Salmonella Scare Exposes the Dangers of Industrial Food

The contamination of perhaps thousands of food products with salmonella should be a wake-up call to apologists for the industrialized food system. It’s not possible to bring the system down and get everyone to eat an all-local, all-fresh diet, as some “locavores” say they want. But to continue to pretend that our food system is just fine as it is amounts to an endorsement not only of widespread illness, but also of chronic health problems and environmental degradation. But let’s concentrate for now on outbreaks of illness. The foods were contaminated by a single ingredient, hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP), made in this case by a single manufacturer, Basic Food Flavors of Las Vegas. That a single company can be responsible for contaminating thousands of processed food products that are…
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Man With Rare Blood Antibody Saves Over 2 Million Babies
[People]James Harrison, 74, has an antibody in his plasma that stops babies dying from Rhesus disease, a form of severe anaemia. He has donated 984 times since he was 18 years old, saving an estimated 2.2 million babies so far. He made a pledge to be a donor aged 14 after undergoing major chest surgery in which he needed 13 litres of blood.
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Aspirin vs. Marijuana
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PETA Wants Ben and Jerrys To Use Human Breast Milk
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It's Confirmed: This New Drug Really, Seriously Cures Cancer
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A six-year-old boy named Hunter Cavanaugh is battling an as-yet undiagnosed, disfiguring disease. His parents can barely pay his medical expenses. Please DIGG this article so that more people know his story and and so that pro bono doctors and organizations take notice!




























