Many big slaughterhouses will sell only to grinders who agree not to test their shipments for E. coli. Tens of thousands of people are still sickened annually by this pathogen, federal health officials estimate, with hamburger being the biggest culprit.

The following five factors contribute to a person's ability to achieve life's goals, improve professional and personal relationships and reduce stress.

A study of 500,000 middle-age and elderly Americans found a link between eating red meat and mortality. Eating steak, pork and burgers increases the chances of dying prematurely. Those consuming a small hamburger a day were over 30% more likely to die.

As Martin Luther King Jr. observed forty years ago, "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."

The pace of global warming is likely to be much faster than recent predictions, because industrial greenhouse gas emissions have increased more quickly than expected and higher temperatures are triggering self-reinforcing feedback mechanisms in global...

The European Commission was foiled Monday in its bid to force France and Greece to allow genetically modified maize from US biotech giant Monsanto to be grown in their fields.

Recent instances of counterfeiting or contamination include conventionally grown vegetables sold as organic; fish sold as a more premium species; milk and pet food adulterated with melamine; catfish containing banned antibiotics; toothpaste contaminated..

Europe's top court has ruled that EU governments have no right to conceal the location of field trials of genetically modified (GM) crops.

For those who hope Obama will bring something different to the world, we must first see clearly what is happening, and make demands of him that are profound, not show. Liberals are pleased he may appoint a White House farmer to plant an organic ga

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