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If you don’t eat meat or work on a farm, are the dangerous resistant bacteria that develop in livestock a threat to your health?
Apr 21, 2015 Blog PostThe discussion around the safety of GM foods is too often centered on one part of the process: eating them. However, when evaluating whether GM...
Apr 3, 2015 Blog PostTwo major train spills in the last month – one in West Virginia, one in Illinois – have reinforced what has now become abundantly clear:...
Mar 10, 2015 Blog PostAntibiotic resistance poses a serious threat to human health, and the public needs to know if, and to what extent, important antibiotics are being misused....
Feb 13, 2015 Blog PostAs a mother, I have no shortage of things to worry about. There are the mundane concerns, such as: did I remember to pack a...
Feb 2, 2015 Blog PostEarlier this month, Bill Gates made headlines around the world by drinking a glass of water. Five minutes beforehand, it had been human sewage.
Jan 29, 2015 Blog PostWe welcomed the new year with a series of blog posts covering a number of our issue areas. Policy analysts reviewed developments and opportunities as...
Jan 27, 2015 Blog Post
Fracking harms the environment and human health. Even when fracking companies follow the rules, it’s a dirty, dangerous industry. But they regularly break the rules,...
Jan 27, 2015 ReportThe way we produce and consume food is bad for the environment and bad for us. Deforestation, water contamination, diet-based disease and food safety scares...
Dec 3, 2014 Blog PostThe Food and Drug Administration recently issued new guidelines to pharmaceutical companies, asking them to end the labeling and sale of antibiotics for promoting the...
Aug 25, 2014 Blog Post
