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Martha Rosenberg: SUVs Free To Good Home
Monday, 8 September 2008, 12:32 am | Martha Rosenberg
Thanks to US gas prices, SUVs have become the fur coats of the automotive industry: ostentatious, outdated, hard to defend and even harder to maintain. More >>
US Producers Abusers of Worker and Animals
Monday, 1 September 2008, 9:52 am | Martha Rosenberg
Scratch the surface of a food offender whether they abuse the environment, workers, animals, the public trust or public funds and you usually find they are repeat offenders. More >>
US Animal Researchers Hunker Down
Sunday, 17 August 2008, 4:16 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Researcher 1: So, did the technician check out? Researcher 2: I hope so. Researcher 1: No ALF affiliation? No hidden camera? Researcher 2: We hope. Researcher 1: No backpack full of leaflets saying death to vivisectors? Researcher 2: Nope. Of course ... More >>
Out of Dog House and into the Bed
Monday, 4 August 2008, 11:53 am | Martha Rosenberg
A few years ago one of those polling groups that ask if you'd rather have sex with your spouse or go out to eat in a restaurant and what kind of mouthwash you'd take to the moon made some startling discoveries about dog owners: More >>
Gates Foundation Charity Raises Ethical Questions
Monday, 14 July 2008, 1:16 pm | Martha Rosenberg
It almost sounds like a joke. Set up dairy enterprises in rural African villages with no refrigeration, electricity, veterinary care or passable roads for a population that can't drink milk because it's 90% lactose intolerant. More >>
Chicago Sex Workers Assail Slanted Media
Friday, 4 July 2008, 1:55 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Nicholas Kristof was baffled. A year after the New York Times columnist rescued teenaged Cambodian prostitute Srey Mom from a Poipet brothel by purchasing her freedom for $203, she was back in the brothel. More >>
Author Testifies at Fired Vegan Teacher's Trial
Friday, 27 June 2008, 10:54 am | Martha Rosenberg
The life expectancy of National Football League players might have as much to do with teaching art as the factory farming fired middle school teacher Dave Warwak is accused of teaching. More >>
New FDA Rules Will Curb Drug Industry Profiteering
Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 9:53 am | Martha Rosenberg
The "bully tactics" and "intimidation" of drug industry operatives could cause "thousands of additional cancer deaths," cries an angry doctor in a May 29 oped in the Wall Street Journal. More >>
War Reporter Speaks About the Surge & Blackwater
Tuesday, 3 June 2008, 5:50 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Medill School of Journalism students were mostly in high school when National Public Radio (NPR) correspondent Anne Garrels endured the "shock and awe" bombing of Iraq and wrote the memoir "Naked in Baghdad." More >>
US Regulators Reject New Merck Drug
Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 4:31 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Even as Merck seeks closure on its Vioxx nightmare by paying $4.85 billion to tens of thousands of plaintiffs who took the painkiller--not that it did anything wrong--the bad ink continues. More >>
Beef Wars Continue Between US and South Korea
Tuesday, 20 May 2008, 11:38 am | Martha Rosenberg
"We Don't Like The FDA," chant ten thousand demonstrators in candlelight vigils, some dressed as cows. More >>
US Egg Supplier Caught in Grisly Hen Abuse
Monday, 12 May 2008, 12:36 am | Martha Rosenberg
US Egg Supplier to Major Food Chains and Dept. of Defense Caught in Grisly Hen Abuse by Martha Rosenberg More >>
Remembering the First US School Shooting
Monday, 12 May 2008, 12:06 am | Martha Rosenberg
The Chicago Tribune wrote, "Laws Failing To Keep Guns Out Of Hands Of Disturbed," and, "Suspect Had History Of Bizarre Acts." More >>
Factory Farm Fires Claim 10000 Pigs in Three Weeks
Monday, 7 April 2008, 1:53 pm | Martha Rosenberg
One of the worst parts of incarceration, many say, is knowing if a fire breaks out the guards aren't going to save you. They're not going to rush back into the prison building and risk their lives. Why would they? If your life had any value, you wouldn't ... More >>
Gentlemen: Pick Up Your Clubs
Monday, 31 March 2008, 5:30 pm | Martha Rosenberg
There's another reason to lament Arctic ice melting; as floes break up off the shores of Labrador and Newfoundland, fleets of Canadian seal killers are arriving to initiate the largest marine mammal hunt in the world. More >>
US Top Egg Producer Accused of Deceptive Labels
Saturday, 22 March 2008, 3:45 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Since TV celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver and Hugh-Fearnley Whittingstall launched exposes of poultry production in the UK late last year, three quarters of polled consumers said they’d buy free range chicken and eggs and that stores should not carry any ... More >>
“Teflon” Tyson Eyes China
Tuesday, 18 March 2008, 1:16 pm | Martha Rosenberg
No one has ever accused Tyson Foods of being green. Even as the Springdale, AR-based meat giant’s probation ends for 20 federal violations of the Clean Water Act at its Sedalia, MO chicken plant in 2003--it paid a $7.7 million fine--it is back in ... More >>
Making HRT mongering More Difficult for Wyeth
Monday, 17 March 2008, 11:47 am | Martha Rosenberg
Premarin, the once popular hormone replacement therapy (HRT) drug can never be a blockbuster again writes an anonymous pharmaceutical salesman in the chat room, Cafepharma, because in defending recent cancer lawsuits Wyeth lawyers, "blamed the woman for ... More >>
An Occasional Note on the 2008 Campaigns, No. 5
Saturday, 8 March 2008, 6:42 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Although the major Democratic presidential candidates did not campaign in Florida prior to the primary in January, that state’s Democratic convention happened to coincide with Clinton’s 60th birthday last October. More >>
Who Drank The Milk From Hallmark/Westland Cows?
Friday, 29 February 2008, 10:32 am | Martha Rosenberg
The Humane Society's recent slaughterhouse expose www.hsus.org which led to the biggest beef recall in US history was an ethical and hygienic shock to the public. We're eating WHAT people asked. The downer cows were products of the US dairy industry ... More >>
