Volume 36, No. 3
Newsletter Archive
Rating Organic Eggs
Do you buy "cage-free" eggs? Are you willing to pay more for better quality eggs and more humane treatment of the animals?
As John Robbins wrote in "The Food Revolution", the sad fact of modern industrialized egg production...
Study calls for better LGBT data
Researchers need to proactively engage lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in health studies and collect data on these populations to identify and better understand health conditions that affect them, says a new report from the Institute...
Natural Flea Control
Using organic neem leaf tea is an effective method for managing flea and tick control in cats. Commercial pesticides may be toxic or too strong for delicate feline systems causing a wide constellation of problems including liver toxicity, immune...
Lead in Lipstick
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration should set standards to reduce lead in lipstick to the lowest achievable levels, a U.S. non-profit group says.
Lisa Archer, national coordinator for the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics at the Breast Cancer Fund,...
Medicine Scientific?
Doctors today commonly assert that they practice "scientific medicine," and patients think that the medical treatments they receive are "scientifically proven." However, this ideal is a dream, not reality, and a clever and...
Organic Standards Under Fire
Chemical and energy-intensive industrial food and farming poses a mortal threat to life on the planet. Monsanto and Food Inc. are rapidly destroying the soil, contaminating water, reducing biodiversity, and destabilizing the climate. Meanwhile...
Eating Cheaper - Eating Better
Americans at all income levels have responded to the ongoing economic downturn by reducing consumer spending. And spending on food is no exception.
Of every $5 that Americans spend in retail, $1 is for food
Food accounts for a...
Cancer Fighting Foods
Next to heart disease, cancer is the second major cause of death in the United States. The probability of getting cancer is coupled with age, and people older than 65 are in higher risk. Cancer claims the lives of more than half a million Americans...
Beekeepers Demand Pesticide Ban
On December 8, Pesticide Action Network and Beyond Pesticides joined beekeepers from around the country in calling on EPA to pull a neonicotinoid pesticide linked with Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) off the market immediately. Their call is based on...
ADA Hush Money?
Dental Truth, the newsletter of DAMS International questions if 'fluoride and its salts" will to be added to California's "List of Chemicals Known to the State to Cause Cancer"? Not if the American Dental Association (ADA)...
Retailer Feels Teen Protest
Teens Turning Green, a student advocacy group started in the San Fransico Bay Area in 2005, recently led a protest against Abercrombie & Fitch Stores.
A & F requires staff to repeatedly spray Fierce in the store's dressing rooms...
Another Reason to go Organic
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, along with municipal governments across the US, want farmers, school, and backyard gardeners to grow their veggies using toxic sludge, spreading the outrageous lie...
Liquid Vitamin D Warning
Over the past several months it has come to FDA’s attention that there is an increase in the number of liquid vitamin D dietary supplements being marketed that could lead to infants receiving an unsafe amount of vitamin D. As a result, FDA...
Formaldehyde at the Salon?
Oregon Health & Science University's Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology (CROET) is responding to concerns raised by Portland-area hair salons about a product used for hair straightening. CROET has issued two...
Autism Can be Detected in Voice of Children
Toddlers with the developmental disorder pronounce words differently to their healthy peers which can be picked up by a new automated vocal analysis system created by scientists.
The device called LENA (Language Environment Analysis) could lead to...
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