BAD GREENS

Avoiding dangerous consumables.

[seinfeldtv]

Bad chicken! Mess you up!

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Roundup 'probably' causes cancer, World Health Organisation says

Glyphosate, active ingredient in world'€™s most widely used weedkiller, classified as probably carcinogenic to humans, according to International Agency for Research on Cancer

[snowce]

Designed by F. G. Cooper for the U.S. Food Administration, WWI

[guardian]

The world’s most widely used insecticides have contaminated the environment across the planet so pervasively that global food production is at risk. Full story here

[white-symphonies-blog]

Did you know that there is more than one kind of plastic, varying in toxicity and recyclability?

[abolitionista-blog]

…now in the U.S., 88% of corn, 90% of sugar beets and 94% of soybeans are grown using GMO. Some 80% of ‘bottled, boxed or canned foods in the U.S.’ contain GMO ingredients. And livestock feed ‘is comprised mostly of GMO corn and soybeans.’ GMOs ‘dominate the agricultural landscape’ of America today, she said.

GMO Food in the U.S. and the Biotechnology Industry’s Power

(via abolitionista)

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[publicquestion]

Non-GMO Project: their right to Grow, our right to know

[mojavedolphins]

The ocean is not a trashcan.

[vegnews]

[badgreens]

Monsanto and DuPont, the two leading merchants of genetically modified seed, have invested more than $12 million to defeat Prop 37. They’ve been joined in this effort by the Grocery Manufacturers Association, whose president declared at a meeting last July that defeating Prop 37 would be the group’s top priority for 2012. Answering the call, many of America’s biggest food and beverage makers — including PepsiCo, Nestlé, Coca-Cola and General Mills — have together ponied up tens of millions of dollars to, in effect, fight transparency about their products.

By Michael Pollan via NYTimes.com

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[badgreens]

cmebgreen:

You have the right… 

Label GMO foods

Vote on Prop 37

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mothernaturenetwork:

Infographic: Big Bad Corn

3 out of every 4 products in the grocery store contain some form of corn. This infographic shows how the use of corn for fuel and food has increased dramatically over the past 30-plus years and how it affects everything from our weight to the environment.