Food

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    Frankenapple: Bad News No Matter How You Slice It

    By Katherine Paul and Ronnie Cummins Organic Consumers Association, April 17, 2013 Thanks to the biotech industry’s relentless quest to control our food, McDonald’s, Burger King and even school cafeterias will soon be able to serve up apples that won’t turn brown when they’re sliced or bitten into. A new, almost entirely untested genetic modification [...]

  • Is Rocket Fuel Making Organic Farming Impossible?

    Perchlorate is an environmental pollutant primarily associated with releases by defense contractors, military operations and aerospace programs, as it is a key ingredient in rocket fuel. It is now found in virtually all humans tested, and it is continually making its way up the food chain through ground and drinking water, into feed and edible plants, [...]

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    Red Thai Roselle Hibiscus Tea: Growing Your Own

    In August 2011, I was on a tour of the gardens at Acorn Community, home of Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, when we came upon the hibiscus plants—specifically Thai Red Roselle. This was entirely new to me and the Acorn residents were visibly excited about it. Well, you know how it is when you see your friends [...]

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    Beyond Sustainability: The Regenerative Promise of Biodynami

    Standing under the news-making conjunction of Venus and Jupiter in the night sky this past February, I realize , once again, the frogs are early. So were the tiny, native blossoms covering the hillside under my feet. These traditional, first heralds of spring are childhood friends who usually lift my spirits out of winter’s chill, [...]

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    Prop 37: We Are Not Defeated! Vote With Your Forks on GMOs!

    While many of us are disappointed with the results of the CA proposition 37 ballot initiative, to say the least, the political process is so corrupted with unlimited corporate spending1 that the real surprise for me would have been if it had passed. Whereas the two-party system enables corporations to equally fatten the campaign larders of both “flavors” [...]