George Lakoff, AlterNet. November 25, 2009. Cost-benefit analysis can kill. Scaling back on mammograms, as a government task force suggested, could result in 47,000 unnecessary deaths.
Vicki Santillano, Divine Caroline. November 23, 2009. Sugary food tastes great going down, but the effects it has on our insides are far less appetizing.
Joel Salatin, Chelsea Green Publishing. November 16, 2009. The local heritage food movement -- the raw milk movement -- is all about respecting and honoring indigenous wisdom.
Makenna Goodman, TreeHugger. November 7, 2009. Because of its health benefits, many more people are turning to raw milk. But there's one hitch: Raw milk is illegal.
Vanessa Barrington, EcoSalon. November 2, 2009. Over the past decade many small organic food brands have been snapped up by giant corporations. Clearly, this can be bad for standards and quality.
Mark Schmitt, The American Prospect. October 31, 2009. How a series of roadblocks and compromises shaped the health-care debate -- and why the battle doesn't end when Obama signs a bill.
Sarah Irani, EcoSalon. October 3, 2009. Some tout soy products as a panacea for health and wellness, while others swear that soy is a sure ticket to infertility and "man boobs." What are the facts?
Mickey Z., Planet Green. October 2, 2009. Consuming dairy products -- milk, cheese, yogurt, sour cream, ice cream, etc. -- is not green and it's not healthy.
Jackie Mahendra, America's Voice. September 30, 2009. As you’d expect, anti-immigrant organizations are calling on their members to light up the phones.
Scott Gold, The Faster Times. September 28, 2009. Big fast food chains are competing to build bigger, badder and more insanely calorific food. And we eat it. What the hell is wrong with us?
Liz Langley, AlterNet. September 26, 2009. We use enough deodorizers to ensure that we don't smell remotely organic, and yet we can't even keep our own heinies clean? What's a first-world country to do?
Kathy Freston, AlterNet. September 25, 2009. Experts are saying a plant-based diet is not only good for our health, but it's also curative of the very serious diseases we face.
Lewis Lapham, Lapham's Quarterly. September 24, 2009. Our quest for eternal youth enables the country's dependence on a broken medical industrial complex.
Chloe J., Sustain Lane. September 23, 2009. In the interest of your health, the environment and even logic, it makes more sense to leave chicken and fish off your plate. Here's why.
David Waldman, Daily Kos AlterNet: PEEK. September 22, 2009. The Arkansas blue dog sold a pharmacy he owned to a company with a keen interest in the health care debate. Unsurprisingly, he made a killing.
Jim Hightower, AlterNet. September 17, 2009. Food corporations are hoping to cash in on the growing public concern about nutrition by launching a program that labels some junk food healthy.
