Here's To Your Health

5 Most Unhealthy Snacks

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:22:06 -0400

Here are 5 most unhealthy snacks list that you should avoid. These unhealthy snacks are the root cause of several health issues.

Take Action For A Fair Food And Farm Bill Tell Congress to Repeal the “Monsanto Protection Act”...

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:18:07 -0400

Take Action For A Fair Food And Farm Bill

Tell Congress to Repeal the “Monsanto Protection Act” and Support Pro-Farmer and Pro-Consumer Amendments!

The Senate has begun debate this week on amendments to the Farm Bill. As you know, the Farm Bill has historically given large bailouts to agribusiness companies and the country’s largest industrial farms at the expense of consumers, family farms, and the environment. However, a number of amendments to the 2013 Farm Bill have been offered that would support labeling of genetically engineered food, support organic farmers, repeal the “Monsanto Protection Act,” protect honey bees and other pollinators, and so much more.

Tell Congress to Repeal the “Monsanto Protection Act” and Support Pro-Farmer, Pro-Environment, and Pro-Consumer Amendments!

dananw: The Monsanto Meditation...

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:48:48 -0400

dananw:

The Monsanto Meditation - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5JxvcQ6wsw

Revealed: How US State Department 'Twists Arms' on Monsanto's Behalf Selling seeds, selling out democracy: US State Department does biotech industry's bidding - Jacob Chamberlain, staff writer The U.S. State Department does the bidding of biotech giants like Monsanto around the world by "twisting the arms of countries" and engaging in vast public campaign schemes to push the sale of genetically modified seeds, according to a new report released Tuesday by Food & Water Watch. undefined (International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria) The report, Biotech Ambassadors: How the U.S. State Department Promotes the Seed Industry’s Global Agenda, which pulls from over 900 State Department diplomatic cables (obtained via WikiLeaks), reveals an environment wherein US ambassadors act as sales representatives for the global biotech industry. U.S. ambassadors and their staffs actively lobby foreign governments to adopt pro-biotechnology policies and laws, create "rigorous public relations campaigns to improve the image of biotechnology" and challenge "commonsense biotechnology safeguards and rules — including opposing genetically engineered (GE) food labeling laws." "It really goes beyond promoting the U.S.'s biotech industry and agriculture," said Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food & Water Watch. "It really gets down to twisting the arms of countries and working to undermine local democratic movements that may be opposed to biotech crops, and pressuring foreign governments to also reduce the oversight of biotech crops." As FWW reports, the State Department has gone to great lengths to see that biotech companies' desires are met: The U.S. State Department’s multifaceted efforts to promote the biotechnology industry overseas: The State Department targeted foreign reporters, hosted and coordinated pro-biotech conferences and public events and brought foreign opinion-makers to the United States on high-profile junkets to improve the image of agricultural biotechnology overseas and overcome widespread public opposition to GE crops and foods. The State Department’s coordinated campaign to promote biotech business interests: The State Department promoted not only pro-biotechnology policies but also the products of biotech companies. The strategy cables explicitly “protect the interests” of biotech exporters, “facilitate trade in agribiotech products” and encourage the cultivation of GE crops in more countries, especially in the developing world. The State Department’s determined advocacy to press the developing world to adopt biotech crops: The diplomatic cables document a coordinated effort to lobby countries in the developing world to pass legislation and implement regulations favored by the biotech seed industry. This study examines the State Department lobbying campaigns in Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria to pass pro-biotech laws. The State Department’s efforts to force other nations to accept biotech crop and food imports: The State Department works with the U.S. Trade Representative to promote the export of biotech crops and to force nations that do not want these imports to accept U.S. biotech foods and crops. “It’s not surprising that Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta, Bayer and Dow want to maintain and expand their control of the $15 billion global biotech seed market, but it’s appalling that the State Department is complicit in supporting their goals despite public and government opposition in several countries,” said Ronnie Cummins, executive director of Organic Consumers Association. “American taxpayer’s money should not be spent advancing the goals of a few giant biotech companies.” "The biotech agriculture model using costly seeds and agrichemicals forces farmers onto a debt treadmill that is neither economically nor environmentally viable," said Ben Burkett, President of the National Family Farm Coalition. “An overwhelming number of farmers in the developing world reject biotech crops as a path to sustainable agricultural development or food sovereignty." "Thanks, Monsanto. And thanks, State Department. Not only are you selling seeds, you're selling out democracy," Hauter concludes. _______________________

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:36:14 -0400

This is not including the chemicals in our food, folks!

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:29:48 -0400

Published on Monday, April 29, 2013 by TomDispatch.com

You and Your Family Are Guinea Pigs for the Chemical Corporations

How Americans Became Exposed to Biohazards in the Greatest Uncontrolled Experiment Ever Launched

by David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz

A hidden epidemic is poisoning America. The toxins are in the air we breathe and the water we drink, in the walls of our homes and the furniture within them. We can’t escape it in our cars. It’s in cities and suburbs. It afflicts rich and poor, young and old. And there’s a reason why you’ve never read about it in the newspaper or seen a report on the nightly news: it has no name — and no antidote.

The culprit behind this silent killer is lead. And vinyl. And formaldehyde. And asbestos. And Bisphenol A. And polychlorinated biphenyls(PCBs). And thousands more innovations brought to us by the industries that once promised “better living through chemistry,” but instead produced a toxic stew that has made every American a guinea pig and has turned the United States into one grand unnatural experiment.

Today, we are all unwitting subjects in the largest set of drug trials ever. Without our knowledge or consent, we are testing thousands of suspected toxic chemicals and compounds, as well as new substances whose safety is largely unproven and whose effects on human beings are all but unknown. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) itself has begun monitoring our bodies for 151 potentially dangerous chemicals, detailing the variety of pollutants we store in our bones, muscle, blood, and fat. None of the companies introducing these new chemicals has even bothered to tell us we’re part of their experiment. None of them has asked us to sign consent forms or explained that they have little idea what the long-term side effects of the chemicals they’ve put in our environment — and so our bodies — could be. Nor do they have any clue as to what the synergistic effects of combining so many novel chemicals inside a human body in unknown quantities might produce.

Monsanto, DuPont and Dow are preparing to keep you ill!

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 11:28:58 -0400

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/25/us-usa-gmo-labeling-idUSBRE93O18S20130425?irpc=932

(Reuters) - New efforts to force labeling of foods made with genetically modified crops, including a bill introduced by U.S. lawmakers Wednesday, have struck a nerve with biotech crop developers who say they are rushing to roll out a broad strategy to combat consumer concerns about their products.

Executives from Monsanto Co., DuPont, and Dow Chemical, among the world’s largest developers of biotech crops and the chemicals used to help produce them, told Reuters this week they are putting together a campaign aimed at turning the tide on what they acknowledge is a growing public sentiment against genetically modified organisms (GMOs) used as ingredients in the nation’s food supply.

Last year, the industry spent $40 million to defeat a labeling measure in California. But similar initiatives are underway now in more than 20 states, and the move by the big biotech firms is designed to thwart the spread of such initiatives, which the companies say would confuse consumers and roil the food manufacturing industry.

“Even when we prevail, we lose,” said Cathy Enright, executive vice president for food and agriculture for the global Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO,) which includes Monsanto, DuPont, Dow Chemical as members.

“To try to oppose this state by state, that is unsustainable,” she said.

The big biotech firms are still working out details of their plan, but it will likely have a large social media component, the company executives said. The group will focus on conveying what it says are the many benefits of biotech crops. Participants have not yet set a budget for the campaign, Enright said.

The most popular gene-altered crops withstand dousings of weed-killing chemicals and produce their own insect-killing toxins. Biotech corn, canola, soybeans, and other crops are used in human food and animal feed around the world and biotech companies say they are heavily regulated and thoroughly tested.

Proponents of labeling for GMO foods said momentum is on their side. Various groups have held rallies over the last several weeks in Washington, D.C., and at several state capitols to press the issue.

“They should be worried,” said Scott Faber, executive director of the Just Label It campaign, which has petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to require labeling of foods containing genetically engineered ingredients.

In fact, supporters of a Washington state measure similar to the failed California initiative said Tuesday they had raised more than $1 million from supporters.

In introducing a U.S. labeling bill Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer and U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio said consumers have a right to know what type of ingredients are in their food.

“Consumers deserve to have clear, consistent, and accurate facts about the food products they purchase,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said in a statement. Blumenthal was one of 31 lawmakers who co-sponsored the bill.

Law makers and anti-GMO activists are responding to growing public concern about possible health risks associated with GMO foods. While there is no scientific consensus that foods made with GMO ingredients are harmful, activists argue that people have a right to know what they are eating.

Last month, grocery retailer Whole Foods said that it would require suppliers to label any product made with genetically modified ingredients. And the Natural Products Association, which represents 1,900 food industry players, has called for a uniform standard for GMO labeling to apply nationwide.

“This is a rapidly growing movement,” said Dave Murphy, a spokesman for Food Democracy Now, a group pushing for GMO labeling. “We’re not giving up until we have labeling. We’re just not going away.”

Monsanto and other biotech crop companies say mandatory labeling would confuse consumers and could deter them from purchasing foods made with genetically modified ingredients.

Biotech companies also are concerned that consumer sentiment is causing regulators to slow down approvals of new GMOs, said Dow AgroSciences Brad Shurdut. Shurdut leads the company’s government and regulatory affairs.

Dow had hoped to have a GMO corn product called “Enlist” on the market this year. But amidst opposition from farmers, consumers and public health officials, the company now expects a delay of at least a year.

“It is having a profound impact on our regulatory system,” said Shurdut.

Monsanto, which in 1996 commercialized the first biotech crop, a soybean resistant to herbicide, wants to communicate how biotech crops help farmers produce food, said executive vice president Jerry Steiner. Despite the worst drought in 50 years, farmers last year still produced better-than-expected crops due in large measure to biotech improvements to corn, he said.

Steiner recognizes the industry faces an uphill battle.

“We fully respect that people make up their own minds,” said Steiner. “But there is a fact gap that exists. It is our responsibility to do a better job of filling it.”

(Reporting by Carey Gillam; Editing by Bob Burgdorfer)

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mothernaturenetwork: 5 meats most likely to send you to the...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:00:31 -0400

mothernaturenetwork:

5 meats most likely to send you to the hospital

A new report ranks meat and poultry based on outbreaks of foodborne illness.

AND THEY ARE NOT EVEN TALKING ABOUT THE BAD FEED - BUY FROM A LOCAL FARMER YOU KNOW WHO CARES ABOUT YOU AND YOUR FAMILY

STOP THIS INSANITY

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:55:10 -0400

One mega-company is gradually taking over our global food supply, poisoning our politics and putting the planet’s food future in serious danger. To stop it we need to expose and break up Monsanto’s worldwide grip.

Monsanto, the chemical giant that gave us poisons like Agent Orange and DDT, has a super-profitable racket. Step 1: Develop pesticides and genetically modified (GM) seeds designed to resist them, patent the seeds, prohibit farmers from replanting their seeds year to year, then send undercover agents out to investigate and sue farmers who don’t comply. Step 2: Spend millions lobbying government officials and contributing to political campaigns, get former Monsanto bigwigs into top government jobs, and then work with them to weaken regulations and push Monsanto goods into markets across the world.

As long as US law allows corporations to spend unlimited sums to influence policy, they can often buy the laws they want. Last year, Monsanto and biotech giants spent a whopping $45m to kill a ballot initiative that would have labelled GMO products just in California, despite 82 percent of Americans wanting to know if they are buying GM. And just this month, the company helped ram through the “Monsanto Protection Act,” that blocks courts from stopping the sale of a product even if they’ve been wrongly approved by the government.

Monsanto’s power in the US gives them a launch pad to dominate across the world. But brave farmers and activists from the EU, to Brazil, to India and Canada are resisting and starting to win.

We’re at a global tipping point. If enough of us pledge just $4 now, we can join forces to break Monsanto’s grip on our politics and our food and help stop the corporate capture of our governments. Avaaz will only process the pledges if we get enough to make a real difference:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_monsanto_rend3/?bPVoAdb&v=24379

Monsanto is driving an industrial farming takeover — trampling small farmers and small businesses as vast ‘monoculture’ farms of single crops leech the land of nutrients, diminish genetic diversity, and create dependency on fertilizers, pesticides and other chemicals. The irony is, it’s not clear that the decimation of natural, sustainable farming has brought any boom in crop yields. Just more profit for the corporations. Our governments should step in, but Monsanto’s lobbying obstructs them.

Monsanto’s near monopoly is breath-taking, with patent rights over 96% of the GM seeds planted in the US. And despite concerns about health and safety, the same patents allow Monsanto to prevent any farmer or scientist from testing their seeds! Still, a few countries have banned or restricted Monsanto products.

They claim their products cost less, but often farmers are lured into multi-year contracts, then seed prices rise, and they have buy new seed each season and use more herbicides to keep out ‘superweeds’. In India, the situation is so dire that one cotton area has been called ‘the suicide belt’, as tens of thousands of the poorest farmers have taken their lives to escape crippling debt.

But farmers and scientists are also fighting back — and winning. One group in India has helped win three patent battles against the corporations, and in Brazil five million farmers sued Monsanto for unfair collection of royalties, and won a $2 billion payout! Scientists are campaigning for sustainable agriculture models, and just last week 1.5 million of us joined the fight against conventional patents in the EU.

Only a massive, global, united force can stand up to Monsanto and the corporate capture of our governments. Let’s expose this dominance of our democracies, help farmers speak out, challenge unjust laws and patents, and go head to head with the corporate lobbies.

a-thousand-desires: I Live Under Your Sky Too is a massive...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:31:17 -0400

a-thousand-desires:

I Live Under Your Sky Too is a massive (32-feet wide) installation by artist Shilpa Gupta, erected by the sea on Carter Road in Bandra, Mumbai.

The installation features the text “I live under your sky too” written in three languages — English, Hindi and Urdu — using LED lights with the individual words intermixed. The lights go on and off, highlighting the sentence in each language alternately. Read between the lines and the message is one of religious, national, political, class, and gender harmony.

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Compound in Plants Found to Halt Growth of Melanoma Cancer Cells

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:29:49 -0400

Compound in Plants Found to Halt Growth of Melanoma Cancer Cells:

A compound in plants known as gossypin was found to inhibit the growth of human melanoma cells and reduce tumor volume while increasing survival rate.

animalsandtrees: Our Food Supply (Except Organic) is Now...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:16:50 -0400

animalsandtrees:

Our Food Supply (Except Organic) is Now Controlled by Monsanto

“Monsanto controls our food, poisons our land, and influences all three branches of government.

This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.”

I'm heading to the UK and the land of unlabeled GM fed animals. What a set back. I hope someone tracks the money.

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:15:39 -0400

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Get hidden GM out of your trolley

Is your meat, milk or ready meal supporting the GM industry?

23 Apr 2013

UK supermarkets abandon non-GM feed policies

In April 2013 most UK supermarkets abandoned long-standing policies on GM animal feed. The move, said to be based on the difficulty in sourcing non-GM feed, flies in the face of the UK Government’s own data showing consumers want GM out of the food chain entirely, as well as our GfK/NOP poll results showing shoppers are willing to pay more to avoid GM.

GM Freeze is surprised that Marks & Spencer is among the companies making this change, as it has long had a strong and admirable stand on this issue.

Non-GM supplies are available. Major European supermarket chains, including Carrefour, have successful labelled lines of non-GM fed animal products. China’s announcement that it is moving to secure non-GM soya imports, which came after UK supermarkets claimed non-GM is not available, proves that large quantities of non-GM are on the market. GM Freeze believes that if UK supermarkets place orders for non-GM normal market forces of supply and demand will ensure more non-GM is grown and sold.

There is no satisfactory explanation for the change in feed policy by UK supermarkets, and companies’ reliance on the widely rejected work of the ISAAA (see our many press releases on this subject) is totally inadequate justification for rejecting consumer demands.

Please take action today to express your dismay at this unnecessary and unwelcome move.

mnenvironmentalillnessnetwork: (via Earth Day...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 17:19:57 -0400

mnenvironmentalillnessnetwork:

(via Earth Day Celebration)

Midtown Global Market and Do It Green! Minnesota will celebrate Earth Day on Sunday, April 21. The event will feature a variety of activities and services focused on “The Way We Grow”, including: • Food choice display to learn about environmental “food prints” • Interactive children programs, including an Eco Twister game and seed planting • Handouts and volunteers on staff in other languages, including Spanish and Hmong • Wallet-sized food choices and shopping tips card at the Do It Green! Resource Center, located in the Market. Other Earth Day activities include: • Sustainable cooking demonstrations by the chefs at Kitchen in the Market • More than 15 educational booths from local environmental organizations • Information from Hennepin County Environmental Services • Entertainment in the Central Plaza

Check this out. States working on labeling of GMO's

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:07:38 -0400

Could we all agree on this?

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:13:00 -0400

The corporate ‘predator state’
March 26, 2013, Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/katrina-vanden-heuvel-the-corporate-predator-state…

Bipartisan agreement in Washington usually means citizens should hold on to their wallets or get ready for another threat to peace. Beneath all the partisan bickering,bipartisan majorities are solid for a trade policy run by and for multinationals, a health-care system serving insurance and drug companies, an energy policy for Big Oil and King Coal, and finance favoring banks that are too big to fail. Economist James Galbraith calls this the “predator state,” one in which large corporate interests rig the rules to protect their subsidies, tax dodges and monopolies. This isn’t the free market; it’s a rigged market. Wall Street is a classic example. The attorney general announces that some banks are too big to prosecute. Despite what the FBI called an “epidemic of fraud,” not one head of a big bank has gone to jail or paid a major personal fine. Bloomberg News estimated that the subsidy they are provided by being too big to fail adds up to an estimated $83 billion a year. Corporate welfare is, of course, offensive to progressives. But true conservatives are — or should be — offended by corporate welfare as well. Conservative economists Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales argue that it is time to “save capitalism from the capitalists,” urging conservatives to support strong measures to break up monopolies, cartels and the predatory use of political power to distort competition. Here is where left and right meet, not in a bipartisan big-money fix, but in an odd bedfellows campaign to clean out Washington. For that to happen, small businesses and community banks will have to develop an independent voice in our politics.

Corporations are People - what should we do with this one?

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:50:47 -0400

Occupy Monsanto

“In Monsanto’s case, for example, how do you think a psychiatrist would diagnose a “person” who has caused more than 250,000 suicides through economic means, has tried to hijack the entire world’s food supply, was one of the two main producers of the ultra deadly and carcinogenic Agent Orange, destroyed multiple towns almost permanently by dumping loads of PCBs and Dioxins with full knowledge of just how deadly the substances are, and so on.”

The Corporate Psychopath - Occupy Monsanto

www.occupymonsanto360.org

A look at corporate psychopathy in the world with a small focus on the Monsanto Company, referred to by many as “The Most Evil Company in the World”.

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A Belated Happy Easter from the folks who brought you Agent Orange

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:36:00 -0400

Occupy Monsanto

The Frankenbunny

(This is actually quite cute, but if Monsanto designed it I’m quite sure it would be a highly venomous Easter killing machine that shoots out projectile eggs filled with Roundup and Agent Orange…)

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All it takes for Monsanto to win, is for a few good men and women to do nothing!

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 09:34:41 -0400

Over the protests of hundreds of thousands of concerned citizens, Congress cut a backroom deal with Monsanto last week that allows the biotech giant to plant genetically engineered crops and seeds, no matter how harmful they may be to our health and environment. Not even a federal court will be able to stop them.

The “Farmer Assurance Program” is hidden in the HR 933 Continuing Resolution, a stopgap spending bill to keep the government running through the end of September. But this sneaky provision, written by Monsanto itself, is better known as the “Monsanto Protection Act.” Because it does just that.

With Congress and the FDA protecting Monsanto, who will protect us?

We will. And one way we’ll do it is by passing statewide citizens’ initiatives to require mandatory labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

We need your help today. In November, voters in Washington State will decide on I-522, a citizens’ ballot initiative to label GMOs. Because this initiative is so critical to all of us, the OCA has pledged $500,000 to the campaign. A generous donor has offered $250,000 to help us get there, but only if we raise the first $250,000 by April 1.

Thanks to the amazing response so far from thousands of individuals, as of this morning, we have raised almost $231,000. That means we need to raise $19,000 more by midnight tonight. Can you help? You can donate online with a credit card or Paypal. Or you can mail a check. Or phone in your donation. http://www.organicconsumersfund.org/donate/i522-april.cfm (Mail-In donations postmarked by midnight April 1 will count toward the matching gift.)

This latest free pass for Monsanto is a slap in the face to consumers who have fought for the past 20 years for more, not less, testing and transparency around GMOs. From the moment Monsanto convinced the FDA that there was “no substantial difference” between genetically engineered crops and their non-GE counterparts, we all have been unwitting lab rats in one big biotech experiment. The FDA does not test GMOs for health and safety. Instead, it relies on the biotech industry’s word that GMOs pose no health threats. Even though scientists warn that this is not true.

The assault on our health, on our right to know, will not end until we pass GMO labeling laws with real teeth, not a watered-down, loophole-riddled federal law that, like the Monsanto Protection Act, would no doubt be written by the biotech industry.

In just this past year, thanks to all of you, we have made much progress in the battle for labeling. But we’re missing one critical victory, a victory Monsanto is desperate to deprive us of: the first statewide GMO labeling law.

Matching gifts of $250,000 don’t come along every day. This is a brilliant opportunity to double every donation, no matter how large or small, toward a victory in Washington State. The campaign is young. If we can fund it now, we’ll be able to reach more voters with the truth, before our opponents permanently sway them with their lies and misinformation.

Please help us raise $19,000 by midnight. http://www.organicconsumersfund.org/donate/i522-april.cfm Every dollar you contribute will go directly to support the I-522 campaign.

Thank you for being a part of this revolutionary food movement. You make it all worthwhile!

In solidarity,

Ronnie Cummins
National Director

P.S. Just $19,000 more by midnight, and we’ll receive a $250,000 matching gift toward the I-522 GMO labeling initiative. Please donate today.http://www.organicconsumersfund.org/donate/i522-april.cfm (Mail-In donations postmarked by midnight April 1 will count toward the matching gift.)

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Who is responsible for school shootings?

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 18:18:48 -0400

The name of the game played by the young man in the Connecticut school shooting was “Call to Duty.” The name of the game played in my novel, Firewall of the Mind, is “Local Hero”. I am not writing about school shootings, but about what might be happening in Games, TV and in talk radio that can control the minds of our children. Look for it on Kindle

One more reason we have costly health care!

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:16:20 -0400

Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France
March 3, 2012, Washington Post blog
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/why-an-mri-costs-1080-in-america-and-280-in-france…

There is a simple reason health care in the United States costs more than it does anywhere else: The prices are higher. In 2009, Americans spent $7,960 per person on health care. Our neighbors in Canada spent $4,808. The Germans spent $4,218. The French, $3,978. If we had the per-person costs of any of those countries, America’s deficits would vanish. There are many possible explanations for why Americans pay so much more. It could be that we’re sicker. Or that we go to the doctor more frequently. But health researchers have largely discarded these theories. Americans don’t see the doctor more often or stay longer in the hospital than residents of other countries. Quite the opposite, actually. We spend less time in the hospital than Germans and see the doctor less often than the Canadians. The International Federation of Health Plans … surveyed its members on the prices paid for 23 medical services and products in different countries, asking after everything from a routine doctor’s visit to a dose of Lipitor to coronary bypass surgery. And in 22 of 23 cases, Americans are paying higher prices than residents of other developed countries. Usually, we’re paying quite a bit more. In America, … it’s a free-for-all. Providers largely charge what they can get away with, often offering different prices to different insurers, and an even higher price to the uninsured.

Here's To Your Health

5 Most Unhealthy Snacks

Take Action For A Fair Food And Farm Bill Tell Congress to Repeal the “Monsanto Protection Act”...

Take Action For A Fair Food And Farm Bill

dananw: The Monsanto Meditation...

This is not including the chemicals in our food, folks!

You and Your Family Are Guinea Pigs for the Chemical Corporations

How Americans Became Exposed to Biohazards in the Greatest Uncontrolled Experiment Ever Launched

Monsanto, DuPont and Dow are preparing to keep you ill!

mothernaturenetwork: 5 meats most likely to send you to the...

STOP THIS INSANITY

a-thousand-desires: I Live Under Your Sky Too is a massive...

Compound in Plants Found to Halt Growth of Melanoma Cancer Cells

animalsandtrees: Our Food Supply (Except Organic) is Now...

I'm heading to the UK and the land of unlabeled GM fed animals. What a set back. I hope someone tracks the money.

in this section:

Stop GM salmon now

We pledge “No” to GM wheat

GM honey needs a GM label

Get hidden GM out of your trolley

23 Apr 2013

UK supermarkets abandon non-GM feed policies

mnenvironmentalillnessnetwork: (via Earth Day...

Check this out. States working on labeling of GMO's

Could we all agree on this?

Corporations are People - what should we do with this one?

A Belated Happy Easter from the folks who brought you Agent Orange

The Frankenbunny

(This is actually quite cute, but if Monsanto designed it I’m quite sure it would be a highly venomous Easter killing machine that shoots out projectile eggs filled with Roundup and Agent Orange…)

All it takes for Monsanto to win, is for a few good men and women to do nothing!

Who is responsible for school shootings?

One more reason we have costly health care!

Here's To Your Health

5 Most Unhealthy Snacks

Take Action For A Fair Food And Farm Bill Tell Congress to Repeal the “Monsanto Protection Act”...

Take Action For A Fair Food And Farm Bill

dananw: The Monsanto Meditation...

This is not including the chemicals in our food, folks!

You and Your Family Are Guinea Pigs for the Chemical Corporations

How Americans Became Exposed to Biohazards in the Greatest Uncontrolled Experiment Ever Launched

Monsanto, DuPont and Dow are preparing to keep you ill!

mothernaturenetwork: 5 meats most likely to send you to the...

STOP THIS INSANITY

a-thousand-desires: I Live Under Your Sky Too is a massive...

Compound in Plants Found to Halt Growth of Melanoma Cancer Cells

animalsandtrees: Our Food Supply (Except Organic) is Now...

I'm heading to the UK and the land of unlabeled GM fed animals. What a set back. I hope someone tracks the money.

in this section:

Stop GM salmon now

We pledge “No” to GM wheat

GM honey needs a GM label

Get hidden GM out of your trolley

23 Apr 2013

UK supermarkets abandon non-GM feed policies

mnenvironmentalillnessnetwork: (via Earth Day...

Check this out. States working on labeling of GMO's

Share RtK GMO!

Could we all agree on this?

Corporations are People - what should we do with this one?

A Belated Happy Easter from the folks who brought you Agent Orange

The Frankenbunny(This is actually quite cute, but if Monsanto designed it I’m quite sure it would be a highly venomous Easter killing machine that shoots out projectile eggs filled with Roundup and Agent Orange…)

All it takes for Monsanto to win, is for a few good men and women to do nothing!

Who is responsible for school shootings?

One more reason we have costly health care!

The Frankenbunny

(This is actually quite cute, but if Monsanto designed it I’m quite sure it would be a highly venomous Easter killing machine that shoots out projectile eggs filled with Roundup and Agent Orange…)