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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

Water crisis: Obama’s EPA to approve dramatic increase in limits on radiation exposure allowable in public drinking water

As one of its closing acts before leaving the stage, the Obama administration plans to relax EPA guidelines regarding maximum allowable radiation levels in the nation’s drinking water, increasing them to levels thousands of times above current legal limits. A federal lawsuit filed by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) led to the release of […]

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 – […]

12/28/2016 / By Daniel Barker

New public health study discovers 3,000 US neighborhoods where children are suffering from lead poisoning

For most of us, the term “lead poisoning” immediately conjures up mental images of Flint, Michigan, where thousands of residents were exposed to unsafe levels of lead in their drinking water after the city switched water supplies in 2014. But Flint is far from being the only location in the U.S. threatened by lead contamination […]

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

EPA and Obama administration finally admit fracking can affect our drinking water

After five years of study aimed at assessing the potential impact of fracking on drinking water supplies, the EPA has finally admitted that hydraulic fracturing “can impact drinking water resources under some circumstances.” This rather vague conclusion was drawn in the EPA’s final report on the subject, released on December 13, and represents a shift […]

12/16/2016 / By Daniel Barker

High-tech marijuana: Israel’s greenhouses are computer-controlled and password protected

Taking advantage of progressive government policies regarding marijuana cultivation for medicinal and research purposes, Israeli entrepreneurs are aiming to make the country a “global hub for medical cannabis research.” Applying advanced agricultural technology to provide medical-grade cannabis for research (and eventually for export, if expected changes in the current laws are made), several Israeli startups […]

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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