global terrorism! Watch this video – The World According to Monsanto – Part 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hErvV5YEHkE I received this urgent message from The Organic Consumers Association in my e-mail this morning, and I want to encourage […]
Here’s something that has me really infuriated! I just discovered a resource site for mothers I belong to that supports campaigns for two things I definitely don’t support – chocolate milk and the Swine Flu vaccine! For the last nine months or so I’ve been a member of an online resource for mothers called Mamasource. […]
It seems as though the school lunch program, which has come under close scrutiny of the public in the last few years, is now starting to receive some real mainstream attention. Those faithful to real and traditional foods should not be surprised by this, but recent news reports reveal why this topic is just now […]
I’m growing weary of all the talk about health care reform. Much of what I hear is still centered around old ways of thinking about health – reactive medicine and doctoring. It’s becoming more and more evident that the two things which will bring about real change to our broken health care world are prevention […]
If you care about important issues such as addressing food safety and the right of consumers to purchase clean farm food, here’s something you can do to take action. The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund is a non-profit organization comprised of farmers and consumers pooling their resources together to accomplish the following: protect the constitutional right […]