Dietary Supplement Threat

Source: Health Freedom USA

DRUG COMPANY SEES COMPETITION, TRIES TO KILL IT

Maybe you take weight loss supplements and maybe you don’t. But protecting them, and the claims that the FDA recognizes are appropriate for them, has become a matter of urgency since GlaxoSmithKlein (GSK)has attacked the entire supplement industry through direct [...]

UK Supermarket Chain Bans Aspartame From Own-Label Products; Japanese Manufacturer Ajinomoto Sues!

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it. As a result, many supermarkets have gone about formulating foods that are devoid of commonly-recognized baddies such as saturated fat (sigh), salt, added sugar, and artificial additives. However, I was interested to read that here in the U.K., the Wal-Mart-owned supermarket chain Asda has explicitly named aspartame is a list of “nasties,” [...]

72% of India’s fruit, vegetable produce goes waste

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Another story proving that there isn’t a food shortage, there’s a big problem with the politics and systems around distributing food.  The article is about India, but it could just as easily be about dozens of other countries.
… About 72 per cent of the fruit and vegetable production of country goes waste because [...]

Fuelling the world food crisis

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Yes, cars on American roads will burn up close to one-third of the enormous corn crop American farmers will grow this year. But because the United States is the world’s biggest producer of corn, an essential staple, this massive diversion from the food bowl to the fuel tank threatens to wreak increasing havoc [...]

Food crisis appeal from Sierra Leone foreign minister

Source: Avaaz
Dear friends,

Rocketing prices threaten to starve millions and make us all less secure — sign the emergency petition for action to stop the world food crisis
Sign the Petition
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Have you noticed food costing more when you shop? Here’s why — we’re plunging headlong into a world food crisis. [...]

Crisis in Food Prices Threatens Worldwide Starvation …Is it Genocide?

Full Story: Information Clearing House
By Richard C. Cook
24/04/08 “GlobalResearch” — - Rising worldwide food prices are resulting in shortages, riots and protests, promises by governments to expand food aid, expressions of concern by international bodies like the World Bank, and stress on household budgets even in developed countries like the U.S. [...]

Exposed: the great GM crops myth

Source: The Independent
Major new study shows that modified soya produces 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent
By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor
Sunday, 20 April 2008

Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world [...]

Codex Alimentarius

Dear Friends,
Please, please take the time to watch this 40 minute video. 

Codex Alimentarius Video
http://www.lightworkers.org/node/23751
It is important for us to act in order to preserve our rights of having healthy foods and nutritional supplements as we know them available to us after December 2009.
IF we do not act and the U.S. becomes Codex compliant as it is [...]

The Whole Story About Whole Foods Market

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Many organic food fans trust stores that sell largely organic produce. However, the merger of Whole Foods and Wild Oats may be a sign that it’s time for the rose-colored glasses to come off.
It is growing harder to make the case that shopping at Whole Foods is socially commendable. Whole Foods has faced [...]

The Bad Science That Created the Cholesterol Con

Source: Coastalpostonline

By Maggie Mahar, Health Beat
The widespread belief that “bad Cholesterol” ( LDL cholesterol) is a major factor driving heart disease — and that cholesterol-lowering drugs like Lipitor and Crestor can protect us against fatal heart attacks — is turning out to be a theory filled with holes. These drugs, [...]