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M. Rosenberg: Valentines Day Massacre & Legal Guns
Tuesday, 19 February 2008, 10:43 am | Martha Rosenberg
On February 1, less than a year after the Virginia Tech shootings, survivors and their families converged on the Capitol in Richmond for a "die in" to urge Virginia lawmakers to close the no background check gun show loophole. More >>
Slaughter Video Forces USDA into Damage Control
Wednesday, 6 February 2008, 1:13 pm | Martha Rosenberg
You wouldn't think you could "spin" a video that shows slaughterhouse workers electric shocking downer cows, "water boarding" them, jabbing their eyes with herding paddles and ramming them with forklift blades while they squeal in pain. More >>
New Orleans St Charles Trolley Is Mardi Gras Ready
Wednesday, 30 January 2008, 11:43 am | Martha Rosenberg
Two years after Hurricane Katrina, city buses were again running up and down St. Charles Avenue, the gracious boulevard that connects the French Quarter to Uptown and the Garden District in New Orleans. But where was the trolley? More >>
Gourmet Slaughter - A Response to Factory Farming?
Wednesday, 23 January 2008, 12:16 am | Martha Rosenberg
It seems like the more you know about how your meat became meat, the less you want to it eat. More >>
M. Rosenberg: They Take Your Gun; Then Your Bible
Thursday, 10 January 2008, 5:03 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Maybe it fears a President Obama. Maybe it feels enough time has elapsed since Robert Hawkins gunned down 13 Christmas shoppers at an Omaha mall. But the National Rifle Association is back on the legislative track. More >>
Disgraced Former FDA Official Marketing Lilly Drug
Thursday, 27 December 2007, 2:26 pm | Martha Rosenberg
As a 33-year-old Wall Street insider known for recommending hot medical stocks, many were surprised when physician Scott Gottlieb was named FDA deputy commissioner for medical and scientific affairs in 2005. More >>
New study: red meat carcinogenic
Wednesday, 19 December 2007, 12:09 am | Martha Rosenberg
A new study of half a million people from the National Cancer Institute finds that red and processed meat not only promotes colon cancer--which everyone knew--but esophagus, liver, lung and pancreas cancer! More >>
Creating New Diseases not Cheap for Pharma
Tuesday, 11 December 2007, 10:59 am | Martha Rosenberg
Most people blame Big Pharma and the docs in its pocket for elevating everyday anxiety to depression, depression to bipolar disease and childhood behavior problems to major psychiatric diseases. More >>
Furriers Are Closing; Yet, New Ones are Opening
Monday, 3 December 2007, 11:49 am | Martha Rosenberg
Chicago, IL They get up early the day after Thanksgiving and hit the stores like millions of other Americans. But unlike most Americans, they're neither turkey logged or Christmas shopping: they're marching in Chicago annual anti-fur industry demonstration ... More >>
Protecting Consumers Lower Profits Says Pharma
Monday, 26 November 2007, 9:39 am | Martha Rosenberg
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is starting to act like Pharma's watchdog not lapdog complains Wyeth's outgoing chief executive officer Bob Essner and it's no fair. More >>
Undercover at a Turkey Slaughter Plant
Tuesday, 20 November 2007, 10:03 am | Martha Rosenberg
The Thanksgiving People Don't Want To See Undercover at a Turkey Slaughter Plant in North Carolina More >>
Canned Hunting--Sport of Vice Presidents
Monday, 12 November 2007, 11:19 am | Martha Rosenberg
While most people are lamenting the violence in Pakistan, Burma, Afghanistan and Iraq, apparently it's not enough bloodshed for Vice President Dick Cheney. More >>
How To Read Ann Coulter If You Must
Thursday, 1 November 2007, 6:41 pm | Martha Rosenberg
James Dewey Watson, the co-discoverer of DNA, recently resigned as chancellor of Long Island’s Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory for making racially insensitive remarks. But don't expect Ann Coulter to step down from the public spotlight anytime soon. More >>
United Egg Producers Approve Cage-Free Guidelines
Tuesday, 23 October 2007, 10:31 am | Martha Rosenberg
Many of the 35 animal advocates outside the Hyatt Regency on a balmy Chicago afternoon as United Egg Producers (UEP) executives gather for their annual board meeting have been protesting conditions for caged laying hens for years. More >>
FDA Regulation "Hurts" - Worse than Depression
Monday, 15 October 2007, 10:00 am | Martha Rosenberg
It was supposed to replace Prozac profits when the patent expired in 2001 and cash in on the national love affair with antidepressants. But Eli Lilly & Co.'s Cymbalta (duloxetine) seemed cursed from the start. The first antidepressant to be introduced ... More >>
"Patty Cake" with E. Coli Amid Hygienic Anarchy
Monday, 8 October 2007, 11:08 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Playing "Patty Cake" with E. Coli Amid Hygienic Anarchy in US Slaughterhouses By Martha Rosenberg More >>
US Candidates Kiss Hem of Gun Lobby’s Jacket
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 6:26 pm | Martha Rosenberg
The National Rifle Association’s (NRA) "Celebration of American Values" conference last week was supposed to be a ritual of public dotage in which presidential candidates kiss the hem of the NRA's camouflage jacket. More >>
Pharma Hand Seen Behind Alarmist Suicide Statistic
Sunday, 23 September 2007, 1:41 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Long before the New York Times reported this month that youth suicides were up 8% from 2003 to 2004 and experts blamed an "antidepressant deficiency" big pharma was trying to plant the story. More >>
As cancers rise, diet becomes unpopular US export
Tuesday, 11 September 2007, 11:02 am | Martha Rosenberg
Like cigarettes and alcohol, no one thinks red meat is good for you. Except maybe its producers. This month Quality Meat Scotland, a red meat promotional agency, is hosting a seminar at the Moredun Institute in Edinburgh about the health properties ... More >>
Martha Rosenberg: From Frying Pan into the Fire
Tuesday, 28 August 2007, 4:54 pm | Martha Rosenberg
From frying pan into fire for USDA's top vet--and animals he's supposed to protect by Martha Rosenberg More >>
