After the FDA approved the AquAdvantage salmon in late 2015, this piece surveys other engineered food animals in the works: Roslin Institute chickens laying eggs containing interferon, and pigs engineered to produce their own omega-3 fatty acids.
Food Consumer
Politics
Many Question If These Charities Help World Hunger
A critique of Heifer International and other live-animal charities, arguing donated livestock burden poor families with feed, shelter, security and veterinary costs rather than helping, and citing flocks that died of disease and aquaculture projects that failed twice in Chicago.
Biological
Is US Venison Safe To Eat? Not Necessarily
Chronic wasting disease now affects deer in at least 22 states. Officials say no evidence shows it infects people, but the piece cites a 2002 CDC report on three young CJD patients who ate deer or elk and 2006 Science papers finding prions in deer muscle and saliva.
Politics
McDonald’s and Nestle Renounce Cruel Eggs--But More Needs to Be Done
The writer welcomes the cage-free pledges but calls them incomplete, because hatcheries still grind up unwanted male chicks alive, 150,000 a day at one Iowa facility. She also cites 50 million US laying hens asphyxiated this year over bird flu and barn fires that kill thousands more.
Chemical
Rick North: Why I Trust the Fluoride Action Network
The Fluoride Action Network reports raising $3,515 from 13 donors, bringing its drive to $69,362 from 295 supporters, and publishes Portland activist Rick North's account of why he backs the group after a 21-year career with the American Cancer Society.
Chemical
New Evidence of Harm from Fluoridation
Fluoride Action Network opens a look back at 2015, with campaign manager Stuart Cooper summarizing studies he says show harm from fluoridation, starting with one on ADHD. The bulletin also reports $65,847 raised from 280 donors toward a $75,000 goal.
Chemical
Join in FAN's "12-days of Christmas" Competition
The Fluoride Action Network reports raising $62,827 from 264 supporters toward a $75,000 Christmas Eve goal, and invites donors to guess the campaign's final dollar and donor totals in a 12 days of Christmas competition.
Chemical
Protecting Your Family from Fluoride
A Fluoride Action Network bulletin combining a fundraising update, $47,422 from 235 supporters, with campaign manager Stuart Cooper's summary of the group's advice on avoiding fluoride from water and other sources.
Chemical
"The Hanukkah Miracle" (FAN exclusive)
The Fluoride Action Network reports its fundraiser has reached $39,978 from 218 supporters, then explains Israel's “Hanukkah Miracle”: new health minister Yaakov Litzmann overturned the country's fluoridation ban without offering a scientific basis.
Chemical
Kyle's Story, Part 3: What's wrong with that turkey?
FAN's fundraiser reached $38,968 from 207 supporters after Dr. Mercola's matching pledge. Paul Connett introduces part three of a mother's account of her son Kyle's fluoride sensitivity, arguing no health agency has funded research into individual sensitivity to fluoride.
Chemical
Kyle's Story, Part 2: Showers that hurt
A Fluoride Action Network bulletin pairing a fundraising update, $33,036 from 182 donors, with part two of a mother's account of her autistic son Kyle, whom she describes as hypersensitive to fluoridated water, including while showering and bathing.
Chemical
Kyle's Story: A Mother's Letter to FAN Members
In a letter to Fluoride Action Network members, Audrey Adams describes her son Kyle, 30 and autistic, whom she says is severely hypersensitive to fluoride, and credits FAN's website and advocates with helping her work out how to protect him. The letter also updates FAN's fundraiser.
Chemical
New Fluoride/Brain Study Could End Fluoridation
The National Toxicology Program says evidence linking fluoride to impaired brain development is now sufficient to warrant investigating effects on learning and memory, FAN reports, citing a 2012 Harvard meta-review and a 2014 Lancet paper naming fluoride a developmental neurotoxin.
Politics
BREAKING NEWS: CONGRESS COULD MOVE TO BAN GMO LABELING TODAY!
An Environmental Working Group fundraising appeal asking supporters to give $10 or more toward a $25,000 same-day goal to fight attempts to attach the DARK Act, which would block mandatory GMO labeling, to an end-of-year spending bill.
Chemical
Are You Consuming These Livestock Drugs Without Knowing It?
A 2010 Inspector General report found beef released to the public carrying penicillin, florfenicol, sulfa drugs, ivermectin, flunixin and heavy metals. The writer contrasts this with the European Commission's 1989 hormone ban and its view that steroid hormones are tied to certain cancers.
GMO
Still deadly - newsletter 121315 -Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association tracks the year-end budget fight, warning that GMO labeling preemption could be attached to the Child Nutrition Act and the omnibus, and that grocery manufacturers are pushing a two-year stall of state laws that would block Vermont's July start date.
Chemical
FAN Competition: Millions Could Read Your Message
The Fluoride Action Network invites supporters to a free December 12 teleconference reviewing the year in fluoride, offers library access to weekend donors, and launches a meme contest after its corroded-injection-room image reached over 4.2 million people on Facebook.
Chemical
Fluoridation and Human Rights
Writing on Human Rights Day, the Fluoride Action Network argues that no government should add chemicals such as fluoride to drinking water to treat people rather than the water, calling it a violation of the right to informed consent that most European countries respect.
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