By Dina Eliash Robinson At the first sight of acne, chocolate breakout, sunburn or other SOS distress signals the skin sends out when it’s in trouble, it’s best to immediately try to figure out the … Read More
Chemicals in Agriculture: Food or Poison? Understanding and Avoiding Toxins in Food we Eat!
By Dina Eliash Robinson About 70 years ago, when a catastrophic Depression, Dust-Bowl and widespread hunger struck the United States, the government responded by devising well-intended agricultural policies which have resulted in some unintended—but almost … Read More
Short Takes
Australian Scientists Breed Non-GM Durum Wheat In Salty Soil Leading the world from Down Under, scientists at the University of Adelaide’s Waite Research Institute in New South Wales responded to the encroaching salinity caused by … Read More
Will FDA Comply With Court Order It Has Ignored For 35 Years?
After decades of foot-dragging and inaction in the implementation of its own1977 rule to rescind approvals for the use of certain antibiotics in farm animals, it might be foolish to believe that the Food and … Read More
SHORT TAKES: Grapefruit Alert
A bewildered e-mail from the owner of a prolific grapefruit tree asking us for recipes and other uses for his overabundant crop, is prompting this reminder of the potential health hazards posed by this otherwise … Read More