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A corporate website has advised McDonald’s employees that cheeseburgers and fries are an unhealthy meal choice – a significant admission from the world’s largest hamburger chain restaurant. The advice was dispensed on McResource, a website for McDonald’s employees that since ...

More than 90 percent of chicken breasts purchased from major retailers in the United States tested positive for potentially dangerous bacteria in a recent round of examinations, Consumer Reports found. The company found that 97 percent of the chicken breasts ...

A Danish pig farmer is blaming genetically-modified (GMO) ingredients in feed for terrible deformities in his hogs and piglets. Ib Pedersen, the farmer, is also convinced that GMO feed caused serious health problems and still births in some of his ...

Everyone wants to stay healthy. So walking around with antibacterial soaps, sprays and sanitizers often seems like a safeguard against disease-causing microbes. But did you know that 90 percent of the cells in your body are actually microbial – and ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a plan it says will phase out the practice of giving healthy animals antibiotics simply to fatten them up, although the plan is only voluntary and already has many critics. The ...

The FDA trans fat ban may be more than simply a health-based initiative. The proposed Food and Drug Administration rule would ban trans fats (partially hydrogenated oils – PHOs) in processed food. But the Alliance for Natural Health is but ...

Lowe’s, Home Depot and other retailers could be contributing to the death of bees by selling plants laced with pesticides to the public. That’s the charge being made by the Friends of the Earth, a major environmental group, and the ...

There’s really good news for supporters of all-natural food who care about what they eat. Big companies are starting to remove artificial and potentially dangerous ingredients from some food products because of public pressure. The number of ingredients removed is ...

Genetically modified (GMO) seed manufacturers like Monsanto claim their unnatural plants produce greater yields and are entirely safe for animal and human consumption. The controversial seeds and companion pesticides and herbicides have largely been given the green light over and ...

Genetically modified (GMO) corn has been rejected by China because Beijing officials considered the genetically engineered crop strain “contaminated.” The specific type of corn, Syngenta AG’s Agrisure Viptera, had not been approved by China. The rejection of the corn led ...