Aug 19 2011 in Living Organic, News, Press Releases by Brother Echo Roberson
The national options really boil down to two distributors: Tree of Life and United Natural Foods. With them being the only major distributors, products often get discontinued and then we have difficulty stocking the item.” – Dan Gilotte, Wheatsville Co-op
Tags: Organic Food, Organic Food Network, Organic Food Prices, Organic News
May 5 2011 in Community, Current Events, Events, News, Press Releases by Brother Echo Roberson
A food revolution continues to simmer in higher education, as students from 20 college campuses will be trained this summer to launch new student-run food cooperative projects.
Tags: Co o, CoFed, Coop, Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive, Food Cooperative, Liz Ciavolino, Melissa Eddison, Yonatan Landau
May 3 2011 in Current Events, Health News, News, Press Releases by Brother Echo Roberson
American adults eat 22.2 teaspoons of sugar every day – more than double the daily recommended amount.
Tags: Americans Sugar, Bad Diet, Corn Syrup, Diet, food, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Obesity, Over Eating, Sugar Addiction, Weight Loss, White Sugar
Apr 29 2011 in Current Events, News, Press Releases by Brother Echo Roberson
I hate to sound jaded but when you have a press release that starts of by saying “The federal government said …” I’m sorry but who, who exactly is the federal government?
Tags: Cereal, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Junk Food, Marketing to Kids, Nutrition, Standard American Diet, Trix Are For Kids, USDA
Apr 26 2011 in Health News, News, Press Releases by Brother Echo Roberson
Spicing up your daily diet with some red pepper can curb appetite, especially for those who don’t normally eat the popular spice, according to research from Purdue University.
Tags: Capsaicin, Dieting, Diets, Kirschstein National Research Service Award, Lose Weight, Lose Weight Red Pepper, Purdue Study, Purdue University, Raw Vegan, Red Pepper Diet, Red Peppers, Vegan, Vegan Food, Weight Loss
Apr 25 2011 in Blow The Whistle, News, Press Releases by Brother Echo Roberson
A cancer-causing toxin has been found at uncomfortable levels in common foods such as bread, baby food and fried potatoes.
Tags: Acrylamide, Asparaginase, Baby Food, Baby Food Toxic, Baby Food Toxins, The World Health Organisation, Toxins
Apr 18 2011 in Current Events, GMO News, News, Press Releases by Brother Echo Roberson
If history is any indicator through the vehicle of advertising and marketing the corporate machine will have everyday people eating 100% GMO food before we can say the phrase “Carcinogenic Food”.
Tags: Ban GMO, Genetically Modified Foods, GM Australia, GM Food, GMO Australia, GMO Food, No GMO, Say No to GMO
Apr 16 2011 in Blow The Whistle, News, Press Releases by Brother Echo Roberson
Existing biofuel policies in developing countries encourage unethical practices and offer few incentives to develop new, more ethical technologies, a major report has concluded.
Tags: BioFuel, BioFuels, Deforestation, Innogen Centre, No Palm Oil, Ottoline Leyser, Palm Oil, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Edinburgh
Apr 15 2011 in Current Events, GMO News, News, Press Releases by Brother Echo Roberson
Genetically modified bacteria could be used in air filters to extract pesticide vapors from polluted air thanks to work by researchers in China published this month in the International Journal of Environment and Pollution.
Tags: Agrochemicals, Bacteria, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Escherichia, Escherichia Coli, GMO, GMO Science, International Journal of Environment and Pollution, Methyl Parathion, Organophosphorus, Organophosphorus Pesticides, Parathion, Pesticides
Apr 13 2011 in Blow The Whistle, News, Press Releases, Raw Videos by Brother Echo Roberson
Today we’re looking into something that is straight out of a science fiction book, the chemical compound known as transglutaminase or “Meat Glue”. I only recently heard about meat glue but as it turns out this chemical laboratory compound has been used by butchers and meat processors for decades and served up to people unknowingly for just as long.
Tags: Brother Echo, Carnivore, Glue Meat Together, Meat Glue, Plant Based Diet, Raw Vegan, Transglutaminase, Vegan, Vegetarian
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