The Non-Toxic Sleuth

Disease-causing parasites can hitch a ride on plastics and potentially spread through the sea, new research suggests

The sticky biofilms that form on microplastics can harbor disease-causing pathogens and help them spread. Tunatura/iStock via Getty Images Plus Karen Shapiro, University of California, Davis and Emma Zhang, University of California, Davis Typically when people hear about plastic pollution, they might envision seabirds with bellies full of trash or sea turtles with plastic straws …

6 Reasons Dandelions Shouldn’t Be Called a Weed
Don’t pull that dandelion! And stop using Roundup and other synthetic herbicides.

One of the first hints that spring has sprung is the appearance of sunny yellow dandelions throughout the United States. Sadly, this very useful plant has gotten a bad wrap and is disparaged as a “weed”, eliciting disdain among some gardeners and triggering chemical warfare on lawns across America. But there are many reasons to …

32 Members of Congress Want to Allow Conventional Farmers to Continue Poisoning Children

32 Members of Congress Want to Allow Conventional Farmers to Continue Poisoning Children… And You Senate and House Ag Committee members pressure EPA to lift chlorpyrifos insecticide ban. Who are the Terrible Thirty-Two? Read on to find out. March 8, 2022 by GMO/Toxin Free USA Staff For years, health and environmental advocates had been calling …

100 Studies Find GMOs Are Harmful. Who Says GMOs Are Safe?

Our movement is often labeled as “anti-science” by the GMO industry and their allies because we reject their harmful technologies: Patented, genetically engineered seeds, toxic agrichemicals, and the resulting toxic food-like products. GMO foods and pesticides are approved by our government regulatory agencies based on secret, unpublished, non-peer-reviewed studies produced by the corporations. We’re calling …

The herbicide dicamba was supposed to solve farmers’ weed problems – instead, it’s making farming harder for many of them

Originally published on The Conversation by Bart Elmore of The Ohio State University In October 2021 I was a guest on a popular podcast to discuss my recently published book, “Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past and Our Food Future,” which examines the agribusiness giant’s influence on the global food system. After the show, I got a …

Does Your “green” Makeup Have PFAS Forever Chemicals?

When people buy “green” beauty products, they expect they’re not going to contain harmful toxins and known carcinogens! A consumer watchdog group recently tested more than 80 green beauty cosmetics for the presence of organic fluorine, an indicator of toxic PFAS “forever chemicals.”

BAYER-MONSANTO TO END CONSUMER LAWN AND GARDEN SALES OF GLYPHOSATE-BASED ROUNDUP AS OF 2023… PLUS, WE NEED A CLEAN FOOD REVOLUTION

Bayer has been on a rough road since it acquired Monsanto in 2018 for $63 billion. The combined company became the largest GMO and pesticide behemoth, on top of already being a pharmaceutical giant. Bayer believed it was on its way to even bigger profits… poisoning the planet and people, then selling the drugs needed …

MEDIA REPORTING ON GMO SAFETY IS DECEPTIVE: FLAWED 6,000 STUDY GMO META-ANALYSIS DEBUNKED

Media Reporting on GMO Safety Study is Deceptive: Flawed 6,000 Study GMO Meta-Analysis Debunked A recent meta-analysis titled “Impact of genetically engineered maize on agronomic, environmental and toxicological traits: a meta-analysis of 21 years of field data”(1) by Elisa Pellegrino, et al, concluded that genetically engineered (GE) (also known as genetically modified or GM) corn …

THE GMO DEBATE: HOW DO WE FEED A GROWING WORLD?

GMO Free USA was proud to be an educational exhibitor during the Earth Day Texas (EDTx) festival in Dallas through the weekend of April 21 – 23, 2016. Billed as “the world’s largest Earth Day exhibition”, The Dallas Morning News reported this year’s attendance clocking in at over 130,000 attendees. The GMO Debate: How Do We Feed …