"GMO Inside" is demanding that America's largest candy sellers, Hershey's and Mars, put GMO warning labels on their Valentine's Day candy or remove these 'risky' ingredients completely.Wait, they make GMO chocolate now? No, of course not, though there is nothing natural about chocolate anyway. A lot of corn and soy is genetically modified and those are in chocolate products. Science has...
read moreThe Obama administration has terminated the Microbiological Data Program created under President George W. Bush and his 2001 Food Safety Initiative.During its run, MDP conducted 80 percent of all federal produce testing for pathogens like Salmonella and Listeria. They conducted tests on thousands of samples of fruits and vegetables each year, gathered from 11 distribution centers.The...
read moreThe Obama administration has terminated the Microbiological Data Program created under President George W. Bush and his 2001 Food Safety Initiative.During its run, MDP conducted 80 percent of all federal produce testing for pathogens like Salmonella and Listeria. They conducted tests on thousands of samples of fruits and vegetables each year, gathered from 11 distribution centers.The...
read moreWhen does a business that has carefully positioned itself as more natural and wholesome and healthy and not at all like Big Ag suddenly look a lot like Big Ag?When the FDA tells them they can only make people sick in their own state. Then the corporate lawyers come out in force.Organic Pastures, America’s largest raw milk dairy and cause of numerous recalls just in the last year, would like to...
read moreSometimes when things catch the attention of the kookier segments of the public, they really take off. Fracking is a good example. Though it's been around since the 1940s, once it got really popular people started inventing fake illnesses to get into the mainstream media Scare Journalism of the Week pieces.But natural gas isn't the only cleaner energy activists have found a reason to hate:...
read moreKroger, America's largest supermarket chain, announced it will stop selling sprouts because of their "potential food safety risk". It joins retail behemoth Walmart, which stopped selling them way back in 2010."After a thorough, science-based review, we have decided to voluntarily discontinue selling fresh sprouts," Payton Pruett, Kroger's vice president of food safety, said in a statement that...
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