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Seafood
Experts: Eat Your Seafood (Without a Side of Scaremongering) (July 29, 2010)
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...read more here »
Big Fat Lies
Sweetener Antics Leave a Bitter Taste (July 28, 2010)
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...read more here »
Livestock Farming
Cracking Open an Anti-Egg Agenda (July 27, 2010)
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...read more here »
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Ten Essential Mercury Facts
The Food and Drug Administration writes that its dietary mercury guidelines were “established to limit consumers’ methyl mercury exposure to levels 10 times lower than the lowest levels associated with adverse effects.”
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7 Things You Didn't Know About HSUS
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is a “humane society” in name only, since it doesn’t operate a single pet shelter or pet adoption facility anywhere in the United States.
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The Naturopathy Movement
Naturopathy refers to a doctrine of “natural medicine” that teaches that the body’s “vital force” is the most important factor in healing and maintaining health.
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The Food and Drug Administration writes that its dietary mercury guidelines were “established to limit consumers’ methyl mercury exposure to levels 10 times lower than the lowest levels associated with adverse effects.”
read more here »
7 Things You Didn't Know About HSUS
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is a “humane society” in name only, since it doesn’t operate a single pet shelter or pet adoption facility anywhere in the United States.
read more here »
The Naturopathy Movement
Naturopathy refers to a doctrine of “natural medicine” that teaches that the body’s “vital force” is the most important factor in healing and maintaining health.
read more here »
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