Author: Ocean Robbins
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VIDEO: Adorable Little Girl Has To Explain To Mom How The Cow Got In The House
This adorable girl loves her cow-friend! Watch her explain to her mom how the cow got in the house, and tell her mom, “we’re gonna have to stop eating beef!” Whatever you think about beef… this video is precious.
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Bee Colony Collapse: A Sticky Situation For EPA
By Larissa Walker and Center for Food Safety • Originally published on Honey Colony Bee colony collapse has garnered quite a bit of buzz lately. Two weeks ago, the White House released a Presidential Memorandum establishing a Pollinator Health Task Force with plans to improve pollinator health and habitat. Many people, including the Pollinator Team at the Center…
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Toxins In The Body: 10 Things Every American Should Know
By Ed Brown • Originally published on Buzzworthy Blogs Toxins in the body and chemical body burden are out of control in America. There are currently 82,000 synthetic chemicals in the foods we eat, the toys our children touch, the products we use to clean our homes, the air we breathe, and the cosmetics we apply…
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Were Plants In Your Garden Treated With Neonics?
By Kaye Kittrell • Originally published on Honey Colony When you go to a nursery to buy plants, do you ever think about the chemicals, such as neonicotinoids, or “neonics” for short, those seedlings might have been treated with? Last March, the question came up when I visited a Bonnie Plants regional nursery. On a cold, gray, snow-threatening day,…
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Tell California: The Bees Can’t Wait
By Beyond Pesticides • Previously Published on Honey Colony In a blow to the adoption of urgently needed protections for the honey bee and other pollinators, the California State Senate voted 35-1 to delay action on harmful neonicotinoid, or “neonic,” pesticides until 2020. While advocates want mandates for regulatory action to ensure honey bee protection, the timeline in…
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Genetically Engineered Crops Threaten Monarchs
In the past 20 years, the widespread planting of genetically engineered crops in the Midwestern United States has precipitated the widespread loss of more than 90 percent of monarch butterflies. Like the honeybee, the monarch is a modern “canary in the cornfield,” an environmental indicator and crucial pollinator. Now a coalition of the Center for…
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Junk Food Kills More Than Wars, Famine, Genocide
By Jan Wellman • Originally published on Honey Colony According to a new study from the School of Medical Sciences at Australia’s University of New South Wales, junk food can alter behavior by causing lasting changes in the brain’s reward circuiting, an alteration that triggers obesity. Although the UNSW study was conducted on rats, the conclusions…
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Pesticide Cocktail Anyone?
By Dr. Christopher Connolly, Buzzworthy Blogs Why do we need to kill insects with pesticide cocktails? Insecticide. In-secti-cide. Pronounciation: /ɪnˈsektɪsīd/ “A substance used to kill insects” Well, the human population on Earth has grown in recent times. About 10,000 years ago (Stone Age) there were roughly five to 50 million humans. By AD 1, there were…
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WATCH: A farmer blows the whistle on “cage free” chicken
Craig Watts runs a Perdue chicken farm in North Carolina. He raises about 720,000 chickens each year for Perdue. The company’s chairman, Jim Perdue, says that: “Doing the right thing is things like treating your chickens humanely… and raising them cage free.” The company’s chicken packages even carry a seal from the US Department of…
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What’s Bad About Ramen Noodles?
Scientists Reveal Ramen Noodles Cause Heart Disease, Stroke & Metabolic Syndrome By Susan Bird • Originally published on Care2 College students everywhere might need to let out a collective wail. Why? A study says one of their most beloved foods, ramen noodles, are incredibly unhealthy. Ramen noodles are a staple for many people trying to eat…
