Big Farms, Empty Food, Chronic Disease
Modern agriculture has made food plentiful and abundant—but not healthy. Half of the American population have chronic diseases, utilizing 86 percent of health care dollars. Oftentimes the blame is placed on those who are ill for their lifestyle choices. But the...What is Regenerative Agriculture?
By Melissa Diane Smith At-A-Glance •Unlike industrial agriculture, regenerative agriculture improves the land rather than depletes it. •Regenerative agriculture uses practices that regenerate and revitalize the soil and the environment. •Regenerative agriculture...
GMO Myths & Facts: A Summary
The following article summarizes the recent publication, GMO Myths and Facts, by Claire Robinson. GMO Myths & Facts: A Summary By Melissa Diane Smith For the past several decades, the public has been fed the rhetoric that genetically modified (GM) crops and foods...
It’s Time: A Children’s Environmental Health Bill of Rights
It’s Time: A Children’s Environmental Health Bill of Rights Globally, the health of our children is under assault. Chronic disease amongst our most vulnerable is rampant. The main drivers of this present health disaster are environmental toxicants. Californian...
Pesticide Regulation: We Can Do Better
GMOScience Editorial mini review on the recent publication: Novel strategies and new tools to curtail the health effects of pesticides; Benbrook C, et al. Environmental Health: volume 20, Article number: 87; 2021. Despite decades of research in the area of...
Parental Alert: John D. Rockefeller used homeopathy himself, however, made every attempt to ban it for everyone else. Practitioners fought back, and it still holds a place amongst the natural medicines sought by families.