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The Future of Food…

October 1, 2009 Eco-Friendly Living

An estimated 80% of all food on grocery store shelves contains genetically engineered soy, corn or Canola—even foods you wouldn’t expect to contain them, like spaghetti sauce. If you haven’t yet seen “The Future of Food,” please take the time to watch this feature-length documentary investigating the disturbing truth behind the genetically engineered foods that [...]

Food, Inc. – Showing at a Theater Near You

June 14, 2009 Eco-Friendly Living

Do you know where you food really comes from? It’s not where you think, and the answer may surprise you… Did you know that the average food product travels about 1,500 miles to get to your grocery store? And that transporting food accounts for 30,800 tons of greenhouse gas emissions every year? Or that organic [...]

Fixing Our Broken Food System, Part 3

May 26, 2009 Eco-Friendly Living

On May 19, 2009, the American Academy Of Environmental Medicine called for an immediate moratorium on Genetically Modified Foods (GMOs), stating that “GM foods pose a serious health risk.” Citing several animal studies, the AAEM concluded “there is more than a casual association between GM foods and adverse health effects” and that “GM foods pose a [...]

Fixing Our Broken Food System, Part 2

May 23, 2009 Eco-Friendly Living

In the tradition of Michael Moore (Sicko, Bowling for Columbine) and Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me, 30 Days), Food Matters is a hard hitting, fast-paced look at our current state of health. Discouraged by the terrible side effects that pharmaceutical drugs were having on the health of their families, nutritionists-turned-filmmakers James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch set off on [...]

Fixing Our Broken Food System, Part 1

May 22, 2009 Eco-Friendly Living

I am studying for an MS in holistic nutrition, and as a result, learning more and more about our industrialized food system, and its related health problems such as obesity, diabetes, allergies, cancer and more. The more I learn, the more uppity I am becoming about food. Next to air and water, food is our most [...]