TGIF! Have an awesome weekend everyone! Woot! This week I was named as one of TreeHugger.com's favorite greens of the week! They are a huge blog (the big daddy of green) with a huge readership so I am honored. You can see their banner with my blog in it at the bottom of this post. I received a very useful link from a new Twitter friend this week which I think nicely sums up the ways you can reduce waste. I especially like #8. Vanity Fair has done it again. Another awesome green issue! … [Read more...]
Tell the FDA No Clones
Remeber Erin's post about the FDA getting ready to approve allowing milk, eggs and meat from cloned animals into our food supply and that there would be no required labeling on these products that are coming from cloned animals? Well here is another opportunity to do something baout his important issue. Well the FDA is taking comments on this issue until April 2. Given that researchers do not understand many of the health problems that arise throughout the lifecycles of cloned animals, the FDA … [Read more...]
USDA SLAMMED ON GENE ALTERED CROPS
From: The New York Times January 3, 2006 Lax Oversight Found in Tests of Gene-Altered Crops By ANDREW POLLACK The Department of Agriculture has failed to regulate field trials of genetically engineered crops adequately, raising the risk of unintended environmental consequences, according to a stinging report issued by the department's own auditor. The report, issued late last month by the department's Office of Inspector General, found that biotechnology regulators did not always notice … [Read more...]
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