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Aspartame
- Aspartame: Causes migraines, memory loss, seizures, obesity, infertility, 92 FDA listed symptoms, including death!
- Aspartame and other artificial sweeteners contaminate water and are not removed during sewage treatment.
- Facts About Splenda (pdf 62kb)
Fluoridation
Books
- Toxic Sludge is Good for You! Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton
- CarboPhobia The Scary Truth About America's Low-Carb Craze by Michael Greger, M.D.
- Food Politics by Marion Nestle
- Protecting Public Health and the Environment by Carolyn Raffensperger
- Fast Food Nation The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
- The Slow Poisoning of America by John and Michelle Erb
- Download the Precautionary Principle Handbook (PDF 100k)
Food Safety Science Articles
- 04/20/12 - New Study Links Autism to High-Fructose Corn Syrup
- 12/07/11 - New Study Shows That Rice May Be Contaminated With Arsenic
- 07/07/11 - It's Not All White: The Cocktail of Up to 20 Chemicals in a Glass of Milk
- 07/05/11 - Autism Study Shows Surprises
- 04/28/11 - Study Ranks Food Pathogens from Factory Farms by Cost to Society
- 03/28/11 - Study: Organic Chicken Carries Significantly Lower Salmonella Risk
- 03/23/11 - Organic Poultry Far Less Prone to Salmonella than Conventional, Study Finds
- 02/08/11 - Junk Food Diet Hits a Child's IQ, Reveals Major UK Study
- 11/15/10 - Exposure to BPA Means Low Number of Sperm
- 08/03/10 - Chemicals in Meat May be Linked to Bladder Cancer
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Food Safety Headlines
- 05/15/13 - Feeding Distillers Grain to Cows: Why the Ethanol Boom Means More E. Coli Burgers
- 05/09/13 - Starved of Democracy and the Fight Against Corporate 'Foodopoly'
- 05/09/13 - Monsanto's Minions: US EPA Hikes Glyphosate Limits in Food and Feed Once Again
- 05/08/13 - Updated Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce
- 05/08/13 - Seven Dodgy Food Practices Banned in Europe But Just Fine Here
- 05/08/13 - "Fluoride Should Be a Choice, Not a Mandate"
- 05/07/13 - Doubts Surface About Safety of Common Food Additive, Carrageenan
- 05/03/13 - Mad Cow Infected Blood 'To Kill 1,000'
- 05/02/13 - Food Investigations: Welch's Fruit Juice Cocktails Contain More Corn Than Fruit: 80% Water and High Fructose Corn Syrup
- 05/01/13 - The Dangers of Eating Chicken Nuggets
- 05/01/13 - You Won't Believe What's In Your CAFO Turkey Burger
- 05/01/13 - Non-Organic Foods Are Toxic: Ground Turkey Investigation
- 04/30/13 - First "Ag-Gag" Prosecution: This Utah Woman Filmed a Slaughterhouse from the Public Street
- 04/26/13 - Council Opposes Genetically Engineered Salmon
- 04/24/13 - Minority Groups Backing Fluoride Were Paid $143,000
- 04/24/13 - USDA Ruffles Feathers With New Poultry Inspection Policy
- 04/22/13 - Analysis Finds 55% Ground Beef, 39% Chicken Contaminated with Superbugs
- 04/17/13 - Report on U.S. Meat Sounds Alarm on 'Superbugs'
- 04/17/13 - Will Monsanto Ties Influence Nutritionists' Stance on GMOs?
- 04/16/13 - Latest "Red Meat Study" Doubly Flawed
- 04/14/13 - How Government Cover-Up on Fish Farming Affects Your Health
- 04/12/13 - New Regulations Drop Water Fluoridation Requirement
- 04/12/13 - California Decides Chemical BPA is Toxic
- 04/11/13 - Portland Readies to Vote on Water Fluoridation
- 04/10/13 - Cigarettes or Diet Soda: Which Gives You Cancer Sooner?
- 04/10/13 - Dateline TV Producer Tested for Chemicals-What She Found May Shock You
- 04/08/13 - Taping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime
- 04/03/13 - BPA May Be Labeled 'Toxicant' by State
- 03/21/13 - Salt, Sugar, and Fat: Why We Can't Quit Junk Food's Holy Trinity
- 03/20/13 - Flies, Maggots, Rats, and Lots of Poop: What Big Ag Doesn't Want You To See
- 03/19/13 - Open Letter to Obama
- 03/18/13 - FDA Puts Industry Profit Over Public Health – Defends Safety of Controversial Food Additive
- 03/18/13 - How Cells from an Aborted Fetus are Used to Create Novel Flavor Enhancers
- 03/15/13 - Will Antibiotic Resistance Put an End to Factory Farming? A Case for the Vegan Option Continued
- 03/15/13 - How Big Food Uses Junk Science, Deceptive Marketing to Manipulate the Masses Into Craving Bad Foods
- 03/13/13 - FDA to Allow Unlabeled Use of Aspartame in Dairy Products
- 03/13/13 - This Man Wants You To Believe That BPA-Laced Plastic Is Harmless
- 03/09/13 - What's Really in the Nation's Non-Organic Milk?
- 03/07/13 - If You Liked Bovine Growth Hormone, You'll Love Beta Agonists
- 03/07/13 - A Livestock Drug Banned in 160 Nations Yet Considered Safe?
- 03/06/13 - How Food Companies Exploit Americans with Ingredients Banned in Other Countries
- 03/06/13 - Buying Local and Organic? You're Still Eating Plastic Chemicals
- 03/04/13 - Why America Has the Cheapest, Most Addictive and Most Nutritionally Inferior Food in the World
- 03/04/13 - 8 Ways Corporations are Poisoning Our Food, Water, the Earth
- 03/03/13 - Salt Sugar Fat: NY Times Reporter Michael Moss on How the Food Giants Hooked America on Junk Food
- 02/27/13 - 100 Million Americans Exposed to Toxic Drinking Water
- 02/26/13 - Report Points to Cancer Risk From Chemicals Used to Treat Drinking Water
- 02/26/13 - U.S. Foods Full of Banned Ingredients
- 02/26/13 - 9 Surprising Facts About Junk Food
- 02/26/13 - Opening Pandora’s Lunchbox: Processed Foods are even Scarier Than You Thought
- 02/25/13 - U.S. Dairy Industry Petitions FDA to Approve Aspartame as Hidden, Unlabeled Additive in Milk, Yogurt, Eggnog and Cream
- 02/24/13 - 10 Health Lies and Myths That Mainstream Nutritionists Spread
- 02/24/13 - Nanoparticles Are in Our Food, Clothing and Medicine -- And No One Knows for Sure How Dangerous They Might Be
- 02/22/13 - Just say "No-No" to nanos
- 02/20/13 - Omega-6 Fats in Processed and Deep Fried Foods Can Massively Increase Your Heart Disease Risk