How to find the truth when there is so much deception & dishonesty involved in your food? Giving the power back to the people with a food revolution. The food world is changing fast. How can you know the truth when there is so much deception, disagreement, and downright dishonesty? Is sugar really more addictive and more toxic than most of us ever imagined? Are Paleo ... Continue Reading
Greed, Cancer and Pink KFC Buckets
We live in a world of profound contradictions. Some things are just unbelievably strange. At times I feel like I've found a way to adapt to the weirdness of the world, and then along comes something that just boggles my mind. The largest grassroots breast cancer advocacy group in the world, a group called "Susan G. Komen for the Cure," launched a 2010 partnership with the ... Continue Reading
Is Your Favorite Ice Cream Made With Monsanto's Artificial Hormones?
Monsanto, you may know, is not likely to win any contests for the most popular company. In fact, it has been called the most hated corporation in the world, which is saying something, given the competition from the likes of BP, Halliburton and Goldman Sachs. This has gotten me thinking about, of all things, ice cream, and of how Monsanto's clammy paws can be found in some ... Continue Reading
What About Grass-Fed Beef?
Feeding grain to cattle has got to be one of the dumbest ideas in the history of western civilization. Cows, sheep, and other grazing animals are endowed with the ability to convert grasses, which those of us who possess only one stomach cannot digest, into food that they can digest. They can do this because they are ruminants, which is to say that they possess a rumen, a 45 ... Continue Reading
Factory Farms Impact On Health
One of the techniques modern factory farms routinely use to increase weight in livestock is to give all of the animals a dose of antibiotics with every meal. When this is done, the bacteria in the animals' guts that are susceptible to the drugs are killed. When this practice is ongoing, it creates a microbial vacuum in the animals' intestines that gives an extraordinary ... Continue Reading