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GM Soy Is Toxic Soy - Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: GMOs, GM, genetically modified, soya, food, agriculture, farms, farming, farmers, research, safety, science, warning, prevention, protection, food, government, health, environment, ethics, humans, study, risks, nutrition )

Elena
- 34 days ago - toxicsoy.org
Even worse, they legitimise genetically engineered (GE) soy which is designed to be produced with large (and increasing) amounts of agri-chemicals. This is at the cost of people and the environment. This site explains what is wrong with this and questions
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Dear Mr. President-Elect -- Rethink Food & Agriculture Policies: Organic Food! Food Sovereignty! Food Safety! Factory Farms!
Health & Wellness  (tags: American, world, food system, political agenda, agriculture, policy, sustainable, farming, health, food safety, sovereignty, prices, availabilty, quality, organic, food riots, World Bank, IMF, world's farmers, consumers, factory farms, global warmin )

Alba
- 370 days ago - fooddemocracy.wordpress.com
You're probably thinking that eating organic food in White House carries a political risk. You can easily deflect charge of elitism leveled at sustainable-food movement. Reform our food system! Help us take control of family dinner & our diet back from...
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Video & Article: Pima First People's Water Rights Give Hope for Better Health
Health & Wellness  (tags: Native People, Water, Water Rights, Agriculture, litigation, GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY, Arizona, government rations, canned food, unhealthy, fast food, diabetes, traditional farming, natural foods, community garden, diet, fats, sugar )

Alba
- 452 days ago - nytimes.com
Now, after yrs of litigation that produced the largest water-rights settlement ever in Indian country, the Pima are getting some of their water back. Will they now go back to natural farming & vegies to fight the diabetes >1/2 the tribe suffers from?
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Pesticide Dangers to Human Health Carry Through Multiple Generations
Health & Wellness  (tags: pesticides, agriculture, research, risks, health, humans, children, environment, food, warning )

Holly
- 525 days ago - naturalnews.com
A recent study conducted by researchers from the University of Texas at Austin has uncovered evidence that the damage done by pesticides may last for four generations or more.
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U.K. Government Moves to Hide GM Crop Trials From Public
Health & Wellness  (tags: GM, Genetic Engineering, crops, vegetables, agriculture, farming )

Alf
- 638 days ago - organicconsumers.org
Genetically modified crops may be grown in hidden locations in Britain amid fears that anti-GM campaigners are winning the battle over the controversial technology, the Guardian has learned.
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Poland to Hamper GMO Planting Despite Lifting Ban
Health & Wellness  (tags: GMO, genetically modified, agriculture, government, health, ethics, environment )

Elena
- 654 days ago - planetark.com
MOSCOW - Poland will seek to make planting of genetically modified seeds nearly impossible for local farmers even though it plans to lift an official ban to comply with EU law, the agriculture minister told Reuters on Friday
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Students Sickened When Pesticides Drift
Health & Wellness  (tags: agriculture, students, school, pesticides, oranges, agriculture, healthrisks )

Dave
- 926 days ago - apnews.myway.com
STRATHMORE, Calif. (AP) - On Grandparents Day, Domitila Lemus accompanied her 8-year-old granddaughter to school. As the girls lined up behind Sunnyside Union Elementary, a foul mist drifted onto the playground from the adjacent orange groves . . .
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