Organic Consumers News

EDGARTOWN, Mass. - Standing alongside the 13th green at the Vineyard Golf Club on Martha's Vineyard, Jeff Carlson spotted a small broadleaf weed between his feet. As the superintendent charged with maintaining the club grounds, he instinctively bent to pluck it, then stopped.

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Federal regulators announced this morning that the pesticide aldicarb -- made at Bayer CropScience's plant in Institute -- will be phased out because of "unacceptable dietary risks" from eating food tainted with the chemical.

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Teenagers may carry the highest levels of bisphenol A - about 30 per cent more than the rest of the population, according to the first national survey about the compound conducted by Statistics Canada, but exposure to the estrogen-mimicking chemical is widespread, with detectable levels in 91 per cent of Canadians.

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It can seem defeating the more we learn about the criminal nature of the ruling elite; their plans, their desire to have absolute control, and their infrastructure that's darn near complete to achieve their goals. However, there is an incredibly easy solution and powerful weapon for defeating the elite -- it's called local food.

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Once, the meat industry acted with impunity, confident that its lobbying clout in Washington could deflect any challenges to its practices. But now, it finds itself on the defensive.

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The action on the 27th will demand an end to mountaintop removal and all forms of steep slope surface mining. In addition to a vibrant, permitted march and rally, dignified non-violent civil disobedience is being organized for those who wish to express themselves by risking arrest.

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The floods battered New England, then Nashville, then Arkansas, then Oklahoma - and were followed by a deluge in Pakistan that has upended the lives of 20 million people.

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Subcomandante Marcos, the mouthpiece for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) who has not been seen in public for the past 19 months, has emerged as a possible suspect in the kidnapping of powerful right-wing politico Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, who was taken by unknowns at the gate of his ranch in the rural Queretero county of Pedro Escobedo this May 14 and remains in captivity.

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Americans are a people living on the precipice of economic disaster, both as individuals and as a group. The continued precariousness of their situation is a direct result of government connivance in stripping them of public assets and the distribution of those assets to the corporate sector.

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The journal Lancet Infectious Diseases recently published a sobering piece about how antibiotics are becoming wholly ineffective as treatments for infection. According to the report, even the most powerful antibiotics available are largely inadequate at tackling the emerging forms of new and powerful "super" bacteria.

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A federal district court judge revoked the government's approval of genetically engineered sugar beets Friday, saying that the Agriculture Department had not adequately assessed the environmental consequences before approving them for commercial cultivation.

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The FDA has long banned interstate sales of raw milk. Many states restrict or prohibit the sale of raw milk entirely.

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Calculating the true cost of living in a country built on oil.

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An interview with Khan's about his new film, "Peepli Live," which explores the deadly consequences of India's shift to a neo-liberal economic model.

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The School Nutrition Association, representing thousands of school food service workers across the country, exists to "advance good nutrition for all children." Yet it has embraced a "study" promoting chocolate milk and other sugar-added milk beverages that was paid for by the dairy industry and conducted by a firm that specializes in devising corporate marketing schemes. As for whether the study is based on solid science, it's impossible to say -- the dairy group that funded it refuses to release it for public inspection.

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Sadly, legalization is not even part of the policy dialogue in D.C. -- the U.S. drug czar has repeatedly said it's not even part of his or Obama's "vocabulary."

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When kids eat conventionally grown fruits and vegetables, what level of pesticide residues are they taking in -- and to what effect?

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I've spent the last 30 years as an environmental engineer, but it wasn't until I became a grandfather that I fully understood the extent to which industrial chemicals had invaded the American home. My rude awakening came when my wife sent me to buy a crib mattress for our first grandchild. I was appalled by what I found; the crib mattresses were full of industrial chemicals. Because of my environmental engineering background, I knew how harmful these chemicals could be to a developing child.

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PHOENIX - With Washington silent for now on legislation championed by unions, the debate is playing out instead in the states.

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