You might think you're eating healthy. You might want to think again. The dangers of these foods range from PCBs in certain fish, to large trace amounts of pesticides on fresh fruit and veggies. This past year, the National Institutes of Health even linked long-term pesticide exposure to diabetes. To avoid these health risks, we came up with a list of ten foods to beware, both for your health and for the health of the environment." Read entire article HERE.
"The entire matter of food and especially that of milk is surrounded with emotional and cultural importance. Milk was our very first food. Now, we are a nation of milk drinkers. Nearly all of us. Infants, the young, adolescents, adults and even the aged. We drink dozens or even several hundred gallons a year and add to that many pounds of "dairy products" such as cheese, butter, and yogurt. Can there be anything wrong with this?"
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MAD COWBOY: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat
"Lyman describes how he has shifted his thinking 180 degrees from his years as a dairy farmer, cattle rancher, and steak eater to his current focus as a vegan who is president of the International Vegetarian Union. As a cattle rancher and feedlot operator who practiced factory farming, he gained a clear picture of how meat is produced in this country. What he describes are unsavory practices to produce an abundance of meat for the American dining table..."
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Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret
"Any food that we buy today may have been grown on land fertilized by hazardous waste, and may have absorbed toxic heavy metals from the soil, including lead, cadmium, mercury, and arsenic. There is simply no way one can know. But with hundreds of industries "recycling" their industrial waste as fertilizer to save the high cost of storing it in a hazardous waste landfill, it is becoming more and more likely. A legal loophole in the United States allows industrial manufacturing companies to sell their waste to fertilizer companies and to dump millions of tons of hazardous waste directly on the land as fertilizer and soil amendments..." Read entire book review HERE