Just as Monsanto announces that it has given up trying to spread genetically modified seeds and plants throughout Europe (which is a huge win for opponents of genetic engineering), along comes another exciting victory. Target, along with many other big supermarket chains, has pledged not to stock genetically engineered (GE)[...]

The United States Senate decided again Thursday that it simply does not want to let states tell people whether or not they are eating genetically modified food. The Senate voted overwhelmingly – 71 to 27 – against an amendment to the sweeping farm bill, squashing a measure that would not have required[...]

  Workers at one plant in Corydon, Ind. are getting sick. Several have been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Now, state health officials are trying to determine if there could be a cancer cluster associated with the plant. “I always start shaking when I do this,” Bill Howard[...]

I retired 10 years ago after a long career as a research scientist for Agriculture Canada. When I was on the payroll, I was the designated scientist of my institute to address public groups and reassure them that genetically engineered crops and foods were safe. There is, however, a growing[...]

The family of a Plymouth-area girl who nearly died and was left legally blind after taking one of the country’s most common household medicines, Children’s Motrin, was awarded $63 million Wednesday by a Massachusetts jury that found health care giant Johnson & Johnson failed to warn patients adequately about the[...]

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is pushing for stricter warning labels on tanning beds – labels which would recommend that such devices not be used by anyone under the age of 18.According to Liz Szabo of USA Today, sunlamp products that emit ultraviolet radiation are currently regulated as[...]

By: Eddie Levin The expensive “sheep’s milk” cheese in a Manhattan market was really made from cow’s milk. And a jar of “Sturgeon caviar” was, in fact, Mississippi paddlefish. Salt is bad. Sugar is bad. Carbs are bad. Cholesterol is bad. Calories are bad. Fat is bad. Bad also are[...]

By: Eddie Levin An accidental chunk of horseflesh is one of the less frightening things that the meat processing industry can put in your ground beef.  Caution: Germs Inside  Ground beef is not the only food with germs –there is, as we all know, an undetectable film of bacteria living[...]

15-year-old Sarah Kavanagh from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, who gathered more than 200,000 signatures in her online petition asking Gatorade to remove a controversial flame-retardant chemical. Last week, Gatorade announced that they would be removing the ingredient, brominated vegetable oil (BVO), within the next couple of months. That’s great news—especially for me[...]

The FDA has taken a freely-available herbal product, sap of the dragon’s blood tree, defined it as the drug Fulyzac, & handed it to Big Pharma. Nature’s gift is being polluted. What you get after Big Pharma and & the FDA get their hands on it has lost much of its value and[...]

Did you know that Aspartame was banned by the FDA twice? How is this product legal now? The bittersweet argument over whether Aspartame is safe or not has been going on for a long time. On one side we have medical evidence that suggests we should avoid using it and on the[...]

You don’t have to look far to find foods with GMOs today. According to the Grocery Manufacturing Association , 70% of items in American food stores contain genetically modified organisms, ingredients that have been scientifically engineered in laboratories to enhance certain traits. While GM ingredients have only been on the market[...]

If you’re watching your weight but diet soft drinks have never been to your taste, there could now be an alternative. Pepsi have launched a version of its cola drink that it claims acts as a fat blocker. Pepsi Special is made with dextrin – an indigestible form of dietary fiber  Studies[...]

Energy drinks have caused three Canadian teenagers to die and have had serious side effects on 35 other Canadians since 2003, Health Canada documents show. The three male teens, two 15-year-olds and an 18-year-old, died after drinking Red Bull, The Toronto Star reported. Red Bull also appears in more side-effect[...]