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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
- 1 day 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
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Food Industry Dictates Nutrition Policy
Health & Wellness  (tags: illness, health, Factory Farms, diet, disease, risks, safety )

Tierney
- 2 days ago - organicconsumers.org
New York (CNN) -- Beyond the unhealthy influence that our demand for factory-farmed meat has in the area of food-borne illness and communicable diseases, we could cite many other influences on public health, most obviously the now-widely recognized relat
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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
- 2 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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USA: Limit Use of Non-Therapeutic Antibiotics in Food Animals
Health & Wellness  (tags: humans, illness, food, government, risks, health, diet, drugs )

Tierney
- 4 days ago - secure2.convio.net
The Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (PAMTA), H.R. 1549/S. 619 would phase out, within two years of enactment, the common practice of continually feeding antibiotics important in human medicine to non-sick food animals.
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CDC: 2 Deaths, 26 Other Illnesses May Be Linked to Fresh Ground Beef Contaminated With E. Coli
Health & Wellness  (tags: ground beef, recalled, ecoli, risks, health, sickness )

Lone
- 5 days ago - startribune.com
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Contaminated fresh ground beef caused a possible E. coli outbreak that killed two people and sent 16 others to hospitals, federal health officials said Monday
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Scientists Claim Junk Food Is as Addictive as Heroin
Health & Wellness  (tags: junk, food, heroin, addiction, drugs, obesity, health, healthcare, humans, research, warning, risks, illness, science, study, medicine, prevention, interesting, disease, diet, investigation, society, government, children, nutrition, family )

Tom
- 6 days ago - grist.org
Junk food elicits addictive behavior in rats similar to the behaviors of rats addicted to heroin, a new study finds. "This is the most complete evidence to date that suggests obesity and drug addiction have common neurobiological underpinnings."
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Ask EPA To Ban Carcinogenic Pesticide Methyl Iodide -Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, warning, research, protection, humans, illness, health, government, environment, ethics, death, disease, risks )

Daphna
- 7 days ago - change.org
Under the Bush administration the EPA approved this carcinogenic new pesticide. However, a week ago, we heard promising news. The EPA has just indicated that it plans to re-consider methyl iodide, pending the results of California's independent Scientific
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Study Suggests Insecticide Causes Lupus and Arthritis
Health & Wellness  (tags: disease, environment, family, health, humans, illness, interesting, investigation, prevention, safety, risks, warning )

Daphna
- 11 days ago - planetsave.com
New research out of Philadelphia suggests a link between women's exposure to household insecticides (including roach and mosquito killers) and the autoimmune disorders rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. Previous research has shown a link of agricultural pest
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Suckled in: It's Udderly Ridiculous
Health & Wellness  (tags: diet, food, health, humans, nutrition, risks, treatment, cows milk )

Animalib
- 13 days ago - smh.com.au
WITH Wednesday's Heckler about spilt milk and recent talk of hoaxes I was suddenly struck by what is surely one of the biggest hoaxes ever - the milk hoax. Surely the milk hoax has to be one of the biggest hoaxes ever.
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GM Soy Is Toxic Soy - Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: GMOs, GM, genetically modified, soya, food, agriculture, farms, farming, farmers, research, safety, science, warning, prevention, protection, food, government, health, environment, ethics, humans, study, risks, nutrition )

Elena
- 14 days ago - toxicsoy.org
Even worse, they legitimise genetically engineered (GE) soy which is designed to be produced with large (and increasing) amounts of agri-chemicals. This is at the cost of people and the environment. This site explains what is wrong with this and questions
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Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act-Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: drugs, medicine, safety, risks, protection, study, food )

Tierney
- 16 days ago - actionnetwork.org
Most doctors commonly warn their patients never to take antibiotics if they are not actually sick. Yet that is exactly what is happening on industrial farms where food animals often are given low doses of antibiotics over long
10 comments
Victory: South Africa Rejects GM Potato
Health & Wellness  (tags: GMOs. genetically modified, potatoes, prevention, protection, research, risks, safety, health, food, government, science, news, interesting, ethics, diet )

Elena
- 17 days ago - allafrica.com
New Victory for the Potato! October 2009: South Africa's GM body, the Executive Council (EC), has rejected attempts by the Agriculture Research Council (ARC) to bring GM potatoes onto the market.
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Susan G. Komen for the Cure Advocacy Alliance ~ Urge Your Senators to Support the EARLY Act
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, prevention, protection, risks, safety, treatment, breast cancer, Breast Cancer Awareness )

Kelli
- 17 days ago - komenpolicy.org
When breast cancer occurs in women under age 45, it is often detected at later stages, is more likely to be aggressive, and less likely to be responsive to hormone therapies. There is a lack of awareness about the risks of breast cancer for young women an
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Mercury Poisoning Concealed
Health & Wellness  (tags: investigation, health, government, disease, family, safety, science, risks, society, research, humans, illness, interesting, news )

Elena
- 19 days ago - manitobawildlands.org
A Japanese publication about methyl mercury poisoning exposes former Canada Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau blocking publication of studies about mercury problem at Grassy Narrows First Nation in northwestern Ontario
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Take Action - Help Strengthen America's Toxic Chemicals Standards
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, children, diet, disease, environment, food, government, health, humans, illness, prevention, protection, research, risks, safety, science, study )

Daphna
- 23 days ago - change.org
Of the 82,000 chemicals available for use in the U.S., only about 200 have been required to be tested for safety. In fact, the 33 year-old law that is supposed to protect Americans from exposure to toxic chemicals is so outdated that China le
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