Food choices. Food Labeling on GMO’s.

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If you’ve been reading our posts both here and at www.miritturley.com, you know that we have been advocating clear labeling on genetically modified food.  The FDA hasn’t listened to our voices, congress hasn’t listened to us either.  However there is good news, thanks to the need for grocers to use price scanners for inventory and [...]

What about the pesticides?

I read everyday about the debate between eating organically grown food and non- organically grown food.  This debate will never end.  Big industrial agriculture is not going to let go of their control of a 100 billion dollar market.  The money is too big.  Imagine controlling what people eat down to what seeds are planted [...]

Avoid GMO

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Doctors Warn: Avoid Genetically Modified Food

By Jeffrey M. Smith

On May 19th, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) called on “Physicians to educate their patients, the medical community, and [...]

Chicken Safety

Submitted by Denise Reynolds RD on Nov 30th, 2009

Consumer Reports has issued the results of their latest investigation of chicken safety, and the news is not good. In their latest analysis, over two thirds of fresh, whole broilers purchased in stores across the United States were infected with either salmonella or campylobacter bacteria, the leading [...]

Government bill could reduce produce from small local farmers

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Sunday, November 15, 2009
By Mark Binker
Staff Writer – News-Record.com

RALEIGH — There’s no need to wonder where the collard greens or tomatoes came from that are on sale at Whitaker Farms’ stall at the Piedmont Triad Farmers Market.

They came right from Richard and Faylene Whitaker’s Randolph County farm fields or greenhouse. The farm has developed [...]

Food, Inc.

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Organic Food Healthier Choice

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Organic or ordinary?

Article from The Telegraph – Calcutta

A recent report suggests that the nutritional value of organic food is the same as that of conventionally grown produce. So should you still go organic, asks Shabina Akhtar

Just when the demand for organic food was increasing, comes a report that might force consumers to think twice before [...]

First Lady vs Big Farms

Is Michelle Obama about to take on Big Food?

from The obvious advantage of organic food over conventional | Grist
by Tom Laskawy

With all the talk of Michael Pollan and Jamie Oliver lately, it’s easy to ignore the person who right now is, given her current address, the most influential voice on food policy in the country. [...]

CSPI Ranks Ten Foods

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I saw this story today in the Huffington Post and thought…great some need attention is being put on the hidden danger of “Big Farming”. It scares me every time I read another article about food borne illnesses.

But, remember, there is a very safe way to eliminate the worry that this article by Eric Sorensen [...]

Green Expo – Town Center’s Central Park

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I am always finding out at the last moment what is going on but this time I can give a heads up.

On Saturday September 12, 2009, next Saturday at the Central Park in the Palm Coast Town Center The Flagler County Home Builders Association is having their 1st Annual Flagler Green Expo. There will [...]