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Livestock Farming
Let’s Cage the Salmonella Rhetoric (September 3, 2010)
Salmonella spin from the ”Humane Society” of the United States took another turn for the worse yesterday. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof used his Thursday column (and the Times blog) to mimic the animal rights group in attacking modern egg farms as a supposed breeding ground for the bacteria. “[W]e can overhaul our agriculture system so that it is both safer and more humane...read more here »
Animal Rights
A Discovery About Who’s Channeling Eco-Militant Beliefs (September 2, 2010)
Yesterday a crazed gunman named James Lee took hostages at the Discovery Channel building in Silver Spring, Maryland. He was later killed by police. Lee’s bizarre crime will be a topic for TV talking heads in coming days, but one of the most interesting features of the story probably won’t get much airplay. What drove Lee to strap explosives to his body and threaten to...read more here »
Big Fat Lies
BMI Is a Fatheaded Obesity Tool (September 1, 2010)
Britain’s “fat” surveillance of schoolchildren has once again backfired. The Sun reported last week that a perfectly healthy-sized girl is refusing to eat after the government told her parents that she’s “overweight.” The key problem is the British health authorities’ use of a measure called the “Body Mass Index” (BMI) to classify kids as fat, underweight, or healthy. Parents are receiving warning letters if their...read more here »
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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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