By Daniel Gustafsson Guest Writer For Wake Up World A study of natural medicinal plants and their potential for treatment of Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s, ALS and other neuro...
Category - Plants and Agriculture
Wake Up World’s articles on plants and agriculture, with a focus on issues and solutions surrounding ‘modern’ agricultural practices.
Report Finds Cancer Deaths Have Doubled in Argentina’s GMO Growing Regions
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World A recent report by the Ministry of Health in Cordoba, Argentina, has documented a disturbing trend for those who live in areas where...
How Monsanto’s ‘RoundUp’ is Cursing the Global Food Supply
2nd September 2014 By Sayer Ji Contributing Writer for Wake Up World What if the very GM agricultural system that Monsanto claims will help to solve the problem of world hunger depends on a...
All-Natural Pesticide Unveiled by Scientists – and It Won’t Kill the Bees!
By Carolanne Wright Contributing writer for Wake Up World Good news on the honeybee front — a team of scientists in the UK have created a biopesticide made from spider venom and plant...
Is Roundup Weedkiller A Brain-Damaging Neurotoxin?
By Sayer Ji Contributing Writer for Wake Up World A study reveals a hitherto unknown mechanism behind how the world’s most popular GMO herbicide harms the brain. Remarkably, despite...
Study Links Autism to Pesticide Exposure During Pregnancy
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Researchers at the University of California in Davis have recently confirmed that pregnant mothers living in proximity to...
Junking Down Our Food Supply – Genetic Scientist Discusses GMOs
By Dr. Thierry Vrain Guest Writer for Wake Up World It is high time to change the debate from the safety of engineering food to the pesticides that are inside the food. The technology is essentially...
The Link Between GMO Cotton and Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World We may not associate much risk with seemingly “inedible” genetically modified crops like cotton, but the dangers are very...
Roundup Herbicide Found to be 125 Times More Toxic Than Regulators Say
By Sayer Ji Contributing Writer for Wake Up World A highly concerning study published in the journal Biomedical Research International reveals that despite the still relatively benign...
Roundup Accumulates in GMO Food, Proving Its Lack of Safety
2nd April 2014 By Sayer Ji Contributing Writer for Wake Up World An important new manuscript accepted for publication in the journal Food Chemistry disproves the widely held notion that...
Human Blood is Not “Roundup Ready”, New Study Reluctantly Admits
20th March 2014 By Sayer Ji Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Much focus of late has been on the toxicity of the main ingredient in Roundup ‘weedkiller’, namely glyphosate...
South American Vine Treats Neurogenerative Disorders, Stronger Than Antidepressants
By John Summerly Guest writer for Wake Up World The Banisteriopsis caapi plant, also known as ayahuasca, caapi or yaje, is a South American jungle vine used to prepare a decoction with a long...