At the end of WWII, our munitions plants were morphed into plowshare factories and began turning our ammonium nitrate surplus into chemical fertilizers (if you follow that link, start reading about half-way down, at the paragraph that starts with “Unfortunately…”). But fertilizers and machinery are not the only things linked to war. Most chemical warfare …
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The Clean 15: Foods You Don’t Have To Buy Organic
To follow up on the The Dirty Dozen, here is The Clean 15: The top 15 foods you don’t need to buy organic. There are many reasons to buy organic foods. The USDA Organic label tells you that fruits and veggies weren’t raised using manmade chemical pesticides, fossil fuel- or sewage-based fertilizers, or genetically modified seeds. …
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Movie Review: Food, Inc.
Food, Inc. is a fantastic summary of all the food-related issues in the US today. Marketing The way we eat has changed more in the past 50 years than in the previous 200. But we still use the same images of agarian America to sell food. Hillshire Farms, owned by Sarah Lee, a $12.8 billion …
