Posted on Feb 6, 2023 | Comments Off on The Top 3 Causes Of Bee Colony Collapses Are Mites, Mites, And Mites – Any Other Claim Is Selling Something
Some food grown in the US, especially high-cost luxuries like almonds, are pollinated using bees. Since bees are most often rented and transported for such purposes, keeping them alive is important to owners and growers. As their value for higher-cost foods has grown, so have bee numbers; they are up 85 percent in the last 60 years. You would just never know it if your source is Greenpeace, so...
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Posted on Feb 3, 2023 | Comments Off on Tom Girardi, The Lawyer Behind The ‘Erin Brockovich’ Settlement, Gets Two New Criminal Charges
Tom Girardi, the lawyer whose big claim to fame was a game of chicken with Pacific Gas&Electric over a chemical detected in the water of a small town in the Mojave, was long suspected of being ethically challenged, but as long as he was sticking it to corporations it wasn't a concern for journalists.read...
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Posted on Feb 3, 2023 | Comments Off on The Good News For The Wine Industry Is Older Consumers Are Immune To Recession, The Bad News Is…
The wine industry has been on a tear for two decades. Where once Napa wines were so second-rate they had to pay Orson Welles to try and gain credibility, the California landscape is now dotted with vineyards.That may be coming to an end due to demographics; the same people drinking wine then are drinking it now, but they are 20 years older. The recession has not impacted the Boomer crowd much...
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Posted on Feb 3, 2023 | Comments Off on FDA Responds To Criticism After Creating The Infant Formula Shortage By Invoking Global Warming
The Biden administration has made a number of political and economic missteps - e.g. an Inflation Reduction Act that has nothing to do with inflation and won't reduce it - but its science and health gaffes get less press.When Scott Gottlieb, MD, was in charge, FDA was on the road to becoming more nimble, but it took the COVID-19 pandemic, and watching other agencies like the CDC run in circles...
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Posted on Feb 3, 2023 | Comments Off on If Food Addiction Is Real, 13% Of Americans Have It
Is there an addiction that primarily affects one gender in one age demographic in rich countries? Survey data using the National Poll on Healthy Aging says there may be. The results were that about 13 percent of people from ages 50 to 80 responded in ways that could be interpreted as addiction to foods and beverages in the past year. Prevalence was much higher among women than men – older...
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