U.S. automakers General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co., heading into negotiations with the United Auto Workers union, are considering asking to create a new tier of lower-paid union workers in their U.S. factories, people familiar with the matter said. This new pay rate for some lower-skilled jobs would help the car manufacturers lower labor […] Continue reading →
“This could explain why so many people insist they’re allergic to berries…” Farmers who are using antibiotics to keep pests away from their crops are making children allergic to the fruits and vegetables they grow, research suggests. Several years ago, more than 150 scientists and 50 farmers came out in support of stricter limits on […] Continue reading →
Washington’s Blog Half of the Studies Find Cause For Concern … The Other Half Are Studies By the GMO Food Industry Itself. Tufts University’s Director of the Research and Policy Program at the Global Development and Environment Institute (Timothy Wise) points out: There is no … consensus on the safety of GM food. A peer-reviewed study of the […] Continue reading →
59 percent of honey samples tested had glyphosate concentrations above the recommended levels. How ubiquitous is Monsanto’s RoundUp herbicide, really? Researchers have discovered that a chemical in the world’s most used herbicide – RoundUp – is tainting the world’s food supply at large. It was recently found that this chemical, known as glyphosate, is present concerning amounts […] Continue reading →
Natural News – by Jonathan Benson A petition is circulating to persuade three of the top infant formula brands in the U.S. — Abbott Laboratories (Similac), Mead Johnson Nutrition (Enfamil) and Nestle (Gerber Good Start) — to stop using genetically modified (GM) ingredients in their baby products. Each of these powdered formulas is loaded with […] Continue reading →
Hey, race-baiting doesn’t come cheaply. The Rev. Al Sharpton is living proof of that. It’s become widely known that the Rev and his National Action Network are millions in debt, with Sharpton giving personal loans to NAN to keep it afloat. Because of that, he’s had to turn to the same evil big corporations he […] Continue reading →
The Jacky Jones Lincoln dealership had a message for Black Friday shoppers: After picking up that big-screen TV, stop by and lease an MKZ for $299 a month. “We have better deals than normal,” said John Greene, general manager at the store in Gainesville, Georgia. “Car manufacturers are just like everyone else. They want to […] Continue reading → Natural Society – by Christina Sarich You don’t really want to feed your family food made from crops grown with millions of pounds of glyphosate this holiday season, do you? Of course not. Sadly, two ‘standards’ of the American feast are baked goods from brands like Pepperidge Farm and Pillsbury – two companies whose products are […] Continue reading → AlterNet – by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers There is a growing movement for labeling of GMO crops, and many would go further and ban GMOs completely. Currently there is a close vote in Oregon on a GMO labeling initiative, with advocates for labeling 0.3% behind and raising money to check ballots (we urge your support). […] Continue reading → Anthony Gucciardi, Food Scientists: New GMO Potatoes ‘Extremely Worrisome’. Would you eat the newly approved genetically modified potato now set for commercial planting in the US? Studies suggest that most would not (though you won’t even be told thanks to the lack of GMO labeling), and now major food scientists are speaking out over the reality that […] Continue reading → For how long will we need to go back and forth in this GMO battle before a sound conclusion is finally met? If you have been following the GMO debate at all, you probably realize that this issue will likely never rest, as numerous studies on both sides of the spectrum (one side showing safety […] Continue reading → Vietnam plans to sow genetically modified crops for the first time as demand for corn to fatten hogs expands in the country where pork consumption climbed 80 percent in the past decade. The Ministry of Agriculture approved four traits for food and feed use in August. Dekalb Vietnam Co., a unit of St Louis, Missouri-based […] Continue reading → Natural Society – by Christina Sarich Honoring the complaints of a small group of beekeepers in the state of Yucatán, who complained that Monsanto’s planned planting of thousands of hectares of GM soybeans made to withstand RoundUp would demolish their honey industry by decimating bees – a judge in Mexico has removed Monsanto’s planting permit. Monsanto can install […] Continue reading → Bill Horan Chuck Norris doesn’t write columns. He stares at words until they arrange themselves into sentences. That’s a “Chuck Norris Fact”—one you haven’t heard before because I just made it up. But perhaps you’re familiar with the style of joke: a satirical, exaggerated claim about the supposedly superhuman powers of actor and martial artist […] Continue reading → The White House pretended to champion American workers this week with gimmicky initiatives on federal job training and “workplace innovation.” But far from the Beltway dog-and-pony show, a group of American workers ruthlessly shafted by the Obama administration was finally getting some real support — and inching toward justice. It was five years ago this […] Continue reading →
Activist Post Civil society groups today expressed alarm at an increase in dengue incidence, leading to an emergency decree, in a town in Brazil where releases of genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes are taking place. The promise was to create genetically modified mosquitoes that would end dengue, but results from field trials conducted in Bahia, Brazil […] Continue reading →