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  • Ending GMO’s…we are just getting started.

    michelle November 12, 2012     No Comment     Activism, Changing Habits, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices, Sustainable Agriculture

      California just came very close to passing the first statewide initiative in America that would have mandated the labeling of food if genetically modified organisms (GMO’s) were an ingredient. Prop 37 was known as the “The California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act.” If Proposition 37 had been approved, it would have: Required labeling

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  • The BP oil spill, Fukushima, GMO’s….

    michelle victoria April 22, 2011     No Comment     Changing Habits, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices, Sustainable Agriculture

    We have watched the oil spilling, no gushing is more accurate from the exploded deepwater drilling rig. We cannot see what is spewing from Fukushima, but we know that it is dangerous and potentially deadly. We see these events in the news yet there is something else potentially equally dangerous, and maybe even worse, and that

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  • Confused About GMO’s?

    michelle victoria April 14, 2011     1 Comment     Changing Habits, Climate Change, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices, Sustainable Agriculture, Video Clips

    If you are wondering what all of the fuss is about GMO’s (genetically modified organisms) in our food then this video will tell you much of what you need to know to learn about what they are and how dangerous they are. Watch live streaming video from deepakhomebase at livestream.com You can learn more at

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  • Millions Against Monsanto-What’s the problem with Monsanto?

    michelle victoria March 25, 2011     1 Comment     Changing Habits, GMO-GE Information

    I am in the process of organizing a last minute rally in Santa Fe, NM to participate in the Millions Against Monsanto -Rally for Our Right To Know. This is an event to bring attention to the widespread use (and rapidly growing) of genetically modified organisms (GMO’s) in our food supply. These are the “Rally

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  • More Surprises in Fast Food

    michelle victoria February 21, 2011     No Comment     Changing Habits, Industrial food practices, Restaurants

    There has been much written about the frightening aspects of fast food meat, from how the animals are raised to massive amount of antibiotics and hormones these animals are given, not too mention the massive amounts of polluting waste coming from these large factory farms, also known as CAFO’s (concentrated animal feeding operations). Did you

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  • Time to Put Public Health Before Corporate Interests

    michelle victoria December 8, 2010     No Comment     Changing Habits, Gardens and Farms, Industrial food practices

    You can let California’s Governor-Elect Jerry Brown know that you don’t want your strawberries sprayed with a known carcinogen and neurotoxin. There was public and scientific opposition to approving methyl iodide but lobbying and corporate interests won out over the health of strawberry consumers across the country (90% of all strawberries consumed in the U.S.

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  • Tax Dollars Helping to Fund Domino’s Marketing Campaign

    michelle victoria November 8, 2010     No Comment     Changing Habits, Industrial food practices, Sustainable Agriculture

    Over the weekend the New York Times ran a story on how the government is helping to increase cheese sales by promoting a new line of Domino’s pizza with 40 percent more cheese, since more cheese on products has been shown to boost sales. You might be asking why is the government promoting Dominos’s pizza

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  • An eleven year old tells us about our food system.

    michelle September 28, 2010     1 Comment     Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, Gardens and Farms, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices, Slow Food, Sustainable Agriculture

    Just saw this wonderful five minute video of what is wrong, and also what is right about our food system at Civil eats (a great web site). What makes it even more extraordinary is that it is given by an eleven year old at a TEDx event. This is all so obvious that a child

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  • 12 Facts About Food…that you should know.

    michelle victoria September 14, 2010     No Comment     Changing Habits, Climate Change, Industrial food practices, Sustainable Agriculture

    Here are 12 facts about food that you may or may not want to know, but you really should be aware of. This comes from The Ecologist magazine that is published in the UK and the information was taken from a book called The Little Book of Shocking Food Facts by Craig Holden Feinberg and Dale

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  • Can we live without Monsanto?

    michelle victoria September 4, 2010     1 Comment     Changing Habits, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices

    Going GMO free…. After reading about the possible health effects of Monsanto’s genetically modified corn April Dávila did some research and then decided to go “Monsanto-free” for a month. You can read her story at Yes magazine (a great magazine if you don’t know about it). What she discovered was that this was not such

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