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01/12/2017 / By Daniel Barker

Rats’ intestines destroyed just 90 days after being fed Monsanto GMO corn

Ever since agribusiness giant Monsanto began pushing its GM crops on the public, the company has maintained that the technology is safe, and that consumption of Frankenfood products, such as genetically-modified corn, causes no ill effects in either animals or humans. Monsanto propaganda holds that GMOs have been proven safe, but the truth is that […]

01/10/2017 / By Daniel Barker

Three year study finds Mediterranean diet could prevent loss of brain volume as you age

A new study has provided evidence that the so-called “Mediterranean diet” can help prevent the loss of brain volume in older people. The three-year study, published January 4 in the journal Neurology, found that a diet heavy on olive oil, fruits, vegetables, legumes and grains, with moderate amounts of fish, wine and dairy, and small […]

01/04/2017 / By Daniel Barker

States with medical marijuana laws show decline in traffic fatalities

The common belief that marijuana users are, if anything, more careful than the average driver when behind the wheel appears to hold true, according to recent research. A study conducted by Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in New York City found that, on the average, traffic fatalities have dropped in states that have […]

01/03/2017 / By Daniel Barker

Oregon’s criminalization of rainwater collection is now complete: Saving water runoff will get you thrown in jail

Officials in Jackson County, Oregon have again shown their disrespect for private property rights, telling a local couple they must tear out a 40-year-old two-acre pond located on the property they bought two years ago. Jackson is the same county that recently imprisoned and fined another area landowner, Gary Harrington, for illegally collecting rainwater – […]

12/26/2016 / By Daniel Barker

Washington state suing Monsanto over toxic pollution from PCBs

The state of Washington has joined the list of those who have filed lawsuits against Monsanto over lingering environmental pollution caused by PCBs – a group of now-banned and highly toxic chemicals that the company manufactured between 1935 and 1977. Several West Coast cities, including San Diego, Portland and at least half a dozen others, […]

12/20/2016 / By Daniel Barker

New automated restaurant with no servers or cashiers opens in NYC

A newly-opened eatery in Manhattan incorporates a futuristic take on a not-so-new concept in providing fresh, healthy and relatively inexpensive vegetarian meals to the public. Eatsa is a modern, high-tech version of the automated lunch counter – an innovation first introduced to New Yorkers over a century ago. The restaurant employs no waiters or cashiers; […]

12/14/2016 / By Daniel Barker

World’s largest nature park is being built in Dallas

Texas’s reputation of having the biggest of everything just got a major boost with the announcement that the world’s largest nature park is to be built in the city of Dallas. The years-in-development park project has not received much publicity so far, partly because it is actually the result of a tying together of several […]

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