Tag: Ocean Robbins
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Ruin is forever: When the precautionary principle is justified
Originally published on Resource Insights (ResourceInsights.Blogspot.com) by Kurt Cobb. Click here to view the original. If you are dead, you cannot mount a comeback. If all life on Earth were destroyed by, say, a large comet impact, there would be no revival. Ruin is forever. The destruction of all life on Earth is not 10 times worse than…
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Will Coca-Cola support mandatory GMO labeling?
The global food revolution is now affecting the bottom line of Coca-Cola. The company recently announced their second-quarter profits for the year fell from $2.68 billion to $2.6 billion, and their revenue decreased by 1%. Latin America also saw a 1% decline in volume and a 9% drop in sales, which was partially blamed on…
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Here’s why I’m so passionate about the food revolution
What we eat literally becomes us. It is one of our most intimate communions with the web of life. When we turn our food into a commodity that we consume for the lowest possible price and the highest possible short-term pleasure, without regard for the planet or the humans and animals who may have been involved…
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Sucralose’s (Splenda) Harms Vastly Underestimated: Baking Releases Dioxin
A new, in-depth review on the synthetic sweetener sucralose (marketed as Splenda), published in the journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, is destined to overturn widely held misconceptions about the purported safety of this ubiquitous artificial sweetener.
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U.S. Government Ties El Salvador USD 277 M Aid Package to Monsanto’s GMO Seeds
It has come to light that the U.S. government is withholding $277 million in aid money from El Salvador in order to pressure it to accept Monsanto’s GM seeds. The President of the El Salvadoran Center for Appropriate Technologies (CESTA), Ricardo Navarro, has demanded that the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, Mari Carmen Aponte, stops…
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The Shocking Ingredients In Beer
I have to confess, I’m not a beer drinker, but there’s someone in my household that loves it, so I had to figure out the truth. Is beer really healthy? Why are the ingredients not listed on the label? Which brands can we trust? Which brands are trying to slowly poison us with cheap and harmful ingredients?…
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Whitewashed: How Industry and Government Promote Dairy Junk Foods
The United States is in the midst of a public health epidemic due to poor diet. While much of the focus has been on obvious culprits such as sugary soft drinks and fast food, dairy foods often get a pass. The dairy industry, propped up by government, has convinced us of the health benefits of…
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Follow the Honey: 7 Ways Pesticide Companies are Spinning the Bee Crisis to Protect Profits
Michele Simon was a speaker in the 2012 Food Revolution Summit. Recently she released a report, produced in tandem with Friends Of the Earth, to bring attention to the dire situation of declining bee populations caused by pesticides. You can find the report here, and read a summary below. If you like to eat, then you should care about what’s…
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Video: A goat and burro love story
Mr. G the goat refused to eat for six days until he was reunited with his best friend, Jellybean the burro. Now both are safe at Animal Place. BFF! Mr. G and Jellybean now have their own Facebook page – is it going to their heads?!? You decide.
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Study: Glyphosate Doubles Risk Of Lymphoma
Scientists at the International Agency for Research on Cancer have found what appears to be a strong link between pesticide exposure and a blood cancer called non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Analyzing 44 individual research projects published since 1980, the scientists, writing in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, said that people exposed to the…
