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If the Food and Drug Administration gets its way, your trip to the grocery store could get a tad pricier. Supermarket owners argue a pending federal food-labeling rule that stems from the new health care law would overburden thousands of grocers and convenience store owners — to the tune of $1 billion in the first year alone. Store owner Tom Heinen said the industry’s profit margins already are razor thin. “When you [...] One of the longest standing truisms of dieting is that a calorie is a calorie and the more of them we consume (and the fewer we expend), the fatter we will get. But what if everything we thought we knew about calories was wrong? In recent months, several studies have thrown open the debate about calories, questioning conventional wisdom about which foods are really making us fat. Not only are many of the [...] by Michael All over America the corn is dying. If drought conditions persist in the middle part of the country, wheat and soybeans will be next. Weeks of intense heat combined with extraordinarily dry conditions have brought many U.S. corn farmers to the brink of total disaster. If there is not significant rainfall soon, many farmers will be financially ruined. This period of time is particularly important for corn because this [...] by Michael
Are we digging our own graves with our teeth? Is the food that we eat every day slowly killing us? When I was growing up, I just assumed that everything in the grocery store was perfectly safe and perfectly healthy. I just assumed that the government and the big corporations were watching out for us and that they would never allow something harmful to be sold in the stores. [...] Kurt Nimmo The FDA is with Monsanto and agribusiness. They don’t want you to know what’s in the food you eat. On Tuesday, the FDA reached a deadline for the “Just Label It” petition calling for GMO to be included on food content labels. The FDA said it had not made a decision and needs more time to think it over. It also said the petition with over a million signatures – [...] From Mercola.com: In Europe, genetically modified foods and ingredients have to be labeled. In the United States, they do not. But the truth is, if and when GM labeling is finally required in the United States, you’re going to see changes to the majority of food labels in your supermarket, as GM foods already widely appear in our food supply. Most people are not aware that nearly EVERY processed food you encounter at your [...] Source: reuters // Reuters
* Interior Ministry ex-officer says corruption systemic * Illegal migrant workers used as labour on base * State property sold off without permission By Thomas Grove MOSCOW, May 19 (Reuters) – Russian Interior Ministry troops were fed dog food earlier this year to save money, a former officer in the ministry said on Thursday. A rare whistleblower in Russia’s [...] |
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