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What's Really In Your Food

You may be grossed out, but insects and mold in our food are not new. The F.D.A. actually condones a certain percentage of “natural contaminants” in our food supply — meaning, among other things, bugs, mold, rodent hairs and maggots.
In its (falsely) reassuringly subtitled booklet “The Food Defect Action Levels: Levels of Natural or Unavoidable Defects in Foods That Present No Health Hazards for Humans,” the F.D.A.’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition establishes acceptable levels of such “defects” for a range of foods products, from allspice to peanut butter. . . .

Water in Bolivia: Defeating the Multinationals Is Just the Start of the Problem

08-02-2009 14:07 | Health | Other Press | Repression | World

Set in a landscape of dry brown hills and arroyos flooded with dust, Cochabamba, Bolivia's third-largest city, is not rich in water. Seen from the air in early September, at the tail end of the southern winter, the land is brown and barren from the ridgetops to the river valleys. A warm wind blows dust in billowing clouds. Thousands of feet below the soaring, icy peaks of the altiplano to the west, and thousands of feet above the lush coca fields of the Chapare to the east and the Amazon to the north, Cochabamba enjoys the mildest climate in the country, but suffers from what geographers call "water stress," compounded here, as everywhere, by climate change.

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Conference to Organize Community Survival Programs in Africa and U.S.

07-02-2009 20:28 | Anti-racism | Health | Social Struggles | World

All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project Conference Calls for Engineers, Scientists and Healthcare Workers to Build Community Survival Programs in Africa and U.S. - February 21-22, 2009

Anti-Contraception Republicans = Anti-Stimulus Votes

Republicans, backed by the Christian right, have made it clear that they oppose the pro-contraception provisions in the stimulus package that allow states to cover family planning services and supplies to low-income women who are not otherwise eligible for Medicaid, and give states the option to provide such coverage without obtaining a waiver.

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Obama congratulated for overturning global abortion funding ban

President Obama has been widely congratulated by women's groups and family planning organisations for overturning the ban on U.S. federal funding for providing abortion care or counselling abroad.

Healthcare is a Right!

On a rainy November 13th evening in NYC a large group of people gathered in Times Square, and then marched to the headquarters of GHI, a non-profit health insurance company which faces privatization. The marchers were demonstrating in support of the passage of HR 676, a bill for national single-payer healthcare, and against the proposed privatization of GHI/HIP.

Philippines: Don’t revive the “Monster of Morong, Bataan”

04-02-2009 04:08 | Ecology | Health | Technology | World

Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) to Philippine Congress: Don't revive Bataan Nuclear Power Plant

Bayer Day of Action in Sweden

For the international day of action activists targeted Bayer Cropsciences headoffice in Stockholm, Sweden. About fiftheen activists gathered in front of the main gate to the compound where Bayer is situated. Obviously, the company already knew of our plans and two security guys stood guard in front of the gate. They had to redirect some of the traffic to another lane to get them through the crowd of angry protesters and as workers drove away several gave us the thumbs up.

World Day for Lab Animals March - London

30-01-2009 00:02 | Animal Liberation | Health | Social Struggles | World

To mark World Day for Animals in Laboratories, campaigners from all over the UK and beyond will be gathering in London on April 25 to call for an end to animal experiments. Following a march from Hyde Park through the centre of London, where we intend to take the anti-vivisection message to large numbers of shoppers, tourists and residents, we will then hold a rally at Parliament to protest against the government’s pro-vivisection policies.

Bayer Day of Action in NYC

Sunday, January 25, 2009
WAR Protests HLS Customers Bristol-Myers Squibb, Novartis and Bayer
Bayer Global Day of Action

The focus of this day of protest was the major customers of Huntingdon Life Sciences. The companies chosen today support and enable Huntingdon Life Sciences to continue to kill 500 animals per day with their blood money contracts.

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Bayer Day of Action in West London / Hampshire

Monday, 26th January
HLS UK customers continue to have protests

Campaign for High Welfare Chicken - Channel 4 Tonight

Don’t forget to watch Chickens, Hugh and Tesco Too in Channel 4 tonight at 9pm. This programme will reveal what happened when Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall attempted to change Tesco’s policies of selling intensively reared chicken.

UK SHAC 7 Solidarity Action in Birmingham

Today SHAC Birmingham held a demonstration against Barclays bank in solidarity with the UK SHAC 7.

UK SHAC 7 Solidarity Action in Southampton

On Monday 19th of January SHAC Hants took an early morning trip to the outskirts of Southampton to pay a flying visit to Promega, Enterprise Road, Southampton Science Park one of the newest found suppliers to HLS. We showed up around half nine, just as the workers were settling in to another long week of making money out of animal torture.

Israelis Rain 'Phosphorous Bombs' Over Gaza

14-01-2009 10:27 | Health | Palestine | Terror War | World

"There is no doubt that Israel is using phosphorous bombs over Gaza. Israel is flagrantly violating the Fourth Geneva Convention," says Raji Sourani, head of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) in Gaza.

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IMEMC Special: White Phosphorus and its use in Gaza

White Phosphorus (P4) is a waxy fat soluble colorless or slightly yellow solid with a garlic smell that is not naturally occurring but is produced in the laboratory. It is highly reactive with oxygen (ignites spontaneously upon drying and exposure to air) producing compounds like P4O6 (phosphorus pentoxide) and P4O10 which upon contact with water becomes oxophosphoric acids (aslternatively direct reaction with water can lead to phosphoric acid HPO4 through some intermediate compounds)

Rockwool factory destroying beautiful area in Croatia

Rock wool, whilst sold as an eco-friendly product, is a dirty thing to make. In the USA, Erin Brokovich is investigating claims that a now-closed Rockwool Group factory is responsible for the high rate of cancer locally. Meanwhile, the residents of the municipality of Pican, Croatia are protesting against a new factory which was built illegally. The factory regularly floods the valley with thick smoke. Read their press release below:

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BE: Dungeness N station on a possible 'C' station

British Energy are holding several 'public meetings' in the local area (Kent-Romney Marsh) to tell all about their wonderous new plans for a third nuclear station at the site.

Week of action for Nepal's monkeys

08-01-2009 20:27 | SHAC | Animal Liberation | Health | World

From the 12th-19th of January we are calling for a week of spontaneous actions against Nepal's monkey business, in solidarity with our new initiative. We need you to do demos and outreach actions, we need you to sign petitions, send emails and add to the global pressure on Nepal.

The Romanian ‘orphans’, for whom ARK (Absolute Return for Kids) are now fundrais

Roelie Post’s book "For Export Only; the untold story of the Romanian ‘orphans’" is
essential reading for anyone who has an interest in this issue. 'The reader is taken along on an eight year travel, and will be shown the story of the Romanian ‘orphans’ from a different light, where global politics and private interests compete with the rights of the child.'

http://www.romania-forexportonly.blogspot.com Extracts below.

World Health Newswire Archive

What's Really In Your Food

Water in Bolivia: Defeating the Multinationals Is Just the Start of the Problem

Conference to Organize Community Survival Programs in Africa and U.S.

Anti-Contraception Republicans = Anti-Stimulus Votes

Obama congratulated for overturning global abortion funding ban

Healthcare is a Right!

Philippines: Don’t revive the “Monster of Morong, Bataan”

Bayer Day of Action in Sweden

World Day for Lab Animals March - London

Bayer Day of Action in NYC

Bayer Day of Action in West London / Hampshire

Campaign for High Welfare Chicken - Channel 4 Tonight

UK SHAC 7 Solidarity Action in Birmingham

UK SHAC 7 Solidarity Action in Southampton

Israelis Rain 'Phosphorous Bombs' Over Gaza

IMEMC Special: White Phosphorus and its use in Gaza

Rockwool factory destroying beautiful area in Croatia

BE: Dungeness N station on a possible 'C' station

Week of action for Nepal's monkeys

The Romanian ‘orphans’, for whom ARK (Absolute Return for Kids) are now fundrais

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