When Agrochemical Corporations Invented Nature
Julio Godoy American Chronicle Delegates from some 300 environmental and consumer organisations from all over the world gathered last month in Bavarian capital Munich, some…
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Consumer Reports Calls for F.D.A. Regulation of Supplements
Thomas Corriher The Health Wyze Report There was a political firestorm over dietary supplements and herbs in the early 1990’s. Natural medicines in the U.S….
U.S. dietary supplements often contaminated: report
Maggie Fox Reuters Many popular dietary supplements contain ingredients that may cause cancer, heart problems, liver or kidney damage, but U.S. stores sell them anyway…
U.S. regulators lack data on health risks of most chemicals
Lindsey Layton The Washington Post This summer, when Kellogg recalled 28 million boxes of Froot Loops, Apple Jacks, Corn Pops and Honey Smacks, the company blamed elevated…
Monsanto: The evil corporation in your refrigerator
Bob Cesca Wallet Pop When we consider the rogue’s gallery of devilish, over-sized, greedy and disproportionately powerful corporations, we generally come up with outfits like…
7 Secret Ways We Are Being Poisoned
Activist Post The objectivism of the scientific method seems to have been hijacked by corporations who often pay for scientists to support their products, as…
Consumer Confidence Plunges Further in July
Associated Press NEW YORK – A monthly consumer survey shows that Americans’ confidence in the economy eroded further in July amid job worries. The reading…
China Passes U.S. as World’s Biggest Energy Consumer
Spencer Swartz Wall Street Journal China is now the world’s biggest energy consumer, knocking the U.S. off a perch it held for more than a…