Essential Reading of the Week
Antibiotic Resistance: Onions to the Rescue? Special Alert: The Alarming Reason Some People Die from the Flu What Are Little Boys Made Of? Too Many Chemicals! The Real State of the Union: 6 Ways Trump
Sweet Deal
What’s better than raw honey? Or organic coconut oil? How about a 20-percent discount on either or both? Mercola.com is best known for its vitamins and supplements—and its research and education. But it’s also a great source for
Farm Fumes
If you’re looking for one more way in which industrial agribusiness is poisoning rural communities, look up—as in, up in the air. A new study published in the journal Science Advances attributes a large share
Just Sayin’
Earlier this week, Newsweek fired its top editorial staff. The firings followed a report that Newsweek Media Group had been defrauding advertisers by artificially inflating website traffic numbers. The news also followed reports by U.S. Right to Know about
Deadline February 20!
It’s widely accepted that neonicotinoid pesticides harm bees. But here’s a part of the story you may have missed: Monsanto, Bayer and Syngenta coat their GMO corn seeds with neonics, then charge farmers extra for them—even though studies
Promises, Promises
We launched our campaign to get Ben & Jerry’s to go organic in July, after we broke the news about Roundup weedkiller contamination in Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. In October, we announced that samples of Ben & Jerry’s
Spinning Science
What happens when Monsanto doesn’t like what the World Health Organization (WHO) has to say about its flagship product, Roundup weedkiller? The chemical company convinces U.S. lawmakers to hold a “smoke and mirrors” Congressional hearing,
VIRGINIA: Save Our Raw Milk Herd Shares!
In Virginia, raw milk sales are illegal, including sales direct from a farm to consumers.
But Virginians who want raw milk are able to obtain it by purchasing “shares” in a cow that lives on someone’s else’s farm—because it’s still legal to drink raw milk produced by a cow you own.
Tell Newsweek’s Opinion Editor Nicholas Wapshott: Discredited Monsanto Shills Have No Place on Newsweek’s Opinion Page!
By now everyone’s heard of “fake news.” But there’s another equally insidious form of journalism: fake opinions.
Fake opinions are opinion pieces, or op-eds, published under the name of someone who purports to be an “independent” scientist, expert or academic, but who is actually spreading propaganda for companies like Monsanto—and usually being paid to do it.
Henry I. Miller, a well-known mouthpiece for Monsanto, is a master of fake opinions.
And Newsweek just published his latest.