Pollan: Nutrition "Science" Has Hijacked Our Meals -- and Our Health By Terrence McNally, AlterNet Posted on April 3, 2008, Printed on April 3, 2008 http://www.alternet.org/story/80868/ Why would anyone need to write a book called In Defense of Fo

Although the Agriculture Department prohibits the use of beef from "downer" cattle in federally funded school lunches, the agency sometimes allows the meat in the general food supply, a disparity that critics say undercuts officials' contention that there

A key New York state senator demanded yesterday that top health and mental-health officials explain why the Medicaid program has been paying for tens of thousands of children to receive psychiatric drugs that have not been FDA-approved for kids.

In late 2007, thousands of people like you helped persuade Congress to put off their plan to slash payments to Medicare doctors for six months. Now that Congress is back in session, we need to make sure these cuts never happen at all!

About 9.7 million children die each year before their fifth birthday, mostly from diseases that could be prevented with simple, affordable measures.

Pentagon, Big Pharma: Drug Troops to Numb Them to Horrors of War By Penny Coleman, AlterNet Posted on January 10, 2008, Printed on January 10, 2008 http://www.alternet.org/story/72956/ In June, the Department of Defense Task Force on Mental Health

You can make the difference by casting your vote to have a Care2 member, Lauren Stone and her family win $100.00 It may mean the difference of whether this advocate of Care2 goes homeless or not, voting is free and you'll be making a difference.

AlterNet The Health Industry's Secret History of Delaying the Fight Against Cancer By Christine Wenc, AlterNet Posted on December 6, 2007, Printed on December 6, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/story/69775/ What is the relationship between the mass

It's Just a Plant is an illustrated children's book about marijuana. It follows the journey of a young girl as she learns about the plant from a diverse cast of characters including her parents, a local farmer, a doctor, and a police officer.

Programs to force drugging on children and adults are springing up rapidly. The "New Freedoms Initiative", passed in 2004 by the US Congress requires psychiatric medication of large segments of the nation's population for alleged "mental health" purposes