HR 875 – The Death of Farmers Markets, CSAs and Local Food

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HR 875 or the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 threatens all small farms, farmers markets and CSAs. This act could mean the end of the local food movement unless you act now.

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A little mercury with your soda?

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Care for a side of neurotoxins with your soda?

A new study published in Environmental Health confirms that mercury, a known neurotoxin, contaminates almost half of the high fructose corn syrup currently on the market.   Another study published by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy found that almost one-third of popular, processed foods containing HFCS as the first or second ingredient under… Read More

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What They Say

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Now that the FDA has officially changed its course and determined that High Fructose Corn Syrup does indeed qualify as “natural” or, rather, that it “would not object to the use of the term ‘natural’ on a product containing the HFCS produced by [a manufacturing process without synthetic fixatives] ,” the corn refiners association is… Read More

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