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Experts: Eat Your Seafood (Without a Side of Scaremongering) (July 29, 2010)
Experts: Eat Your Seafood (Without a Side of Scaremongering) In the age of mass media fueled by scary stories, it’s no surprise that environmental activists have been able to turn minuscule levels of mercury in fish into horrifying anti-seafood hysteria. But what about all the health benefits of eating fish? Yesterday on Washington, DC public radio’s The Kojo Nnamdi Show, Cornell University nutrition professor Thomas Brenna sat down with National Institutes of Health doctor...
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Big Fat Lies
Sweetener Antics Leave a Bitter Taste (July 28, 2010)
Sweetener Antics Leave a Bitter Taste In the world of competing brand names, marketing teams are always looking for an edge. But sometimes they go a little too far—and consumers usually get the short end of the stick. That’s the case with the newest food-marketer fad, replacing high fructose corn syrup (a sugar made from corn) with sucrose (a sugar from beets or cane). It’s all a sideshow, of course, because the...
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Livestock Farming
Cracking Open an Anti-Egg Agenda (July 27, 2010)
Cracking Open an Anti-Egg Agenda With the recent passage of a California law that will extend “Proposition 2” requirements to all eggs sold in the state (regardless of where they were produced), egg farmers across the entire country could be pressured into changing their operations according to the demands of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), Proposition 2’s largest financial backer. Despite the implied pet-shelter language in its...
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Ten Essential Mercury Facts
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The Naturopathy Movement
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Humane Society of the United States Slinks Away From Ohio in Face-Saving Move
HSUS CEO Wayne Pacelle appeared with Ohio Governor Ted Strickland and a vice president of the Ohio Farm Bureau to announce that his organization will not pursue its planned ballot initiative.... read more here »

Watchdog Group Calls Out Humane Society of the United States with Times Square Billboard
A new Times Square billboard highlights HSUS's deceptive fundraising practices that “scam” the public into believing that HSUS is the national umbrella group for local humane societies despite lacking any affiliation with these local hands-on shelters.... read more here »

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Happy Meals lawsuit is food policing at its worst
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The next time you order a hot dog at the ballgame, you might want to ask the vendor to hold the politics. No, really: Ketchup, of all things, is the latest symbol of a national food fight in America.... read more here »

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