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| 11/20/09 |
Will PETA Protest Itself?
When British entrepreneur Simon Buckhaven invented an electric gizmo that kills lobsters and crabs “more humanely” than the traditional method of dispatching the creatures—in a pot of boiling water—no one was surprised to see People...
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| 10/15/09 |
CSPI’s Latest Dietary Flip-Flop
With Halloween right around the corner, the killjoys at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) built the scary atmosphere last week by releasing a report on the top 10 “riskiest” foods. And...
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| 10/1/09 |
Jeremy Piven, Back On the Hook
It didn’t take long indeed for actor Jeremy Piven to resume eating fish (if indeed he ever stopped). On Tuesday, Piven was spotted at a Chicago restaurant chowing down on whitefish. Indeed.
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| 7/30/09 |
Gutting Fishy Scaremongering
Activists spread a lot of scares and myths about what we eat—that hot dogs cause cancer, organic food is healthier, and so on. One of the most pernicious myths harms mothers-to-be and their children by...
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| 7/13/09 |
New Online Seafood Calculator is a Hit
It’s been less than a week since the launch of HowMuchFish.com, and our new seafood and health website is already a hit. Unlike similar tools created by agenda-driven activist groups, HowMuchFish.com offers the most up-to-date...
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| 7/9/09 |
How Much Fish For Health? We’ll Tell You.
This week we launched HowMuchFish.com, the only online seafood calculator that quantifies both the health risks and benefits of a diet rich in seafood. Fed up with fishy activists like Greenpeace (a group more concerned...
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| 6/23/09 |
Mercury in Fish: Not So Scary After All
This just in from The Miami Herald: “Most adults need not worry” about risks associated with tiny traces of methylmercury in seafood. And researchers from the University of North Dakota announced that, thanks to a...
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| 6/19/09 |
Lack of Brain Food Taking Its Toll on Jeremy Piven
Remember back in March, when actor and “Sushigate” star Jeremy Piven went to Miami and “dined on calamari salad and tuna tartare surrounded by a cadre of women”? According to an article in today’s People magazine, Piven says he’s...
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| 6/12/09 |
People’s Republic of Mercury: China, Part Four
The Ninth International Conference on Mercury as a Global pollutant has officially “wrapped,” and the 540 scientists in attendance have all gone back to their home countries—but not before leaving us a little present. This...
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| 6/11/09 |
People’s Republic of Mercury: China, Part Three
As we’ve been telling you this week, the big mercury conference going on in Guiyang, China is the place to be if you’re looking for answers to those burning questions we all have about that...
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| 6/10/09 |
People’s Republic of Mercury: China, Part Two
The Ninth International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant has been heating up the Chinese city of Guiyang this week, and we’re continuing to absorb the latest research. Needless fear of tiny mercury traces...
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| 6/8/09 |
People’s Republic of Mercury: China, Part One
Three years ago we brought you reports from inside the Eighth International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, held in Madison, Wisconsin. (Click here, here, here, and here to relive the activist pageantry.) This week, that event’s successor—the Ninth ICMGP—is being...
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| 5/28/09 |
Let’s Hear it for American Exceptionalism (and Sushi)
Sushi powerhouse Nobu is typically known for its Hollywood clientele, but this week the high-end restaurant chain is raising its profile for another reason. In response to environmental groups’ demands that it stop serving the...
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| 5/22/09 |
Greenpeace Gives No Peace to Fish Lovers
Greenpeace’s new report on so-called sustainable seafood has just been released and every single supermarket in Canada received a failing grade. Not because fish isn’t essential to a complete and healthy diet. (It is.) Greenpeace...
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| 5/4/09 |
USGS Mercury Study Lacks Seafood Standing
On Friday the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) published a study on mercury in the Pacific Ocean, and seafood alarmists at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seem thrilled with the findings. The problem is, neither the...
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| 4/21/09 |
Adding Our Brains to the Fish Debate
After years of public discussion, the good news about seafood and health has made its way up the government food chain. As we told you earlier this year, the Food and Drug Administration is finally...
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| 3/12/09 |
California Appeals Court Says ‘No’ to Tuna Warnings
California, as you may know, is just crazy about warning labels. But luckily for consumers, it turns out that even the Golden State isn’t lunatic enough to slap a skull-and-crossbones on health food. And that’s...
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| 3/9/09 |
Omega-3s Are Still Essential For Good Health. (Somebody Tell the Activists!)
Omega-3 fatty acids have been a fixture on our public-health radar for years now, but some consumers are still wondering whether this power nutrient is all it’s cracked up to be. All the research says...
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| 3/6/09 |
News Network Tests Positive For Seafood Hype
Usually we disregard stories that have the term “unscientific experiment” in their introduction. But we came across one today that feeds a myth so harmful to public health that it must be corrected. (Again.) We’re...
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| 3/3/09 |
Sushigate? Media Start Asking Hard Questions
Actor Jeremy Piven has become the poster boy for the ongoing battle between seafood hype and science. (Click here for a backgrounder on "Sushigate.") Last week, the verdict on Broadway was delayed when a panel of Actors'...
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