Archive for January, 2006

January 16, 2006

January 16th, 2006

January 16, 2006
As the Times series has amply shown, our health suffers when we rely on fast foods and sugary drinks to sustain ourselves. But in places where malnourishment and poverty are rampant, the ramifications are even more profound.
In Western countries the transition from hardscrabble malnourishment to today’s drive-through, fast-food cornucopia occurred over centuries, with [...]

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EPA on pesticide testing

January 11th, 2006

Proving pesticides are safe by testing them on humans is harder than proving them safe by testing on animals, so the new standards are actually higher, not lower–i.e. more likely to protect public health! so long as pesticides are being used, i think it is good that the EPA is requiring human testing. why should [...]

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