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Most Top Retailers Sell Food Produced with Bee-Killing Pesticides

A new ‘scorecard’ report gives a failing grade to 17 out of 20 major food retailers in the United States, based on their policies and practices regarding pollinator protection, organic options, and pesticide reduction. [1]
Source: Friends of the Earth
Read: Aldi Bans Bee-Killing Neonic Pesticides on Produce
Tiffany Finck-Haynes, food futures campaigner with Friends of the Earth, said:

Are You Eating Fake Olive Oil?

With high-end food profits often being as lucrative as street drug-trade, the problem of ‘fake foods’ continues to persist. One main ‘fake food’ stocking store shelves is olive oil – with fake olive oil being exported from Italy. With first-pressed, real olive oil going for as much as $50 a gallon, food fakers have been adding cheap additives like sunflower or canola oil to real, extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) to produce the same gallon of ‘olive oil’ for as little as $7.