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Foodopoly: Big Agribusiness and the Monopoly on the Food Industry
From farm to fork, few things matter more than the food we eat.
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Five Messed-Up Things That Are in Your Food
Many of these ingredients are banned in Europe, but here in the good old USA you'll find them on your dinner plate.
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William Rivers Pitt | The Poisoner’s Reckoning
Patriot Coal...Freedom Industries...I am sensing a pattern here. Are you?
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How the UN Can Ignore 8,000 Deaths in Haiti
Many more Haitians will die from cholera, a disease brought to their country by the very people who were supposed to be saving them from disaster.
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The PTSD Crisis That’s Being Ignored: Americans Wounded in Their Own Neighborhoods
A growing body of research shows that Americans with traumatic injuries develop PTSD at rates comparable to veterans of war.
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CVS Shows That Big Government Is Working
Today, CVS Caremark, the second-largest drugstore chain in the country, announced that it will stop selling all tobacco products by October 1.
Michael Pollan on the Food Movement’s Next Goal of Justice for Food Workers
Paying fast food workers a living wage would reflect the true cost of our food.
From AIDS to Lyme: Will We Let History Repeat Itself?
Some argue that the inadequate early government response to the AIDS epidemic - including diagnostic, treatment, funding and research failures - is being repeated with Lyme disease, affecting hundreds …
EPA: California Offshore Frackers Must Disclose Chemicals Dumped Into Ocean
The EPA issued a rule last week requiring oil and gas firms fracking in federal waters off the coast of southern California to report the volume and chemical makeup …
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Fukushima Update: The Nuclear Disaster That Won’t Go Away
If the little blips and pieces of news coming out of Japan are any indication, things are far from fine, and are getting worse by the second.