(NaturalNews) Colon cancer is a serious issue in the United States, particularly for those over 50. It is one of the most frequently diagnosed forms of this disease. Even if it is not fatal, it can often have serious consequences. One common treatment for colon cancer is colon re-sectioning, which is the surgical removal of the diseased portion of the colon. This can sometimes lead to the need for the placement of a colostomy bag, or a small plastic apparatus which hangs from a surgical opening in the abdomen and which collects fecal material. Needless to say, colostomy placement has serious repercussions for a person’s psychological, sexual and social life. However, the good news is that colon cancer risk can be reduced with modifiable lifestyle choices. One of these choices is to eliminate or reduce red meat in the diet. Another, according to recent research, appears to be a vegetarian diet.

New research from Loma Linda

This new study is coming from researchers at Loma Linda University in California. This large study, later published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) looked at the dietary habits of more than 70,000 participants. What they found was this:

People who consumed a strict vegetarian diet showed a 22 percent lower risk of colon cancer, and people who consumed a vegetarian diet but also consumed fish regularly showed a whopping 43 percent reduced risk.

In short, what is called the “pescovegetarian” diet seems to be the ideal one to combat the risk of colon cancer.

Read More: http://www.naturalnews.com/050494_colon_cancer_vegetarian_diet_fiber_foods.html

There is a new video that is taking the Bitcoin community by storm. Produced by recently launched internet cable brand SQ1 (pronounced square one), the video titled “The Bitcoin Phenomenon” explores the groundbreaking aspects of digital currency. Filled with interviews with some of the crypto community’s best and brightest, the half-hour long video gives a glimpse into the Bitcoin ecosystem by exploring what makes the cryptocurrency special, while also providing narrative regarding technology, legislation, important political implications and what those interviewed envision for the future.

Of those featured in the video are well-known individuals within the community including, Bitcoin core developer Gavin Andresen; venture capitalist Jeremy Liew; Coinapult CEO Erik Voorhees; Peter Vessenes, Head of the Bitcoin Foundation; Co-Founder of Coinbase Fred Ehrsam; medicinal marijuana activist Steve Kubby and Buttercoin CTO Bennett Hoffman. Also interviewed are crypto-anarchists including, Trace Mayer and founder of Antiwar.com, Angela Keaton.

Read More: http://coinivore.com/2015/07/21/the-bitcoin-phenomenon-documentary/

(NaturalNews) If you’re one of the millions of people who have a love/hate relationship with Facebook, there are now even more reasons for hating the immensely successful social media giant.

You probably know that Facebook collects and stores your personal data and preferences to form a profile that it uses to generate advertising content targeted directly at you. But did you know that Facebook also looks at all the other websites you visit and stores that data, too? Facebook also collects your online search data along with some of the details you give to retailers when you purchase something.

Facebook and the data brokers

Zuckerberg and his Facebook shareholders make huge amounts of money by partnering with what are known as “data brokers.”

Bruce Schneier, a data security expert, defines data brokers as entities which:

“collect demographic information: names, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, gender, age, marital status, presence and ages of children in household, education level, profession, income level, political affiliation, cars driven, and information about homes and other property. They collect lists of things you’ve purchased, when you’ve purchased them, and how you paid for them. They keep track of deaths, divorces, and diseases in your family. They collect everything about what you do on the Internet.”

This information is used to target advertising to individuals, but many see it as an illegal invasion of privacy. One of the charges against Facebook is that it deliberately tries to hide the extent of its data mining. Very few people actually read the terms and conditions when they sign up to Facebook, and even those who do typically don’t have a real understanding of what the privacy policies actually mean.

Read More: http://www.naturalnews.com/050219_Facebook_internet_surveillance_personal_data.html

Having found out that the planet has been taken over by elite self-serving psychopaths there inevitably follows the question “what are we going to do about it?”
Sure, from a left brain point of view; through analyzing, rationalizing and reasoning there’s been quite a lot of talk in terms of possible answers on how to deal with this situation. There have indeed been some good responses with many practical insights…
-However, this alone is not the real solution. The bottom line of bottom lines is that the real solution lies in a shift in consciousness.
Our overwhelming uncontrollable mass awakening is what the world’s ruling elite fear the most. Since we greatly outnumber them and their associates they wouldn’t know how to deal with us. So the real question is how do we become conscious?
It’s simple. We become conscious by choosing it. By acting on those synchronicities (meaningful coincidences): Acting on what that calls, moves and inspires us into being… Acting on and taking action through listening to our inner voice coming from our inner being; paying attention to those gut feelings and basic instincts…
Choosing to become conscious means detaching one’s self from the mind control programming; escaping the effects of the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual prison caused by the oppression…
Choosing consciousness puts us on a pathway that’s been denied to us as a race since time immemorial. As ‘humans becoming’ we need to be that expression of love, joy, peace, humility, truth, fairness and justice… -Many people know this but they need to get their heads above the parapet and have the courage and conviction to express it.
Consciousness means coming from the heart, getting in touch with and going into a state of intuitive knowing.
Having broken free from the mind programming and the imposition of others, with multidimensional consciousness, escaping the confines of matter, energy and space-time, anything’s possible.
This is the key to world change and bringing about our long overdue transformation. This is the shift in consciousness that needed to make manifest an outcome that’s different to the planned dystopia by the psychopathic ruling elite with their associates.
Indeed the choice is yours, but if you haven’t already, will you choose the consciousness pathway? Will you chose it NOW and see the difference it can make for the future of you, your friends and family?
-Are you in or out? Can you be counted on to make that choice in consciousness for world change?!
Read More: http://www.newparadigm.ws/consciousness-is-the-key-to-world-change/

What’s EMP, readers may be asking? It refers to Electromagnetic Pulses, and warfare! Yes, warfare, which very few folks realize probably will become the choice “winner takes all spoils” eventual destructive weapon of modern civilization. Why do I say that? The reason is because an EMP is stealth and takes down everything in modern life that depends upon electricity and/or computers.

It causes a devastating destruction of a society’s lifestyle and facilities that are dependent upon electricity, computers and ‘smart’ gadgets that have left us ‘impotent’ in self-sufficiency. The ultimate ‘shock wave’ will occur when humans have to find a way to survive, if they have survived!

Probably readers are familiar with what can happen when high-powered sunspots occur. We are warned that the power grid can be taken down or satellites become endangered. Well, a newer genre of man-made technological warfare revolves around EMPs, which several nations [6] now have, including those that may be considered as rogue countries. [5]

Read More: http://www.naturalblaze.com/2015/06/are-you-emp-prepared.html

A new search engine GoodGopher.com is now available for the average truth seeker and critical thinker to enjoy a clean, unbiased search of a topic without interference and contamination with CIA’s mainstream media, mental junk food, propaganda “news”. This fresh new approach to searching online for information will now catch news infected with mainstream media and purge it out of the search engine system to keep your news options clear and focused on what actually happened.

If successful, this move takes the concept of online information searching and the information war in a new direction. One in which we have the option to begin to drown out the mental noise that blocks humanity’s progress and one where we continue to create solutions for ourselves to make our lives better. Now is the time to remove government and transnational corporations out of your life as much as possible and ideally even make them obsolete.

GoodGopher.com I believe is an example of a way to start moving in that direction if you haven’t started yet. As mentioned, this search engine will filter out mainstream media propaganda so that you can look at a story without any input from mainstream media. Imagine that!

What I like in particular about this search engine is how mainstream media news is separated from other independent news. Hopefully this will serve as a reminder to everyone that mainstream media news is a unique brand of news not only controlled by the CIA, but it’s a unique circle of only 6 corporations with the exact same interests. This tiny group of corporations eventually will be seen for what they are – a small set of companies with an agenda. Independent media on the other hand is just that, independent and unbiased without ties to political parties, government or preconceived agendas. Hopefully, in time people who are not familiar with this information will begin to see the difference. That alone will be a huge victory for humanity.

Read More: http://www.activistpost.com/2015/07/new-search-engine-filters-out-cias.html

Dr. Peter Rost, MD, a former vice president of one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world (Pfizer), shares the truth about the ties between the medical and pharmaceutical industry.

Rost is a former vice president of Pfizer, and a whistleblower of the entire pharmaceutical industry in general. He is the author of “The Whistleblower, Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman.” Considering his work experience, it would be an understatement to say that he is an insider expert on big pharma marketing.

Below are a couple of quotes from both a former and a current editor-in-chief of the two largest, and what are considered to be the most credible, medical journals in the world. It’s only fitting to include them into the article as they are directly related to what Dr. Rost hints at in the video.

“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.” – Dr. Marcia Angell, a physician and longtime editor-in-chief of the New England Medical Journal (NEMJ

“The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness.” – Dr. Richard Horton, the current editor-in-chief of the Lancet – considered to be one of the most well respected peer-reviewed medical journals in the world.

Read More: http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/07/07/pfizer-vice-president-blows-the-whistle-tells-the-truth-about-the-pharmaceutical-industry/

(NaturalNews) Australia’s vaccine zealots are the most rabid extremist wing of the vaccine medical mafia, and they’ve engaged in tactics like issuing death threats to vaccine educators to try to silence them. Now, they’re trying to get the Australian government to ban the travel visa of Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, a pro-informed-consent educator who has conducted more research into vaccine adverse effects and safety risks than almost anyone else speaking out today.

Australia’s vaccine mafia, it turns out, is absolutely terrified that citizens of Australia might learn the truth about vaccine exemptions, toxic vaccine ingredients (like mercury) and the growing global epidemic of vaccine-damaged children.

So they’re running a mafia-style censorship campaign to strong-arm speaking venues to cancel scheduled events where Dr. Tenpenny is scheduled to speak, and they’re even petitioning the Australian government to revoke Dr. Tenpenny’s travel visa, barring her from entering the country altogether.

In the process of all this, they are turning Dr. Sherri Tenpenny in a folk hero and attracting enormous global attention to the unethical tactics and censorship gestapo tactics used by the vaccine industry to silence educators.

Read More: http://www.naturalnews.com/048278_vaccine_mafia_Australia_Dr_Sherri_Tenpenny.html#ixzz3Owe9aJ8L

By Paul A. Philips

The price of ignorance towards the NWO (New World Order) agenda could be very costly. Fall for any of its carefully cultivated illusions and you could end up broke, losing property, become seriously ill or even end up dead.

Desperate measures are indeed needed for desperate times. Big black totalitarian clouds loom on the horizon…

The psychopathic world ruling elite owning the banks, weapons, gold, drugs and oil … while having the politicians, police, military and mass media, etc. in their pockets are further tightening that unrelenting grip on the control of our money, health, food, water, air … and all the related science and technology for complete domination over the human populace…

In response, this is my heartfelt advice on how to prepare for survival in the unpredictable not-too-distant future. Here are 14 ways to protect you, your family and friends from the NWO agenda.

Read More: http://www.activistpost.com/2015/06/14-ways-to-protect-you-your-family-and.html

There are good biofuels and bad biofuels: the trick is telling one from the other. That’s particularly difficult when trying to take account of the natural forests and wetlands that can destroyed in the drive to grow some biofuel crops. But we’re getting closer, it seems, and palm oil and soy beans now appear utterly unsupportable as a source of biodiesel.

The new data comes from a leak obtained by EurActiv from the European Commission. The EC is considering what level of carbon emissions each type of biofuel causes once burned, after everything – including “indirect land-use change” – is taken into account.

It is obvious that for a biofuel to be useful in cutting the emissions driving global warming it needs to have a smaller carbon footprint than regular fuel from crude oil. So I have added the numbers for crude oil and oil from the highly-polluting tar sands for reference in the table below. The leaked biofuel numbers are, I’m told similar to several recent studies, and therefore credible.

Read More: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2012/jan/27/biofuels-biodiesel-ethanol-palm-oil

(NaturalNews) Psychiatric drugs kill an estimated 500,000 people per year, looking only at people over age 65 living in Western countries, according to an analysis conducted by a world-renowned Danish researcher.

Peter Gotzsche, research director at the Nordic Cochrane Centre, cited the figure in an article published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), in which he argues that psychiatric drugs have only “minimal” benefits but very severe side effects. Most use of these drugs could be halted without doing any harm, he says.

The article is part of a discussion published in the journal as a lead-up to a debate that took place at King’s College London on May 13. The debate and discussion both focused on whether psychiatric drugs do more harm than good. In the BMJ discussion, the article supporting the importance of psychiatric drugs was co-authored by John Crace – a psychiatric patient who writes for the Guardian – and Allan Young, a researcher who admits to major financial involvement with the drug industry.

Minimal benefit
Gotzsche is a highly reliable critic of the drug industry. A physician since 1984, he specialized in internal medicine and spent much of his early career as a representative for drug companies. He later established a medical department at a drug company, which was responsible for clinical trials and new drug registration.

In 1993, Gotzsche co-founded the Cochrane Collaboration, the globally respected organization that devotes itself to reviewing medical research data in support of evidence-based medicine. Gotzsche’s credentials as a researcher are also robust; he has been published more than 70 times in the “big five” medical journals (BMJ, Lancet, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine and New England Journal of Medicine), and his research has been cited more than 15,000 times. In 2014, his book Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Health Care won an award from the British Medical Association.

According to Gotzsche, the benefits of psychiatric drugs have been wildly exaggerated. In the BMJ article, he notes that most psychiatric drug trials produce unreliable evidence because they are conducted mostly on people who, until recently, were taking other drugs. Thus, participants suffer drug withdrawal in the early phase of the trial, only to later show “improvement,” ostensibly from the new drug.

Specifically, he notes that trials of the antidepressants venlafaxine (Effexxor) and fluoxetine (Prozac) showed almost no effectiveness over placebo. Trials of ADHD drugs have been ambiguous, while those for schizophrenia drugs contain troubling elements.

Read More: http://www.naturalnews.com/050235_prescription_drugs_Big_Pharma_anti-depressants.html

By Aaron and Melissa Dykes

Compulsory abortion. Under-the-skin birth control implants. Government authorized reproduction. A Planetary Regime to regulate the population and ration food and resources. A sterilant added to water supplies or food staples. The expansion of mandatory family planning and government enforced population restrictions.

All of this and more is discussed frankly in the 1977 textbook, Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment, written jointly by John P. Holdren, Paul Ehrlich and his wife Anne Ehrlich (the follow up to the Erlichs’ 1970 text Population, Resources, Environment: Issues In Human Ecology, which essentially has a lot of the exact same passages…).

For years, overpopulation alarmists have dreamed of a day when the population would be forcibly controlled in a widespread manner.

Now it would seem they are passively getting their wish.

Is it a happy accident, or a clever second-hand scheme?

As Natural News recently reported, a new U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) study published in the journal Scientific Reports has shown that birth control hormones taken by women in this country are being flushed down the toilets and making their way into waterways and winding up in our drinking water. Fish exposed to these hormones are now struggling to reproduce, and are negatively impacted for three generations out the study has shown.

Read More: http://www.activistpost.com/2015/07/eugenicists-finally-got-sterilants.html

By Melissa Dykes

Former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, infamous geopolitical “strategist” (read: al-Qaeda architect), and current Barack Obama advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski called it nearly half a century ago.

In his book Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era originally published in 1970, he laid out what our future ruled by technocratic elites in a scientific dictatorship would look like.

And he was spot on.

Another threat, less overt but no less basic, confronts liberal democracy. More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite whose claim to political power would rest on allegedly superior scientific know-how.

Unhindered by the restraints of traditional liberal values, this elite would not hesitate to achieve its political ends by using the latest modern techniques for influencing public behavior and keeping society under close surveillance and control. Under such circumstances, the scientific and technological momentum of the country would not be reversed but would actually feed on the situation it exploits.

Modern techniques for “influencing public behavior”?

Keeping society under close surveillance and control?

You don’t say…

Just think about where we are now.

As Truthstream previously reported, former managing director of the board of directors of Wall Street investment firm Dillon, Read & Co, as well as former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner in the Dept. of H.U.D. during the Bush 41 administration, Catherine Austin Fitts relayed a chilling conversation she overheard circa 1984 while working on Wall Street, where executives discussed how brainwave entrainment technology was about to be deployed through the television waves

Read More: http://www.activistpost.com/2015/07/technocratic-elite-domination-via-mind.html

(NaturalNews) The censorship Berlin Wall on vaccine injuries is starting to crumble… in the UK, at least, where mainstream media outlets there are suddenly covering the thousands of young girls and boys who are routinely damaged by toxic vaccines.

The pharma-controlled, vaccine-worshipping U.S. mainstream media, of course, hilariously pretends vaccines cause no damage to anyone. That’s part of the reason why no one believes the mainstream media anymore, which explains why mainstream media readership is plummeting while New Media readership is exploding. (Our new GoodGopher.com search engine for the New Media has already received over 4,500 new site submits from webmasters.)

Junk science media outlets like the Washington Post — now entirely controlled by Monsanto — attack vaccine skeptics as anti-science people for pointing out that children are being maimed and sometimes killed by vaccines. See Hundreds of children brain damaged by the swine flu vaccine to receive $90 million in financial compensation from UK government.

It makes me wonder: Will the junk science mainstream media in the United States now ridiculously condemn the UK mainstream media as “anti-science” for reporting on the thousands of children being neurologically damaged by vaccines? Does the lamestream media in the USA even remember what journalism is in the first place?

Read More: http://www.naturalnews.com/049961_vaccine_injury_media_coverage_real_journalism.html

‘If governments won’t solve the climate, hunger, health, and democracy crises, then the people will.‘ – Dr.Vandana Shiva, speaking at the founding meeting of Regeneration International, La Fortuna de San Carlos, Costa Rica, June 8, 2015

When literally billions of people, the 99 percent, are hungry or struggling to survive with justice and dignity; when the majority of the global body politic are threatened and assaulted by a toxic environment and food system; when hundreds of millions are overwhelmed with chronic health problems; battered by floods, droughts, and weather extremes; when endless wars and land grabs for water, land and strategic resources spiral out of control; When indentured politicians, corporations and the mass media conspire to stamp out the last vestiges of democracy in order to force a “Business-as-Usual” paradigm down our throats, it’s time for a change, Big Change.

It’s time to move beyond degenerate ethics, farming land use, energy policies, politics and economics. It’s time to move beyond “too little, too late” mitigation and sustainability strategies.

It’s time to inspire and mobilize a mighty global army of Regenerators, before it’s too late.

Connecting the dots

Melting polar ice caps, dying oceans, global warming? The corporate take-over of governments, commerce and the world food supply? The loss of the world’s fertile, life-sustaining soil and biodiversity, along with the loss of indigenous seeds and knowledge?

Dis-empowed, exploited people, overwhelmed by the challenges of everyday survival, don’t have the luxury of connecting the dots between all the issues and focusing on the Big Picture. It’s the job of Regenerators to globalize the struggle, to globalize hope and connect the dots between issues, communities and constituencies. Our guiding principle must be that everyone, everywhere can potentially be energized and mobilized, i.e. regenerated, by a “Do-it-Yourself Movement” that “tells it like it is,” that moves beyond mere mitigation, and instead offers a global roadmap and a holistic menu of regenerative solutions to our most pressing food, farming, health, climate, political and economic problems.

Healthy soil, healthy plants, healthy animals, healthy people, healthy climate . . . our physical and economic health, our very survival as a species, is directly connected to the soil, biodiversity, and the health and fertility of our food and farming systems.

Regenerative organic farming and land use can move us back into balance, back to a stable climate.

The regenerative bottom line for survival and well-being is that we must not only move away from oil, coal, gas and nuclear energy toward renewable sources of energy. We must also move several hundred billion tons of excess, climate- destabilizing carbon from the atmosphere back into the soil, where it belongs.

Read More: https://www.organicconsumers.org/essays/crisis-regeneration-or-degeneration

(NaturalNews) As scientists struggle to explain why thyroid cancer rates have more than tripled in the U.S. since the mid-1970s, nobody’s addressing the elephant in the room that is artificial water fluoridation and the confirmed toxicity of fluoride chemicals when they enter the thyroid gland.

A study published last year attempted to explain away the thyroid cancer epidemic in the U.S. today, blaming it not on more actual cases of the disease, but rather on more diagnoses. The problem, say researchers from Dartmouth University, is that thyroid cancer is supposedly overdiagnosed and overtreated.

“The incidence of thyroid cancer is at epidemic proportions, but it doesn’t look like an epidemic of disease,” believes Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, a professor of medicine at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. “[I]t looks like an epidemic of diagnosis,” he’s quoted as saying by HealthDay News.

It’s a plausible hypothesis, actually: Just like with prostate cancer, testing regimens for thyroid cancer oftentimes pick up benign cancers that never would have developed into anything serious. Meanwhile, many of those diagnosed undergo invasive procedures, such as having their thyroids completely removed, that were never even necessary.

“This means that a lot of people are having their thyroids removed for a cancer that was never going to bother them,” said Dr. Welch, suggesting that, as more people become aware of thyroid cancer and have their necks examined to look for problems, they’re being misdiagnosed.

Read More: http://www.naturalnews.com/050233_thyroid_cancer_water_fluoridation_industrial_chemicals.html

By Carey Wedler

Leaked emails from an Italian-based hacking company reveal that government agencies engage in surveillance more invasive than previously thought, spending millions of dollars on spyware and malware software to accomplish their questionable goals. Tellingly, their use of the product places them squarely in the same category as other repressive regimes around the world.

After hackers ironically hacked Hacking Tools, a Milan-based company that sells strictly to governments, hundreds of gigabytes of emails and financial records were leaked. The emails show that the FBI, DEA, and U.S. Army all purchased software that enables them to view suspects’ photos, emails, listen to and record their conversations, and activate the cameras on their computers, among other things.

While this may seem like old news, the most controversial revelation was the government’s purchases of “Remote Control Systems.” The FBI, DEA, and U.S. Army, courtesy of Hacking Tools, possess the capability to take control of a suspect’s computer screen. The technology is so invasive that even the DEA, known for its violative surveillance policies, had reservations about purchasing it.

According to documents obtained by The Intercept, an internal request to purchase RCS was denied by DEA management in 2011 because it was “too controversial.” By 2012, however, the DEA had resolved its concerns, likely spending a similar amount to the $773,226.64 (plus thousands in maintenance fees) the FBI invested in its own set of software.

Read more at: http://www.activistpost.com/2015/07/leaked-documents-show-fbi-dea-army-can.html

(NaturalNews) France is the latest country to ban the private sale of Monsanto’s favorite carcinogen – glyphosate. France has been in the alternative news quite a bit lately, asking the makers of Nutella to stop using palm oil, insisting all new rooftops be covered in solar panels or plants, and mandating the donation of all supermarket food waste. This new move by their Ecology Minister is the latest result of their forward thinking.

The French aren’t the only people around the world waking up to the effects of Roundup. Governments are now more likely to look for independent research to explain the uptick in the rates of diseases like cancer. Monsanto continues to bleat about the safety of glyphosates and their inability to harm humans, claiming that “the dose makes the poison.” With the levels of glyphosates on the rise in our food, our soil, our air, and water, at what magic point does the saturation of our environment turn from harmful to poison? Are we willing to wait until that switch has been flipped with no hope of going back?

The List of Governments Waking Up Keeps Growing
The fight against GMOs and Monsanto has made waves the world over, and as the United States deals with a food system where 80 percent of products now likely contain GMOs, Europe continues their crackdown against the damage caused by Monsanto and all of their products. While most of the focus has been on Monsanto crops, the tremendously influential study from the International Agency for Research on Cancer has caused many to consider banning all of their products. The Netherlands, Bermuda, and Sri Lanka preceded France in banning over the counter sales of Roundup. It is worth noting that Bermuda and Sri Lanka have prohibited the use of glyphosates in all applications, including commercial ones, unlike the Dutch and the French

Read More: http://www.naturalnews.com/050248_french_legislation_glyphosate_ban_Monsanto_GMOs.html

(NaturalNews) The central bank of the cash-strapped Greek government has signaled that the country is liable to default on bailout loans issued by the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank by the end of June, thereby crashing out of the euro and perhaps seizing private bank accounts in the process.

As reported by the UK’s Independent, European finance ministers are scrambling to develop contingency plans in case the Greek government makes good on threats to default if no agreement is reached to either downgrade the debt or extend payment options. Greek officials have not signaled a willingness to simply make the next payment, which is due at the end of June.

Athens is scheduled to repay €1.6 billion to the IMF on June 30, but it will be unable to do so unless its creditors release a €7.2 billion bailout payment before then, the paper noted.

In the meantime, talks between Greece and its EU and IMF creditors regarding a “cash-for-reforms” deal have fallen flat. The Greek prime minister, socialist Alexis Tsipras, has accused the nation’s creditors of “pillaging” the country for the past half-decade

Read More: http://www.naturalnews.com/050236_Greece_euro_bank_account_seizures.html

Food waste in America amounts to $162 billion and between 31% to 40% of American food supply goes to waste, primarily in homes, stores and restaurants, according to a new study.

The findings, from the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, were published in a report in the journal PLOS ONE.

Top food wasted, by weight, include fruit and vegetables yet nearly 75% of Americans believe that they waste less food than the national average, according to the findings.

Furthermore, as a result the food waste places a huge drain on the environment when approximately 30% of the fertiliser, 35% of the fresh water and 31% of the cropland in the US was used to grow food that was eventually wasted.

The first nationally representative consumer survey focused on wasted food sheds some light on factors affecting consumers’ waste.

The survey, administered to 1,010 American consumers in April 2014, covered awareness, knowledge, attitudes and behaviors related to wasted food.

Despite the large environmental impacts related to wasted food, most survey respondents listed environmental concerns last when ranking reasons to reduce food waste, with just 10% calling them “very important.”

Instead, respondents said that saving money and setting a positive example for children were the top motivators for wanting to throw out less food.

When listing reasons why they toss food out before eating it, consumers gave the top reasons as food safety concerns and a desire to eat only the freshest food.

Meanwhile, 41% of those who composted were not concerned about how much food they wasted.

“Americans perceive themselves as wasting very little food, but in reality, we are wasting substantial quantities,” said study leader Roni Neff, PhD, director of the Food System Sustainability & Public Health Program at CLF and an assistant professor in the Bloomberg School’s Department of Environmental Health Sciences. “It happens throughout the food chain, including both a lot of waste by consumers, and a lot on our behalf, when businesses think we won’t buy imperfect food. The root causes are complex.”

“The survey results are especially relevant for three groups,” Neff said. “For educators working to reduce food waste, a key finding is that highlighting financial savings may resonate more with consumers than other types of messaging. But there is still a need to explain the environmental effects of wasting food. For policymakers, our findings suggest a priority on making date labels clear and consistent, and encoding sell-by labels so they do not mislead consumers. And for businesses, the survey highlights changes consumers want, like offering re-sealable bags and smaller product sizes, and discounting damaged or near-expiration foods.”

Read more:http://www.waste-management-world.com/articles/2015/06/food-waste-costs-north-america-162-billion-finds-new-study.html