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Sustainability Blog
To frighten viewers, horror films rely on eerie mood music, spooky narration and fake blood lots of fake blood.One could comfortably assume that production of a Freddie Kruger film would be a far cry...
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Health Blog
Canned Tuna Study Still Misleading 2 Years Later
On the green living site Care2, Dr. Michael Greger tries his level best to encourage pregnant women to stop eating canned tuna. He builds his case using a 2010 University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) s...
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Health Blog
The Truth About That Sushi Tuna and Radiation Report
You may have heard some breathless reporting about radiation in tuna recently. But the fact is the actual scientific testing done does not conclude there is a food safety or public health concern rela...
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Health Blog
California Sport Fish Findings Primed to Confuse
Remember the time journalists misread that CDC report and wrote that imported seafood was a danger and a growing one at that? Right but then they looked closely at it and found they were conflating il...
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Sustainability Blog
Washington Post Blog Cites Laughably Out of Date Statistic
In 1973, The Washington Post was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service for its Watergate investigation, due in large part to its focus on the details. Nearly 40 years, later the digital versio...
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Blog
The Western Farm Press recently asked in a headline, when does trade and commerce trump food safety? and then linked to a story about the now infamous catfish provision from the 2008 Farm Bill. Cavali...
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Health Blog
Please Leave Nutrition Advice to the Experts
A Huffington Post column by Moms Clean Air Force Senior Director and Co-Founder Dominique Browning is a perfect example of poorly sourced, emotionally based nutrition advice that scares people away fr...
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Health Blog
Setting the Record Straight even on the Radio
In a perfect example of the changing media attitude toward science-based information concerning seafood advice, NFIs registered dietitian, Jennifer McGuire, was given the opportunity last week to clea...
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Health Blog
Anyone watching Mondays episode of THE DOCTORS would have been better served by Lucy van Pelts nickel clinic. The segment was titled, Healthy Habits That Are Bad for You! And for nearly five minute...
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Sustainability Blog
Huffington Posts Simplistic Slideshow Leaves Out Key Facts on Tuna, Environment
Once again, the Huffington Post misleads readers on canned tuna and its environmental impacts. Huff Po presents uncited, out of context information in the form of a slideshow. It would appear that gra...