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Say No To Nuked Spinach and Start Gardening!

Posted by Siel on September 2, 2008 - 12:48pm.

Not ready for nuked spinach? Even urbanites are putting on their gardening gloves to grow their own veggies — if not in their yards, then on their roofs!


Rotten Tomatoes

Posted by Su Avasthi on June 14, 2008 - 11:15pm.

The salmonella outbreak in Roma tomatoes is slowly subsiding, but are you ready to put the T back on your BLT?


Got Raw Milk?

Posted by Su Avasthi on April 11, 2008 - 4:17pm.

Raw milk -- which can contain dangerous pathogens -- is increasingly in demand by people who are worried about chemicals and hormones.



Cloned Food Debate

15:57 minutes (3.65 MB)

This week Phil brings up the debate about the FDA approving the sale of meat and dairy made from cloned animals. First Phils talks to Will Fantle from The Cornucopia Institute who opposes the approval, then Dr. Barbara Glenn from the Biotechnology Industry Organization, who agrees with the FDA's approval.




How Well is the FDA Protecting Our Food?

10:18 minutes (2.36 MB)
In this podcast Phil Lempert talks about the latest happenings in the supermarket news as well as the latest happenings in Washington DC dealing with the FDA and food safety.

Be Smart About Pain-Killers

Posted by Su Avasthi on December 20, 2006 - 2:16am.

America's best-selling over-the-counter drugs, like aspirin or ibuprofen, might easy enough to come by, but that doesn't mean that they're entirely safe — or good for us.




Food Shopping by the Stars

Posted by Su Avasthi on November 7, 2006 - 8:01pm.

If your grocery store offered a storewide nutritional navigation system, do you want them to stick to FDA guidelines — or set higher standards?




Who Wants A Dolly-Kabob?

Posted by Su Avasthi on October 19, 2006 - 4:20am.

The FDA plans to greenlight the use of cloned livestock for meat and dairy products by the years' end.

Which means that Dolly could be coming to a grocery store near you.




Oh No! Now It's Nano

Posted by Su Avasthi on October 10, 2006 - 1:28pm.

And here I thought pesticides and genetic food engineering were alarming enough. But it seems that Franken-food has an even scarier new sequel.




What Would Popeye Do?

Posted by Su Avasthi on September 17, 2006 - 11:14pm.

Since spinach became Public Enemy No. 1, I feel kind of like Popeye: I want as much spinach as I can get.




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