Taking a HARD look at the Business of Politics

Dr. Murphy has a great post over at FireDogLake about the Politics of Water. What it says, in a nutshell, is that the US is exporting one third of our water footprint as farm subsidized crops, while people pay higher prices for bottled water than for gasoline. And Chicago is going to be one of […]

After an overwhelming (literally) response to the FDA call for comments to changes in the way Health Food Supplements are classified, there’s been an amendment accepted unanimously by the Senate (94 to 0) to the Enhancing Drug Safety and Innovation Act of 2007. The amendment states:

Sec. X08. Rule of Construction
Nothing in this title (or […]

There’s a great article on NewsTarget that interprets the results of a Consumer Reports survey about the FDA and given to US residents. According to the article:

96 percent of those surveyed agreed the government should have the power to require warning labels on drugs with known safety problems. As Consumer Reports explains, “Right now, […]

Dr. Laibow at the Natural Solutions Foundation has posted an alert. The FDA is up to its old tricks, and trying to reclassify Natural Health Products as “Medicine” which will make it illegal to sell or purchase herbs and other natural supplements, and will only allow Doctors to prescribe them (which has resulted in some […]

Dr. Laibow just sent out a followup newsletter to let all of us know her site, HealthFreedomUSA.org, the site of the Natural Solutions Foundation, has been yanked by her hosting company http://1and1.com. She’s not sure why since no one at the hosting company will speak to her. “I wrote about the genocidal intent of the […]

Now THAT’S guaranteed to be a feel-good possibility! Ran across A cure for cancer? on http://donklephant.com/, posted by Sean Aqui, nice moderate that he is (check out Sean’s blog, Midtopia, sometime!) From his post:
It sounds too good to be true. But everything I can find says this could be legitimate.
A molecule used […]

I wonder who paid payola to whom to get the FDA to give a preliminary thumbs up to cloned animals such as beef and goat, entering the food supply. The most disturbing part of this story is “For food that does come from clones, the Food and Drug Administration is unlikely to require labels, officials […]

The New York Times today had an article entitled Costs of a Crisis- Diabetics Confront a Tangle of Workplace Laws which really had me thinking about a lot of seemingly unrelated things that have come into the news lately and to my attention in other ways. A few of those things-

NYC Mayor Bloomberg’s new law […]