By Jill Richardson | Otherwords.org
Coke Still Needs to Get Real. The soda giant’s slick campaign to make us think its products are getting healthier might change public perceptions — but it won’t make soda good for you. Does Coca-Cola think we’re all really stupid?
For the first time, the company is using [...]
By Chipotle and Coalition of Immokalee Workers |Press Release
Chipotle becomes the 11th company to join the CIW’s Fair Food Program, which is designed to create a sustainable tomato industry through respect for the rights and concerns of all involved. DENVER, October 4, 2012 – Chipotle Mexican Grill and the Coalition of [...]
How one soccer mom who was “tired of the collusion of government and business hiding what was in our foods” founded the Right to Know campaign that led to California’s proposition 37. A grassroots coalition of California citizens has an initiative on the ballot to require the [...]
By Zack Kaldveer | California Progress Report
Monsanto’s sweet corn has been genetically engineered with an insecticide inside it — not on the corn, but IN it.
As the summer winds down, family barbeques are in full swing and supermarkets are filled with shoppers searching for the right foods to grill up with [...]
By Jim Hightower | Otherwords.org
Scientists have figured out a way to genetically engineer the flavor back into industrial tomatoes that taste no better than their shipping cartons. Some people are too smart for their own good.
Food geneticists, for example. These technicians have the smarts to tinker with the inner workings of [...]
By Jim Hightower | Otherwords.org
While meat glue is widely used, corporations peddling molded meat aren’t eager to let us consumers in on their little secret.
If you’re one who enjoys a steak dinner now and again, let me ask this question: do you prefer it with a nice sauce, a side of [...]
By Sam Pizzigati | Otherwords.org
If we really want to narrow our waistbands, we have to narrow the income gaps that divide us.
New York City’s billionaire mayor wants to ban super-sized sodas and other sugar-packed drinks.
Some 58 percent of New Yorkers, explains Mayor Michael Bloomberg, currently rate as either overweight or [...]
By <Jim Hightower | Otherwords.org
So much of Monsanto’s poison was spread in the past decade that weeds naturally developed a resistance to it.
Rather than find ways to cooperate with the natural world, America’s agribusiness giants reach for the next quick fix in a futile effort to overpower nature. [...]
By Donald Kaul| Otherwords.org
The vegetable is a quick cure for much if not most of our health problems. If you invented a pill that offers long life, good health, and a body to be proud of, you’d make a fortune. Bottles would fly off the shelves.
Suggest a change in behavior that [...]
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"It is the killing, it is the permanent war, it is our deranged national priorities. It is the system we live under which requires the serial deaths of all those innocents to maintain our economic health that should appall us. We sup upon the blood and bonemeal that is the byproduct of the idea that is America, and we sleep. And we sleep." -William Rivers PittRead it on Truthout
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Is Your Bubbly Soap Making the Kids Sick?
By Jill Richardson | Otherwords.org
I don’t want to expose the most precious people in my life to an endocrine disruptor. A few years ago, my world changed when I began dating a single dad whose youngest child was a toddler. Bonding with and loving his two kids has been the single most [...]