Cotton is one of the most utilized plants in the world.  Think of all the cotton products you use in your life – clothes, furniture, bedding, personal products and food.  Did you know that your favorite sheets or feminine products might be making you sick?  Cotton contains hazardous chemical pesticides and herbicides.  In fact, about 35% of the world’s pesticides are used to grow cotton. Pesticides Never Wash Out You may think that washing your shirts, towels or sheets will remove any harmful pesticides.  Unfortunately, this is not the case. When the cotton is growing, the pesticides...

Mosquitoes and the Ecosystem If you are like most people, you probably don’t think much about mosquitoes, except perhaps how annoying they are and the best way to prevent them from biting you. Not a lot is actually known about mosquitoes.  They do have their place in nature and are a food source for some fish, bats, dragonflies, birds and spiders.  They also carry diseases like Malaria, Yellow Fever, West Nile Virus and Dengue Fever.  Millions of people worldwide get sick and even die from these diseases.  At a cursory look, mosquitoes appear to be more...

The Dangers of GE Salmon For 17 years, AquaBounty, a Canadian biotech corporation has been working on a GM salmon that grows twice as fast as regular salmon. Their GE salmon is waiting approval by the FDA.  To produce this GE salmon, AquaBounty has inserted genetic material from an eel-like fish and a chinook salmon. If approved, GE salmon would be the first “transgenic” (a foreign gene has been inserted into the DNA) animal allowed in the food supply. If (when) it arrives to our supermarkets, you can bet it won’t be labeled so the consumers know...