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How the 40 Year Drop in the Minimum Wage Helped Cause Obesity
Business  (tags: risks, diet, death, obesity, economy, business, ethics, society, consumers, government )

Suzybell
- 13 days ago - grist.org
I have written about the link between wages and obesity before--with wages dropping since the 60s and healthy food prices always going up, people eat more unhealthy food. But now two economists have drilled down into these issues and claim to have found
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Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food
Business  (tags: research, risks, safety, illness, health, environment, ethics, animals, animalwelfare, animalcruelty, lies, abuse, ethics, money )

Suzybell
- 90 days ago - time.com
Somewhere in Iowa, a pig is being raised in a confined pen, packed in so tightly with other swine that their curly tails have been chopped off so they won't bite one another. To prevent him from getting sick in such close quarters, he is dosed with antib
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Apple in Hot Water in France Over 'Exploding IPhones'
Business  (tags: technology, business, iPhone, risks, defects, France )

Michelle
- 91 days ago - france24.com
Half a dozen new cases of "exploding iPhones" emerged in France on Wednesday, as Apple faced an official inquiry and calls to come clean over possible risks linked to its wildly popular smartphone.
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Speak Out Against Walmart's Slashed Drug Coverage
Business  (tags: treatment, warning, study, medicine, illness, health, healthcare, drugs, risks, safety, wal-mart, corruption )

Suzybell
- 119 days ago - wakeupwalmart.com
Walmart is playing politics again, and in a big way. When it comes to health care reform, Walmart claims to support "an employer mandate [for health care] which is fair and broad in its coverage." Ironically, if you're a Walmart associate, "fair" and "br
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They're Releasing Pharmaceuticals Into Our Waterways!!!
Business  (tags: water, warning, safety, risks, protection, medicine, investigation, interesting, government, death, babies, children, drugs, ethics, humans, family, society, americans, business, corporate, corruption, cover-up, dishonesty, environment, lies, abuse, corru )

Barb
- 218 days ago - wxyz.com
U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals into waterways that often provide drinking water -- contamination the federal government has consistently overlooked... cont...
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Ohio Couple: Pa. Hospital Harvested Son's Organs
Business  (tags: business, farming, marketing, money, hospital, dishonesty, cover-up, corruption, ethics, abuse, lies, risks, medicine, death, murder )

Suzybell
- 265 days ago - verizon.net
PITTSBURGH - The parents of an 18-year-old Ohio man who suffered a brain injury while snowboarding claim in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that doctors at a northwestern Pennsylvania hospital intentionally killed him so they could harvest his organs.
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Fla. Smoker Widow Gets $8 Million Damages
Business  (tags: news, money, goodnews, environment, ethics, consumers, society, marketing, humans, business, dishonesty, illness, protection, risks )

Suzybell
- 279 days ago - news.yahoo.com
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Philip Morris was ordered by a jury to pay $8 million in damages to the widow of a smoker who died of lung cancer in a case that could set a standard for some 8,000 similar Florida lawsuits.
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Wisconsin Gun Dealer Relishes Role as Mayor Mike Bloomberg's Nemesis
Business  (tags: law, guns, police, children, risks, safety, ban, New York State, provocateur, Mayor Bloomberg, nemesis )


- 422 days ago - nydailynews.com
Ever since the city banned brightly colored guns in 2006, saying cops and kids might mistake them for toys, Lauer has relished his role as the pistol-packing provocateur of one of America's biggest gun opponents.
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New York City Crane Inspector Charged With Taking Bribes
Business  (tags: bribes, inspections, cranes, corruption, risks, safety )


- 536 days ago - nydailynews.com
The city's top crane inspector was charged Friday with taking thousands of dollars in bribes from a company in exchange for approving fake crane inspections...
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Winnebago Mental Health Institute
Business  (tags: children, death, drugs, healthcare, investigation, risks, safety, treatment, government, politics, sadness, safety, society, children, police, rights, constitution, congress, government, healthcare, news, politics, society )

Kelly
- 599 days ago - americanchronicle.com
The facility originally named Northern Asylum for the Insane,now called Winnebago Mental Health Facility. City inspectors found violations. Within a period of 2 years 3 deaths and 1 rape case were reported. Government ordered to correct by 2008.
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Bilderberg Company That Puts Pesticide in Their Product Boasts of Being Among Top 50 Best Companies
Business  (tags: healthcare, cancer, abuse, illness, research, study, warning, prevention, protection, safety, risks, society, investigation, government, disease )


- 604 days ago - care2.com
Pepsico who puts Pesticides in their products to help the pharmaceutical trade by causing cancer, and other health issues with their product boasts of being among the top 50 best companies in America. I guess with a death rate like theirs it would be noti
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Stranded Passenger Bill Doesn't Fly In Court
Business  (tags: business, consumers, corporate, corruption, dishonesty, ethics, humans, lies, money, society, cover-up, abuse, safety, risks, food, warning )

Suzybell
- 609 days ago - wftv.com
A federal appeals court Tuesday struck down a New York law requiring airlines to give food, water, clean toilets and fresh air to passengers stuck in delayed planes, saying the measure was well-intentioned but stepped on federal authority.The 2nd U.S.
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Industry Creates New Bogus "OASIS" Organic Standard for Personal Care Products
Business  (tags: animals, conservation, destruction, endangered, environment, humans, nature, pollution, protection, research, science, water, world, eco-friendly, green, greenproducts, humans, health, babies, children, risks, research, study, cancer, disease, drugs, abus )

Susan
- 618 days ago - organicconsumers.org
The OASIS standard was spearheaded and created exclusively by conventional industry members like Estee Lauder (owner of Aveda), Loreal and Hain (Jason, Avalon), without any input.
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