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LifestreamNeoliberalism at its finest. A greedy pharmaceutical company is trying to prevent doctors from using one of their drugs, Avastin, for an alternative application, citing “safety concerns” and “development costs” of their “new” drug, which most likely is nothing more than a repackaged version of the old one. The deviousness of the plot is that [...]
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and their masters at Exxon have launched a multipronged ad attack on common sense. Stabbing wildly at politicians and established science. To say that the result is Orwellian would be accurate but at the same time an insult to Orwellian subtlety. The tag line says it all: “CO2: they call [...]
New Scientist notes that deforestation and agricultural uniformity may have undermined the bananas’ gene pool beyond remedy.
Go bananas while you still can. The world’s most popular fruit and the fourth most important food crop of any sort is in deep trouble. Its genetic base, the wild bananas and traditional varieties cultivated in India, has collapsed.
Virtually [...]
The European Food Safety Authority says sweetener ‘is not a cancer risk.’ Can’t have health concerns hurt the bottom line now can you. Needless to say, the EFSA like most of the EU administrative machinery has close ties to the corporate world. The Ramazzini Foundation stands by its original study though. Not that it is [...]
As many well know, the American Psychiatric Association publishes a little something called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM for short. Now it turns out that the majority of the experts “who wrote the manual widely used to diagnose mental illness have had financial ties to drug makers such as research [...]
Times Online notes that pharmaceutical companies are “systematically creating diseases in order to sell more of their products, turning healthy people into patients and placing many at risk of harm.”
Thankfully, so far, this is only a matter of promoting non-existent illnesses or exaggerating minor maladies. But one could well imagine a world where drug companies [...]
Greenpeace : Soy beans grown in illegally deforested areas of the Amazon are used to feed chickens which later end up at McDonald’s and other fast food places, mainly in Europe. And not only that but the practise of course goes hand in hand with equally illegal logging and the morally bankrupt practise of debt [...]
New facts have come to light regarding the effects of the artificial sweetener Aspartame (NutraSweet, E951). With literally thousands of studies performed and the substance being in production for decades you’d think the verdict would already be in. But apparently new research has indicated detrimental effects that must be taken seriously. Europe’s largest manufacturer of [...]
Factory farming is rearing its bloated, decomposing and antibiotic-injected head.
Drive through Don Oppliger’s Feed Yard in Clovis, New Mexico, and you’ll see 35,000 head of beef cattle confined to pens that stretch across the flat, barren landscape.
The constant shuffling of hooves raises a bacteria-laden dust cloud that’s carried by the prevailing winds into west Texas, [...]
Due to our own diligent efforts to tame nature, the world’s rivers are now facing disaster.
We have used our engineering skills to harness the Earth’s water systems. Now we are paying the price.
The UN’s triennial World Water Development Report, compiled for an international conference in Mexico City which opens on Thursday, warns that “we have [...]
