What A GMO World

For Immediate Release: October 31, 2012 Sunnyvale, CA – More than 50 people rallied in front of Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, California yesterday to call on Marissa Mayer and Jim Breyer, both Silicon Valley-based members of Walmart’s Board of Directors, to support Proposition 37 and to ensure that Walmart respects consumers’ right to know about genetically engineered foods. Walmart is selling…

Powered by Citizens for Health 2018 was a great year for the fight against artificial dyes. We saw many stores ban products using them and other companies pledge to remove artificial dyes in favor of naturally derived colors. To encourage this movement CFH has launched the Natural Color Coalition to show brands there remains a growing public demand for only…

By Marion Nestle On October 6, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) announced its new partnership with Coca-Cola. What does AAFP get from this? A grant “to develop consumer education content on beverages and sweeteners for FamilyDoctor.org.” The AAFP, says its president, looks forward to working with The Coca-Cola Company, and other companies in the future, on the development…

Within a week of Linda Bonvie’s post to the #bonvieblog asking why we in the US are not using high-dose Vitamin C to treat some coronavirus patients, the state of New York started doing just that. To get the full story, click here.

ACTION ALERT: Our fellow health-freedom fighters at the Alliance for Natural Health USA (ANH-USA) have optimistically and correctly emphasized that evidence continues to mount for the power of natural medicine to keep us healthy during this and future viral pandemics. That is why we share in their confusion and frustration about continuing threats to access from the FDA, Congress, and…

Cites Overwhelming Public Support; Concerns about Pesticides, Contamination of Organic Fields Los Angeles — As supporters rallied in front of Los Angeles City Hall today, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a resolution supporting Proposition 37, the Right to Know ballot measure that would label genetically engineered foods in California.   California would join 61 other countries that already…

Early last month Citizens for Health, along with the other coalition members of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network (FFAN), filed a petition with the FDA to drastically reduce the amount of radioactive cesium permitted in food, from a ridiculous 1200 Bq/kg to 5 Bq/kg (see why here, read why here). The Bq (Becquerel) is a measure of radioactivity. The FDA is…

It is impossible to comment on this election without retreating into clichés. Everything that could be said has been said. How should transpartisans be looking at what happened? What might reality look like with Trump as President?

The National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) held its seventh biannual national conference on October 14-16 in Boston. Many major figures in the dialogue and transpartisan movements were there, led by Sandy Heierbacher, NCDD co-founder and long-time head.

We all have a right to know if the food we’re eating comes from nature or whether it was genetically engineered in a lab by companies like Monsanto and Dow. That’s why Proposition 37 is so important – it’s a label that gives us the right to know. As my film The Future of Food describes, there are many reasons…

From Maria Rodale, via The Huffington Post Blog You have probably seen something about “Proposition 37” or “Prop. 37”–whether it’s been on Facebook or Twitter or in The New York Times. Or perhaps you haven’t seen anything about it and, like me, you glaze over anytime there is some political something or other that seems too hard to figure out….

  Hysterectomy Part III Answers and Questions by Debbie Braaten “The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie; deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth; persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without…

Washington, D.C. – CFH has learned that on May 5, Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Yvonne Prettner Solon sent a letter to the FDA expressing the state’s unwillingness to support this “corn sugar sham”.

We heard a transpartisan side to Donald Trump’s victory speech and reprint parts of it here to mark a first step in Trump’s presidency and as a measure for it as it unfolds. We suggest that as transpartisans we take up the invitation.

“I have a running war with the media. They’re scum. They are horrible people. . . . [T]he media is the opposition party in many ways,” Trump says of the media. “You are a liar,” the media says of Trump. More eyeballs watched each. The attention boosted the ratings of both. We think they often speak different languages.