With thanks to the MailOnline 5.1.09:
A worldwide study found pesticide levels in orange and lemon drinks sold under the Fanta brand, which is popular with children, were at their highest in the UK.
The research team called on the Government, the industry and the company to act to remove the chemicals and called for new safety standards to regulate the soft drinks market. The industry denies children are at risk and insists that the levels found by researchers based at the University of Jaen in southern Spain are not harmful. read this entry »
With thanks to New Scientist 12.1.09:
A comprehensive survey of the drinking water for more than 28 million Americans has detected the widespread but low-level presence of pharmaceuticals and hormonally active chemicals. read this entry »
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The origins of petroleum and oil and natural gas are the decayed remains of dead people and animals!
Natural gas, oil and petroleum are formed from the soft parts of billions and billions of dead animals and dead people decaying in restricted environments deep underground. read this entry »
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‘Health disaster’ in French Caribbean linked to pesticides by John Lichfield in Paris
The indiscriminate use of toxic pesticides on banana plantations in the French Caribbean has left much of the islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe poisoned for a century to come, a report to the French parliament warned yesterday.
The two islands and their 800,000 inhabitants faced a “health disaster”, with soaring rates of cancer and infertility, said Professor Dominique Belpomme, a French cancer specialist. read this entry »
With thanks to the San Francisco Chronicle
At the start of the Academy Award-winning movie “American Beauty,” a character videotapes a plastic grocery bag as it drifts into the air, an event he casts as a symbol of life’s unpredictable currents, and declares the romantic moment as a “most beautiful thing.”
To the eyes of an oceanographer, the image is pure catastrophe. read this entry »
Scientists at the University of Minnesota have been evaluating the impact of antibiotic feeding in livestock production on the environment.
This particular study, funded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), evaluated whether food crops accumulate antibiotics from soils spread with manure that contains antibiotics.
Results from the study are published in the July-August 2007 issue of the Journal of Environmental Quality. The research was also presented in Indianapolis, IN at the Annual Soil Science Society of America Meeting in November 2006. read this entry »
With thanks to the Mail Online 3.11.08:
Prince Charles has set up charity Bhumi Vardaan Foundation to address the plight of suicide farmers.
Are You Critical of Genetically Engineered Foods? Better Watch Your Back Side!
By Jeffrey M. Smith, author of Seeds of Deception read this entry »