Tag: children
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7/28 Binge & Purge: Land Grab, Evil Ingredients & Food Documentaries
Japan asks: Where’s the nuclear beef? // Japan’s food-chain threat multiplies as radiation spreads // Feds to grab land for Homeland Security forces // Who put McDonald’s in charge of kids’ health? // Wall Street food analyst connects GMO’s with food allergies // Shock documentary on WWF & industry – ‘The Silence of the Panda’…
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biowars/envirohealth: pretty silly yellowstone & superfast jellyfish
42,000 gallons of oil dumped into yellowstone river* montana gov says exxon claim of limited spill damage is ‘pretty silly’* grizzly allowed to roam yellowstone after killing man* despite fire threat to los alamos lab, plans proceed for plutonium bomb factory* deadly chemical accident at tyson chicken plant in arkansas lands 173 workers in hospital*…
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5.9m US kids have food allergies
from medical news today: Approximately 8% of US children have some kind of food allergy, researchers from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine reported in the journal Pediatrics. 38.7% of those with a food allergy have a history of severe reactions, while 30.4% are allergic to several foods, the authors added. Symptoms in a severe…
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Weather Wars Continue As Tornado Destroys Joplin, Missouri
The death toll in Joplin, Mo., rose to 90 today as officials described the monster tornado that hit the city as a “once in a generation event.”
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Music Landmarks Spared From Massive Floods
The Mississippi River rose Monday to levels not seen in Memphis since the 1930s, swamping homes in low-lying neighborhoods and driving hundreds of people from their homes.
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Fukushima Parents Dish The Dirt In Protest Over Radiation Levels
Furious parents in Fukushima have delivered a bag of radioactive playground earth to education officials in protest at moves to weaken nuclear safety standards in schools.
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pope served with court papers in molestation case
from examiner: It is official, the Pope and two top Vatican officials have been served with court papers associated with the Milwaukee-area school for the deaf molestation case in which 200 deaf children were alleged to have been molested by Reverend Lawrence C. Murphy between 1950 and 1974. The plaintiff’s lawyer, Jeff Anderson, confirmed yesterday…
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4/14 Binge & Purge: Hunger Hormones & the Danger Zone
Study finds hunger hormone helps you sniff out food // Arsenic & toxic metals found in baby foods // Monsanto modifies soybeans to grow ‘fish oil’ // World Bank chief says food prices in ‘danger zone’
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Conagra Broadens Campaign to Feed Hungry Kids
ConAgra Foods, whose social cause is ending child hunger, is taking a new approach to raise the issue’s visibility. The company is starting its largest campaign ever, including a television special, to spur more grass-roots involvement to make sure no child goes hungry.
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Baptism By Ice: Russia’s Trend of Dipping Children In Frozen Rivers
When an amateur video of a screaming, naked boy being plunged by a priest into an ice hole in Siberia appeared on the web, it caused a massive outcry in the Russian media and blogosphere. The boy appears to be no more than five or six years old.
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Oregon Bill Would End Protections for Faith Healers
Oregon prosecutors and lawmakers endorsed a bill Monday (Feb. 21) that would remove special legal protection for parents who treat seriously ill children with faith healing instead of providing medical treatment.


