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BREAKING NEWS
+++FDA Allows Irradiation of Some Produce Now more than ever we have to start growing our own, each and every one of us
+++It Is Possible to Save Money on Gasoline and Help the Environment With This Do-It-Yourself Technology For Your Car Or Truck
+++Another Study Shows Plastic in Water Bottles and Other Products Causes Cancer and Other Health Problems Canada Will be the First Company To Ban Harmful Chemical in Plastic Drinking Bottles
+++New bill threatens family farms and affects raw food Take action NOW to protect family farms and raw food!
+++Your Ideas Can Help Improve the Food System
+++New York City Launches Plan to Increase Number of Raw Fruit and Vegetable Street Vendors This shows that NYC is truly a raw vegan city! Bravo!!!
+++ Cornucopia Institute Is Prepared to Sue USDA If Agency Does Not Allow Stores to Sell Raw Almonds
+++Study Shows Tangerine Peel Can Help Fight Cancer What about the peel from other citrus fruits?
+++Warning: Scientific study shows that lemon and lime wedges in water and other restaurant drinks usually contain disease germs because of improper handling by workers
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+++Article in The New Yorker Says As Much As 90 Percent of Extra Virgin Olive Oil from Italy is Adulterated--Is Not Extra Virgin At All. The article says the US Food and Drug Adminstration does not routinely test oils for adulteration. "My experience over a period of some fifty years suggests that we can always expect adulteration and mislabelling of olive-oil products in the absence of surveillance by official sources," David Firestone, an F.D.A. chemist who was the agency's olive-oil specialist from the mid-sixties to 1999, told the New Yorker writer.
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+++Study Links Age-Related Macular Degeneration to Eating High Glycemic Carbs such as "cakes, cookies, cheese pizza, white bread, foods containing corn syrup or sugar." Consider this quote from the article: "While the exact mechanism is unknown, the authors suggest that high glucose concentrations are harmful to the retina and the capillaries that supply the eyes, and that a diet of high glycemic index foods causes oxidative stress that increases inflammation." I suggest the researchers look into the fact that all of those are cooked foods.
+++Study: Organic Foods Are Better for the Heart
+++Exciting Investment Opportunity in the Raw Foods Community
+++Research Indicates Eating Less Protein May Protect Against Cancer (The study compared raw vegans with others)
+++Research Shows That Vegetables--Especially Dark Leafy Greens--Keep the Brain Young
+++USDA Unable to Enforce Organic Labeling Laws; Consumers Are Being Left Unprotected and Duped This is an outrageous and unacceptable state of affairs. We need to take action on this ASAP. Let's write to our congress people and go through OrganicConsumers.org to demand enforcement.
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+++Al Gore Sends Us a Letter After He Wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his Work to Prevent Global Warming
+++Lancet Medical Journal Says Meat Eating Causes Global Warming and Cancer
+++LA Considers Moratorium on Fast Food Eateries
+++UN Study Shows That Livestock Are a Larger Factor than Cars in Global Warming; A Great Reason for People to Go Vegan
+++Sign Petition to Stop Global Warming
+++TV Host Glenn Beck Asks Why Al Gore Isn't Going Vegan to Help the Environment, Although Beck, a Carnivore, Refuses to Go Vegan Himself. See video below:

+++Vegetarianism: The Choice of the More Intelligent Child
+++McD's Forced to Shut Down in Health-Conscious Town Due to Lack of Sales
+++New York City Becomes First Locale in US to Ban Trans-Fats in Restaurants
+++Exposure to Pesticides Increases Risk of Parkinson's Disease by 70% Study Says

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