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The NY Times recently published an article titled "Battle Brewing Over Labeling of Genetically Modified Food ( Read more... )

Carrageenan is a thickening agent commonly found in vegan alternatives to dairy products. It's found in soy milk, vegan deserts and cheeses, etc. It sounds very natural and wholesome: it's an extract from seaweed! Today I learned that Carrageenan is inflammatory and can cause serious damage to the digestive system. It's even suspected of being a ( Read more... )

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Recent headlines declare again that red meat is bad.All red meat, though processed more than unprocessed meat ( Read more... )

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"Beka shouldn't collect 20th-century rock. That's ten times more ridiculous than everyone in Star Trek being obsessed with Westerns, Shakespeare, and Captain Proton. Where's the post-World War Three Reconstructionist literature? The frontier legends of colonial Mars? The innovative fusions of Terran and Vulcan music that emerged in the 2100s (or ( Read more... )

But for all the wrong reasons. It's not about the fact that Komen is lead by right wing culture warriors. The real problem is that all these pink ribbon charities are fronts for the very corporate and industrial interests that cause cancer in the first place and then profit from it ( Read more... )

I came across Philadelphia and it reminded me of the wonderful early 90s when it was suddenly acceptable to have non-evil gay characters in movies!

As long as they died at the end.