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OCA's Health Resource and Action Center
Big Ag and Big Pharma are interested in profit, not public health, and their lobbyists fight to protect their corporate interests, not consumer interests. OCA advocates for a sustainable, integrative healthcare system with an emphasis on prevention, nutrition, wellness promotion, and freedom of choice in healthcare for everyone.
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May 9, 2006
When it comes to the bird flu virus, many people are asking, "Where did the virus come from?" The answer, as always, is unpopular with the popular press and the corporations that dominate the information you're allowed to see in this country. The bird flu virus, you see, wasn't created merely by chance, and it didn't just magically appear in migratory birds. In truth, the virus is the natural result of the mistreatment of animals as a food source. When you take tens of millions of chickens and pigs and coop them up in little tiny cages, and you don't give them sunlight, you don't give them
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May 1, 2006
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QUOTE: "...it would appear that the leadership ranks of Big Pharma are populated by the wrong species: There are too many hedgehogs and not enough foxes. This hedgehog-and-fox metaphor dates back to Archilochus, an ancient Greek poet who wrote that 'the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.'"
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Though I don't have any inside knowledge or insight into what ails the pharmaceutical industry, I am keenly interested in how Big Pharma might return to health. Read more
QUOTE: "...it would appear that the leadership ranks of Big Pharma are populated by the wrong species: There are too many hedgehogs and not enough foxes. This hedgehog-and-fox metaphor dates back to Archilochus, an ancient Greek poet who wrote that 'the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.'"
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Though I don't have any inside knowledge or insight into what ails the pharmaceutical industry, I am keenly interested in how Big Pharma might return to health. Read more
News
May 7, 2006
The curse of the mobile phone age: around your home there are countless gadgets whose electrical fields, scientists now warn, are linked to depression, miscarriage and cancer
Invisible "smog", created by the electricity that powers our civilisation, is giving children cancer, causing miscarriages and suicides and making some people allergic to modern life, new scientific evidence reveals.
The evidence - which is being taken seriously by national and international bodies and authorities - suggests that almost everyone is being exposed to a new form of pollution with Read more
Invisible "smog", created by the electricity that powers our civilisation, is giving children cancer, causing miscarriages and suicides and making some people allergic to modern life, new scientific evidence reveals.
The evidence - which is being taken seriously by national and international bodies and authorities - suggests that almost everyone is being exposed to a new form of pollution with Read more
Scientific Study
April 25, 2006
ANH Avian Flu Expert Committee today launched a report on nutritional protocols that could be used to reduce the reduce death and illness associated with a bird flu pandemic.
Nutritional protocols to counter lack of vaccines and antiviral drugs in a Bird Flu pandemic
Following an invitation by Dr David Narbarro, UN global coordinator on Avian Influenza, to submit natural prevention and treatment recommendations for a human avian influenza pandemic, the British Society for Ecological Medicine (BSEM) and the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) formed a collaboration to Read more
Nutritional protocols to counter lack of vaccines and antiviral drugs in a Bird Flu pandemic
Following an invitation by Dr David Narbarro, UN global coordinator on Avian Influenza, to submit natural prevention and treatment recommendations for a human avian influenza pandemic, the British Society for Ecological Medicine (BSEM) and the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) formed a collaboration to Read more
News
May 3, 2006
WASHINGTON, DC, May 3, 2006 (ENS) - In the event of a bird flu pandemic, air and ground travel may be limited, and food and water supplies may be disrupted across the United States, according to planning guidelines issued today by the White House. The government advises people to stockpile food and water and plan for a situation in which they will not be able to get to work, school, health care facilities, banks, stores, restaurants, government offices, and post offices.
The Implementation Plan released today is an extension of the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza, Read more
The Implementation Plan released today is an extension of the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza, Read more
News
May 3, 2006
MEMPHIS, Tennessee, May 3, 2006 (ENS) - A commercially developed vaccine funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health has protected mice and ferrets against a deadly bird flu viral strain.
The success of the vaccine in protecting laboratory animals from bird flu virus during studies performed at St. Jude Children¹s Research Hospital in Memphis suggests that it would protect humans if the virus mutates and acquires the ability to spread from person to person, according to the investigator who led the study.
The finding, coupled with results of previous studies Read more
The success of the vaccine in protecting laboratory animals from bird flu virus during studies performed at St. Jude Children¹s Research Hospital in Memphis suggests that it would protect humans if the virus mutates and acquires the ability to spread from person to person, according to the investigator who led the study.
The finding, coupled with results of previous studies Read more
News
May 2, 2006
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 2, 2006 (ENS) - In planning to confront a potential global bird flu pandemic, the international community must leave no nation out, the head of the UN health agency warned the health ministers of the world¹s eight leading industrial countries ahead of the G8 Summit in July. While G8 finance, energy, and foreign ministers usually meet in preparation for a summit, the Moscow meeting Friday was the first time health ministers have met in advance.
"We must act as a global community," World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Lee Jong-wook told the G8 Read more
"We must act as a global community," World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Lee Jong-wook told the G8 Read more
News
May 2, 2006
Low-fat is good, butter is bad; buy free-range, not battery; tofu's terrific, lard's a killer... Messages about what we should and shouldn't eat bombard us on a daily basis. So what are we to believe? And what about the cost to the planet? Rose Prince unravels the myths and explains what we need to know to choose our food with confidence - and a clear conscience
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Are there chemical residues on apples?
Yes. First, be aware that while it is in the interests of supermarkets to control the level of pesticide and post-harvest fungicide drenches applied to Read more
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Are there chemical residues on apples?
Yes. First, be aware that while it is in the interests of supermarkets to control the level of pesticide and post-harvest fungicide drenches applied to Read more
News
May 2, 2006
Recent disclosures of fraudulent or flawed studies in medical and scientific journals have called into question as never before the merits of their peer-review system.
The system is based on journals inviting independent experts to critique submitted manuscripts. The stated aim is to weed out sloppy and bad research, ensuring the integrity of the what it has published.
Because findings published in peer-reviewed journals affect patient care, public policy and the authors' academic promotions, journal editors contend that new scientific information should be published in Read more
The system is based on journals inviting independent experts to critique submitted manuscripts. The stated aim is to weed out sloppy and bad research, ensuring the integrity of the what it has published.
Because findings published in peer-reviewed journals affect patient care, public policy and the authors' academic promotions, journal editors contend that new scientific information should be published in Read more
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Book Description
Unflinching, thoroughly researched, and bound to be controversial,
FOWL! will change forever perceptions of environmental policy, the pharmaceutical industry and the government's role in the dissemination of public health information.
A core premise of the book:how dioxins and other environmental chemicals are contributing to the toxic load in chickens, migratory birds, and humans, leading to massive death when combined with "bird flu" and other influenza viruses.
However, this is far more than a book about the environment.
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Unflinching, thoroughly researched, and bound to be controversial,
FOWL! will change forever perceptions of environmental policy, the pharmaceutical industry and the government's role in the dissemination of public health information.
A core premise of the book:how dioxins and other environmental chemicals are contributing to the toxic load in chickens, migratory birds, and humans, leading to massive death when combined with "bird flu" and other influenza viruses.
However, this is far more than a book about the environment.
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