| Apr 22, 2014 | Food / FarmingIn 79 A.D., a volcanic eruption buried Pompeii in ash. Nearly 2,000 years later, an eruption of hot legislative ash is spewing from Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) is threatening U.S. consumers. Pompeo is the right-wing Congress critter from the Ideological Republic of...
| Mar 19, 2014 | Environment / HealthThere are more than 1,000 chemicals known to be toxic to the brains of animals in lab experiments. Yet we only know of 214 for humans, and just 12 for developing fetuses and infants, a recent study revealed. Why are these numbers so far apart? Is it because lab...
| Feb 26, 2014 | Environment / HealthAs you probably know, disposable diapers sit in a landfill, undecayed, for generations. They’re convenient for parents and caregivers but deadly for Mother Earth. Maybe you didn’t know about another big problem. There’s evidence that most popular...
| Feb 19, 2014 | Environment / HealthSpring is so close we can almost taste it. If you’re a gardener, you’ve already counted how many weeks until the last frost, ordered your seeds, and perhaps even began starting your seedlings indoors. And if you’re like some gardeners, once...
| Feb 11, 2014 | Food / FarmingThe delightfully naughty movie star Mae West liked to joke: “I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.” Less delightful are some of the purity claims of such food manufacturing giants as PepsiCo, which has long marketed a line of its Frito-Lay snack foods as...
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