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09/13/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Can’t beat them, join them: Campbell gobbles up organic company for $700 million

Campbell Soup Company announced on July 6 that they have acquired organic food products group Pacific Foods of Oregon, Inc. for a total amount of $700 million. The agreement will augment Campbell’s lackluster natural foods arm and help reinvent the company’s center store as it continues to expand into the organic market. Pacific Foods will […]

09/12/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Here’s why America’s chicken meats have to be washed with toxic chlorine

“Never trust a Fox in your hen coop,” Barry Gardiner, Labour’s shadow trade secretary sallied after British trade secretary Liam Fox accused the country’s media of being “obsessed” with chlorine-washed chicken being imported from U.S. farms. Fox was addressing the rampant fears that Britain would enter into a potential trade deal with America post-Brexit; a […]

09/05/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Food crops produce more output when they have healthy soil microbes, research confirms… yet glyphosate kills soil life

In an attempt to tease out the nature vs. nurture conundrum in the development of plants, a team of researchers from the University of Queensland analyzed scores of plant genera along the Cooloola dunes from the Great Sandy National Park on Australia’s Sunshine Coast. It was determined that the presence and level of soil microorganisms […]

07/21/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Chemical pesticides, industrial pollution and ecological destruction causing sixth mass extinction on planet Earth

A peer-reviewed analysis published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences classified this age as one of “biological annihilation” — one that has prompted the planet’s sixth mass extinction event. Scientists behind the study threaten that should no policies be made to address this issue now, we may soon be facing catastrophic biodiversity changes. […]

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