“Organic food no better”

There’s a controversy in Britain at the moment about a new report that claims to prove that organic food is no better for you than chemically agro-grown food.
The report was written by the government’s Food Standards Agency, which compared 55 scientific studies comparing organic and non-organic produce. Of course, the Soil Association (Britain’s organic food [...]

EPA Challenged On Pesticide

Chlorpyrifos, one of the most widely used organophosphate insecticides in US agriculture was originally developed by the Nazis during World War II as a chemical weapon. Chlopryrifos is a potent neurotoxicant and poisoning can cause headaches, nausea, dizziness, seizures, paralysis, coma, and even death.

The chemical was registered in 1960’s by Dow Chemical Company under the [...]