Getting genetically engineered foods properly labeled is an uphill battle, and Big Food is spending huge sums to make sure that doesn’t happen. Here’s what you can do about it.
Category: Health Autonomy
USDA Offers the Biotech Industry Blanket Immunity for Contaminating Organic Crops
USDA calls it “coexistence,” but it’s just a way for GMO farmers to harm whomever they like—without consequence. Action Alert!
Ooh, Scary! USDA Wants to Protect Us from Raw Almonds
The agency insists that even organic almonds be cooked, but doesn’t want consumers to know they aren’t raw or how they are cooked. Action Alert!
A Natural, Nutrition-Based Breakthrough Treatment for Pancreatic Cancer?
A new book explains how the system trashed the groundbreaking NIH/National Cancer Institute clinical trial on this extremely promising therapy.
Medicine in the Dark Ages, Part 2. Smartphone Apps Must be FDA-Approved!
It sounds absurd, but FDA wants to pre-approve simple medical apps—making them impossibly expensive and perhaps unavailable.
Dietetic Association’s Race to Monopoly in the Media
Forbes “Exclusive Leaked Documents: American Dietetic Association is Intentionally Using State Legislatures to Block Alternative Nutrition Providers and Restrict Free Speech” July 9, 2012.
Private Companies Are Trying to Patent Your Genes!
Not only that, but a federal court has now ruled that FDA can regulate your cells as drugs.
Another Hatchet Job from Consumer Reports
Their latest issue,“10 Surprising Dangers of Vitamins & Supplements,” is just more fear-mongering. Action Alert!
The Backlash against Backscatter
The airport x-ray machines are not safe. And for over a year, TSA has been defying a court order.
FDA Tries to Wiggle Out of BPA Problem with Doublespeak and a Partial Ban
Even this limited action is taken only at industry request.