Tag Archive: big food

US Taxpayers Fund FDA Pro-GMO Campaign

Agent Green

If it isn’t one industry group, it’s another who sneaks the approval or cost of promoting their interest onto a bill. Saving the US government from shutdown over the new budget is always last-minute, and this year’s unwanted surprise is providing $3 million dollars in funding to the FDA to stage a pro-GMO food campaign.…

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GMO Food Company Has Verified Non-GMO Foods?

The world’s largest GMO foods company is in partnership with the Non-GMO Project. Go ahead, read it again, but it’s unlikely to change your grasp of the words. It doesn’t matter if you’re demanding non-GMO foods, or a proponent of GMOs – there’s something wrong with this picture. The conventional farming world is in an…
May 22, 2017
Agent Green

Organic Food: Costco Trumps Whole Foods

Is it really surprising that a discount store surpasses an upper end grocer in sales of organic food? Not in a country where everyone wants everything at the lowest price possible. Faced with the choice of buying pesticide-free, gmo-free foods from the whole paycheck store or the cost cutter store, even the most discerning shopper will…
June 5, 2015
Tammy Clayton

The True Price of Produce

Concerned about where those tomatoes at the grocery store came from? You’re probably worried about the pesticides they might have been treated with too. For a growing group of people, buying food with low mileage is also becoming more important. Yes, all of this has people turning to local farmers markets, and growing their own,…
April 11, 2015
Amber