All Entries Tagged With: "Organic"
Organic or Not? Check the Label
August 28, 2009The USDA has established an organic certification program that requires all organic foods to meet strict government standards. These standards regulate how such foods are grown, handled and processed. Any farmer or food manufacturer who labels and sells a product as organic must…
5 Plants You Can Easily Grow Organically In Your Home
July 17, 2009For some of us gardening in a traditional garden just isn’t a reality. Much of the population is packed into large cities with little to no green space to speak of. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t grow your own plants and some of your own food. I would also have to advise that if you’re interested in actually…
Monsanto Does ‘Dust and Ditch’ Destroying Local Organic Farm
July 16, 2009A family farm in Iowa is only a few months shy of receiving their formal certification as an organic farm, when to their horror, a rustic-looking old biplane owned by Monsanto, swooped in to spray toxic fungicide on their fields. Monsanto basically laughs in their face saying…
Top 10 Green Eating Tips
July 13, 2009Eating green is perhaps the most impactful single act we engage in. The products we buy all have very specific impacts — from where the cows graze before supplying your milk, to how near your home your bread is baked. Of course, it isn’t quite that simple; there are numerous factors throughout the entire life…
Has the Recession Taken Its Toll On Your Eating Habits?
July 11, 2009If the answer is yes, you would obviously not be alone, so there are no shockers in this bit of news: Organic farmers, reports the New York Times, have been hit hard by the recession, and many appear to be giving up certification and natural farming techniques for more conventional farming. So its bad news…
USDA Organic Labels Not to be Trusted
July 06, 2009When is organic not organic? There is a huge uproar about the term organic, as in organic food. Lots of major food corporations want to cash in and have been cashing in. When the U.S. Government gets involved and allows crony capitalists to control and ruin everything that’s…
Research Confirms Organic Apples Have More Antioxidants Than Conventionally Grown Apples
June 01, 2009Organically produced apples have a 15 per cent higher antioxidant capacity than conventionally produced apples, says a new study. Not only is organically grown food higher in nutritional value, but it is free from exposure to harmful herbicides and pesticides that when consumed over your life, can lead to […]
Attack On Organic Food, Can You Connect The Dots
March 31, 2009For a change of pace every now and then, I’m going to publish an article by Stan ‘the stickman’ as sort of a way to lampoon current events happening in our reality. Now, Stan doesn’t have the luxury of a big brain like you and I do, but nonetheless he will still attempt to make sense out of the world we live in […]
Grow, Share, or Find a Garden with Sharing Backyards
March 26, 2009With the recession in full swing, many Americans are returning to their roots, literally, cultivating vegetables in their backyards to squeeze every penny out of their food budget. Having a garden is a great idea, but what if you have no land, no green thumb […]
Raw Almonds Still Illegal
March 26, 2009I’m still surprised at the number of people who buy raw almonds thinking that they’re raw. The truth is they’re not. In the fall of 2007 a bill was passed requiring all raw almonds in North America to undergo a mandatory pasteurization making it illegal to purchase raw almonds.
Top 20 Health, Green, Organic, Raw Tweeters You Should Follow on Twitter
March 17, 2009I joined Twitter earlier this year and I’ve absolutely enjoyed the experience. It provides me the chance to share my latest activities, but I also get to follow the lives of people who I’ve always wanted to know more about. I thought I’d tell you some of my favorite raw food, health, organic […]
Appetite For Organic Food Wilts As Economy Suffers
December 09, 2008The rotten economy is eating into sales of organic foods as fewer Americans put these often costly groceries on their plates. Overall sales of organic food are still rising, though the industry’s robust growth of recent decades is tapering off. Many devotees of organic foods are not willing to cut back though they say [...]
Man Tries to Become ‘Certified Organic’
December 03, 2008A pediatrician has spent the last three years only eating organic food, whether he’s cooking at home, dining out or snacking on the road. Why three years, because that was the amount of time it took to have a breeding animal certified organic by the Department of Agriculture and he wondered whether a person could meet the [...]
Blueberries Reverse Memory Loss and Prevent Alzheimer’s
December 03, 2008As if blueberries weren’t already amazing, new research found adding blueberries to a regular diet, resulted in improvements in memory and may have implications in the treatment of Alzheimer’s. Blueberries are rich in flavonoids, which have always been associated as an antioxidant, but this study indicates they also activate the part of the brain [...]
5 Ways to Spend Your Organic Food Dollars Wisely
November 17, 2008What’s keeping shoppers from purchasing organic food? Cost. No question. And who can blame them? But let’s understand why and what we can do about it. Organic food usually will cost at least 50 percent more than conventionally grown food and sometimes much more than that. There are several reasons, some of them pretty surprising [...]
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