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Resident Evil

Tammy Clayton

The longer you live, the more apparent it becomes that man is his own worst enemy. Some, through greed, lust, or an overpowering need to control everything, present the world with danger through hidden agendas disguised as benefits. Others and this would be the majority, are so busy specializing or being entertained that they are…

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U.S. Good Food Movement Facing Extinction

Current regulations for food safety in the U.S. are in need of an overhaul as they were written in 1938, and the world has changed a lot since then. However, the current draft applies a one-size-fits-all mentality, and small to mid-sized family farms – organic or traditional – will be history if this language is…
September 20, 2013
Tammy Clayton

Monsanto Execs & Investors Dumping Monsanto Shares

Monsanto may have defeated mandatory labeling on GMOs in elections, but they aren’t winning their own war. Monsanto stocks are plummeting and shareholders are dumping their stock in huge volumes as the truth about GMOs comes to light. When the CEO of Monsanto dumps 40,000 shares at once, along with other high level executives unloading…
September 6, 2013
Tammy Clayton

GMO Food Sold at Whole Foods

Imagine the amazement factor when the narrator on ABC News’ story ‘Whole Foods: How Radical CEO Created Grocery Empire’ announced that vegan, John Mackey, “has no problem selling pork sausage and genetically modified foods.” With the story moving right along it took a second or two for that to register in the brain. What? Fortunately,…
February 12, 2013
Tammy Clayton

Who Owns the Rain?

A few months ago a man in Oregon was jailed for collecting rainwater ‘illegally.’ Being from a state where water is plentiful, this seems beyond insane to me. Rain is a gift much like manna from heaven no matter where on Earth you may live, unless the weather is hellbent on creating monsoon effect. Yet,…
January 26, 2013
Tammy Clayton

Organics In The News: The Apples & Oranges Study

Can a study of studies be called a study? And should we take the latest findings on the benefits of organic food from Stanford as serious news? I say no. They did nothing more than compile some notes based on the published results of studies conducted by others over the past decade. That isn’t a…
October 12, 2012
Tammy Clayton