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Discussing Raw Milk with Organic Pastures’ Mark McAfee

Discussing Raw Milk with Organic Pastures’ Mark McAfee

Posted by | Mar 20, 2013 | |

Mark McAfee is more than just the founder of the raw milk dairy Organic Pastures, he is a true believer in his work and his products. And he wants you to believe it, too.

“Raw milk is a people’s food and if people want raw milk, they have to fight for it,” he says. McAfee has fought corrupt regulators and greedy processing organizations ever since he took his grandparents farm and made it into the all-organic, raw milk dairy it is today…

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GMO Update: Whole Foods, Hawaii and Vermont

GMO Update: Whole Foods, Hawaii and Vermont

Posted by | Mar 13, 2013 | |

The reaction to Whole Foods announcement that they will require the products in their stores to be labeled if they contain GMOs has been about as lukewarm as the announcement itself. First of all, why five years? Products that contain GMOs already have to be labeled if they are sold overseas. (Most other countries already have label requirements or have outright bans on GMO foods.) This means that 90 percent of all products already have a packaging system ready to properly label GMO foods…

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Failure to Thrive in Elderly

Failure to Thrive in Elderly

Posted by | Mar 12, 2013 | , |

For years the term failure to thrive has been used to describe infants that can not gain weight as well as reach certain physical and cognitive development. However, as our population ages and medical care costs go up more and more older adults are developing failure to thrive …

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Diet Soda and Alcohol

Diet Soda and Alcohol

Posted by | Mar 8, 2013 | , |

Today with so many Americans trying to cut a few calories here and there many are choosing a diet mixer when they have an alcoholic beverage. They are of a mind set that they are cutting calories so that diet rum and coke doesn’t have as many calories as a regular rum and coke does…

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Anthrax Flashback

Anthrax Flashback

Posted by | Mar 8, 2013 | , |

Remember the anthrax scare that blanketed the country after 9/11? Well, the labs at the Centers for disease Control and Prevention are responsible for securing US samples of anthrax as well as the plague and a number of other deadly diseases…

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