A Not-So-Sweet Valentine from Monsanto
(image courtesy Aine D on Flickr) Did you know that nearly half the sugar we bake those heart-shaped cookies with comes not from sugar cane, but sugar beets? Additionally, by next year, much of that...
View ArticleI Will Only Drink Organic Wine: Wine’s Dirty Little Secret is Roundup
A few years ago, one of the pastoral pastures in our remote valley was planted with grapes. Although I missed seeing the black angus cows grazing, I didn’t really mind the carefully planned rows of...
View Article13 more reasons to hate Monsanto
It is pretty much common knowledge that Monsanto is an evil company amongst health and organic food advocates. With the influx of genetically modified organisms into agriculture, the company has been...
View ArticleGlyphosate (key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup) linked to human health...
The cause of many human health problems remains a mystery, yet such diseases, like Autism, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s, are on the rise. We don’t have to look far to find causal (critics will argue...
View ArticleGMO soya causing birth defects in Argentina thanks to glyphosate
Soya was once considered a superfood. As with any trendy food from afar, deforestation and use of herbicides increases as poor farmers grow more high priced food. I am guilty of jumping on the...
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