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"Sugar With That, Or ASPARTAME [Modified E. Coli Poop]?"

Hereโ€™s a rather nauseating, if not scary, tidbit about an artificial sweetener beloved to humankind. And also to Monsanto. Aspartame. The second most used artificial sweetener in the world, next to saccharine. Every time you pour those little flecks of NutraSweetยฎ or Equalยฎ into your coffee cup, youโ€™re getting ready to swallow the feces of […]

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Los Angeles Council Unanimously Puts Off Fracking

When the hydraulic fracturing measure passed the Los Angeles City Council today, several tweeters posted photos of this meeting (source of the above: Walker Foley on twitter). The City Council of Los Angeles, second-most populous metro in the United States, voted 10-0 today to prohibit hydraulic fracturing (โ€œfrackingโ€)ย and other โ€œunconventionalโ€ deep-underground drilling methods to produce

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CVS "No Go" For Tobacco: Good For The Company, Good For Our Health

Fifty years ago, the drugstore giant CVS/Caremark came into being. Also 50 years ago, Surgeon General Luther Terry released the first federal government report linking smoking with disease. Today, the events have coalesced: CVS, one of the nation’s top retail pharmacy chains (Walgreen is #1, in number of retail stores; CVS, in overall sales), has

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Carcinogen In Pepsi?

The Center for Environmental Health conducted a study in June of Pepsi products and found that ten out of ten of them contained high levels of a chemical called 4-MEI. This chemical has been identified as a carcinogen by the state of California. On a CA state website, an explanation of the chemical’s health effects

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Fracking Waste: Too Toxic, Even For A Hazardous Waste Site

On April 19, a truck delivering waste from a fracking operation in Greene County, Pennsylvania, was quarantined after being rejected by a hazardous waste landfill as too dangerous. The truck was carrying highly radioactiveย radium-226 in concentrations 86 times higher than allowed per EPA limits. After being quarantined at a the landfill, the truckย was sent back

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Romney, In Brilliant Appeal For Appalachian Votes, Declares: "I Like Low Birth Weight. I Mean… Coal"

  Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, in a passionate appeal for American energy independence, proudly proclaimed “I like coal” during the October 4 Presidential debate, advancing his unique and much touted job-creation plan — linking employment opportunity in Appalachia to leukemia, heart disease, cancer clusters, and low birth rate. “I like coal,” said the former Massachusetts

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Who Are the Worst Air Polluters in the U.S.? The 'Toxic 100' List Announced

  We know they’re out there, silently and ceaselessly dumping and pumping toxins into our air, water, and land.ย  Still, it’s hard for the average citizen to keep track of the worst of them. Polluters never sleep. Concerned citizens will feel more secure knowing that at least one form of pollution — air pollution —

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Agent Orange Needs Banned (Now in Weed and Feed Products.. Soon to be Airborne)

Seeking Ban The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)ย reports that it is seeking a ban from weed and feed products which are using what has notoriously been known as “Agent Orange.” What? You mean after the flurry of reports for decades identifying agent orange as increasing the already know horror of war, it is not forever

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Nano-Diamonds Boost Anti-Tumor Treatment

Chemotherapy — the therapeutic introduction of chemical toxins to cancerous tissue — can lose its effectiveness relatively quickly. Due primarily to a strongly conserved, pumping mechanism, known as cell efflux, chemo-resistant tumor cells are able to rapidly pump the anti-tumor chemicals out of the cell, rendering the chemotherapy much less effective. Pumped-out chemotoxins end up building up in extracellular tissue and sometimes killing healthy cells. This add both to the pain, and cost, of chemo.

But the key to enhancing the therapy lies in the chemistry and the geometry of simple carbon crystals known as nanodiamonds.

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Human Pollution Causes Cancer in Wildlife

Cancer in wildlife caused by human pollution is on the rise, according ot Newsweek. Our impact on the environment is leading to health problems in wild animals, especially considering much of our trash contains carcinogens.ย  A report titledย  “Wildlife Cancer: a Conservation Perspective” published in Nature Reviews Cancer found “mounting evidence of human’s contribution to

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Do Hot Dogs Cause Cancer? Jersey Residents Demand Warning Labels

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/UhwXPsTaRgc&hl=en&fs=1&] Hot dogs are gross; there’s just no getting around it.ย  They are made from left over parts and full of nitrates.ย  Unfortunately, they are part of American food culture, what little there is, and a summer time mainstay from ball parks to BBQs across the country.ย  New Jersey residents have filed a class action

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Help Me Fight Cancer

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37 Years After the Banning of DDT, It Continues to Show Detrimental Health Effects for Humans

[social_buttons] Most of us know the sad and destructive history of former widespread pesticide DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane for you chemists). It’s egg shell thining properties have famously taken out many a generation of bald eagle, as well as many other bird species. The once heralded solution to malaria, DDT was sprayed everywhere without a thought. This

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Canada Says Chemicals Used In Cosmetics Could Cause Cancer

[social_buttons] In shocking news, the Canadian government has announced that two chemicals used in cosmetics are carcinogens that are severely harmful to human health. A further two chemicals found in lipstick and other personal care products have also been found to be highly toxic to the environment. The two cancer-causing chemicals, isoprene and epichlorohydrin, have

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