Okay, I promise this is my last 'top ten' post (at least for today and mostly likely for 2007 -- Can you tell I love these lists?). For the next few days, I will be en route to Indonesia and East Timor, so you won't hear much from me, but I do hope to do some blogging in Bali!
From criminal health care to outrageous diet plans, these are AlterNet's most-read health stories of the year:
10. Even Republicans Hate Our Health Care System
9. Are You One of the Shrinking Americans?
8. I'll Have My Cosmetics with a Side of Infertility, Please
7. The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products
6. Private Health Insurance Is Not the Answer
5. The Stone Age Diet: Why I Eat Like a Caveman
4. Controversial Michael Moore Flick 'Sicko' Will Compare U.S. Health Care With Cuba's
3. The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body
2. You Call Yourself a Progressive -- But You Still Eat Meat?
1. Michael Moore Rips Wolf Blitzer on CNN: "Why Don't You Tell the American People the Truth" [VIDEO]
For links to all the above stories, click here.
Wishing you all a happy, joyous, and abundant 2008!
Showing posts with label vegetarianism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vegetarianism. Show all posts
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Not a 'Good News' Day
This morning's news has two disturbing items:
First, from the Washington Post: Researchers have had to shut a South African AIDS vaccine trial developed by Merck & Co; they started warning hundreds of clinical trial volunteers that a highly touted experimental vaccine they received in recent months might make them more, not less, likely to contract HIV. The full article here.
Secondly, another reason to become a vegetarian -- from Wired, the inside scoop on how cloned meat (and milk) is filtering its way into the food chain and onto on your dinner table. The author talks to one of the farmers about the health problems that his cloned pig offspring have suffered: "Within weeks of delivery in September 2002, the first piglet got sick and died. Another dropped dead two months later. A few days before Christmas, Earnhart walked into his heated barn at feeding time and spotted his last two piglets belly-up in the straw. The cause of death was apparently their identical, adult- size ulcers...[The demise] may have resulted from a well-known, poorly understood side effect of somatic-cell nuclear transfer called sudden death syndrome." Access the rest of the article here.
Let's hope the rest of the week brings better news.
First, from the Washington Post: Researchers have had to shut a South African AIDS vaccine trial developed by Merck & Co; they started warning hundreds of clinical trial volunteers that a highly touted experimental vaccine they received in recent months might make them more, not less, likely to contract HIV. The full article here.
Secondly, another reason to become a vegetarian -- from Wired, the inside scoop on how cloned meat (and milk) is filtering its way into the food chain and onto on your dinner table. The author talks to one of the farmers about the health problems that his cloned pig offspring have suffered: "Within weeks of delivery in September 2002, the first piglet got sick and died. Another dropped dead two months later. A few days before Christmas, Earnhart walked into his heated barn at feeding time and spotted his last two piglets belly-up in the straw. The cause of death was apparently their identical, adult- size ulcers...[The demise] may have resulted from a well-known, poorly understood side effect of somatic-cell nuclear transfer called sudden death syndrome." Access the rest of the article here.Let's hope the rest of the week brings better news.
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