“Jerome Jacobson and his network of mobsters, psychics, strip club owners, and drug traffickers won almost every prize for 12 years, until the FBI launched Operation ‘Final Answer.’”
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-an-ex-cop-rigged-mcdonalds-monopoly-game-and-stole-millions
“The FDA has had trouble finding any food that does not carry traces of the pesticide.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/30/fda-weedkiller-glyphosate-in-food-internal-emails
“Five years ago, Whole Foods first announced its plans to adopt stringent mandatory labeling on products containing GMOs by 2018.”
Read more: https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/whole-foods-halts-plan-to-require-mandatory-gmo-labeling.amp
“These are the goals, in Marx and Engels’ own words, followed by an analysis of how deeply they have seeped into the United States governing structure.”
“The FDA will promote the ‘environmental, nutritional, food safety, economic, and humanitarian impacts’ of biotech crops and food products.”
Read more: http://www.trueactivist.com/u-s-government-set-to-spend-millions-on-pro-gmo-propaganda/
“In 2015, the iron fist of power clamped down on humanity, from warfare to terrorism (I repeat myself) to surveillance, police brutality, and corporate hegemony. The environment was repeatedly decimated, the health of citizens was constantly put at risk, and the justice system and media alike were perverted to serve the interests of the powers that be. However, while 2015 was discouraging for more reasons than most of us can count, many of the year’s most underreported stories evidence not only a widespread pattern that explicitly reveals the nature of power, but pushback from human beings worldwide on a path toward a better world.”
http://theantimedia.org/15-news-stories-from-2015-you-should-have-heard-about-but-probably-didnt/
“The WHO is set to list beef, bacon and sausage alongside cigarettes and asbestos as cancer causing agents, the Daily Mail reported this week. The publication said the health body is expected to go further than most scientific studies, by saying processed meat actually causes cancer. According to the report, the decision is due on Monday, and comes on the heels of a meeting of scientists from ten different countries that reviewed a broad array of data.”
“A new Berkeley ‘panel of experts’ charged with allocating money collected from the city’s recently implemented soda tax convened for the first time Tuesday night, electing Jennifer Brown and Xavier Morales as chair and vice chair, respectively. Brown, a parent and soda tax activist, and Morales, executive director of the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California, will lead the nine-person panel, officially titled the ‘Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Product Panel of Experts,’ in bi-monthly or monthly meetings that will establish the direction of funding from Berkeley’s new sugar-sweetened beverage tax, which was approved by voters in November. The soda tax had brought in $116,000 in its first month.”
http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/05/20/berkeleys-new-soda-tax-panel-begins-its-work/
“Look what is happening. A significant number of consumers want foods made from GMO-free grains. Food companies provided them. The article mentions some examples. General Mills will no longer use GMO cornstarch in Cheerios. Chipotle Mexican Grill wants to eliminate GMOs from all its ingredients. Whole Foods will require GMO labeling by 2018. All this is happening without any state intervention. The businesses are responding to their customers. With demand growing but the supply of non-GMO grains relatively tight, prices for those grains have gone up. The higher prices enticed farmers like the one quoted in the Des Moines Register.”
http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/36251/The-Free-Market-is-Solving-the-GMO-Problem/
“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved two varieties of genetically engineered apples and six varieties of genetically engineered potatoes for human consumption Friday. The apples and potatoes were approved as part of a voluntary consultation process in which the FDA reviewed information submitted by the companies about how the foods had been changed on a molecular level and how they compared nutritionally with conventional apples and potatoes. In February, the U.S. Department of Agriculture approved Artic apples for cultivation and sale. Those apples are expected to become commercially available in 2017.”
http://www.ibtimes.com/gmo-apples-potatoes-approved-fda-labeling-not-required-1854280
