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The Downside of Healthy and Organic Foods

Margie King, Health Coach, Green Med Info Waking Times When you’re trying to eat a healthy diet, the simplest rule is to stick to whole, unprocessed foods. If it has a label, be cautious. If the label makes health claims, run the other way. According to one expert, as America’s collective waistline continues to expand,

New ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ Gives Monsanto Power Over US Government

Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society Waking Times There truly is no rest for the wicked, and Monsanto is at war once again against health conscious consumers with the latest ‘Monsanto Protection Act‘, managing to sneak wording into the latest Senate legislation that would give them blanket immunity from any USDA action regarding the potential dangers of their genetically

Record Manatee Deaths, But ‘Experts’ Say No Harm To Humans

Sayer Ji, Green Med Info Waking Times  Never before in the history of tracking red tide in Florida have so many manatees died as a result of exposure. Despite this concerning fact, ‘experts’ are towing the party line that there are no human harms associated with long-term exposure. Are they serious?  ABC7 interviewed Mote Marine

So Why Are We Still Drinking Fluoride, Again?

Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society Waking Times We know that over 20 studies, many of which come from prestigious organizations like Harvard and are published in federal government journals, have told us how sodium fluoride is crushing our IQ. We know that a major head at the National Cancer Institute revealed decades ago that fluoride was causing ‘cancer

Propaganda Gardening – The Evolution of Revolution

Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer Waking Times “The will to live life differently can start in some of the most unusual places.” – Pam Warhurst, Incredible, Edible Town Gardening, especially public, renegade gardening, is one of the most important things conscious and awakening people can do right now to affect global change in favor of good health,

Florida Students Take on Private Prison Industry

Ken Butigan, Waging Nonviolence Contributor Waking Times Let’s imagine it’s 2063. Florida Atlantic University’s board of trustees has established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to disentangle the school’s historical support for the for-profit prison system — including its decision a half-century earlier to award its football stadium naming rights to the GEO Group, the nation’s

Top 5 Ways to Practice Non-Conformity in the Matrix

Sigmund Fraud – The new hero, is someone who combats the staleness of a decaying society by looking at the areas in our lives most in need of repair and then, deliberately, does not do what the conformist majority is doing.

Has Shark Fin Consumption Peaked at 100 Million Dead Sharks Per Year?

Jeremy Hance & Rhett A. Butler, Mongabay Waking Times While a new study warns that up to 100M sharks are killed annually, there are signs out of China that demand for shark fin may be on the decline. A study published last week in the journal Marine Policy estimated shark deaths at 100 million in 2000 and

Warning: Major Supplements Openly Contain GMO Vitamin Sources

Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society Waking Times Genetically modified organisms have permeated much of the crop industry, absolutely infesting the processed food market, but are many ‘health’ supplements free from the presence of GMOs? As it turns out, major supplement producers actually will openly admit that they derive many of their formulas from GMO crops — consumers just

Heirloom Seed Banks Come to Public Libraries

Waking Times  It’a an idea whose time has come, as many people are re-discovering the importance of gardening and the importance of heirloom, non-GMO seed. NPR recently reported on an interesting new phenomenon of heirloom seeds being checked out like books through public libraries. The program which has expanded to over 12 public libraries works

GMO Seed Freedom or Freedom from GMO Seeds – Which Will It Be?

Barbara H. Peterson, Farm Wars Waking Times  When is a fight for food freedom just the opposite? How about when that fight is about the right to plant second generation GMO seeds… We are not talking about conventional or organic seeds. We are talking about GMOs. Has everyone simply lost their collective mind? How self-destructive is

5 Fracking Consequences You’ve Never Heard About

Lisa Garber, Natural Society Waking Times We know fracking isn’t exactly the safest of practices. We’ve heard of its propensity to pollute our air and drinking water and thereby raise human health concerns. The media, however, isn’t talking about the massive sinkholes pockmarking the nation, the radiation leaks, and other lesser known but no less earth-shattering effects

Who Will Save The Honey Bee? EU Mulls Pesticide Ban While US Set to Approve More

Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer Waking Times There are a number of grave ecological crises nagging at the status quo of modern life. Though the mainstream media prefers not to cover the enduring impact of events like Fukushima, the Deepwater Horizon or Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder, the truth remains that these issues are vastly more important

Dirty Digging: The Unsavoury Truth Behind the Gold on Your Jeweller’s Shelves

Tara Gould, Wake Up World Waking Times  Not everyone likes gold, some find it trashy and over stated, while others simply can’t get enough of the stuff. Gold is a massive billion dollar industry, and millions of people globally are dependent on small-scale gold mining to survive. But the majority work in harsh conditions with no

5 Vaccines To Never Give A Child

Dave Mihalovic, Prevent Disease Waking Times All vaccines should be avoided, but for those on the fence and still deciding whether to vaccinate your child, please review the following information on these 5 vaccines before blindly following the advice of any medical doctor. Knowledge is power and when you understand the uselessness of specific vaccines,

Pesticides May Increase Risk of ADHD in Children

Margie King, Green Med Info Waking Times If you had any lingering doubts, here’s yet another good reason to opt for organic fruits and vegetables when shopping for your family. A team of scientists from the University of Montreal and Harvard University have discovered that exposure to organophosphate pesticides is associated with increased risk of

Building Communities From the Food Up

Waking Times Politicians like to talk a lot about community building; it is a surefire appeal to emotion that we are all in this together and can work toward prosperity from the ground up. Naturally, the fine print is filled with government-run programs which are bloated with extra costs, special interests, and guaranteed to fail

Fluoridegate—Why is Poisoning of Children Considered a Valuable Public Health Policy?

Dr. Mercola Waking Times The debate over the dangers of fluoride has been ongoing for more than six decades. Study after study confirms that fluoride is a dangerous, toxic poison that bioaccumulates in your body while being ineffective at preventing dental decay. Dr. David Kennedy’s documentary film Fluoridegate — An American Tragedy,1 exposes the sordid truth about

Fracking Up The Future of Pennsylvania

Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer Waking Times Fracking, or hydraulic gas fracturing, is the process of extracting natural gas from shale rock layers deep within the earth. The process pumps pressurized hazardous chemicals down into the ground which then forces a soup of hazardous chemicals mixed with oil and gas to be extracted from the rock


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