SEATTLE - Barb French has three good reasons to be happy Starbucks is banning artery-clogging trans fats from its food: her own health and the health of her two young daughters.
One more step in getting trans fats out of the mainstream.
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Does this worry anyone else? First, if we can’t sustain ourselves on the current animal population, maybe we should rethink a couple things like diet and population. Second, what exactly are “virtually indistinguishable” cloned animals?
WASHINGTON - The government declared Thursday that food from cloned animals is safe to eat. After more than five years […]

I just read this is in the WWF May/June 2006 issue of “Focus”.
It looks like the WWF, Marine Stewardship Council, and Conservation International are working with Wal-Mart to sell sustainable fish. This applies to ALL fresh and frozen fish.
First - I had no idea they sold fish, nevermind fresh fish(?).
Second - who is buying […]

In a recent article on Yahoo!, entitled “Brazilian farming will doom 40 percent of Amazon” revealed that, “Destruction of the forest would also have big repercussions on regional and global weather systems, which are linked to the heat and precipitation cycles of the vast Amazon region”.
Global weather systems boys and girls.
We all have to […]

I was having a brief discussion about the ingredients in the world famous, super-size me, fast-food nation, McDonald’s french fries. So, I looked them up.
You can find ingredients for the fries, Quarter Pounder, and all the other wonderful, nutritionless happy meals here - McDonald’s Ingredients
For those of you who ate too many fries and can’t […]

It’s been a while since I posted. Vacation, work, life, work, etc. Here’s a quick link to an article new parents will find interesting.
From the Yahoo article…
“The pesticide issue just scares me — it wigs me out to think about the amount of chemicals that might be going into my kid,” said O’Neal, 36.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051102/ap_on_he_me/fit_organic_kids

www.theorganicreport.org

I stumbled across this today. Big business, government officials, GMO, etc.
In order for the FDA to determine if Monsanto’s growth hormones were safe or not, Monsanto was required to submit a scientific report on that topic. Margaret Miller, one of Monsanto’s researchers put the report together. Shortly before the report submission, Miller left Monsanto and […]

Mergers in the Food Industry - Updated June 16, 2004
Know who you are giving your money to. For example:
Odwalla Juice and Fresh Samantha (juice) are owned by Coca-Cola.

Coca-Cola prohibits unionizing: WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire — Edgar Paez, of the Colombian trade union Sinaltrainal, was joined on Monday by Teamster representatives, the AFL- CIO, members of […]

It’s really amazing as to what comes and goes on Yahoo. They will post stories on Michael Jackson and a woman who ran away to Vegas because she got cold feet, but articles like the below will disappear faster than you can say, “where’d the rainforest go?”
Many scientists fear rising temperatures, blamed mainly on heat-trapping […]