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Results of independent laboratory tests in New York show certain as-yet-unnamed USA soft drinks contain as much as four times above the legal benzene limit for drinking water. Benzene, a known carcinogen, is formed when two ingredients in the beverage react with each other: sodium benzoate (a preservative) and ascorbic acid (vitamin C).
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Voting on the ominous HR 4167 anti-food labelling bill has been put off due to staunch opposition. The vote now may occur this week of 3 – 7 – 06, so be aware you can still inform your Congressperson and voice your urgent opinion on what the act entails, and how it threatens us cancer-prone Americans who want
our food labelled, as over 90% of us have expressed
in various polls and requests for comments from the
FDA.
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First, Johns Hopkins finds the currently classed “likely carcinogen” PFOA-teflon derivative in 298 out of 300 blood samples from umbilical chords. Then perfluoronated chemicals (PFCs) from Teflon production are found in the Mississippi River and the researcher is fired!
The EPA is ignoring public opposition and approving a Bush Administration proposal that allows factory farms to freely violate any and all clean air standards for the next four years, while forgiving these same companies from paying massive fines for past air pollution violations. Focus: N. Carolina has 10 million hogs and 8 million people!
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Don’t Miss This Intriguing Play, Starring A Magician And A Passionate Actress-DJ. Two Performers. A red backpack. A genius boy scout and his militaristic neocon troop leader. The Atomic Energy Merit Badge. A Dirty Bomb? Life in the Food Irradiation plant during a lockdown.
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In light of a November published study linking the sweetener
Aspartame to higher incidence of cancer and tumors, New Mexico legislators are ready to finally ban the object of 80% of our FDA’s complaints. Donald Rumsfeld was head of Searle Corp. when NutraSweet was one of its main products.
24 pounds of plutonium aboard is enough to kill every human on Earth, should the Pluto/Pluto-nium mission explode on launch. 3 out of 25 missions with plutonium aboard have had accidents. That is why the USA developed solar power for all its satellites and the International Space Station.
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Most of us probably do not know that CAFTA, the Central American Free Trade Agreement, would have been defeated in our 2005 Congress, had it not been for the threat to break arms “into one thousand pieces.”
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Aspartame, which garners 80% of FDA complaints, also known
as Nutrasweet, when added to MSG, adversely affect
nerve signaling systems and actually stopped nerve cells from growing, a new study has discovered. Not good for your
kids on the junk food trail…..
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David Brooks of the NY Times states today that “surely the Bolivian election was the most important thing that happened this week.” Forced into another election, Evo Morales won 51% of the vote. But is the battle won yet as the neoliberal assault on Latin American resources continues?
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