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POPSUS approves Animal Clones as Food "The FDA based their decision on an incomplete and flawed review that relies on studies supplied by cloning companies that want to force cloning technology on American consumers."
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POPSSave the Environment, eat a PB&J sandwich Dude! A PB&J will save land. Have a PB&J and save 12 to 50 square feet of land from deforestation, over-grazing, and pesticide and fertilizer pollution. How to Help an Animal at Lunch Saving water, fighting global warming, and preserving habitat are all great reasons to have a PB&J for lunch, but, if you like animals, there's the added benefit of not killing them. It takes about 16 PB&J sandwiches to save a chicken's life, for example.
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POPSWill FDA put Humans at Risk with Cow Drug? Previous problems: The FDA knows how hard it can be to close that door. In the mid-1990s, overriding the objections of public-health experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the drug agency approved the marketing of two drugs, Baytril and Saraflox, for use in poultry. Both are fluoroquinolones, a class of drugs important for their ability to fight the bacterium that causes anthrax and a food-borne bacterium called campylobacter, which causes a serious diarrheal disease in people. Before long, doctors began finding fluoroquinolone-resistant strains of campylobacter in patients hospitalized with severe diarrhea. When studies showed a link to poultry, the FDA sought a ban.
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POPSWhat do you get when you buy Organic? Nowadays when you're grocery shopping, the dilemma may not be whether to buy broccoli or spinach but whether to choose organic broccoli or conventionally grown. What do you get when you buy organic? Here's a guide: