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Food Rights

No Poison Served…

I was in my son’s high school this week and I noticed a person drinking a diet soda. I became irritated that we allow this in schools. I remember my days when I was a school teacher and teachers smoked in the school lunch room and all around the school grounds. In only 15 years, [...]

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PLU – meaning behind the numbers

80% of all processed foods in the US are genetically modified.
The FDA does not require genetically modified food to be labeled.
How is one to know while they are shopping how the food is grown? Do you wonder if the tomato you’re eating has been crossbred with frog genes to render the tomato more resistant [...]

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Crop Subsidies = dinner?

Imagine if we had to live only on the foods that our government subsidizes for the crops from the Food and Farm Bill?
The “subsidy garden” reflects the $11 billion per year spent on BIG AG.
The subsidy garden consists of:

corn
wheat
rice
cotton
soybeans
tobacco
sorghum
canola
sunflower

Which would you prefer for your dinner?
Imagine if that $11 billion went to the smaller crops and [...]

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Who Owns Organic?

Dr. Phil Howard, an Assistant Professor at Michigan State, is responsible for the creation and updating of the organic food business chart. He teaches in the University’s Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies program.
The latest update of major corporate ownership and involvement in the organic food sector is now out. The chart graphically focuses on [...]

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