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Chemicals on our food: When “safe” may not really be safe

The report marked the agency's launch of testing for the weed killer glyphosate in foods. The Government Accountability Office said in 2014 that both the FDA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture should start regularly testing foods for glyphosate. The FDA did only limited tests looking for glyphosate residues, however, sampling corn and soy and milk and eggs for the weed killer, the agency said. No residues of glyphosate were found in milk or eggs, but residues were found in 63.1 percent of the corn samples and 67 percent of the soybean samples, according to FDA data.

By | 2018-11-29T07:47:07-05:00 November 29th, 2018|Agriculture, Diet, Environment, Food, Natural Health, News, No SF, Resyndicated|Comments Off on Chemicals on our food: When “safe” may not really be safe
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‘Astronomical’ Cost of War: Average US Taxpayer Sent $3,456 to Pentagon Last Year and Just $39 to the EPA

As Americans rushed to pay their taxes on Tuesday before the official deadline, peace groups reminded the public of the uncomfortable fact that an "astronomical amount" of the money sent to the IRS each year goes not to funding education or a single-payer healthcare system the U.S. supposedly can't afford, but straight into the bloated coffers of the Pentagon.

By | 2018-04-19T09:19:28-04:00 April 19th, 2018|Environment, News, No SF, Politics, Resyndicated|Comments Off on ‘Astronomical’ Cost of War: Average US Taxpayer Sent $3,456 to Pentagon Last Year and Just $39 to the EPA
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EPA Refuses to Ban Neurotoxic Pesticide Found in 87 Percent of Newborns

Importantly, nonorganic, non-grass fed meats are likely to be loaded with this chemical, since conventional feed consists primarily of genetically and/or conventionally-raised grains such as corn.

By | 2017-11-22T19:05:40-05:00 November 22nd, 2017|Agriculture, Environment, Kids, No SF, Resyndicated|Comments Off on EPA Refuses to Ban Neurotoxic Pesticide Found in 87 Percent of Newborns
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