The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that each year more than nine million Americans get sick from foodborne illnesses, leading to around 56,000 hospitalizations and 1,350 deaths.1 Fresh fruits and vegetables are often the culprits, but the pathogens most often are traced back to animal sources, specifically to their manure.
Earth Watch: Drastic Decline in Songbirds Linked to Neonic Pesticides
Neonicotinoids, or “neonics,” are a class of insecticides introduce in the 1990s and are currently the most widely used insecticides in the world. They are most commonly used as seed treatments, that is, seeds are coated in the pesticide before they are sold.
As more people eschew meat for a plant-based diet, the market for meat alternatives has exploded, with an ever-expanding number of offerings that proclaim to taste like meat and even “bleed” like meat.
Krill oil has recently burst onto the scene as one of the best new supplements, but what has catapulted this oil made from miniscule crustaceans into the limelight?
“Genetic engineering presents our society with problems unprecedented not only in the history of science, but of life on Earth. It places in human hands the capacity to redesign living organisms, the products of some three billion years of evolution. The results will be essentially new organisms, self-perpetuating and hence permanent. Once created, they cannot be recalled.
It is a fact that our current industrial model of agriculture is not only producing food that is not as healthy as it should be but is also destroying the environment. Recently published research examines how different dietary paradigms relate to energy use, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions.
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