Health

More than four decades after the end of the Vietnam War, research is still showing the effects of the herbicide Agent Orange. The latest findings: An association between exposure and high blood pressure.

If you want to help Flint, sign the petition, demand that the federal government take action and then get involved yourself, wherever you live, so that this doesn’t happen to you—and so that the people we elect know they can no longer break the law as they rule by fiat or indifference.

It only takes three Republican senators to stop it.

“The Agriculture Department took more than a month to make its first significant move to buy up surplus fruits and vegetables.”

Hundreds of thousands of soybean and cotton crops have been negatively impacted by the apparent misuse of the drift-prone herbicide dicamba on Monsanto’s Roundup.

Much more research is needed to understand the impact on human health of chronic dietary exposures to pesticides.

This study reveals once again the urgent need for specific labeling of the identity and quantity of GMOs, especially in food and feed.

Food, like water, shelter, access to education and health-care is a human right, and is enshrined as such in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Like all natural resources it should be shared equitably amongst the people of the world.

The groups that released the report are calling for a permanent ban on the use of glyphosate as a pre-harvest drying agent because of the residue levels.

“It would be naive to believe there is plastic everywhere but just not in us.”