Tag: Health
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Farmers Destroy ‘Golden Rice’ GMO Trials in Philippines
Filipino farmers destroyed an 800 square meter trial plot of genetically modified rice Thursday that was just weeks away from being sent to the authorities for a safety evaluation.
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High Levels of Arsenic Found in Groundwater Near Fracking Sites
A recently published study by researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington found elevated levels of arsenic and other heavy metals in groundwater near natural gas fracking sites in Texas’ Barnett Shale.
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Monsanto’s GMO ‘Agent Orange’ Crops Already Planted in North Dakota
Monsanto is planning to offer financial incentives to farmers to spray additional types of herbicides. And if soybean growers don’t adopt the new dicamba seeds, their conventional (or even their RoundUp-Ready) soy will be threatened, as dicamba drifts over from their neighbors’ fields. So they’ll pretty much have to get with the dicamba program.
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Why Do Children’s Toys Contain Toxic Cadmium?
The chemical is linked to many serious disorders. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ranks cadmium seventh out of 275 hazardous substances in the environment. The federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry cites studie…
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The $11 Trillion Reward: Investing in Healthy Food Will Save Us
According to a 2013 Union of Concerned Scientists’ report, The $11 Trillion Dollar Reward, increasing our consumption of fruits and vegetables could save more than 100,000 lives and $17 billion in health care costs from heart disease each year …