Food & Health – Week of 10.21.12

GMO Database
GMO Compasss
Many genetically modified plants have already been approved for use in food and feed in the EU.

A Simple Fix for Farming
NY Times | 19 October 2012
IT’S becoming clear that we can grow all the food we need, and profitably, with far fewer chemicals.

Meningitis Outbreak Toll Now 21 Dead, 271 Sickened: CDC
U.S. News | 19 October 2012
Twenty-one people have now died and 271 have been sickened in the nationwide meningitis outbreak apparently tied to contaminated steroid injections, U.S. health officials reported Friday.