Photo Credit: Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson I was reading green blogger CanarsieBK’s post Are the White House Garden and Michelle Obama Just Smoke and Mirrors? and I wanted to leave a comment, then I realized my comment was way too long and turned into another post!
Long live native seeds” Down with Monsanto. Down with GMO and hybrid seeds.” Those were the chants of the peasants who protested against genetically modified seed “donator” Monsanto. Their one harvest seeds would spell disaster for the still ailing nation, plunging the farmers into a kind of “green slavery” and destroying the nations ability to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Boy, Nike makes some good shoes.” ~Grandad, The Boondocks 6 out of 10 nigga moments involve shoes, 50% of them are Nikes.” ~The Boondocks If there’s one brand the hood likes it’s Nike, so I thought it was interesting that people who may not buy organic food may be buying organic clothes. Nike tops non-profit […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Photo Credit: Monsanto On June 4th Haitian farmers will burn genetically modified seeds donated by Monsanto. Find out why in Part 1 of this piece HERE. According to truthout.org [4] hybrid corn seeds have been donated by Monsanto to Haiti that were treated with the fungicide Maxim XO and the calypso tomato seeds were treated […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On June 4th Haitian farmers will burn seeds as an act of protest in response to what one peasant farmer calls “a new earthquake”. Since the devastating 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti in mid January the country has been in even more need than the poverty stricken nation usually is. A company named Monsanto will be […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s my hypothesis: BP’s oil spill will lead to rising ADHD cases in children. BP’s April 20th massive oil spill is an environmental disaster with effects reaching much farther out than just the Gulf region. With wildlife refuges and major bird migration stopovers in the way of the oil spill the destruction of their habitats […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Photo Credit: AP Photo What this paper specifically highlights is that this may be true even at low concentrations.” ~Researcher Marc Weisskopf of the Harvard School of Public Health, who worked on the study. Parents are being urged to wash their produce thoroughly due to a recent study in the US that found a link […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With all this talk about organic flying everywhere I think it’s important to know a few things. What is organic? Is that even real? I jacked this from the USDA website itself to get their definition since they’re the ones that make the labels. Do You Believe In Organic Food? What do organic labels mean? […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You may have seen the USDA organic seal on produce, on signs above produce or the packaging of other products in supermarkets and wondered “What does that even mean?” Above is a guide the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Organic Program has provided so you know exactly what those seals are supposed to mean when […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You may have seen this USDA organic seal on produce or the packaging of other products in supermarkets and wondered “What does that even mean? Isn’t that just the same stuff I was buying before only it’s over priced now?” Or maybe you’ve been buying organic cause you heard it’s good for you without really […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
