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Why Americans Are No Longer the Tallest People in the World

6/14/2008 - (NaturalNews) Average height provides one of the best indications of a population’s overall health. Until the last few years, U.S. citizens were the world’s tallest and enjoyed better health than the people of any other nation. Things have changed, though....

The Food Irradiation Plot: Why the USDA Wants to Sterilize Fresh Produce and Turn Live Foods into Dead Foods

4/14/2008 - (NaturalNews) There's a new plot underway to sterilize your food and destroy the nutritional value of fresh produce. The players in this plot are the usual suspects: The USDA (which backed the "raw" almond sterilization rules now in effect in California)...

The National Animal Identification System - Who Wins and Who Loses

3/25/2008 - (NaturalNews) The recall of 143 million pounds of beef processed over the past two years is the largest meat recall in the history of the world. The USDA had no choice following an animal group’s release of videotape of “downer” cows being dragged across...

Plan To Spray Toxic Biological Chemicals Over San Francisco Announced

3/11/2008 - (NaturalNews) People of the world, the US Government is planning to poison more than two million people, in California, using an untested biological "pesticide" this summer. The chemical to be sprayed is classified by the EPA as a "pesticide" and the...

$74.5 Million Set for the Spraying of Toxic Chemicals Over San Francisco

3/3/2008 - (NaturalNews) I am angry! On January 24th, 2008, United States Department of (USDA) Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner announced the availability of $74.5 million in emergency funding to combat the light brown apple moth (LBAM) infestation in California...

USDA Refuses to Recall "Comingled" Meat That Contains Beef from Westland Plant Downer Cows

2/22/2008 - (NaturalNews) Following the unprecedented recall of 143 million pounds of beef that was potentially contaminated with mad cow disease, the USDA has decided that it's okay for children and consumer to eat that beef as long as it is comingled with beef...

USDA Waited 18 Days to Recall Contaminated Beef that Sickened 28 People

2/21/2008 - (NaturalNews) According to an internal U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) e-mail obtained by the Chicago Tribune, the USDA waited 18 days after confirming that a Florida teenager had become sick from E. coli-contaminated meat before recommending a...

USDA Recalls 143 Million Pounds of Beef Products Already Consumed by Schoolchildren; Slaughterhouse Atrocities Shock World

2/18/2008 - (NaturalNews) In case you were still curious to learn what really goes on behind the closed doors of beef slaughterhouses, the release of a secret video by the Humane Society (www.HSUS.org) silenced the skeptics and naysayers by revealing the horrifying...

The 2007 Farm Bill Gets More Attention Than Any Other in History

2/15/2008 - (NaturalNews) The still-unresolved 2007 Farm Bill is getting the United States in trouble with her bookies at the WTO, while diverse and powerful groups wrangle over their own interests on Capitol Hill, with consumers caught in the middle. It's like every...

Governor Schwarzenegger Backed Immoral Sex Pheromone Spraying Continues...

2/8/2008 - (NaturalNews) Sometimes bad dreams do come true. My bad dream was that the government issued quarantine, and forced everybody to be vaccinated for some fake disease. In my dream, I took my family, and fled to the hills to avoid being vaccinated. Now,...

Thousands Exposed to Poison by Government's Aerial Spraying

12/31/2007 - (NaturalNews) Sometimes bad dreams do come true. My bad dream was that the government issued quarantine, and forced everybody to be vaccinated for some fake disease. In my dream, I took my family, and fled to the hills to avoid being vaccinated. Now,...

New "Juice Feasting" Emerging as Phytonutrient-Rich Disease-Fighting Nutritional System

12/11/2007 - (NaturalNews) It's rare for something to come along that impresses me so much as a healing modality that it instantly changes my own life habits. But I've recently been introduced to a plant-based medicinal modality that's so incredibly effective at preventing...

Consumer groups join forces to reverse pasteurization ruling for raw almonds

10/22/2007 - (NaturalNews) The U.S. government is once again working closely with powerful corporations to knowingly deliver a nutritionally deficient food supply to the American people. This most recent example concerns the new rules by the Almond Board of California...

Aurora Organic Dairy Corporation hit by class action lawsuits over "organic" milk labels

10/17/2007 - (NaturalNews) The Cornucopia Institute has announced a wave of class action lawsuits against the Boulder, Colorado-based Aurora Organic Dairy Corporation, which it says is engaged in, "the largest scandal in the history of the organic industry." The lawsuits...

September 1, 2007 - The Day the Raw Almonds Died in North America

9/17/2007 - (NaturalNews) In April 2007, NaturalNews reported on the Almond Board of California and USDA's plans to make the pasteurization of almonds mandatory. The final plan was published in the Federal Registry on March 30, 2007 and we are now beyond the implementation...

Cornucopia Institute reveals agribusiness conspiracy to mislead consumers over almonds

4/9/2007 - The Cornucopia Institute, a non-profit organization that promotes honest food and sustainable farming practices, has revealed details of the USDA's conspiracy with agribusiness interests to mislead consumers over the sterilization of almonds. A press...

Monsanto seeking USDA approval for 2nd-generation genetically modified soybean

3/14/2007 - (NaturalNews) The USDA is currently reviewing the second generation of agricultural biotechnology giant Monsanto's "Roundup Ready" soybean for deregulation. If the USDA decides to deregulate, the crop could be planted and moved without permits or supervision,...

USDA approves mass planting of GM rice made with human genes

3/9/2007 - (NaturalNews) For the first time, the USDA has given preliminary approval for large-scale planting of a genetically engineered food crop containing human genes. The rice grains, produced by California-based Ventria Bioscience, synthesize a human immune...

USDA to be sued for refusing to enforce laws covering organic milk

3/7/2007 - (NaturalNews) The Cornucopia Institute has informed the USDA of its intention to file a lawsuit accusing the agency of refusing to enforce federal organic dairy regulations. The lawsuit hinges on the USDA's failure to take actions in complaints against...

Neurosurgeon murdered dog to demonstrate medical device, animal advocates say

1/24/2007 - (NaturalNews) A Cleveland Clinic neurosurgeon is under investigation from the U.S. Department of Agriculture after deliberately causing a brain aneurysm in a dog to demonstrate a medical device to salespeople Wednesday. Clinic officials say the procedure...

USDA appoints corporate agribusiness reps to Organic Standards Board

12/19/2006 - (NaturalNews) The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced last week that it has appointed four corporate agribusiness representatives to positions on the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), which advises the USDA on laws that govern...

USDA approves genetically engineered rice that contaminated U.S. food supply; safety tests skipped

11/29/2006 - (NaturalNews) The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced last week that it has deregulated a genetically engineered variety of rice that contaminated the U.S. rice supply over the summer. The rice -- a special long-grain variety created by...

Global grain supplies plummet to 25-year low due to severe drought

10/13/2006 - (NaturalNews) On Thursday, the USDA lowered the amount it forecasted for global wheat and corn production due in part to a severe drought in Australia, which will put levels of world wheat stockpiles at their lowest in more than 25 years. According...

Availability of fruits and vegetables improves eating behavior of schoolchildren

9/14/2006 - (NaturalNews) Results of a pilot program published in last week's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention journal suggest that children in Mississippi schools were more willing to try fresh fruits and vegetables when they had more access to the foods. Previous...

Americans still not eating enough fruits and vegetables, says USDA study

9/7/2006 - (NaturalNews) A study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Cancer Institute revealed that most Americans are not consuming the daily recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables suggested by the USDA MyPyramid diet guideline. The...

USDA looking to allow yet more synthetic chemicals in organic meat

7/21/2006 - (NaturalNews) The USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service is seeking to lower the standard by which "organic" products are labeled by expanding the number of substances allowable in the treatment of livestock according to the National Organic Program. If...

USDA announces reduction in testing for mad cow disease

7/20/2006 - (NaturalNews) The USDA is downsizing its mad cow surveillance program in response to the disease's reduced presence in America, according to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns. Johanns said the surveillance program should "reflect what we now...

'No Factory Farmed Organics'; Consumers Across the U.S. Tell the USDA to Not Allow Imposter Organics (press release)

7/10/2006 - Across the United States, thousands of consumers are responding to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) public comment period on revisions to the National Organic Program (NOP). A number of the USDA revisions relate to the "access to pasture"...

The Honest Food Guide empowers consumers with independent information about foods and health

5/25/2006 - Mike: Hello everyone, this is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger. I'm here with Ben Kage, and we're going to have a discussion and Q&A session about the Honest Food Guide. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, it is available for free downloading...

USDA downplays seriousness of mad cow disease found in Alabama cow

5/15/2006 - Mad cow disease was recently confirmed in a cow in Alabama, according to two tests conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Even so, the USDA seems just as reluctant as usual to admit that U.S. herds continue to be infected with mad cow disease....

Commercial Alert vs. USDA: How one non-profit is fighting to eliminate junk food from America's schools

12/6/2005 - Parents have expectations of what will happen once they drop their child off at school. The two most basic expectations are that their child will learn and that they will be safe while at school, but the once-insular school environment has changed. Advertisers...

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