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Synthetic Milk and Our Children: A Pediatrician’s Cautionary Tale
Article 7 in the Got REAL Milk Series Why Synthetic Milks May Be a Bad Idea for Children:A Pediatrician’s Perspective A summary for busy parents: Synthetic milks lack key bioavailable nutrients found in organic dairy, including healthy fats, essential amino acids, and fat-soluble vitamins which are necessary for brain development and immune function. These products are new to the market and have no long-term safety data in children whose developing systems may be more vulnerable to novel...
Danger in the Dough: Unveiling the Toxic Contaminants in Girl Scout Cookies
Article by Michelle Perro, MD, Stephanie Seneff, PhD, and Zen Honeycutt BFA Introduction Consumer groups, GMOScience, Moms Across America, and supporters have commissioned the testing of Girl Scout cookies for toxic metals and glyphosate/AMPA (an herbicide and its byproduct), to promote awareness and positive change for health. The results were extremely concerning. 100% of the samples were positive for glyphosate 100% were positive for toxic metals 22 out of 25 (88%) of samples were positive...
Can we talk about Regenerative Agriculture?
As an organisation, we’ve always had a complicated relationship with regenerative agriculture; this is probably no surprise to anyone who has followed our work for any length of time. But in some ways, we’ve shied away from really diving into the conversation, partly...
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...