Agriculture
- Estrogens From Plants
Estrogens From PlantsWhile the female hormones called estrogens are common in mammals, only a few plants contain estrogens. Others synthesize compounds which are chemically unrelated to estrogens but resemble them in their molecular size and shape. These...
- Tips For Winter Supplementation Of Cattle
By: Clay P. Mathis Developing a cost-effective supplementation program depends on just two things ? first, identify the nutrient (or nutrients) most limiting to productivity and provide it at the lowest cost. Just as important, however, is identifying...
- Simple Oregano Keeps Chickens Disease-fr?ee
Posted: 29 Dec 2012 09:26 PM PST It?s za?atar season in the Middle East and though we don?t really need it, there?s another reason to love this versatile spice: it could be useful as an alternative to antibiotics. Both a perennial herb and a spice mixed...
- The Right To Know What You Are Eating
BY: Gary Hirshberg and Eric Schlosser An unprecedented agricultural experiment is being conducted at America's dinner tables. While none of the processed food we ate 20 years ago contained genetically engineered ingredients, now 75 percent of it does...
- Fruits & Vegetables ( Real Strength Of Ancient Man )
During the Paleolithic Age to the Stone Age people were included hunter-gatherers whose diet food, both animals and plants that were a part of their natural environment. Fossil evidence for hunter-gatherer groups, suggests that the diet is primarily...
Agriculture
Food or drug . . . or neither?
Before herbal remedies became big business, most were homemade or made in small batches, with the grower/producer selling directly to the end user. Because the government didn?t regulate or oversee these transactions, consumers had to trust that the herbal concoctions contained what their makers said they did. However, over the last few decades, interest in ?natural? remedies has grown, and bigger and bigger players ? including large pharmaceutical companies ? have entered the market, driving the stakes higher. 
Talk began to circulate about the possibility of the government stepping in to regulate herbal remedies. The reaction was swift and strong. Manufacturers feared that government regulations would prevent them from selling their wares; consumers rebelled against government control over what they could put into their bodies. A grassroots campaign to limit government regulation was successful, and the result was the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA).
You may have noticed that the medicinal claims of herbal products are couched in vague terms and that the products are described as supplements, not remedies. There?s a good reason for this. The DSHEA defines a dietary supplement as a product that?s intended to supplement the diet rather than cure a disease. The result is that the makers of dietary supplements are per-mitted to make broad claims that the product can support this or that structure or function. For example, vendors can say that echinacea supplements ?support a healthy immune system? or that chamomile ?calms the digestive tract.? They can?t claim that the product cures an ailment; doing so would change the product classification from supplement to drug, and thus require the clinical trials and rigorous testing pharmaceutical companies must do before introducing a medicine to the market.
Under DSHEA, a manufacturer is responsible for determining that the dietary supplements it makes are safe and that claims made about them are substantiated by adequate evidence to show that they aren?t false or misleading. However, dietary supplements don?t need FDA approval before they?re marketed.
- Estrogens From Plants
Estrogens From PlantsWhile the female hormones called estrogens are common in mammals, only a few plants contain estrogens. Others synthesize compounds which are chemically unrelated to estrogens but resemble them in their molecular size and shape. These...
- Tips For Winter Supplementation Of Cattle
By: Clay P. Mathis Developing a cost-effective supplementation program depends on just two things ? first, identify the nutrient (or nutrients) most limiting to productivity and provide it at the lowest cost. Just as important, however, is identifying...
- Simple Oregano Keeps Chickens Disease-fr?ee
Posted: 29 Dec 2012 09:26 PM PST It?s za?atar season in the Middle East and though we don?t really need it, there?s another reason to love this versatile spice: it could be useful as an alternative to antibiotics. Both a perennial herb and a spice mixed...
- The Right To Know What You Are Eating
BY: Gary Hirshberg and Eric Schlosser An unprecedented agricultural experiment is being conducted at America's dinner tables. While none of the processed food we ate 20 years ago contained genetically engineered ingredients, now 75 percent of it does...
- Fruits & Vegetables ( Real Strength Of Ancient Man )
During the Paleolithic Age to the Stone Age people were included hunter-gatherers whose diet food, both animals and plants that were a part of their natural environment. Fossil evidence for hunter-gatherer groups, suggests that the diet is primarily...