Monthly Archives: February 2010

Fill your stomach. Not the Landfill!

By blissfulrebelchick | Published: February 18, 2010
According to Clean Air Council, Americans throw out enough paper bags and plastic cups, forks and spoons every year to circle the equator 300 times! Check out TakeOutWithOut (TOWO). Founder K.B. Lee founded TOWO to convince restaurants to encourage customers to bring their own containers when buying take out and to ask customers to cut back [...]
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ACT NOW! McCain Bill to Kill Supplements!

By blissfulrebelchick | Published: February 10, 2010
Do you take supplements and/or herbs? Have you heard of the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 bill? Senator John McCain has introduced a bill that if passed, will drive up the cost of dietary supplements and restrict your access to them. Please click HERE to read more about the implications of this bill and to sign [...]
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Food Matters – A Documentary You MUST See!

By blissfulrebelchick | Published: February 9, 2010
Food Matters is a documentary film informing you on the best choices you can make for you and your family’s health. In a collection of interviews with leading Nutritionists, Naturopaths, Scientists, M.D.’s and Medical Journalists you will discover… How to use food as medicine Who needs vitamins? Is organic better? How safe is our food? Natural treatments for lowering Cholesterol Foods [...]
Posted in Environment, Fair Trade/ Social Justice/ Buy Local Movement, Farm Issues, Food / Food Safety, Green Living, Health Freedom, Health Issues, Healthy Living, Physical Wellness, Raw Food, Vegan | Leave a comment

CBS Evening News to Report on Antibiotics in Food-Animal Production, Feb 9th and 10th

By blissfulrebelchick | Published: February 9, 2010
CBS Evening News will air a two-part report on antimicrobial use in food-animal production. The series is scheduled for evening news broadcasts Feb. 9 and 10, at 6:30pm EST. Featuring Katie Couric, the report will investigate both meat and poultry production. See full article HERE.
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Next on the White House Agenda…Drug-resistant Infections from Meat?

By blissfulrebelchick | Published: February 9, 2010
Antibiotics and hormones are fed to livestock, poultry, and fish on factory farms to promote faster growth and to compensate for the unsanitary conditions in which they are raised. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, as much as 70 percent of all antibiotics used in the United States are fed to healthy farm animals. [...]
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