Blog May 8, 2024  |  by Alexis Baden-Mayer Organic Consumers Association Mexico is taking action! It has a new law guaranteeing the right to adequate and sustainable food! The new General Law of Adequate and Sustainable Food (LGAAS by its Spanish acronym) took effect on April 18, 2024 and implementing regulations will be established within 180 days. This new law follows Mexico’s 2023 Corn Decree to gradually eliminate genetically engineered corn used for human consumption and animal feed. Article 1 lays out the purpose of the law, which includes (this is a shortened excerpt o ..read more

Blog May 2, 2024 | Source: Yahoo!Finance | by Fiona Holland Florida governor Ron DeSantis has signed legislation which bans the sale of lab-grown meat in the US state. In a statement following the announcement of the ban made yesterday (1 May), DeSantis said the state was “fighting back against the global elite’s plan to force the world to eat meat grown in a petri dish or bugs to achieve their authoritarian goals”. He added that his administration would continue supporting its “local farmers and ranchers” in a bid to “save our beef.” Responding to the ban and the governor’s statement, Jo ..read more

Blog May 7, 2024  |  by Alexis Baden-Mayer Organic Consumers Association Mexico has been making bold policy moves against genetically modified crops and the toxic pesticides they were engineered to be grown with, by phasing-out imports of GMO corn and showing its support for food sovereignty, soil regeneration and agroecology. But, how serious could Mexico be, if it is now ceding its national sovereignty to a three-person panel of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) under which the United States is challenging its 2023 Corn Decree? Supposedly, Mexico wants food ..read more

Blog Award-winning therapist Sally Baker shares her professional and personal experience of what it takes to survive trauma, providing practical guidance in the techniques she has refined working with an international array of clients – hypnotherapy, brain wave recursive therapy, EFT and more. May 7, 2024 | Source: Chelsea Green | by Sally Baker To combat physical nasties we need a strong immune system. To combat negative life events we need resilience. In The Getting of Resilience from the Inside Out, award-winning therapist Sally Baker gives us a practical guide to developin ..read more

Blog A blossoming legislative trend prevents homeowners associations, which set landscaping rules for a growing number of Americans, from forbidding native plants. Spring 2024 | Source: Audubon | by Zoe Grueskin Even as her yard blossomed with black-eyed Susans and milkweed, Melinda Soltys didn’t consider herself a gardener; she just wanted to see more wildlife. After learning how native vegetation improves habitat for the animals she hoped to attract, Soltys grew a haven for birds and butterflies in her front yard. “As soon as you start researching,” she says, “you realize it’s all abo ..read more

Blog Foraging wild plants in your area is a great way to shake up your culinary delights. 2024 | Source: Chelsea Green Publishing Don’t know where to start? Below are our best foraging posts to get you started on your hunt for wild edibles. Foraging 101: Where to find your bounty We’ve given you descriptions. We’ve given you recipes. We’ve given you (hopefully) inspiration to explore. And now we’re giving you the information you need to begin foraging on your own: where to do it and how to be safe. So go forth, young foragers, and start gathering your bounty. Read More … Wild Edibles: 5 ..read more

Blog May 4, 2024 | Source: U.S. Right to Know | by Emily Kopp EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Wednesday about his coronavirus research collaboration situated at the epicenter of the worst pandemic in a century. Daszak’s organization collaborated closely with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a lab complex specializing in bat-borne viruses, including SARS-related coronaviruses. The lab hosted one of the world’s largest coronavirus databases before the data was made inaccessible in the fall of 2019 ..read more

Blog A visual guide to 2024’s rare dual appearance May 3, 2024 | Source: CNN | by Katie Hunt, Henrik Pettersson, Tiffany Baker, Marco Chacón, Annette Choi, Rachel Ramirez and Lou Robinson Billions of bugs are emerging from the soil across a large swath of the United States in a natural phenomenon last witnessed in 1803. It involves two broods, or groups, of periodical cicadas, insects with relatively long life cycles that show up after a certain interval. The Northern Illinois brood spends 17 years underground before surfacing and is known as Brood XIII, while the Great Southern Brood ..read more

Blog Founding Executive Director of Moms Across America Zen Honeycutt joined Fox 5 to discuss her plans to lobby in D.C. for regulations on toxins that may have made their way into our food supply. May 3, 2024 | Source: FOX5DC CONTINUE READING >> Subscribe to our weekly newsletter, Organic Bytes << The post Moms Pressing Regulators for Nontoxic and Nutrient Dense Food appeared first on Organic Consumers ..read more

  Organic Bytes Newsletter #849: Ban The Forever Chemicals Contaminating Water, Food & Farmland   SUBSCRIBE | DONATE BAN PFAS Toxic Forever Chemicals Sewage sludge used to be dumped into the ocean, but that wasn’t environmentally responsible, so it was marketed as “fertilizer” and dumped on farmland. There’s nothing wrong with “humanure” if properly composted. (Although it isn’t allowed in organic and we’re okay with that!) The thing that makes sewage sludge so nasty isn’t the human waste, it’s the polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). This class of highly toxic man-made flu ..read more