Month: September 2012

Making organic difference to health

Ramaninder K Bhatia, TNN | Sep 11, 2012, 11.23PM IST VADODARA: For the last four days, mouth-watering aroma of frying masalas, theplas, raaviya nu shaak and traditional sweet dishes have been wafting through the CC Mehta auditorium. In the evenings, the hall gets transformed into a huge dining area, where volunteers serve freshly-cooked, completely organic food to […]

Busted! Co-author of Stanford study that bashed organics found to have deep ties to Big Tobacco’s anti-science propaganda

Friday, September 07, 2012 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) (This article is jointly authored by Mike Adams of NaturalNews.com and Anthony Gucciardi of NaturalSociety.com) Over the last several days, the mainstream media has fallen for an elaborate scientific hoax that sought to destroy the credibility of organic foods by claiming they are “no healthier” than […]

Do you buy organic food? New York Times writer calls you a delusional cult member suckered into a ‘fable’

Thursday, September 06, 2012 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) The assault on the organic industry is in full swing today, and it’s an attack not merely on the industry itself but an attack on your sanity. If you “believe” in organic foods and non-GMOs, you are about to be labeled a delusional conspiracy theorist. How do I […]

Stanford secrecy, plus ties to Monsanto and Cargill

Stanford receives more secret donations than any other university in the U.S. In 2009 alone, these donations totaled well over half a billion dollars. (articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/04/local/la-me-donate4-2010feb04) There’s little doubt that many of these donations come from wealthy corporations who seek to influence Stanford’s research, bending the will of the science departments to come into alignment with corporate interests […]

Organics study co-author was hired to perform scientific “hatchet jobs”

Further documents (http://tobaccodocuments.org/bliley_bw/521028845-8850.html) go on to state that Olkin then received a grant from the CTR for his work alongside disinformation specialist Dr. Katenbaum in an effort to perform “deliberate hatchet jobs” on the heart study as described by author Robert N. Proctor Golden in his book entitled Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe […]

Organic Produce Reduces Exposure to Pesticides, Research Confirms

Stanford Univ. Study Also Finds Organic Meat Has Fewer Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, September 3, 2012 EWG Public Affairs: Alex Formuzis (202) 667.6982 or [email protected] Washington, D.C. – Consumers can markedly reduce their intake of pesticide residues and their exposure to antibiotic-resistant bacteria by choosing organic produce and meat, according to researchers at Stanford University who reviewed a […]

Himachal Pradesh Farmers opting organic farming in large scale: CM

Tuesday, September 04, 2012 Report by India Education bureau; Shimla: Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal, Chief Minister, said that progressive farmers were coming forward to opt for organic farming and 4.5 lakh of them had registered themselves for setting up of vermin compost units. He was addressing a mammoth public meeting at Mamel in Karsog sub-division of […]

Crops in India Wilt in a Weak Monsoon Season

By VIKAS BAJAJ Published: September 3, 2012 MURUMA, India ­ Vilas Dinkar Mukane lives halfway around the world from the corn farmers of Iowa, but the Indian sharecropper is at risk of losing his livelihood for the same reason: not enough rain. With the nourishing downpours of the annual monsoon season down an average of […]

Call for Applications for Akshayasree – 2012 awards to Organic Farmers in Kerala

Sarojini-Damodaran foundation is calling forth applications for the 4th Akshayasree Awards instituted for Organic farmers. The award constitutes of INR 50000 and certificate for the best Organic farmer in the state of Kerala. There are also district level awards of INR 10000 each for the districts of Alappuzha, Kottayam, Ernakulam, Thrissur, Palakkad, Malappuram, Kozhikkode and […]