A Quarter Pounder with Cheese, and a Side of Toxins

Copper, arsenic, dioxin, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, lindane, penicillin, Flunixin, Sulfadimethoxine, Florfenicol, Sulfamethazine, Ivermectin…some of these may sound familiar, some may sounds vaguely like something you learned about in biology class some years back. But nothing sounds like something you’d expect to find on your dinner plate. And yet they’re there. They snuck in, as uninvited guests….

Worried about food dyes? Eat local food!

Certain dyes and preservatives used in foods have long been known to have carcinogenic effects, as tested on laboratory animals. One dye or preservative at a time. But now recent studies are further linking these same chemicals that pervade our foods with the increases in hyperactivity in kids. And other studies are finally (FINALLY!!!!) going…

Round ’em Up

I am a champion of local foods. And I am a huge promoter of organic foods, but not if it’s industrial organic because that seems antithetical to the intrinsic organic principles. I definitely do not support growing and eating genetically modified plants for the myriad reasons I outlined in a previous post. And while I…

What are dioxins and why are they in my eggs?

If you’ve been looking at the news headlines these days, and got past the blood-and-gore sections (the gunman shooting at politicians and innocent civilians in Arizona, the Iranian plane crash, the French hostages killed in Niger, the dozen headless bodies found in Acapulco), then you probably noticed something about a huge disruption in the meat…