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April 25, 2014
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The human species has been breastfeeding for nearly half a million years. It’s only in the last 60 years that we have begun to give babies the highly processed convenience food called ‘formula’. The health consequences - twice the risk of dying in the first six weeks of life, five times the risk of gastroenteritis, twice the risk of developing eczema and diabetes and up to eight times the risk of developing lymphatic cancer – are staggering.
June 4, 2006
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CHICAGO, June 4 -- In the ballroom foyer of the Embassy Suites Hotel, the two-day International Education and Strategy Conference for 9/11 Truth was off to a rollicking start.
In Salon Four, there was a presentation under way on the attack in Oklahoma City, while in the room next door, the splintered factions of the movement were asked for sake of unity to seek a common goal.
In Salon Four, there was a presentation under way on the attack in Oklahoma City, while in the room next door, the splintered factions of the movement were asked for sake of unity to seek a common goal.
June 5, 2006
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Organic coffee sales jumped 40% in 2005 to $89 million, according to a new data from the Organic Trade Association's Manufacturer Survey. In addition, International Coffee Assn. found that Americans' awareness of organic coffee rose nine percent from 2003 to 2006.
Sales have risen as the market becomes more mainstream, and organic coffee is selling well in supermarkets, institutions, and even convenience stores.
Sales have risen as the market becomes more mainstream, and organic coffee is selling well in supermarkets, institutions, and even convenience stores.
May 1, 2006
Scientific Study
It's in milk, lettuce, breast milk and now, prenatal vitamins? Perchlorate, a component of rocket fuel, is seemingly everywhere. And an article to be published in the journal Analytica Chimica Acta reports it is in dietary supplements””including several prenatal and children's vitamins.
Researchers at the Water Quality Research and Development Department of the Southern Nevada Water Authority found perchlorate in 20 of the 31 supplements tested. How the perchlorate was formed was not addressed, and brand names of the tested supplements were not released.
Researchers at the Water Quality Research and Development Department of the Southern Nevada Water Authority found perchlorate in 20 of the 31 supplements tested. How the perchlorate was formed was not addressed, and brand names of the tested supplements were not released.
June 4, 2006
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has written a brilliant new article about the biggest political story in the history of the United States: An American politician illegitimately took the office of president by outright theft and fraud. Although such high crimes and misdemeanors have been rumored in previous elections, none in the history of the republic have been so thoroughly documented. George W. Bush is not the legitimate president of the United States.
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You turn into a middle-class, suburban housing project on the periphery of Charlottesville, Virginia, and at a row of attached homes, you pull up in front of the one with the yellow "for sale" sign on the tiny patch of grass. Ushered inside, you take in an interior of paint cans, a mop and pail, and cleaning liquids. On the small porch that overlooks a communal backyard, workmen are painting the weathered wood railings a nice, clean white. Later, when they're gone, we step out for a minute, on a balmy late spring afternoon, and she says, "You know what I need out here?
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When Henry Ford told a New York Times reporter that ethyl alcohol was "the fuel of the future" in 1925, he was expressing an opinion that was widely shared in the automotive industry. "The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust -- almost anything," he said. "There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years."
June 1, 2006
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Two recent actions by environmental health watchdogs foreshadow a showdown between corporations and public-interest advocates over the safety of toxins marketed as pesticides.
On May 24, a coalition of Environmental Protection Agency employees and scientists issued a public letter to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson accusing the Agency of coddling pesticide companies. The writers urged greater scrutiny of the potential health impact of two classes of toxic pesticides currently in use.
On May 24, a coalition of Environmental Protection Agency employees and scientists issued a public letter to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson accusing the Agency of coddling pesticide companies. The writers urged greater scrutiny of the potential health impact of two classes of toxic pesticides currently in use.
June 4, 2006
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"Elitist" is just about the nastiest name you can call someone, or something, in America these days, a finely-honed term of derision in the culture wars, and "elitist" has stuck to organic food in this country like balsamic vinegar to mâche. Thirty years ago the rap on organic was a little different: back then the stuff was derided as hippie food, crunchy granola and bricklike brown bread for the unshaved set (male and female division). So for organic to be tagged as elitist may count as progress.
June 4, 2006
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In the wake of a cluster of avian flu cases that killed seven members of a rural Indonesian family, it appears likely that there have been many more human-to-human infections than the authorities have previously acknowledged. The numbers are still relatively small, and they do not mean that the virus has mutated to pass easily between people - a change that could touch off a worldwide epidemic. All the clusters of cases have been among relatives or in nurses who were in long, close contact with patients.
