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    The Lost Woods of Rachel Carson

    APRIL 20, 2013 7:42AM

    By Bob Simpson


    Topics: environment, health, politics, science, biology, rachel carson, pesticides

    • 0 Ratings
    • 168 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Pediatricians advise on organic food

    OCTOBER 31, 2012 12:34PM

    By Dr. Ayala


    Topics: american academy of pediatrics, aap, organic, pesticides, growth hormone, estrogen, antibiotic resistant, healthy living, obesity, family, eating, health, calories, food, nutrition, prevention, science, weight-loss, diet

    • 9 Ratings
    • 641 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    Rachel Carson: worse than Hitler?

    SEPTEMBER 17, 2012 7:50AM

    By Patrick D Hahn


    Topics: plasmodium falciparum, anopheles, culicidae, nematocera, diptera, mosquito, toxicology, health, silent spring, malaria, ddt, environment, insecticide resistance, pesticide resistance, insecticides, pesticides, argumentum ad hitlerum, the big lie, baltimore, rachel carson

    • 3 Ratings
    • 383 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Silent Spring, 50 years on

    SEPTEMBER 15, 2012 8:50AM

    By Patrick D Hahn


    Topics: silent spring, chesapeake bay, baltimore, toxicology, rachel carson, insecticide resistance, pesticide resistance, insecticides, pesticides, health, environment

    • 8 Ratings
    • 1340 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    Unscrambling the alphabet soup of buying eggs

    FEBRUARY 22, 2012 10:37PM

    By cindy capitani


    Topics: gmo, cindy capitani, genetically modified organisms, grain, hens, pesticides, farms, small farming, industrial farming, cornucopia institute, egglands best, salmonella, conventional, range, free, cage, free-range, natural, cage-free, organic, how to buy eggs, eggs

    • 13 Ratings
    • 1167 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    The Alternatives: New Things, New Ways, New Ideas and Hope

    JANUARY 30, 2012 5:45PM

    By dunniteowl


    Topics: credit, agriculture, history, intelligence, efficiency, resources, prosperity, peace, civilization, freedom, jobs, manufacturing, doom, end of the world, survival, ingenuity, fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, acid rain, watt, coal, shale oil, tar sands, hydraulic fracturing, fracking, fossil fuels, energy dependence, oil, power generation, biomimetics, nanotechnology, new technology, battery, power, wave, water, solar, wind

    • 0 Ratings
    • 201 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    A New Hope For Parkinson's Disease, Pt. 2

    OCTOBER 3, 2011 2:34PM

    By Dr. Thomas Alexander


    Topics: naturally, treating, toxins, preventing, herbicides, pesticides, personality traits, personality, pd, parkinsons, parkinson disease, neurological disorder, degeneration, neurological, natural treatment of parkinson, muscle rigidity, mitochondria, hope, homocysteine, heavy metals, health, free radicals, basal ganglia, anti oxidant

    • 0 Ratings
    • 239 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Pesticides and Your Family

    SEPTEMBER 12, 2011 8:24AM

    By Sandy Powers


    Topics: liver, cancer in children, parkinson's disease, dirty dozen in vegetables, celery, fertilizers, cancer, pesticides, health, science, open+call, health, food/drink, family, environment

    • 1 Ratings
    • 766 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    I Support Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, and Then Some

    APRIL 13, 2011 7:24PM

    By Brie Walter


    Topics: jamie oliver, food revolution, jamie oliver's food revolution, nutrition, pesticides, processed foods, food-like substance, health, obesity, sickness, allergies, detox, cleanse, tv, decline of health, fda, food scientists, michael pollan, in defense of food, food/drink, unhealthy foods, healthy foods

    • 1 Ratings
    • 656 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    H.R. 872: A Threat to America’s Waterways?

    APRIL 2, 2011 4:47PM

    By Marcia G. Yerman


    Topics: moms clean air force, h.r. 872, rep. bob gibbs, fifra, clean water act, rep. jerry nadler, reducing regulatory burdens act, u.s. geological survey, epa, npdes, pesticides, ecology, environment, sierra club, pollution, house agriculture

    • 0 Ratings
    • 119 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    H.R. 872: A Threat to America’s Waterways?

    APRIL 2, 2011 3:23PM

    By Marcia G. Yerman


    Topics: house agriculture committee, pollution, sierra club, ecology environment, pesticides, npdes, epa, geological survey, u.s, reducing regulatroy burdens act, rep. jerry nadler, clean water act, fifra, rep. bob gobbs, h.r. 872, moms clean air force

    • 0 Ratings
    • 117 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    H.R. 872: A Threat to America’s Waterways?

    APRIL 2, 2011 3:15PM

    By Marcia G. Yerman


    Topics: clean water act, house agriculture committee, pollution, sierra club, environment, ecology, pesticides, npdes, epa, reducing regulatory urdens actu.s. geological survey, rep. jerry nadler, clean water act, fifra, rep. bob gibbs, h.r. 872, moms clean air force

    • 1 Ratings
    • 378 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    An Idea Whose Time May Have Come Again?

    DECEMBER 2, 2010 12:56AM

    By thefuddler


    Topics: ddt, bedbug, bedbugs, pesticide, pesticides, pest control, bugs, exterminator, extermination, public health

    • 5 Ratings
    • 1722 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Saving the potatoes, one mustard field at a time

    JULY 1, 2010 8:46PM

    By Fetlock


    Topics: mcdonald's, potatoes, french fries, soil fumigants, organic farming, mustard, green manure, verticillium wilt, glucosinolates, dale gies, pesticides, cherries, the columbia basin irrigation project, potato varieties, russet burbanks, nematodes, fast food, moses lake, fumigants, cocaine, mattawa, columbia river, cherry maggot fly, metam sodium, environment, food/drink, health

    • 13 Ratings
    • 2774 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    Could Eating Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Cause ADHD?

    MAY 21, 2010 8:53AM

    By Linda Shiue


    Topics: food, nutrition, health, medicine, adhd, pediatrics, pesticides, fresh produce, fruits and vegetables, food safety

    • 3 Ratings
    • 565 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Top Ten Favorite Poems (happy valentine's)

    FEBRUARY 21, 2010 7:32AM

    By Siah Salma Bangai


    Topics: poet, poetry, pesticides, poison, roses, fragrance, valentine's day

    • 0 Ratings
    • 310 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Conventional vs. Organic

    JULY 31, 2009 10:30AM

    By Sandy Powers


    Topics: toxins, technology, agribusiness, food/drink. agriculture, news, antibiotics, herbicides, hormones, pesticides, heaslth, open call, sustainable farming, environment, cancer survivor, sandy powers

    • 5 Ratings
    • 2364 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Michael Pollan's subversive proposal Part 2

    MAY 17, 2009 5:26PM

    By Patrick D Hahn


    Topics: bison, pesticides, michael pollan, in defense of food, organic food, grass-finished beef, pastured chickens, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, eutrophication, dead zone, nutritional-industrial complex, baltimore, obama, barack obama, global warming, health

    • 10 Ratings
    • 3131 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Michael Pollan's subversive proposal: Eat food

    MAY 16, 2009 5:52PM

    By Patrick D Hahn


    Topics: organic food, in defense of food, michael pollan, french paradox, western diet, high-fructose corn syrup, nixon, nutritional-industrial complex, nutritionalism, obama, barack obama, sean hannity, spicy mustard, dijon mustard, pesticides, health

    • 0 Ratings
    • 737 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Stop! Don't Eat That Apple!

    APRIL 6, 2009 2:17PM

    By Sandy Powers


    Topics: open call, immune system, cancer, phytonutrients, pectin, fruit, food, health, environment, immune systen, adhs, brain, reproductive system, ewg, pesticides, iowa, apples, sandy powers

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