What Do You Mean This Banana Isn’t Vegan? A new preservative made from shellfish may prompt warning labels on the popular fruit. The food-industrial complex may have made it increasingly difficult to determine what, exactly, we’re eating: Your soy sauce Read More …
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Bills promote food self-sufficiency
Bills promote food self-sufficiency By COLIN M. STEWART Tribune-Herald staff writer A number of measures making their way through the current Legislative session aim to decrease Hawaii’s dependence on the mainland when it comes to food. A long-held fear Read More …
USDA Scientist: Monsanto’s Roundup Herbicide Damages Soil
USDA Scientist: Monsanto’s Roundup Herbicide Damages Soil —By Tom Philpott | Fri Aug. 19, 2011 3:00 AM PDT “The heavy use of Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide appears to be causing harmful changes in soil and potentially hindering yields of the Read More …
Is A Popular Weed Killer Harming Hawaii’s Environment?
This is interesting information… Is A Popular Weed Killer Harming Hawaii’s Environment? By Sophie Cocke UPDATED 3/7/2013 10 a.m. For decades, Hawaii sugarcane and pineapple farmers, and increasingly seed corn growers, have sprayed the weed killer atrazine on their Read More …
Chemicals on CORN-
Did you know that more than half ALL pesticides sprayed in the United States are sprayed on CORN? Look at the ingredients in your most common food products… if there is corn, corn syrup or high fructose corn syrup, ascorbic Read More …