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Get Off Your Grass and Create an Edible Lawn! with Brigitte Mars

Brigitte Mars | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Organix Fertizlizer, Weeds, Fungacides, Compost, Insecticides, Health, Environment, Pesiticides, Environmentalism, Herbicides, Water Supply, Gardens, Healthy Living News
Brigitte Mars

An estimated sixty-seven million pounds of herbicides, fungicides and insecticides are applied around homes and gardens yearly. Commercial and government landscapes, apply another 165 million pounds.

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American Water Company Joins Lawsuit Against Syngenta, Maker Of Atrazine Herbicide

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Iowa, Weeds, Epa, Ohio, Public Health, Utilities, Herbicides, American Water Company, Chemicals, Pollution, Water Utility, Weed Killer, Syngenta, Toxic Chemicals, Switzerland, Atrazine, Kansas, Clean Water, Missouri, Delaware, Illinois, Standards, Drinking Water, Green News

The nation's largest private water utility company has joined a federal lawsuit that aims to force the manufacturer of atrazine, a widely-used herbici...

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New Report: GMOs Causing Massive Pesticide Pollution

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Gentically Engindeered Foods, Pesticides, The Organic Center, Bayer, Dupont, Monsanto, Gmos, Union of Concerned Scientists, Syngenta, Food Safety, Crop Yields, Herbicides, Biotech, Center for Food Safety, Dow, Climate Change, Green News
Andrew Kimbrell

There is one fact about genetically engineered foods that there is no debate about: no one wakes up in the morning eager to buy gene-altered food. There's good reason for this.

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Why It's So Hard Not To Be Fat

Christina Pirello | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Fat, Weight Loss, Sugar, Pesticides, Fast Food, American Diet, Prevention-Magazine, Steroids, Weight Loss Tips, Herbicides, Fast Food Industry, Weight, 1950s, Papa-Johnss-Pizza, Salt, Wendy's, McDonald's, Marketing, Processed Food, Losing Weight, Food Marketing, 1950s-Housewife, Canned Foods, Growth Hormones, Weight Gain, Blackberry Addiction, Pollan Food, Food Labels, Weight Control, Michael Pollan, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Health, Real Food, Toxic Waste, Consumer Protection, Heart Attack, Healthy Living News
Christina Pirello

Fat, sugar and salt; the triple threat to our waistlines... and health. Mere decades ago, the food industry made a conscious choice to seduce the Amer...

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