3 Easy Ways to Rid Your Home/Workplace of Rodents

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Rats not only bring along a host of deadly bacteria and diseases, they also have the power to cause serious financial damage by chewing through your expensive furniture, electrical system, insulation and items of personal use.

Experts say that the longer you wait, the harder it becomes to get rid of rats infesting your home or workplace. So be prepared take action the moment you have your first sighting. As rodents usually come out at night, it may be long before you spot one. However, rodent waste behind cupboards and furniture is a tell-tale sign that you have a rat …

HCG diet

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Looking and feeling good about your body is an important factor that enhances your self-esteem. If you feel you are a little overweight and want to shed a few kilos to fit into your favorite pair of jeans, you could try the most happening weight-loss program. Yes, we are talking about the HCG diet. When you follow the HCG diet, you will be on HCG supplements (which are made from synthesized HCG powder) and on a restricted diet of 500 calories per day. What’s more, the strict diet will help you lose around 2 kgs per week, that too without …

splosna slika5 Reasons GMOs should be considered organic

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The term “organic” does not exist in nature. It is a legal construct, devised by humans, as in “organic chemistry.”

Organic food and farm activists would want you to believe that their brands are undiluted and exist naturally just like the air and clean water around us. It doesn’t. This exists because there is a law defining the claim to be a mind-numbing legal agenda. Just ask any organic farmer who’s behind his paperwork?…

baby goats Offspring Born From GMO-Fed Goats Are Subject to Growth Abnormalities and Malnutrition

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The babies of goats who receive feed made with GMO soybean experience difficulty in the absorption of essential nutrients and, as a result, diminished ability to grow. The findings are from a new Italian study submitted to Small Ruminant Research.

GMO soy plants are generally modified to be able to resist massive amounts of herbicide, specifically Roundup Ready, a solution produced by the Monsanto biotech firm. According to the World Health Organization, the main ingredient in the herbicide, glyphosate, may in fact be carcinogenic.…

monsanto pct Studies Used to Determine Whether Roundup is Safe Were Funded By Monsanto

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released results to the public of its evaluation of whether fifty-two known chemicals could be considered disruptors of the endocrine system—in other words, chemicals that disrupt the workings of the body’s hormones and the glands linked to those hormones, which can conceivably lead to birth defects and reproductive cancers.

Notably, one of these chemicals was glyphosate, a substance that is the main active ingredient in Roundup, the brand name for Monsanto’s ubiquitous herbicide that is used all over the world. The U.S. alone uses millions of pounds of the substance every year.…

monsanto fire Environmentalist Arsonists Take Matters Into Their Own Hands and Light a Monsanto Facility Ablaze

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In France, a research facility owned by biotech firm Monsanto has been subject to significant damage by a fire that was believed to be the result of arson. The fire erupted this October, on the same exact day that Vytenis Andriukaitis, the commissioner of food safety, was unable to win the European Parliament’s favor over his proposal to allow nations of the EU to individually ban GMOs.…

corn2 Corn Growers Fall back to Pesticides after Genetically Modified Seeds Failed

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Actually, Herbicide-tolerant and Bt-transgenic crops caused a reduction in the use of pesticides. Charles Benbrook at Washington State University’s Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources says BT crops caused a reduction in the use of insecticide by 10-12 million pounds in a year between 1996 and 2011. Data gotten from USDA is showing a more drastic decrease.…

monsanto 5 Monsanto Wants You to Believe These 8 Myths about Pesticides

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Myths about pesticides are just testimonies/claims to support false advertisements, marketing strategies or acts of lobbying. Pesticide companies, like Big Tobacco and the oil industry, have produced, through tricks, doubts about the science behind pesticides and have promoted the myths that their products are vital to life and harmless IF used as specified.

The myths were referred to as Tobacco Strategy by book Merchants of Doubt. Pesticide companies organized public relations and legal campaigns to disagree with the evidence, often using untruthful scientists to create controversial premises around the so-called junk science ranging from second-hand smoke resulting into cancer, global …

apple 943751 640 Alert to the Consumers: Genetically Modified Potatoes and Apples are a Serious Public Health Risk

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More produce has been added to the ever-expanding GMO list: potatoes and apples. In this particular case, the GMO version of these common plant products has been modified to reduce browning (oxidation) when slices are exposed to the air. Scientists achieved this by using dsRNA (a version of RNA, sometimes found in viruses, that is double-stranded, similar to DNA), to alter the effects of the gene that is responsible for both the fruit’s and tuber’s browning response. Because the results are merely aesthetic, there was really no good reason to modify this gene, as some amount of browning is perfectly …