By Dr. Joseph Mercola Contributing writer for Wake Up World Up to 40 percent of drinking water worldwide comes from underground waterways that make up largely uncharted aquifer systems...
Category - Plants and Agriculture
Wake Up World’s articles on plants and agriculture, with a focus on issues and solutions surrounding ‘modern’ agricultural practices.
The Corporate Takeover of Organic Food
By Dr. Joseph Mercola Contributing writer for Wake Up World Why did the Organic Trade Association, which says its mission is to promote and protect organic, support measures against GMO...
Wheat Contains Not One But 23K Potentially Harmful Proteins
By Sayer Ji Contributing writer for Wake Up World Despite popular misconceptions gluten is only the tip of a very large iceberg. There are actually 23,788 distinct proteins that...
Magic Mushrooms: New Research on Psilocybin and Its Benefits
By Marco Guest writer for Wake Up World Much like the carefully orchestrated de-legalization of cannabis during the 1930’s, there was a powerful decades-long misleading campaign against...
We Subsidize the Wrong Kind of Agriculture
August 1st, 2018 By Brian Wakamo (via Otherwords) Guest writer for Wake Up World We should be supporting the small farmers who sell at farmers markets, not the corporate giants that...
Poisoning Our Children: The Parent’s Guide to the Myths of Safe Pesticides
By Dr. Joseph Mercola Contributing writer for Wake Up World In a clear conflict of interest, chemical industry regulators make decisions on the safety of poisons in our food and environment...
Can Psilocybin Mushrooms Help Addicted Cocaine Users Stop?
By Marco Torres Guest writer for Wake Up World Unlike with alcohol or nicotine, pharmacological options are not available to individuals addicted to cocaine. However, researchers at the...
Cannabis: A Lost History
By Dr. Joseph Mercola Contributing writer for Wake Up World Cannabis, better known as marijuana, has been used for its medicinal properties for thousands of years. It’s been heralded...
Our Food Industry in 8 Words: “We Think We Can Do Better Than Nature”
By Marco Torres Guest writer for Wake Up World The problem with our food industry and big agriculture goes far beyond foods which are genetically modified, irradiated, pasteurized, homogenized...
FDA Approves Genetically Engineered Golden Rice – But Is It Safe?
June 22nd, 2018 By Dr. Joseph Mercola Contributing writer for Wake Up World Genetically engineered (GE) Golden Rice has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), making...
Harvest of Greed – The Merger of Bayer and Monsanto
June 5th, 2018 By Dr. Joseph Mercola Contributing writer for Wake Up World The Bayer-Monsanto entity is now the largest seed and pesticide company in the world, controlling more than 25...
Updates on Proposed Rules for GMO Labeling and Toxicity of Common Pesticides
May 29th, 2018 By Dr. Joseph Mercola Contributing writer for Wake Up World Government researchers warn the Roundup formula is far more toxic than glyphosate in isolation due to synergistic...
