David Gould, from IFOAM Seeds Platform Secretary, writes:

“The IFOAM Seeds Platform has partnered with Regeneration International to scale up a world motion towards seed sovereignty. Seeds are a vital element of really regenerative techniques. By becoming a member of forces, we will be capable to attain an unlimited community of individuals to carry a shift in profit sharing of considered one of humanity’s most basic assets.

The genetic range of crops, animals, and different organisms human civilization has used over millennia for meals and non-food functions is significant to our well-being – however our organic heritage is in danger. Consolidation of seed sources underneath fewer and fewer giant firms threatens the range of accessible varieties in the marketplace and goes in the other way to sustainability, equity, and innovation. Utility patents on varieties restrict the power of breeders and farmers to save lots of and enhance varieties via their efforts. The disruptively speedy growth of latest GMOs (e.g., gene-edited varieties) with out enough threat evaluation, security controls, or traceability threatens the purity of shares and dangers genetic air pollution. False or unproven guarantees of the advantages of gene modifying and different new genomic strategies threaten to dupe folks into making uninformed decisions and accepting doubtlessly unsafe varieties.

In response to those challenges, the IFOAM Seeds Platform has conceived a technique to coordinate efforts to co-create a real various to the present dominant paradigm of multinational consolidation of genetic assets and wealth with the corresponding lack of biodiversity. We purpose to construct a distributed, diversified various that places energy and accountability in many individuals’s palms, will increase high quality and variety via secure and acceptable strategies, and shares advantages extra equitably.”

We have to preserve seed and breed varieties within the commons and in farmers’ palms.

Learn more about how this powerful partnership will help the worldwide network of seeds grow

Stacy Malkan writes with U.S. Proper to Know:

“Sucralose is essentially the most broadly used synthetic sweetener in the USA. Mostly bought underneath the model identify Splenda, sucralose is utilized in over 6,000 meals merchandise. It’s usually present in “weight-reduction plan” sodas together with Food plan Coke with Splenda, Food plan Pepsi with Splenda, in addition to Gatorade’s Propel Water, low-calorie Kool-Help, Atkins Food plan merchandise, and different low-calorie meals and drinks.

Sucralose is 600 occasions sweeter than sugar and itself comprises no energy. Though it has been marketed as a wholesome product that may assist fend off weight problems and diabetes, sucralose consumption has been linked to leukemia, weight acquire, weight problems, diabetes, liver irritation, metabolic dysfunction and different sicknesses.”

What’s sucralose and who owns it?

What are the well being dangers of sucralose?

Splenda’s misleading promoting

Study the solutions to those questions, details and extra from award-winning creator, co-founder, and managing editor of U.S. Proper to Know, Stacy Malkan on this intensive piece

Rowan Moore, structure critic of the Observer, writes for The Guardian:

“Think about a constructing materials that’s lovely, sturdy, plentiful, sturdy and fireproof, whose use requires low ranges of power and low emissions of greenhouse gases. It is without doubt one of the most historical recognized to humanity, the stuff of dolmens and temples and cathedrals and Cotswolds cottages, but in addition one whose sustainability makes it well-suited to the long run. Such a cloth, in keeping with a rising physique of opinion on the planet of development, is amongst us. It’s referred to as stone.

Final week I sat within the roof backyard of a hefty pile of masonry in central London, speaking to a few advocates of this magnificent substance: engineer Steve Webb, Pierre Bidaud of the Rutland-based Stonemasonry Firm and architect Amin Taha. My preliminary request, pushed by a journalistic desire for highlighting people, had been to satisfy Taha alone, however he identified that their work is a collaboration of various disciplines. The constructing on high of which we met is their joint creation: the six-storey, five-year-old Clerkenwell block the place Taha has his workplace and his residence.

Their level is that stone has been supplanted within the industrial period by metal, concrete and mass-produced bricks, and is used (if in any respect) largely as a skinny beauty dealing with, whereas the arduous work of holding up a constructing is finished by the upstart options. They argue that stable stone can as soon as once more type the partitions and construction of constructing, with advantages for the surroundings and for the great thing about structure. Any type of the fabric – limestone, sandstone, basalt, granite – can, relying on its properties, be used.”

Examine how stone can be utilized extra successfully than ever earlier than

Pam Melby, Finnskogen Farm & Natural Customers Affiliation, writes:

“Sisu Cider is made by fermenting a ton of good-for-you meals in apple cider vinegar, and extracting their goodness. These good-for-you meals have a tendency on the spicy facet, and when they’re fermented and concentrated the spice will get revved up! Evidently, you might have to work your approach as much as taking gulps or pictures of this Sisu Cider. It’s not for the weak of coronary heart (or palate)!

The primary ingredient of my Sisu Cider is turmeric. In the event you haven’t put turmeric in your common cooking routine, begin utilizing it now! It’s most widely-known for its anti-inflammatory properties that enormously cut back gastrointestinal discomfort. However, additionally it is antibacterial and antifungal. It has anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, chemopreventive, chemosensitization, and radiosensitization actions. Woo hoo! I add turmeric to only about each dish that comes out of my kitchen. It doesn’t have a powerful taste, so sneaking it in is straightforward! Simply watch out concerning the utensils that you just use with it, as turmeric will stain issues yellow! (Selfmade clothes dye, anybody?!)

Up subsequent is black peppercorns. When black pepper is added to turmeric, it will increase turmeric’s bio-availability by over 2000%! You usually tend to get all the advantages from turmeric in the event you additionally add black pepper.”

Learn extra on this participating weblog by Pam Melby, study concerning the idea of Sisu, and take a look at this wonderful therapeutic recipe

Julia Agostino experiences for Meals Tank:

“Latest analysis from Northeastern College’s Community Science Institute signifies that 73 p.c of the USA meals provide is ultra-processed. Based mostly on these findings, the analysis workforce constructed a database of fifty,000 meals that helps shoppers determine ultra-processed merchandise and discover more healthy options.

Constructing off analysis revealed in Nature Meals, the researchers labored to foretell the diploma of meals processing, outlined in a paper presently underneath evaluation. A second paper, additionally underneath evaluation, explores the prevalence of processed meals. Utilizing their findings, the researchers constructed a database containing over 50,000 meals objects throughout Walmart, Goal, and Entire Meals Market. 

The database signifies that 73 p.c of the U.S. meals provide is ultra-processed and means that ultra-processed meals are 52 p.c cheaper than much less processed options, on common.

Whereas sure types of meals processing could also be detrimental to well being, some minimal processing can develop entry to wholesome meals. Canning, freezing, fermentation, and vacuum-packaging guarantee the protection and preservation of meals whereas sustaining a meals’s dietary integrity.”

Study extra concerning the rising prevalence of ultra-processed meals

Understanding the hyperlink between processed meals, weight-reduction plan high quality, and public well being might help form shopper selections and coverage. Take motion now!

Inform the FDA: Label Diet-Poor Frankenfoods!

Evaluation  by Dr Mercola:

“Genetically engineered (GE) mosquitoes created by biotechnology firm Oxitec have been launched within the U.S., despite the fact that the long-term results could possibly be disastrous. Oxitec is utilizing Aedes aegypti (A. aegypti) mosquitoes for this real-world experiment, the species recognized to hold yellow fever, dengue fever, chikungunya, Zika, West Nile and Mayaro, a dengue-like illness.

Oxitec genetically engineered the males to hold a “genetic kill swap,” such that after they mate with wild feminine mosquitoes, their offspring inherits the deadly gene and can’t survive or reproduce within the wild.

Within the U.S., Oxitec is advertising the bugs as Oxitec Pleasant™ mosquitoes, attempting to place a nonthreatening identify on a reckless venture that would shortly backfire. It could even be too late, because the GE mosquitoes have already been launched in a number of areas.”

Learn concerning the security considerations surrounding GMO mosquitoes and extra

by Sheila Julson, Shepherd Categorical

“With a couple of tweaks, residence gardeners can enhance the well being of our soil and the surroundings, one yard at a time.

There are methods to make use of regenerative practices within the residence backyard to enhance soil well being and high quality.

Soil is its personal ecosystem, so it must be fed to maintain helpful bugs and micro organism alive to nourish the soil. Natural compost could be constructed from meals scraps in a house composting system, or bought from native composting firms or at backyard facilities.

Very similar to how antibiotics can kill each good and dangerous micro organism within the human intestine, chemical pesticides and artificial fertilizers kill each damaging and helpful microorganisms in soil. Get rid of artificial inputs or use them sparingly. Chemical inputs additionally run off into waterways, affecting consuming water.”

Find out about compost, soil prep and canopy crops

“Deepest appreciation for all of the great work you do on behalf of all humanity, and all life on Earth!” – OCA supporter notes like this aren’t unusual. We get messages like this expressing deep gratitude, and affirmation of our essential trigger.

We couldn’t do that with out you, our supporters. Each donation, giant and small, permits us to maintain combating for our most essential ideas; a regenerative surroundings, secure meals, and wholesome our bodies.

These root motivations are paramount, however we push for them due to folks such as you. We all know how a lot our work means, and with beautiful messages like these, we all know simply how a lot it means to you, too.

If you’ll be able to assist our work, please contemplate making a donation. Thanks!

Make a tax-deductible donation to Natural Customers Affiliation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit

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Click on right here for extra methods to assist our work

Jon Schwarz writes for the Intercept:

“The financial institution robber John Dillinger is considered one of historical past’s most well-known thieves, absconding with the equal at the moment of about $7 million. You’d assume that if somebody had stolen $7 million on every of seven million separate crime sprees, you’d have heard about it, proper? However you’d be unsuitable.

In 2020, the RAND Company, a assume tank in Santa Monica, California, launched a research with the humdrum title “Developments in Earnings From 1975 to 2018.” RAND itself resides on the middle of America’s institution. Within the many years following its founding after World Warfare II, it was largely funded by and served the wants of the military-industrial complicated. Daniel Ellsberg was working at RAND when he leaked the Pentagon Papers, which he had entry to as a result of RAND possessed a number of copies.

Extremely sufficient, this dreary-sounding paper describes what may be the biggest materials theft since human civilization started. It examines a easy query: If U.S. revenue inequality had remained at its 1975 degree via 2018, how rather more cash would the underside 90 p.c of People have made throughout these 43 years? Put one other approach, how a lot extra wealth flowed to the highest 10 p.c throughout this time, because of elevated revenue equality?

When you have a butt, it is best to maintain onto it, as a result of the reply is 47 TRILLION DOLLARS.”

Learn extra: The Massive Delusion About “Free” Markets That Justified Historical past’s Biggest Heist

When you have been following us these previous few years you recognize now we have been calling consideration to the origins of Covid-19 and harmful gain-of-function analysis on viruses occurring in Bio Labs around the globe.

U.S. Proper to Know has executed a formidable job compiling this complete checklist of paperwork relating to those points that we want to share. For individuals who wish to look extra in-depth, the knowledge is right here!

From the intro to those paperwork by Gary Ruskin, USRTK:

“In July 2020, U.S. Proper to Know started submitting public information requests in pursuit of knowledge from public establishments in an effort to find what is understood concerning the origins of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the illness Covid-19. We’re additionally researching accidents, leaks and different mishaps at laboratories the place pathogens of pandemic potential are saved and modified, and the dangers of gain-of-function analysis, which contain experiments on such pathogens to extend their host vary, infectivity, transmissibility or pathogenicity.

For extra details about our investigation, see our biohazards web page. You may learn our reporting right here on the paperwork now we have obtained so removed from Freedom of Info requests. The paperwork are posted under in chronological order through which we acquired them.”

See the U.S. State Division information, Nationwide Institutes of Well being (NIH) information and extra right here

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