In an interview conducted on May 8, 2020, Pat Thomas and Dr. Jonathan Latham discussed the possible origins of COVID-19, the lack of security in labs conducting research on viruses, and the question of whether this type of research is even necessary or productive. Latham is co-founder and executive director of the Bioscience Resource Project and editor of Independent Science
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We are repeatedly told that COVID-19 originated from a wild animal at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China, and that it is a natural mutation of a bat virus. But the hard evidence contradicts this theory.
Did COVID-19 start in the Huanan Seafood Market?
There is evidence that the first confirmed COVID-19
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In an interview conducted on May 7, 2020, Pat Thomas and Dr. Stuart Newman discussed the possible origins of COVID-19. Newman, Ph.D., is a professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York. He is the co-author of the recent book, “Biotech Juggernaut: Hope
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Organic Consumers Association was founded in 1998, in part to shut down plans by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to allow foods containing genetically engineered ingredients to be certified organic.
We won that important battle. But we’ve never stopped campaigning to end the genetic engineering of our food supply, out of concern for human health and the environment.
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According to Johns Hopkins University, as of today, COVID-19 has infected more than 3 million people and killed at least 210,000 worldwide.
Those are big numbers, considering the fact that six short months ago, few members of the general public had ever heard of the coronavirus. And almost no one was
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It’s unconscionable that many of the essential workers risking exposure to the coronavirus—the people providing us with essential food, healthcare and other services—don’t have health insurance.
For farmworkers, the uninsurance rate is
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Corporate lobbyists have no shame. Neither does Congress. Or the Trump administration.
They’re using the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to shovel taxpayer dollars into corporate coffers and
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COVID-19 has now violently emerged, alongside the Climate Emergency, as an existential threat. Our health, economic livelihoods, climate stability, democracy—our very survival as a human species—are under attack.
If we’re going to survive this pandemic, and avoid the pandemics lying in wait, if we’re going to avoid the greatest pandemic of them all looming on the horizon—runaway global warming and catastrophic climate change—we
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Beyond the basic precautions of good hygiene and spatial distancing, what other steps can you take to help make your immune system less vulnerable to COVID-19 and other illnesses?
Here’s one idea: Make your own evergreen tea, using the needles from white pine, balsam fir, cedar or spruce trees. The power of evergreen tea to boost immunity,
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COVID-19, perhaps like no other crisis in recent history, has reminded us of the importance of good health.
This global pandemic has also revealed just how fragile our food and farming system, our healthcare system and our entire economy, really are.
Now, more than ever, we need
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