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The best way we could battle global warming is stop consuming animals

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[opinion from Asheville Citizen-Times] http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060401/OPINION03/60330083/1123 Thousands of peer-reviewed climate scientists agree that global warming is a very real threat to our existence, yet the concept is still being challenged. Wealthy and powerful business interests have put a stranglehold on meaningful federal … [Read more...] about The best way we could battle global warming is stop consuming animals

Food Not Bombs

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Food Not Bombs Activists Turn Themselves In to the FBI http://www.progressiveu.org/152129-food-not-bombs-activists-turn-themselves-in-to-the-fbi March 31st, free-speech advocates and peace activists in the United States are turning themselves in to the FBI, voluntarily. The recently revealed "Terrorist Watch List" listed Food Not Bombs as #7 for FBI … [Read more...] about Food Not Bombs

Juice Box Junkies!

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Helping Our Kids Kick the Fruit Juice Habit. by Cori Young I get a lot of email each month from parents who are concerned about how much fruit juice their kids are drinking. Some are looking for reassurance, “Is it really that bad, it’s made out of fruit?” Or, “At least they’re getting lots of liquids...” Others are worried about all the cavities their kids are getting, … [Read more...] about Juice Box Junkies!

Antiperspirant Use Can Increase Your Breast Cancer Risk

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http://www.mercola.com/2006/mar/30/antiperspirant_use_increases_breast_cancer_risks.htm The aluminum salts found in many antiperspirants could increase the risk of breast cancer. Other risk factors, such as shaving the armpits before using antiperspirants, may heighten the risk even further. Mimics Estrogen Aluminum salts, which account for 25 percent of the volume of … [Read more...] about Antiperspirant Use Can Increase Your Breast Cancer Risk

With Tysabri decision, FDA declares no drug is too dangerous to be FDA approved

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March 28 2006 http://www.newstarget.com/019331.html The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the agency that claims to be responsible for protecting consumers from dangerous food and drug products, has just surrendered its primary responsibility. Recently, an FDA advisory panel voted to recommend that a dangerous prescription drug Tysabri, which was withdrawn from the … [Read more...] about With Tysabri decision, FDA declares no drug is too dangerous to be FDA approved

Now what? Cloned Pig! all in the name of ‘health’

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Cloning May Lead to Healthy Pork By GINA KOLATA March 27, 2006 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/27/health/27pig.html?_r=2&th=&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin A group of university researchers said yesterday that they had created what sounds like a nutritional holy grail: cloned pigs that make their own omega-3 fatty acids, … [Read more...] about Now what? Cloned Pig! all in the name of ‘health’

Will consumers have a beef with test-tube meat?

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ANNE MCILROY From Monday's Globe and Mail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060327.wxmeat27/BNStory/Science/home?pageRequested=all&print=true Scientists can grow frog and mouse meat in the lab, and are now working on pork, beef and chicken. Their goal is to develop an industrial version of the process in five years. If they succeed, cultured … [Read more...] about Will consumers have a beef with test-tube meat?

Oil Gushes into Arctic Ocean from BP Pipeline

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by Leonard Doyle The Independent / UK Tuesday, March 21, 2006 http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0321-06.htm Across the frozen North Slope of Alaska, the region's largest oil accident on record has been sending hundreds of thousands of litres of crude pouring into the Arctic Ocean during the past week after a badly corroded BPO pipeline ruptured. The … [Read more...] about Oil Gushes into Arctic Ocean from BP Pipeline