In India and many parts of southern Asia, the neem tree is fondly called “nature’s drug store.” It has been extensively used in traditional Ayurvedic and homeopathic medicine for many centuries, and to this day it remains the go-to herb ...
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The Secret Obama Trade Deal That Could Destroy US Food Safety
President Obama is negotiating a secret trade agreement that could allow foreign-produced food that does not meet US safety standards to reach grocery store shelves. That’s what critics say about the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership (TPP), which they say also could ...
Read More »America’s Supply Line Has Officially Been Disrupted — And Most Of Us Don’t Even Know It
Hundreds of businesses across the United States and Canada could shut down and thousands of workers could lose jobs because of a seemingly trivial – but significant — labor dispute at West Coast ports. It has turned the Pacific waters ...
Read More »FDA Says 7 Percent Of Imported Spices Contain Salmonella
The spices in your kitchen cabinet could make your family very sick. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has discovered that imported spices were twice as likely to be contaminated with salmonella bacteria as other kinds of food. The ...
Read More »Obama Pushing Asian Trade Deal That Threatens Food Safety
You may never have heard of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, (TPP) but the impact of the trade deal on the safety of America’s food could be significant. The potential deal between the United States and Pacific Rim nations has been so ...
Read More »Global Drought Spreads From US To Asia, And Now To Southern Europe
July 26, 2012 The US drought is the worst in decades, and has already caused corn prices to hit a record, and soy to soar. And as we first reported last week, Asia could well be next to suffer soaring ...
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