The Gaia Reports By Theodora Filis - Environmental Journalist

By Theodora Filis NutraSweet (NutraSweet!?!) Relaunches as Natural, Stevia-Based Platform. Once considered a market leader for artificial sugar alternatives – before shutting its doors in 2014 – a new partner is returning sweetener brand NutraSweet to the market. But this time it’s going au naturel - 4/2023 ... We all have hopes that there exist sugar-free substitutes that allow us to keep eating what we want without gaining weight. But, what if those guilt-free delights caused brain tumors, seizures, joint problems, and even death? In 1985 Monsanto purchased G.D. Searle, the chemical company that held the patent to aspartame, the active ingredient in NutraSweet. Monsanto knew of aspartame's past, including a 1980 FDA Board of Inquiry, comprised of three independent scientists, which confirmed that it"might induce brain tumors." The FDA banned aspartame based on the findings, only to have Donald Rumsfeld (13th Secretary of Defense from 1975-1977) the Chairma

By Theodora Filis As the 8th Annual International Asbestos Awareness Conference (Asbestos: An International Public Health Crisis) comes to an end today, an email from Libby, Montana, pops up in my mailbox. It's from a gentleman who has just been diagnosed with Pleural Thickening – a common side effect of exposure to asbestos, and an early warning sign for mesothelioma and asbestosis – seeking answers to questions he has no idea he should be asking. In February of 2004, W.R. Grace & Co. along with seven current or former executives were indicted in a federal court in Missoula, Montana, for breaking environmental laws and conspiring to cover up what the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has described as the biggest environmental disaster to human health it has ever faced. According to the EPA: “W.R. Grace and its executives, as far back as the 1970s, attempted to hide the fact that toxic asbestos was present in vermiculite products at the company’s Libby, Montana p

Gas and Oil Exploration and Exploitation in the Mediterranean Sea July 3, 2023 - Oil and gas companies have intensified the hunt for new deposits in a long-term bet on demand, as they reinvest some of the record profits from the fossil fuel price surge driven by the Ukraine war, according to data and industry executives. The exploration revival - on the part of European majors in particular - reflects a renewed commitment to  oil  and gas after   Shell   and BP went back on pledges to reduce output and invest in renewables as part of the energy transition.  Credit to:  https://www.oedigital.com/news/506238-oil-giants-drill-deep-as-profits-trump-climate-concerns                                       --------------------------------------- The lack of iron and, especially, coal reserves within the Mediterranean Basin has influenced the industrial development of the countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. Forty-four percent of the Mediterranean area is either contracted or designate

By Theodora Filis The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) of 2006, was passed by Congress late at night, with inadequate notice, and with only a fraction of Congresspersons present to vote on it. Pushed through Congress by wealthy biomedical & agri-business industry groups such as the Animal Enterprise Protection Coalition (AEPC), the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF). “ Under AETA it is no longer just the radical underground activists that are targeted for harming the corporate agenda, but also the law–abiding, above–ground activists. AETA is so broad and vague that ordinary citizens may not know that they are acting outside the vast boundaries of this new law. Under AETA, it doesn't take much to be labeled an “animal enterprise terrorist. ” Techniques that have been used for years in various social movements are now acts of terrorism if they cause profit loss, including increased security costs, to an animal exp