This week Wal-Mart announced that baby formula was being pulled from the shelf because it was consumed by a newborn infant which developed a fatal infection and died. When a person dies from eating a commercial product, it’s certainly a terrible tragedy. But especially a child; not only because of the loss, but because the death could […]
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For nearly five years, my family has drank raw milk. It’s one of the most important staples in our kitchen for sustenance and health. Not once has it made any of us sick. It should be the right of everyone to be able to to choose what foods he or she will and won’t consume. […]
Michael Schmidt is a true, modern-day hero. This passionate, Ontario dairy farmer believes in the peoples’ right to be able to consume the foods they choose. He has put everything on the line to stand up for these rights. Raw milk is currently illegal in Canada, and to prove his point he is fasting, and has […]
I’d say this is the straw that broke the camel’s back…but I dare not, because I know this is only the beginning. Whole Foods, leader of natural grocery stores nationwide, and other industry leaders in “organic” foods Organic Valley and Stonyfield Farm relented under mounting pressure from all angles Thursday, and gave their approval for […]
Ever since I was a child fluoride has been heralded as the messiah to save teeth from cavities and decay. In the 70s, I remember my parents taking me to get fluoride treatments at the dentist. And several times at the elementary school I attended, a dental hygienist visited who required us to chew red […]
It has been stated over and over again in pro-vaccine communities that Dr. Wakefield and his colleagues claimed there to be a direct “connection” to the MMR and autism. But the truth is, never was there an outward statement by any of these doctors that MMR was the cause of autism. After research in 1998, […]
Time is running out. Factory farms are one of the biggest threats to our food supply. The more we understand the enormous impact these operations have on our health and the environment, the more we know that these operations are those who will benefit from the passage of The Food Safety and Modernization Act S.510 […]
October is Non-GMO Month. Genetically-modified substances and organisms are becoming more and more pervasive in our food supply in the United States. Over the last two decades, agriculture and science technology have been using genetically-modified organisms in growing crops for food and many other uses. The process involves the deletion or insertion of specific genes […]
Do you want change in our health care system? If so, it is critical to start thinking about health care change in the form of preventative action rather than remaining with the Status Quo. Our current health care system relies too heavily on reactionary treatments that wait until the problem is acute (and sometimes too […]
Who’s the picture of the elderly gentleman to the right? Why, that’s Senator Patrick Leahy, Democrat, Vermont. What does he have to do with health freedoms? Keep reading. Foodborne illness has become quite a ubiquitous event – and people are so used to it happening, they scarcely think twice about the repercussions. But did you […]