Midnight Monday, Monsanto, and Ben & Jerry’s
Ben & Jerry’s (owned by Unilever since 2000) owes a big part of its spectacular financial success to Monsanto.How so? Ben & Jerry’s could go organic. Instead, the [...]
Healthcare
Arizona fleas carrying plague, health departments warn
Fleas have been found to carry the plague in at least two Arizona counties, a publication reported.Fleas carrying the disease were detected most recently in Navajo county, [...]
Taxpayers Give Billions in Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Lose Trillions to Related Health Costs
Health campaigners said the energy policies of the world’s richest countries are inflicting a double burden on their citizens, not only using their taxes to pay fossil [...]
Ben and Jerry’s ice cream test uncovers weedkiller glyphosate but why single them out when it’s in EVERYTHING?
Ben & Jerry’s — a brand famous for its quality and eco-friendly practices — is under fire after a test uncovered a controversial ingredient in its ice cream. [...]
Dust Bowl-ification of U.S. Southwest leads to 8-fold jump in Valley Fever cases
< New research directly links the rise in Valley Fever to the rise in dust storms, which in turn is driven by climate change. Valley Fever, which the Centers for Disease [...]
You’ll Never Eat McDonald’s French Fries Again After Watching This – Scary Agriculture
Published on Nov 19, 2014 Renowned activist and author Michael Pollan illustrates how McDonald’s insists on using Russet Burbank Potatoes, a potato in America that is [...]
The world’s most toxic town: the terrible legacy of Zambia’s lead mines | Environment | The Guardian
Kabwe is the world’s most toxic town, according to pollution experts, where mass lead poisoning has almost certainly damaged the brains and other organs of generations of [...]
County-level cumulative environmental quality associated with cancer incidence – Jagai – 2017 – Cancer – Wiley Online Library
RESULTS Comparing the highest quintile/poorest environmental quality with the lowest quintile/best environmental quality for overall EQI, all-site county-level cancer [...]
Venezuela Is Starving
Nine in 10 homes said they don’t make enough money to buy all their food, according to the poll of living conditions. Nearly a third of Venezuelans, 9.6 million people, eat [...]
BBC – Earth – There are diseases hidden in ice, and they are waking up
However, what would happen if we were suddenly exposed to deadly bacteria and viruses that have been absent for thousands of years, or that we have never met before?We may be [...]
