Monsanto Encourages Farmers To Use New Seeds Resistant To Powerful New Herbicide, Causing Widespread Destruction

Monsanto Encourages Farmers To Use New Seeds Resistant To Powerful New Herbicide, Causing Widespread Destruction
Death And Destruction Follow In Their Wake: Monsanto Ruining Farmers Crops By Encouraging Illegal New Herbicide Use If there were ever a company you could count on to do the wrong thing, it would be Monsanto. The fact that there is one single corporate entity responsible for so much damage–saccharin and its cancer-related problems, PCBs and the global spread of human and animal damage they have caused and are still causing as municipalities struggle to clean them up, Agent Orange, genetically-modified crops and the glyphosate and other chemicals they require to live being spread by the billions of tons around the world–the fact that it hasn’t been put down like a rabid dog speaks to the insanity of the current system under whish we live.… Read the rest

Media Hysteria: With So Much Unknown About The Zika Outbreak And Microcephaly In Brazil What They Aren’t Telling Us

Media Hysteria: With So Much Unknown About The Zika Outbreak And Microcephaly In Brazil What They Aren’t Telling Us
Media And Government Creating Zika Hysteria: What They Aren’t Telling You With so much fear and misinformation floating around out there regarding the Zika outbreak, it’s little wonder that the media and government’s response each day grows louder and louder–and also more incoherent. Like a massive game of telephone emerging from admittedly tragic and heartbreaking stories of Brazilian babies born with microcephaly–or seriously underdeveloped skulls and brains–we have gone from “there may be a link between microcephaly and the pregnant women contracting the Zika virus” straight to “ZIKA DEFINITELY CAUSES IT OMG YOU’RE ALL GOING TO DIE IF WE DON’T SPRAY AND VACCINATE IMMEDIATELY!!!”… Read the rest

Opioids Are Addictive, Pfizer Finally Admits; Acknowledgement Of The Sky Being Blue Sure To Follow

Opioids Are Addictive, Pfizer Finally Admits; Acknowledgement Of The Sky Being Blue Sure To Follow
Pfizer Finally Breaks Their Vow Of Silence, Admits Opioids Addictive If there’s one thing you don’t expect pharmaceutical companies to be it’s comedians. Yet many observers couldn’t help but let out a bitter squawk of laughter when they read the news that Pfizer has finally admitted that yes, Virginia, opioids are indeed addictive. The admission, common knowledge on a par with the fact that Iraq didn’t have weapons of mass destruction and water is wet, came as the pharmaceutical giant agreed to a set of standards for marketing opioids that officials are hopeful will set a benchmark for other drug manufacturers will follow, and thus help reduce the incidence of addiction to the dangerous painkillers.… Read the rest

Amazing News: Plastic Bag Use In England Down 85 Percent. Here’s How They Did It

Amazing News: Plastic Bag Use In England Down 85 Percent. Here’s How They Did It
English Plastic Bag Miracle: Use Down 85 Percent In Under A Year. Here’s How Paper or plastic? It used to be this was the unfortunate, Sophie’s choice question with which you would presented at the grocery store. The implication of course is: would you rather kill trees, or contribute to the massive waste, poisoning of the landscape, and killing of all manner of fish, fowl and fauna due to ingesting or getting entangled in plastic bags?… Read the rest

Cockroach Milk: The Next Big Thing For Superfood Enthusiasts?

Cockroach Milk: The Next Big Thing For Superfood Enthusiasts?
Cockroach Milk And You: How One Study Has Made Thousands Of People Go “Ewww.” In this age of scientific freedom, massive funding, and seeming daily breakthroughs, it is hard to pass a single day without encountering some study or another purporting to have the next big cure for something or everything. But on the other hand, there are studies, and then there are studies.… Read the rest

SPF Zero: New Study Demonstrates That Sunscreen May Be Useless–Or Worse

SPF Zero: New Study Demonstrates That Sunscreen May Be Useless–Or Worse
Sunscreen’s A Dream: Study Shows That Applying The Go-To Summer Protection May Be Worse Than Useless As summer in the northern hemisphere gears up for the final push through to September and the official end of beach days, barbecues and sunburns, a new study says that a longtime standard-carry item in everyone’s beach bag, good old sunscreen, may actually be useless.… Read the rest

Coal Ash In Drinking Water: When Big Coal Says Jump, N.C. Governor Pat Mccrory Says ‘How High?’

Coal Ash In Drinking Water: When Big Coal Says Jump, N.C. Governor Pat Mccrory Says ‘How High?’
When Big Coal Talks, You Better Listen: N.C. Governor Changes Rules On Coal Ash Toxins For Former Employer If there is any lesson big corporations have learned in the past few decades, it’s that, if you don’t like the rules surrounding pollution, or food standards, or labor, all you have to so is install a compliant head of a regulatory agency or politician in a position of power.… Read the rest

Why Are You Pushing, Doc? Eight Reasons Your Doctor Insists On Giving Your Child Vaccines

Why Are You Pushing, Doc? Eight Reasons Your Doctor Insists On Giving Your Child Vaccines
Some Common Reasons Your Doctor Pushes For Vaccines–And Some You May Not Know About We are taught from a young age to trust doctors. Like the images of friendly policemen and noble firemen, doctors are usually portrayed in our collective consciousness as kindly, benevolent characters who only went into medicine out a strong desire to help humanity. Unfortunately, while there are of course many doctors who fit this stereotype, they are just as human as the rest of us.… Read the rest

The Dangers Of Vitamin E Deficiency And How You Can Avoid It

The Dangers Of Vitamin E Deficiency And How You Can Avoid It
Over 75 Percent Of Americans And Britons Are Vitamin E Deficient–Why You Should Make Sure You’re Not One Of Them With so many supplements out there, and so many substances for health-conscious individuals to be aware of–it seems like there are ten new studies in the news every day highlighting some deficiency or toxicity we are unwittingly getting in our regular diets–its hard to know which ones are really vital.… Read the rest