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Critical Food Safety Vote This Week!
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, food, safety, protection, risks, health, humans, nutrition )

Tierney
- 2 days ago - secure.consumersunion.org
And not a moment too soon! On Wednesday, a key Senate committee is slated to vote on a bill that will encourage food producers to clean up their acts and prevent deadly contamination in the foods we buy each day. With the holidays just around the corner,
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Rx: Cranberries
Health & Wellness  (tags: diet, family, food, health, healthcare, humans, illness, interesting, medicine, nutrition, prevention, protection )

Daphna
- 4 days ago - lime.com
Maybe we should add cranberries to the long list of things to be grateful for at Thanksgiving. Cranberries -- a staple food source with settlers and Native Americans in the northeast -- were valued for their thick skins, allowing them to surv
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Keep Nanotechnology Out of Organic! - Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: Petition, warning, protection, risks, humans, illness, health, food, government, environment, children, family, diet, ethics )

Daphna
- 4 days ago - change.org
Keep Nanotechnology Out of Organic! To tell the USDA that you want the National Organic Standards Board to take a strong stand against the use of nanotechnology in organic food.
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Keep Your Food Safe: Call Today!
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, food, drugs, safety, nutrition, humans, protection )

Tierney
- 6 days ago - secure3.convio.net
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that foodborne diseases, such as Salmonella and Campylobacter, are increasingly resistant to antibiotic treatments. Countless scientific studies have concluded that antibiotic resistance is re
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Childhood Scurvy Cases on Rise in England
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, diet, disease, family, food, health, humans, illness, nutrition, prevention )

Daphna
- 8 days ago - greenlivingideas.com
Scurvy is one of those diseases of legend, conjuring up images of pirates and explorers of the sea. When I think of scurvy, I still recall an educational video shown in elementary school of sailors falling ill from a lack of vitamin C. Unfortunately for
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Best Balsamic Vinegars - Vinegars Laced With Lead
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, food, health, humans, illness, nutrition, protection, risks, warning )

Daphna
- 10 days ago - thedailygreen.com
In a tradition dating back to medieval times, growers in Modena, Italy, are deep into the grape harvest, the first step in making their famed balsamic vinegar.Cooking the trebianno and lambrusco grapes releases rich juice that is then stored in vintage
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Superfood or Seriously Scary? The Truth About Soy
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, diet, disease, food, health, humans, illness, investigation, medicine, prevention, protection )

Daphna
- 12 days ago - divinecaroline.com
My best friend, Alex, was sixteen when she decided to stop eating meat. Her love of animals and her distaste for the sinewy feeling of meat between her teeth left her seeking vegetarian alternatives to her old steak and chicken staples. When she discovere
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Stevia: This Sugar Substitute Is Sweet and Healthy
Health & Wellness  (tags: diet, disease, family, food, health, humans, illness, nutrition, prevention, protection )

Daphna
- 12 days ago - motherearthnews.com
Imagine an herb that's much sweeter than sugar, but almost calorie-free. Imagine that it does not cause the after-eating spike in blood sugar that aggravates diabetes. Imagine that it's actually good for you, reducing blood sugar and blood pressure, and b
5 comments
Campbell's Soup: Stop Poisoning Our Food!- Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, warning, protection, humans, illness, health, food, family, diet, children, nutrition, safety )

Daphna
- 12 days ago - change.org
Consumer Reports has found that major canned food companies including Campbell's Soup are using cans that leach Bisphenol A (BPA) into food. BPA is linked to many health risks including reproductive abnormalities, neurological effects, height
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Consumers Reject GM Food, Demand Nestlé India Go GM Free - Sukanya Kadyan
Health & Wellness  (tags: government, healthcare, research, ethics, food )

Sukanya
- 13 days ago - greenpeace.in
Greenpeace India released the Safe Food Guide in Delhi recently ranking 17 major food companies as 'green' or 'red' on the basis of their policies regarding the use of genetically modified ingredients. Only two companies Nestlé, and Hindustan,Say No to GM
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Natural Remedies - Non-Medicinal Cures for Colds and Other Winter Ills
Health & Wellness  (tags: AlternativeMed, diet, food, family, health, healthcare, humans, illness, medicine, prevention, protection )

Daphna
- 13 days ago - thedailygreen.com
If the worrying news about over-the-counter cough syrup has you down, try this natural alternative: Add three tablespoons of dried thyme to one pint of boiling water. Let cool, then add one cup of honey. Take one teaspoon every hour as needed
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We Are No Lab Rat : Say No to GM Food - Naresh Kadyan
Health & Wellness  (tags: food, government, health, research )

Kadyan
- 13 days ago - iamnolabrat.com
Please do not test this technology on us as we are NO LAB RAT and we refuse to eat GM food. We urge you to put an immediate stop to all GM food trials in India as also on GM food imports into the country.Say No to GM foods on this globe, support the issue
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Take Action-Tell the RBGH Profiteers Why You Buy Organic to Avoid Genetically Modified Bovine Growth Hormone
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, children, diet, drugs, family, food, government, health, humans, nutrition, prevention, risks )

Daphna
- 14 days ago - organicconsumers.org
Following up on our successful campaign against Yoplait and Dannon, the Organic Consumers Association is now asking our members to write to ice cream companies that still allow the use of genetically modified bovine growth hormone (Dreyer's, Edy's
7 comments
Monsanto & CropLife Men Have No Place In Our Government
Health & Wellness  (tags: government, healthcare, health, illness, food, safety, science, GeneticEngineering )

Tierney
- 15 days ago - food.change.org
Islam Siddiqui has been nominated as the Chief Agricultural Negotiator for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. If Congress confirms Siddiqui, he will no doubt continue to undermine public health, biodiversity,
4 comments
Health Ills Abound as Farm Animal Runoff Fouls Wells, Laws Neither Applied or Enforced
Health & Wellness  (tags: environment, safety, health, disease, risks, treatment, food )

Tierney
- 15 days ago - organicconsumers.org
MORRISON, Wis. - All it took was an early thaw for the drinking water here to become unsafe. There are 41,000 dairy cows in Brown County, which includes Morrison, and they produce more than 260 million gallons of manure each year, much of which is spr
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