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Faux Food Safety Scare At The Heart Of Lobbying Effort
At the same time the Obama Administration is working to curb the influence of narrow special interests, American catfish producers are busy telling fish tales to Congress to get their competition regu...
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Health Blog
Will The News Media Get it Right This Time on Fish and Mercury?
A couple of hours ago, the Environmental Protection Agency published something called the National Lake Fish TissueStudy, a "national screening-level survey of chemical residues in fish tissue from la...
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Health Blog
Safe Harbor: Marketing or Misinformation? (Part II)
If you'll remember it was just this month last year that we blogged about Safe Harbor Certified Seafood and how its website features an attack on canned tuna that employs overt exaggeration and blatan...
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Health Blog
Quick Question For Jeremy Piven
Are you serious? The professional actor and whiner who once claimed he got mercury poising from eating sushi, a claim that would make him the only person in America to have ever come down with such t...
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Sustainability Blog
Greenpeace Distorts the Record Again (read Uhhhh-gain)
We've written a number of times about how Greenpeace uses selective reporting of the facts in pursuit ofits radical agenda. One of the most glaring transgressions that Greenpeaceand others us is to pr...
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Health Blog
What Actually Happens When Actual Pregnant Women Actually Eat Actual Fish?
In case you haven't seen this a Canadian researcher has made a bit of news north of the border with a presentation on fish and mercury. Dr. Gideon Koren says his latest work, looking at more than 100 ...
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Sustainability Blog
Monterey Bay Aquarium’s “Super Green List” Is Not So Super
The latest installment of Monterey Bay Aquarium's own version of "Eat This, Not That" for seafood made some headlines in conjunction with their 25th anniversary. Far be it from us to be party poopers,...
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Health Blog
Last summer a study that showed some lean fish have more omega-6s than omega-3s resulted in headlines like Farmed tilapia may be no better for you than a doughnut. Really? Last week a survey from the...
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Health Blog
PCRM: Anything But Responsible on Fish and Heart Health
You would think a group that calls itself the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) would be an outfit that focuses on public health and even perhaps responsible communications about it...
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Health Blog
Another Piven Rehash, Are You Serious?
Quick name a Tony award winning actor who is not Huge Jackman. I didn't think so. Those finger-on-the-pulse-of-mainstream-America Broadway watchers over at the New York Times have crafted yet another...