(This coldtruth.com special report is a follow up to last week’s story on dirty water.)
If your neighbor had plenty of water but you hadn’t enough to keep your family, your livestock and your crops alive, would you fight for it? Would you go to war?
Lots of people – from multi-degreed behavioral psychologists to barroom philosophers [...]

That’s only a drop in the bucket when it comes to what the world needs to control the evolving influenza pandemic, said the head of the World Health Organization as she praised the U.S. and nine other countries for donating vaccine to fight the spreading H1N1 flu.
Current supplies of pandemic vaccine are inadequate for a [...]

Do you think twice about who’s really behind the disease-focused groups that sponsor marathons, coin-collection cans on store counters and telephoned pleas for money?
William, Heisel. a former top gun LA Times investigative reporter of significant ability, wrote a blog today urging reporters and the public to pay attention to who’s pushing for donations and [...]

Years ago, long before it became a marketing ploy to call everything “green,” the Environmental Protection Agency described, what it called, a green dream.
It was where millions and millions of pounds of useless tires were recycled into tire crumbs or tiny shreds and used to cover playgrounds and athletic fields to reduce injuries from falls [...]

If you want to talk about mixed signals, just step back a bit and look at the messages being sent and received on the care and treatment of the Swine Flu pandemic.
The Seattle Times ran a front-page story about the largest outbreak of H1N1 in the country, so far. Washington State University and community health [...]

The office of the U.S.  Surgeon General says it is “slightly encouraged” that Americans are increasing  their consumption of more nutritious food.
But you just have to wonder whether the top doc has been to a country fair lately.
The Evergreen State Fair in Monroe, Washington.     (c) coldtruth.com

We, or someone we love, have probably had food poisoning caused by the secret ingredients of salmonella, E. coli. Listeria, Campylobacter, botulism and others of which we have probably never heard.
The Centers for Disease Control says that more than 250 different food borne diseases have been identified, all triggered by a medley of bacteria, viruses, [...]

Just before Christmas 2007, an asbestos victims’ organization announced that testing it had commissioned had found potentially lethal asbestos fibers in the fingerprint powder of CBS broadcasting’s best-selling “CSI Crime Lab” toys.
Only now, 20 months later, after prodding from a judge presiding over a nationwide class action suit on the contaminated products, has CBS agreed [...]

Many food exports from China may be dangerous, but some of the tricks used to fool Chinese shoppers are even more treacherous.
Everyone knows about the about the tens of thousands of Chinese infants struck down but kidney-destroying melamine in their milk and the 60,000 dogs and cats worldwide who died after eating it in the [...]

I’ve been hearing from organic food producers, especially dairy farmers, who say that after years of soaring growth and markets for all they can produce, the reality of dealing with rough economic times is painfully hitting home.

(c) photo by a. schneider

They say that sales they could always count on, are falling off.
But many shopper are [...]