Mark Bittman Points Out A Inconvenient Truth
Reading Mark Bittman’s blog this morning I saw this lead-in to a link I had to follow: Here’s the thing. A lot of stuff isn’t directly about food, but TB
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Category: health and health care muses
Health Care Reform…Now We Can See The Truth…
Crooks and Liars has a list working of what we can expect in the first year while we wait for the full bill to kick in… Here are ten benefits
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TED Talks- Blue Zones
I found out about these Blue Zones a month or so ago. Went on the expedition with them to a Greek Island (virtually), read the info on their website, was
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The Carnivore’s Dilemma by Nicolette Hahn Niman
To a rancher like me, who raises cattle, goats and turkeys the traditional way (on grass), the studies show only that the prevailing methods of producing meat — that is, crowding animals together in factory farms, storing their waste in giant lagoons and cutting down forests to grow crops to feed them — cause substantial greenhouse gases. It could be, in fact, that a conscientious meat eater may have a more environmentally friendly diet than your average vegetarian.
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Corporate “Free Speech”, or The Buying Of America.
It’s understandable the drugmakers would want a roll-call accounting of who their friends and enemies are, considering the size of the investment they are making on Capitol Hill: in the
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In America, This Should Not Have To Be Said…
Eating a hamburger should not be a death-defying experience. Too often it is. via Editorial – Toxic Hamburgers – NYTimes.com. This is where Food Policy and Health Policy come together.
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A Democrat Speaks Out…Loudly.
“We as a party have spent the last six months, the greatest minds in our party, dwelling on the question, the unbelievably consuming question of how to get Olympia Snowe
