Tag: Living
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FDA Voluntary Approach to Curb Antibiotic Overuse on Factory Farms is ‘Just Window Dressing’
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a progress report this week on its voluntary approach to reducing the use of antibiotics in farm animals, which relies on collaboration with the pharmaceutical industry, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). [caption id="attachment_328395" align="alignnone" width="500"] Advocacy groups said the FDA needs to go even further…
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Brazil Seeks Ban on Monsanto Herbicide Due to Alarming Toxicity Risks
Brazil’s Federal Public Prosecutor has asked the country’s justice department to suspend the use of glyphosate, which is the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup—the world’s top-selling herbicide. [caption id="attachment_328332" align="alignnone" width="500"] Emerging toxicity concerns may prompt Brazilian officials to ban one or more popular herbicide products. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] In addition, the prosecutor has also targeted…
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What the Dairy Industry is not Telling You
Why are so many people convinced that dairy is the best source of calcium? A strategic marketing campaign from the dairy industry would have us believe that by drinking milk, we will be protected from bone crippling osteoporosis, but the opposite may be true. [caption id="attachment_328258" align="alignnone" width="500"] Drinking milk leaches calcium from our bones and…
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South Korean Poultry Approved for Sale in U.S. Despite Bird Flu Outbreak
On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) published a final rule that will allow the Republic of Korea to begin exporting poultry products to the U.S. [caption id="attachment_328153" align="alignnone" width="500"] Food & Water Watch questions President Obama’s motivation behind allowing potentially diseased South Korean chickens to be sold in America’s supermarkets.…
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U.S. Farmers Increase Planting of GMO Corn Banned From China Markets
Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (ADM) and Bunge Ltd., two of the world’s largest grain traders, are intent on increasing corn exports to China, however, U.S. farmers have plans of their own. [caption id="attachment_328114" align="alignnone" width="500"] The wide-scale planting of GMOs that aren’t approved by key importing countries will chip away at the competitiveness of U.S. grain and…