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Milk Machine Aims to Hook Kids on Chemical Sweeteners

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“As a solution to sagging milk sales, the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) are petitioning the FDA to ‘amend the standard identity of milk’ and other dairy products. Dairy special interests want to be able to add high fructose corn syrup, aspartame, and other chemicals to milk while bypassing the requirement that the products be labeled ‘artificially sweetened.’ The attempt is to pass this off as a health benefit for children because the chemical sweeteners are not considered to be sugar.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/133161.html

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Fed’s Big Ag Policy is Anything But “Green”

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“Why are high fructose corn syrup and soybean oil in everything? Answer: Corn and soybean subsidies from the period 1995 – 2011 totaled $108 billion. Corn and soy make up almost half of all U.S. farmland. Most of this is GM (genetically modified) foods, allowing the agricultural industry to serve its masters who are the beneficiaries of political-business alliances under the Big Biotech umbrella: Monsanto, Syngenta, Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, and Tyson.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/132830.html

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Bottled Water Nazis and Big Beverage

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“Opposition to bottled water seem to be the trend nowadays, in order to prove one’s devotion to the environment. Just recently, Concord, MA banned the sale of single-serving water bottles from vending machines, restaurants, and stores.  True, bottled water sales are up, and it should be celebrated that the sugar-addicted masses are turning away from the poisons churned out by Big Beverage and they are instead going back to drinking life-sustaining, healthy water. Why is it that the bottled water haters aren’t raging against the commercial beverages that line the shelves of every store and gas station and vending machine in America, in the same eco-unfriendly plastic bottles?”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/131399.html

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Diet soda tied to heart attack, stroke risks

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“Diet soda may benefit the waistline, but a new study suggests that people who drink it every day have a heightened risk of heart attack and stroke.  The study, which followed almost 2,600 older adults for a decade, found that those who drank diet soda every day were 44 percent more likely than non-drinkers to suffer a heart attack or stroke.  The findings, reported in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, don’t prove that the sugar-free drinks are actually to blame.  The findings do build on a few recent studies that also found diet-soda drinkers are more likely to have certain cardiovascular risk factors, like high blood pressure or high blood sugar.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/18/diet-soda-tied-to-heart-attack-stroke-risks-study/

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Diet sodas linked to higher risk of Type-2 diabetes in women

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“Artificially-sweetened sodas have been linked to a higher risk of Type 2 diabetes for women than sodas sweetened with ordinary sugar, according to French research unveiled on Thursday.  ‘Contrary to conventional thinking, the risk of diabetes is higher with ‘light’ beverages compared with ‘regular’ sweetened drinks,’ the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) said.  The evidence comes from a wide-scale, long-term study, it said in a press release.  Sugar-sweetened sodas have previously been linked with an increased risk of diabetes, but less is known about their artificially-sweetened counterparts.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/07/diet-sodas-linked-to-higher-risk-of-type-2-diabetes-in-women/

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Popular Artificial Sweetener Penetrating the Gulf Stream, UNC Wilmington Scientists Confirm [2011]

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“While pouring the popular artificial sweeter sucralose into their morning coffees, University of North Carolina Wilmington Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry Research Laboratory (MACRL) researchers began to ponder, ‘If only 10 percent of this is going to stay in our bodies, what happens to the other 90 percent?’ This question led to the first scientific confirmation that sucralose is lingering in the Gulf Stream, the conveyor belt of water transport that circulates in the Atlantic Ocean from the coasts of North America to Europe, Africa and beyond.”

http://uncw.edu/articles/2011/11/popular-artificial-sweetener-penetrating-the-gulf-stream,-unc-wilmington-scientists-confirm

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Furor Growing Against Obama Over ‘Monsanto Protection Act’

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“The protests come on the heels of a massive petition campaign organized by the advocacy group Food Democracy Now, which gathered the signatures of more than 200,000 people who wanted Obama to veto HR 933 in order to stop Section 735 — the so-called ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ — from being codified into law.  But Obama ignored it, instead choosing to sign a bill that effectively bars federal courts from being able to halt the sale or planting of GMO or GE crops and seeds, no matter what health consequences from the consumption of these products may come to light in the future.”

http://www.ibtimes.com/furor-growing-against-obama-over-monsanto-protection-act-1156459

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Business lobby moves to criminalize filming animal abuse on factory farms

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“Bills being shopped in six states by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) would make it a crime to film animal abuse at factory farms or lie on job applications, in hopes of shutting down animal rights activists who infiltrate slaughterhouses to expose ghastly conditions. The proposals mandate that evidence of animal abuse be turned over to law enforcement within 48 hours, or face a financial penalty. Several of the bills also make it a crime to lie on slaughterhouse job applications, which activists commonly do in order to get footage like the content of a video published by the HSUS, embedded below.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/18/business-lobby-moves-to-criminalize-filming-animal-abuse-on-factory-farms/

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U.S. ‘very disappointed’ by Russian ban on U.S. meat

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“Washington sharply criticized Moscow Monday for banning imports of US meat, saying the Russians had ignored scientific proof that an additive in US animal feed is safe.  Top US officials said that global food-safety experts had cleared the additive, ractopamine, as safe at levels used in the United States.  But Russia, enforcing its own rules against any presence of ractopamine, on Monday banned all imports of beef, turkey, chicken, pork and other animals.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/11/u-s-very-disappointed-by-russian-ban-on-u-s-meat/

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75-year-old soybean farmer sees Monsanto lawsuit reach U.S. Supreme Court

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“On the one side is Bowman, a single 75-year-old Indiana soybean farmer who is still tending the same acres of land as his father before him in rural south-western Indiana. On the other is a gigantic multibillion dollar agricultural business famed for its zealous protection of its commercial rights.  The firm insists that it maintains patent rights on its genetically modified seeds even if sold by a third party with no restrictions put on its use – even if the seeds are actually only descendants of the original Monsanto seeds.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/09/75-year-old-soybean-farmer-sees-monsanto-lawsuit-reach-u-s-supreme-court/

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