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A renowned U.S. scientist who has documented fertility and sex changes -- including decreasing penis size -- due to environmental contamination says he wouldn't apply pesticides on his own lawn.
Delivering a special series of lectures this week at the University of Western Ontario, Louis Guillette has been drawn into London's lawn-care debate during question periods and talk-show interviews.
CHICAGO, April 10 /PRNewswire/ -- On April 6, a bipartisan Congressional group, with strong support in both Houses, announced plans to introduce legislation amending the National School Lunch Act. This would prohibit the sale in schools of sugary or fatty junk foods, notably soft drinks and French fries.
This initiative officially endorses longstanding efforts by many school districts to provide only healthy foods, and hopefully reduce the growing incidence of childhood obesity and related diseases.
Ah, spring is here - the smell of fresh-cut grass, more hours of sunlight, and oh yeah, spiders, beetles, slugs and dandelions.
But if you find yourself reaching for that bottle of pesticide to treat your lawn or garden, you may want to think twice.
Today, the City of Vancouver is launching its "get your yard off drugs" campaign to help residents understand a new pesticides bylaw, which came into effect Jan. 1.
Just to be helpful, we drank a dozen.
Are they vegetarian or vegan? And more fine distinctions.
"Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages." - Louis Pasteur 1822-1895
If we truly are what we eat, what about the wines we drink?
Wine can easily be elevated into a truly hedonistic pleasure, or "bottled poetry," as Robert Louis Stevenson once described California wines.
But it should never be forgotten that wine also simply comes from grapes; a food product grown in the dirt on a farm amongst the bugs and animals.
LONDON, UK, - Greenpeace today accused McDonald's of destroying the Amazon rainforest. Using satellite images, aerial surveillance, previously unreleased government documents, and on-the-ground monitoring, Greenpeace says it has traced soya grown on land that once was rainforest to an animal feed producer whose chickens are processed into Chicken McNuggets and other McDonald's products.
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Even though winter is just beginning to release its frigid grip on most of the land, I'm already thinking out of season, looking ahead to one special thing: fresh, ripe, right-out-of-the-soil, good-and-good-for-you summer tomatoes. Oh, I can taste them now! And eggplant, too. And peppers. And all kinds of other edible wonders.
GREEN LIVING: CONSUMER NEWS
For financial, political and environmental reasons we may soon reach the peak of oil production, after which fossil fuels will get increasingly expensive vehicles and (mainly in the Northeast) for home heating.
Speaking at the recent Bio- Fach conference in Nuremberg, Germany, Chris Wietrzny, a representative with International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside, said that all 16 regions in Poland have declared themselves GM free. “We worked with local regions and wanted people to feel that the future of their regions are in their hands,” he said.
A US weed scientist says that weed resistance to glyphosate herbicide, used widely on genetically modified Roundup Ready cotton and other crops, has the potential to be a major problem for US cotton farmers. North Carolina State weed scientist Alan York said that until now, herbicide resistance has been dealt with simply by switching to an herbicide with a different mode of action. But now, he says, there are no new effective herbicides.
