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It’s a smaller world than before
Just this month the front cover of Forbes called Monsanto “Seed Heroes”.
(hack, cough, cough) Balderdash.
I may buy a copy just so I can frame that cover as evidence that Forbes has abandoned even the pretext of journalistic integrity and cannot be trusted to be truthful in any matter whatsoever.
The linked video, about the effects of chemical farming in India, is instructive. I know that your time is valuable. I’m asking for 30 minutes of it with the promise that I will not waste even a single minute. Start by viewing the video for the first 26 minutes.
Posted in Chemical Farming, Farming, Food Law, Food Politics, Food Safety, Food Science, Recycling, Soil Science
Tagged biodegradeable, Chemical Farming, chemical-farming-statistics, effects-of-chemical-farming, Forbes, garden-activist, God, India, organic gardening, plastic, Revelation, Sauder, statistics-about-garden-chemicals
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Oooo, Shiny!
Those mercury fillings, so recently declared safe, are under review by the FDA again a scant 18 months since their previous ruling that they were safe.
I’ll let CNN tell the rest of the story:
I can’t recall any other time when they were convinced to revisit a decision so quickly. Although there is a CYA statement
Committee members noted, however, that the FDA’s decision was solid, based on information available at the time. The committee also stressed that more studies need to be done on amalgam fillings, especially in children.
the mere fact that they are revisiting the topic so soon seems to indicate that there was something substantially wrong with the science (or the politics?) of the first decision.
When I was a kid, ALL fillings were mercury … at least all the ones I ever heard about. There are other, safer, choices out there. Be informed. Be safe.
–Bill
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Posted in Activism, FDA
Tagged city-roots, dental fillings, dental-filling-tagalog, dental-fillings-in-tagalog, dental-fillings-tagalog, fillings-in-tagalog, fillings-tagalog, Food and Drug Administration, mercury fillings, mercury-fillings-in-indonesia, nmwoodworks-com, tooth-fillings-in-tagalog
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