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Milk Sales Continue To Fall In US; Milk Alternatives Rise
Wednesday, 1 November 2023, 4:36 pm | Martha Rosenberg
“Got milk?” wrote Fast Company as it reported that “Dean Foods, the largest U.S. milk producer” had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2019. “You probably don’t. Or you do, and it’s just a splash in your coffee. Or you do, ... More >>
Animal-Eating Causing Diseases That Could Become Pandemics
Saturday, 18 January 2020, 3:41 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Animal-Eating Behavior Causing Diseases That Could Become Pandemics Do you remember SARS? Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was so contagious; a SARS-afflicted man on an Air China flight in 2003 infected 20 passengers sitting at a distance away ... More >>
Are You Overweight? Big Food Hopes So
Thursday, 28 November 2019, 8:39 am | Martha Rosenberg
With the holidays approaching, few want to think about their weight. It will certainly go up not down before 2020 arrives. People will probably start thinking about their weight on January 2 –– and joining gyms. More >>
An Animal Pandemic That is Barely in the News
Thursday, 14 November 2019, 4:48 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Have you ever heard of African swine fever (ASF) caused by the African swine fever virus (ASFV)? A fourth of the world’s pigs have died from it just this year –– half of all of China's pigs –– but like previous food animal pandemics, the toll ... More >>
Free Prescription Drugs—in Drinking Water!
Monday, 24 November 2014, 2:14 pm | Martha Rosenberg
You don't have to see a doctor to imbibe a witch's brew of prescriptions pain pills, antibiotics and psychiatric, cholesterol, asthma, epilepsy and heart drugs in your drinking water. They are found in many public drinking water systems says the Associated ... More >>
New Film Cowspiracy Assails Worldwide Cattle Industry
Tuesday, 4 November 2014, 10:21 am | Martha Rosenberg
It is often joked that even paranoids have real enemies and a case in point is the alarming new documentary Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret. It may be paranoid to suggest that environmental groups ignore the leading cause of deforestation, methane ... More >>
Communities Brace for More Bodies in Serial Sex Slayings
Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 3:50 pm | Martha Rosenberg
At least seven women's bodies have been found in Indiana since Friday in what appear to be serial, sex-related murders of women in high-risk lifestyles. Hammond police are holding Darren Vann, a convicted sex offender, in connection with the murders ... More >>
Are You Using this Controversial Baldness Treatment
Monday, 22 September 2014, 10:13 am | Martha Rosenberg
No one should have to choose between their hairline and their health. But increasingly, men who use finasteride, commonly known as Propecia, to treat their male pattern baldness are making that choice, often unwittingly. In the 17 years since Propecia ... More >>
Elanco is Becoming the Monsanto of the Animal Drug Industry
Tuesday, 26 August 2014, 5:04 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Elanco is Becoming the Monsanto of the Animal Drug Industry By Martha Rosenberg 26 August 2014 More >>
Elanco is Becoming the Monsanto of the Animal Drug Industry
Tuesday, 26 August 2014, 5:04 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Elanco is Becoming the Monsanto of the Animal Drug Industry By Martha Rosenberg 26 August 2014 More >>
Michael Arria, author of "Medium Blue:the Politics of MSNBC"
Monday, 26 May 2014, 1:38 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Martha Rosenberg: Your recent book takes MSNBC to task for many reporting and moral failures. One of the book's most scathing chapters is its analysis of MSNBC's coverage of Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden. More >>
Big Pharma Profits From Addiction
Thursday, 8 May 2014, 2:56 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Imagine a treatment for drug addiction and alcoholism that uses no drugs, requires no trained personnel, resources or insurance and makes no money for anyone. This "people's program" is the anonymous twelve-step programs which have quietly saved ... More >>
Military Suicides Persist Including in Those Never Deployed
Wednesday, 23 April 2014, 5:34 pm | Martha Rosenberg
It took academic, government and military researchers five years to say they don't really know what is causing military suicides--but whatever it is, it isn't the psychoactive drugs they are prescribing and pushing. More >>
A Cross-cultural Look at Depression and a Path to Recovery
Thursday, 3 April 2014, 3:25 pm | Martha Rosenberg
The just published memoir, Shadows in the Sun, is a first-of-its-kind, cross-cultural lens to mental illness through the inspiring story of the author's thirty-year battle with depression. More >>
Poultry Burning to Death? It's OK Says Big Agriculture
Wednesday, 19 February 2014, 11:18 am | Martha Rosenberg
There is a reason hospital burn units have the highest turnover of nurses. There is a reason the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City and the 2012 Tazreen Fashions fire in Bangladesh live on in the world's consciousness. There is a reason ... More >>
A Year after Grade School Massacre No New Federal Laws in US
Wednesday, 11 December 2013, 5:24 pm | Martha Rosenberg
The US gun lobby loves the short memory of the American public and the news media. Who remembers that Aaron Alexis killed 12 at Washington's Navy Yard just three months ago, legally buying a shotgun two days before the rampage? More >>
Ghoulish, US Live Animal Charity Has Poor Track Record
Monday, 4 November 2013, 10:20 am | Martha Rosenberg
Just in time for Halloween, Heifer International's new catalogue hit the US mail. Heifer International is a Little Rock-based Christian charity that "ends hunger and poverty" through sending live animals to poor people overseas. More >>
Bad Month for US Chicken
Thursday, 24 October 2013, 5:03 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Could there be anything worse for the US chicken industry than this month's outbreak of an antibiotic-resistant strain of salmonella that hospitalized 42 percent of everyone who got it--almost 300 in 18 states-? Yes. More >>
After Massacres, US Gun Debate Moves into the Marketplace
Thursday, 19 September 2013, 1:04 pm | Martha Rosenberg
There are few things more extreme than US gun rights advocates. Because gun rights is a 100 percent issue for advocates, driving to state capitals, heckling town meetings and pelting lawmakers with gun paranoia “patriotism” is their fulltime job. More >>
Gun Extremists--Dick Cheney Style Thrill Killing
Thursday, 29 August 2013, 3:51 pm | Martha Rosenberg
It takes a real man to shoot trapped and caged animals for the pure fun of killing. Real men like former NRA Executive Director John Sigler who was photographed participating in a canned pigeon hunt at the Philadelphia Gun Club in Bensalem, PA in 2012. More >>
