Bonnie L Rotheiser, DC

11/18/2025

11/12/2025

🚨 BOMBSHELL RULING: Court Forces USDA to End GMO Labeling Loopholes

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that the USDA must update its bioengineered food disclosure standards, closing key exemptions that allowed many genetically modified ingredients to go unlabeled.

In a unanimous decision issued November 7, 2025, a three-judge panel found that the USDA’s 2018 regulations—particularly the exemption for highly refined products where modified DNA is undetectable—violate the 2016 National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard.

Judge Daniel Collins, writing for the court, stated that Congress intended broader disclosure, regardless of detectability.

The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed by the Center for Food Safety and Citizens for GMO Labeling, challenging provisions that excluded ultra-processed items like corn oil, high-fructose corn syrup, and soy-based ingredients.

The court also invalidated the USDA’s allowance of QR codes and digital links as the sole disclosure method, mandating clearer, on-package text.

“This decision reaffirms the public’s right to know what’s in their food,” said George Kimbrell, Legal Director at the Center for Food Safety. “The vast majority of genetically engineered crops are designed to withstand heavy pesticide use—consumers deserve transparency at the point of purchase.”

The case now returns to the district court with instructions to remand the rules to the USDA for revision consistent with the statute.

This ruling marks a significant step toward uniform, accessible GMO labeling nationwide.

11/12/2025

🚨 Federal Judge Grants Temporary Relief to PA Law Student in Landmark Smart Meter Disability Case

A U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania has issued a preliminary injunction preventing FirstEnergy Corp. from disconnecting utility service to 23-year-old law student Madison Rose Lucey, who successfully argued that mandatory smart meters exacerbate her documented physical disability.

Lucey, a second-year student at Widener University Commonwealth Law School with a prior master’s in data science, filed suit pro se against FirstEnergy and the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PAPUC) under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.

She provided medical documentation stating that pulsed radiofrequency (RF) emissions from the utility’s advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) trigger severe neurological and cardiac symptoms, a condition increasingly recognized as Electromagnetic Radiation Syndrome (EMR Syndrome).

The court’s October ruling mandates that FirstEnergy maintain Lucey’s existing analog mechanical meter and refrain from service termination pending full adjudication—effectively pausing Pennsylvania’s no-opt-out smart meter mandate for this plaintiff.

📊 Key Facts from the Filing:

• PA Act 129 (2008) requires electric distribution companies to deploy AMI systems with 100% customer coverage.

• Unlike 18 states that permit analog meter retention, Pennsylvania offers no medical or technical opt-out.

• FirstEnergy issued disconnection notices to Lucey in July and August 2025, including one scheduled for her birthday, despite her physician’s recommendation for accommodation.

Research cited in the case includes a 2014 peer-reviewed survey by UC San Diego professor Beatrice Golomb, MD, PhD, which found 69% of 200 self-reported electrosensitive individuals identified smart meters as the primary onset trigger.

Golomb’s work highlights biological mechanisms—oxidative stress and voltage-gated calcium channel disruption—amplified by pulsed (vs. continuous) RF signals, with smart meters emitting peaks up to 900,000 μW/m².

“This ruling affirms that disability accommodation law applies to emerging environmental exposures, not just traditional accessibility barriers,” said W. Scott McCollough, senior litigation counsel for Children’s Health Defense, which filed an amicus brief. “If sustained, it could compel opt-out policies in mandate-only states.”

The decision arrives amid stalled legislation: Pennsylvania Senate Bill 600, which would establish a medical opt-out, remains in committee.

Similar bills advance in Massachusetts and Maine.

Lucey continues to represent herself while managing full-time studies, and a status conference is set for December 2025.

11/11/2025

The EPA says 1.75 mg/kg/day of glyphosate is “safe.”
But this new peer-reviewed study found harm at just 0.01 mg/kg/day.

Researchers documented:

• Reduced Akkermansia — a crucial gut bacteria that protects immunity, metabolic health, and the gut lining
• Gut inflammation and microbiome disruption
• Metabolic dysfunction (insulin resistance, impaired glucose tolerance)
• Behavioral and neurological changes
• Effects passed to the second generation of offspring

Why does Akkermansia matter?
Lower levels are linked to obesity, diabetes, autoimmune issues, inflammation, and poor gut-brain signaling.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969725020777](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969725020777

10/29/2025

10/25/2025

Eat real food. When possible meet your farmers. Support local growers.

10/23/2025

Brilliant but simple. And potentially life saving.

At just 17 years old, Iowa high school student Dasia Taylor began asking a question that few adults had ever thought to tackle:
How can we detect surgical infections early — without relying on costly medical technology?

Her solution was as creative as it was practical: color-changing sutures dyed with beet juice. 🧵💡

Taylor discovered that beet pigments naturally shift color based on pH levels. Healthy skin tends to be slightly acidic, while infected wounds become more alkaline. In controlled lab tests, her sutures — when exposed to infected conditions — changed from bright red to deep purple at a pH around 9, often within minutes. This visible change could alert patients and healthcare workers to an infection even in places with no access to lab tests, electricity, or smartphones.

Through experimentation, she found that a cotton–polyester blend best retained the beet dye and produced the most reliable color change. The simplicity of her design meant it could be affordable, biodegradable, and easy to implement, especially in low-resource hospitals and rural clinics where post-surgical infections are a leading cause of complications.

Her ingenuity didn’t go unnoticed — Dasia became a Regeneron Science Talent Search finalist (2021) and was later honored as a USA Today Woman of the Year (Iowa, 2023). She is now working toward a patent and continuing to refine her design for clinical use.

While her invention isn’t FDA-approved yet, its potential is revolutionary: a self-monitoring suture that doesn’t need batteries, machines, or digital tools — just the chemistry of nature.

At its heart, Dasia’s innovation is more than a scientific achievement — it’s a message. That brilliance doesn’t require billion-dollar labs, and that even a single, curious teenager can design something capable of saving lives across the world.