by Peter Lehner, executive director, Natural Resources Defense Council
Last Thursday night, a federal court ordered the Food and Drug Administration to take action on the practice of giving antibiotics to livestock through animal feed. This victory will help protect American families against superbugs and other drug-resistant bacteria. Continue reading
Posted in Children's Health, Food Politics, Men's Health, Women's Health
Tagged healthy diet, industrial food system
by Marion Nestle, PhD, professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University
Dietary sodium continues to generate much talk but little action.
The CDC issued a recent Vital Signs report on dietary sodium with this graphic:
Posted in Children's Health, Food Politics, Men's Health, Women's Health
Tagged healthy diet, industrial food system
By Kaid Benfield, director of sustainable communities at Natural Resources Defense Council
Over the past 50 years, our average global temperature has increased at the fastest rate in recorded history. That is fact, not opinion. Scientists say that under current trends, average US temperatures could be 3 to 9 degrees higher by the end of the century. Continue reading
by Deirdre Imus, founder and president of The Deirdre Imus Environmental Health Center at Hackensack University Medical Center
Like a bear coming out of hibernation, we too are beginning to emerge from winter’s darkness into spring’s light. And just as a bear cautiously reintroduces his body to a nourishing environment, so we must turn to healthy activities that feed our soul and give us new life in this season of renewal.
Below are the seven steps I hope you’ll follow this spring to clean your body and your home: Continue reading
Posted in Healthy Diet, Positive Psychology
Tagged healthy diet, mental health, spring cleaning
by Peter Lehner, executive director, Natural Resources Defense Council
Every year when gas prices rise, politicians and pundits like to play the blame game. On Fox & Friends, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal blamed the Obama administration’s “radical environmental ideology” for high gas prices. (The latest Bloomberg poll, however, showed that most Americans do not blame the White House.) The Christian Science Monitor points the finger at India. Continue reading
By Amy Mall, senior policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council
As oil and gas production continues to expand by leaps and bounds across the country, more and more people are concerned about the threats to human health and the environment. New organizations are cropping up every place, and their members are not necessarily people who would describe themselves as environmentalists or liberals. Some of these individuals are politically conservative and may even be very supportive of the oil and gas industry or be mineral owners.
Posted in From Around The Web
By Tim Schwab, researcher at Food & Water Watch
The American Standard Champion 4 toilet is something to behold. The simple perch, elegant design, and accelerator flush valve make it, I’m told, a superior vessel for waste evacuation. And the technical department at American Standard has made some convincing videos to prove their point, demonstrating the Champ’s flawless devouring of 24 golf balls, 8 large hot dogs, or 100 cotton balls. Continue reading
by Marion Nestle, PhD, professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University
Olivier de Schutter, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, has issued five recommendations for fixing diets and food systems:
by Peter Lehner, executive director, Natural Resources Defense Council
Environmental safeguards have clearly proven their value over the past few decades, bringing returns on investment as high as 40 to 1. Yet in its recent coverage of U.S. regulations, The Economist chooses to ignore this track record, and instead trot out a host of tired, unsubstantiated industry arguments against regulation. (NRDC chief economist Laurie Johnson has a detailed response to the article’s surprising errors in her blog.) Continue reading
Posted in Clean Energy, Climate Destabilization
by Margaret Riche, EcoCentric
Fox just found out what animal activists – and increasingly, others who speak out about food – have known for years. Activists who expose truths that threaten the profits of big business are more and more becoming targets for legal action.
Posted in Food Politics, Healthy Diet, Sustainable Farming
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