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New scientific analyses underpin Mexico’s restrictions on GM corn and glyphosate due to health risks

U.S. Right to Know Stacy Malkan | November 27, 2024 By Timothy A. Wise and Stacy Malkan A new scientific analysis prepared by CONAHCYT, Mexico’s National Council for Humanities, Science and Technology, argues there are unacceptable health risks for Mexican people who consume genetically modified (GM) corn and glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide.  The 200-page
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What Are the Dangers of Soy Lecithin Ingestion?

By Gord Kerr Soy lecithin is a common ingredient in hundreds of processed foods, including cereals, pasta, breads, soy milk and many meats. Lecithin is also available as a health supplement; proponents claim that it can benefit the heart, brain, liver and athletic performance. However, there are potential dangers of soy lecithin that could outweigh the
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RFK Jr. Calls Out Obese Americans: ‘They Were Sent to the Circus’

Story by Anna Skinner Robert F. Kennedy Jr. listens as he is introduced by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach during the World Values Network’s Presidential candidate series at the Glasshouse on July 25, 2023 in New York City. On Friday, Kennedy suspended his presidential campaign.© Getty Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voiced his concerns about Americans struggling with obesity
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SUPPORT THE PROTECT AMERICA’S CHILDREN FROM TOXIC PESTICIDES ACT: The most significant legislation in nearly a quarter century, to protect the nation against toxic pesticides

SUPPORT THE PROTECT AMERICA’S CHILDREN FROM TOXIC PESTICIDES ACT: The most significant legislation in nearly a quarter century, to protect the nation against toxic pesticides Urge your U.S. Senators and Representatives to co-sponsor and pass the  Protect America’s Children from Toxic Pesticides Act (PACTPA), originally introduced by Senator Tom Udall and Representative Joe Neguse in 2020.
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Glyphosate Exposure Linked to Severe Depression and Cognitive Decline in American Adults

POSTED BY ANNE TEMPLE  Reposted from Sustainable Pulse A new peer-reviewed study released by a group of scientists in Taiwan has revealed an astonishingly strong link between severe depression, cognitive decline and exposure to the world’s most used herbicide, glyphosate. The study was fully published last Tuesday in the highly respected Elsevier Journal, Environmental Research, and was met with
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Busting the Myths on New GMOs

As the European Union is preparing to decide on whether and how to deregulate new GMOs, Slow Food look sat the most frequent claims made by the biotechnology and seed industry to promote new GMOs and their deregulation. Spoiler: they’re misleading, if not deceptive. Myth #1: Changes brought by new GM techniques (or “genome editing”) to
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What is the Future of Food?

As it turns out, the "solution" to this food crisis being proffered by the billionaires of the corporate-pharmaceutical-medical-industrial-philanthrocapital-military complex is being engineered in laboratories and sold to the public via a bought-and-paid-for mainstream media.
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Reimagining Food, Farming & Humanity: Ecomodernism’s Dystopia

Colin todhunter “Ecomodernists offer no solutions to contemporary problems other than technical innovation and further integration into private markets which are structured systematically by centralized state power in favour of the wealthy…”Chris Smaje In 2017, the then Monsanto Chief Technology Officer Robb Fraley argued that his company made a mistake in not reaching out to the public
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