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Tune in tonight (Thursday) to George Noory’s Coast to Coast radio show!
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We’re not in Kansas anymore. In other words, Kansas is no longer the idyllic land of milk and honey it once was. Oh sure, they still have milk. But now their milk can be full of drugs — hazardous growth hormones — and they won’t know. If we don’t act quickly, the labels are coming off in Kansas.

Unless Governor Kathleen Sebelius vetoes it before April 16th, a Kansas bill would restrict any national US dairy from properly labeling their milk products as free from genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (rbGH or rbST).

Would a chemical corporation knowingly put spermicides into genetically modified crops? Joel Salatin says they do.

My Nourishing New Year’s Resolutions:
1. Help sponsors I believe in reach their customers online. I just launched Real Food Media, a blog network for traditional & slow food. We are also an advertising network. I am offering sponsors the opportunity to market directly to their customers. I’m so excited about helping small farmers and real [...]

We’re going home to California tomorrow. Before we go, I wanted to share a few photographs I took today of my family’s hometown, Oregon, Ohio.
Oregon is just outside of Toledo, just south of Lake Erie. Our family has lived here for generations. My great grandfather and my grandfather were farmers until they got driven [...]

I’m always reading about people eating less meat in order to reduce their carbon footprint. These people say that the most important thing you can do to help the environment is to go vegetarian.
For example, Kelly Freston wrote this article last year in the Huffington Post: Vegetarian is the New Prius:
Last month, the United [...]

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“For the first time in American history, our generation was at risk of having a shorter lifespan than our parents. And it was because of what we ate.” —Curt Ellis, KING CORN filmmaker

I’m so excited. They are showing “King Corn” on PBS tonight. You do not want to miss this movie!
Check your local listings and [...]

I went to the dentist today. And guess what? No cavities!
This is the first time I’ve had no cavities in years. And you would think that I would be more prone to dental decay — considering the stress I’ve had on my body over the past year (childbirth, breast feeding).
Here’s the interesting thing… For the [...]

Yensi cooked us some Guatemalan food for dinner. It was SO GOOD!
We had:
Chicken sauteed in butter with grilled onions and red bell pepper (I added some salsa on top)
Brown rice cooked with chicken broth, chopped carrots and red bell pepper
Black beans with avocado slices and a dollop of yogurt “cream cheese” (yogurt curds without the [...]

Here is a great video explaining the problems of GM foods globally:
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Also, here’s a link to The Dying Fields, a PBS documentary about the suicides among farmers in India. There is a suicide every eight hours.
You can watch the whole thing online.
This is what Linn-Cohen Cole was referring to in her Open Letter to Hillary [...]