City Lawmakers Find ‘Alarming’ Report of Drugs in Water

Elected officials and environmental advocates are poised to ask the city tough questions in the wake of a news report asserting that New Yorkers are likely consuming trace amounts of pharmaceuticals when they drink from the local water supply.
The report contends that traces of at least 15 pharmaceuticals or their byproducts [...]

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Probe finds drugs in drinking water

A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.
To be sure, the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or [...]

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Brazilian protesters destroy GM crops

Around 300 women rural residents in Brazil burst into a property owned by the US company Monsanto and destroyed a plant nursery and crops containing genetically modified corn, their organization said.The women were protesting what they saw as environmental damage by the crops.
They trashed the plants within 30 minutes and left before police [...]

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McDonald’s Goes Feng Shui, But Fast Food Is Still Gross

Well, of course, where else would you expect to find America’s first feng shui’d fast food outlet? A McDonald’s in the Los Angeles suburb of Hacienda Heights has opted to bag the golden arches’ classic red, yellow, and plast-icky décor in favor of “leather seats, earth tones, bamboo plants and water trickling down glass panels.” [...]

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“Doomsday” Seed Vault Opens In Norway

Gates and Rockefeller connected seed vault opens in Arctic, waiting for the sort of climate change doomsday eugenicists dream about. For more on the seed vault, see F. William Engdahl’s “Doomsday Seed Vault” in the Arctic, TruthNews, December 4, 2007.
It’s been dubbed a Noah’s Ark for plant life and built to [...]

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Food industry says prices headed up again in ‘08

Americans who dug deeper into their pockets for groceries last year will face sticker shock again this year when shopping for food, experts said on Thursday.
“There’s going to be real food inflation in this country,” C. Larry Pope, president and chief executive of U.S. beef processor Smithfield Foods Inc., said at the [...]

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The orange, purple and green cauliflowers that scientists claim could be healthier for you

Cauliflower cheese will never be the same again.Scientists have developed amazing variants of vegetable where the traditional white florets have been changed to a garish orange, purple and green.
The “rainbow cauliflowers” are said to taste the same as the normal varieties, but add a splash of colour to the dinner table.
Some scientists have even claimed [...]

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Pennsylvania Allows Hormone-Free Milk Labeling

Pennsylvania resisted a lobbying push by Monsanto that sought to outlaw the labeling of milk that is free of artificial hormones.
Monsanto had argued that there is no discernible difference between milk from cows that have or have not been injected with its recombinant bovine growth hormones, known as alternately as rbST, bST, BGH or rBGH. [...]

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The Poor Get Diabetes, the Rich Get Local and Organic

The following is an excerpt from Mark Winne’s new book, Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty.
As a class, lower income people have been well represented in some of the best-covered food stories of our day, particularly hunger, obesity, and diabetes. As these issues have faded in and out of [...]

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Beefalo, a healthy alternative to beef

You might see it on store shelves and think it’s a joke. It looks like cattle and tastes similar to beef, but that’s only about half the story. Some Northwest ranchers are promoting beefalo as an alternative to what’s for dinner. Ed Muir explains.
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