Posts Categorized: Earth Care

Leslie Hatfield, in the Huffington Post begins her article, “Maybe Jeremy Piven didn’t get mercury poisoning from fish at all — according to the results of a new study released by the Institute for Agriculture and Trace Policy (IATP), the actor may well have been sickened by soda or candy or anything that contains high fructose corn syrup, which, if you eat processed food in this country means, well, just about anything.” All this makes one believe John Calvin may have been right about human depravity. Speaking of which – If you didn’t realize, this year is his 500th birthday. Yes, he is very old. And you can learn about the celebrations here.

report about mercury in the already maligned high fructose corn syrup (HFCS).Thanks a lot, Dennis. When this can happen and salmonella-tainted peanut butter is sold on supermarket shelves nation-wide, it does seem to indict the centralized, corporate-driven food system we have created. How often are you ingesting mercury? Around 50% of the time you eat anything with high fructose corn syrup in it! At least that is the frequency mercury was found in the samples taken in a study published today in the scientific journal, Environmental Health. A separate study was done by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), where my former friend Dennis works (just kidding Dennis, but I did take you out of my will), which detected mercury in nearly one-third of 55 popular brand name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first or second highest labeled ingredient. Among them were products by Quaker, Hershey’s, Kraft and Smucker’s. We North American consume a heck of a lot of HFCS. On average, Americans consume about 12 teaspoons per day of HFCS. Consumption by teenagers and other high consumers can be up to 80 percent above average levels.

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In April 2007 when Food and Faith Blog was born, we asked the question: Why are the bees dying? A year later, some answers are emerging. Following the mass deaths of bees and other insects in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg,…

Does your mouth water when you look at the scene on the left? “Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler” (below) provides much food for thought (gristle for the noggin?). Seems we clearly need to take another look at meat. Click on the charts…

While we wait for congress to get back to work on the Farm Bill, let’s take a look at this first study to look at the impact of complete diets. While it is commonly said that changing one’s diet compares…

If we will have the wisdom to survive, to stand like slow growing trees on a ruined place, renewing, enriching it… then a long time after we are dead the lives our lives prepare will live here, their houses strongly…

Albert Einstein once said that if the bees disappeared, “man would have only four years of life left”. The die-off happening around the U.S. and some parts of Europe is serious for beekeepers, farmers and all us. Since the 1980s,…

The True Cost of Food is a great 15-minute movie. This production by the Sierra Club is a great vehicle for understanding our food system. You can download or view the film online now. Besides the good news the movie…