World Food Prices Skyrocket For Seventh Consecutive Month

World food prices surged to a new historic peak in January, for the seventh consecutive month, according to the updated FAO Food Price Index, a commodity basket that regularly tracks monthly changes in global food prices.

US Corn Refiners Association Wants To Change Name Of High Fructose Corn Syrup To “corn sugar”

Consumers have largely ignored every marketing effort by the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) to “health-wash” high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) as being the same as all other forms of sugar.

DLP Seeks IDB Help In Shaking Up Ministry Of Agriculture

Coming on the heels of a previous digital article where it was stated the Minister of Agriculture Haynesley Benn “is operating in an environment in which people had a particular way of carrying out operations, and are not perpared to change”

Pakistan Flood Assessments Reveal ‘Bleak’ Picture, Huge Needs

The picture that Christian relief groups have been painting of southern Pakistan following the region’s massive flooding has been bleak with at least one describing the needs there as “huge.”

Artifical Meat Necessary To Feed Global Population Holy Cow!!!

Artificial meat grown in vats may be needed if the 9 billion people expected to be alive in 2050 are to be adequately fed without destroying the earth, some of the world’s leading scientists report today.

US Cattle ‘Cloned From Dead Animals’

We already know that cloned beef has entered the food supply both in the United States (http://www.naturalnews.com/023718_f…) and the UK (http://www.naturalnews.com/029411_c…).

Lawsuit Over Deceptive Vitaminwater Claims To Proceed

A federal judge has denied Coca-Cola’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit over what the Center for Science in the Public Interest says are deceptive and unsubstantiated claims on the company’s “vitaminwater” line of soft drinks.

B’dos Farmers Shell Finally Reach Deal On Oil Spill

After 15 years, Shell oil company and Christ Church farmers angered by an aviation fuel leak on their lands have finally settled the issue of compensation.

Victorian Pineapple Costs £10,000 To Cultivate

A miniature pineapple has cost the equivalent of £10,000 and the first pineapple was cut this season at the The Lost Gardens of Heligan.

India Blocks Harvesting Of GM Crops

Critics of genetically modified (GM) crops have secured a victory in India, where the environment minister has indefinitely blocked the approval of any further GM varieties.

Choosing Healthy Foods Called A Mental Disorder

In its never-ending attempt to fabricate “mental disorders” out of every human activity, the psychiatric industry is now pushing the most ridiculous disease they’ve invented yet: Healthy eating disorder.

Israel Attacks Gaza Aid Fleet

Israeli forces have attacked a flotilla of aid-carrying ships aiming to break the country’s siege on Gaza.

Israel Vows To Block Aid Ships To Gaza

Israeli authorities have warned that they would block a contingent of aid ships carrying construction materials and humanitarian supplies for the people of Gaza.

Companies Exploiting Socially-networked Children To Push Junk Food Like Drug Dealers

In response to recent bans on junk food advertising in the U.K., junk food manufacturers like Fanta, which is part of Coca-Cola, have found a loophole to the restriction.

Is Gulf Oil Rig Disaster Far Worse Than We’re Being Told?

Reports about the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill have been largely underestimated, according to commentators, including Paul Noel, a Software Engineer for the U.S. Army at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama.

Bayer Admits GMO Contamination Out Of Control

Drug and chemical giant Bayer AG has admitted that there is no way to stop the uncontrolled spread of its genetically modified crops.

Food Finally Reaches Chile’s Tsunami Zone

After five days, supplies are finally reaching Chileans stranded without food or water in tsunami-hit Constitucion.

Barbados First Shipment Off To Haiti

The Barbados government’s first shipment of supplies to Haiti left the island Wednesday, bound for Jamaica, the Caribbean’s staging point in the relief effort.

China: 170 Tonnes More Tained Milk Repackaged Found

The discovery has punched a 170-ton hole in China’s promises to overhaul its food safety system. 

Chavez: US ‘Weapon’ Caused Haiti Quake

Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez Wednesday accused the United States of causing the destruction in Haiti by testing a ‘tectonic weapon’ to induce the catastrophic earthquake that hit the country last week.