1) Water Safety News of the Week:
How Much Weed Killer Is Safe in Your Water Glass?
Syngenta’s Atrazine herbicide is routinely sprayed on non-organic corn crops, golf courses, and manicured lawns, but unfortunately laboratory experiments indicate that the popular weed killer causes horrific birth defects, low birth weights and menstrual problems – even at so-called "safe" concentrations meeting current federal standards. Atrazine is banned as a dangerous poison in the European Union, but still perfectly legal here in the land of chemical-intensive farms and cheap corn-derived junk food.
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2) Wellness News of the Week:
Healthy Foods That Help Avoid Swine Flu
Boost your immune system and ward off the swine flu by eating lots of protein, bright orange and bright green vegetables, Vitamin C-rich foods like peppers, spinach and citrus, and iron-rich foods like apples and greens, and raw garlic.
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3) Science News of the Week:
Drug Resistance Scares the Hell Out of Scientists
Eighty percent of all antibiotics consumed in the United States are used as animal feed additives, to fatten animals up and to enable them to survive the daily hell of filthy, disease-ridden factory farms. There is mounting scientific evidence that factory-farming of chickens, pigs and cattle is incubating and spreading dangerous drug-resistant bacteria. The bottom line for seriously ill people who might die without antibiotics, is that these drugs no longer work as well as they used to, and may soon not work at all – largely thanks to corporate agribusiness and indentured politicians in Washington. Why is it that routinely feeding antibiotics to farm animals in Europe is banned, whereas it is still perfectly legal in the US?
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4) Op-Ed of the Week:
Nicholas D. Kristof – Food for the Soul
Industrial farms are calorie factories, without any soul. They produce unhealthy food, massive environmental and greenhouse gas pollution as well as dangerous antibiotic resistance.
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5) Movie Trailer of the Week:
‘Tapped’ Pulls Plug on Bottled Water Craze
‘Tapped’ traces the evolution of bottled water from its hoity-toity Perrier days to its present ubiquity, and succeeds at making the industry reps look like total jerks. ‘Tapped’ does a solid job of covering every aspect of this damaging industry and inspiring more outrage than despair.
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