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Healthy Homemade Chicken Nuggets with Honey Dipping Sauce

Chicken nuggets: quite possibly the all-time favorite meal among kids in America. I don’t know anyone under 10 who doesn’t love chicken nuggets. The problem with most chicken nuggets is they are full of junk like MSG, trans fats, and petrochemicals. And of course the chicken is usually from battery chickens from factory farms, which are pumped full of hormones and antibiotics and fed genetically modified corn and soybeans. Here’s an easy, healthy recipe for homemade chicken nuggets that children will love.
No GMO Challenge: Bacteria and Viruses and Super Weeds, Oh My!
ACT NOW: Email Kansas Gov. Sebelius — No Growth Hormones in Milk!

We’re not in Kansas anymore. In other words, Kansas is no longer the idyllic land of milk and honey it once was. Oh sure, they still have milk. But now their milk can be full of drugs — hazardous growth hormones — and they won’t know. If we don’t act quickly, the labels are coming off in Kansas.
Unless Governor Kathleen Sebelius vetoes it before April 16th, a Kansas bill would restrict any national US dairy from properly labeling their milk products as free from genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (rbGH or rbST).
Amber Waves of Soybeans

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Are Vegetarians Bad for the Environment?

I’m always reading about people eating less meat in order to reduce their carbon footprint. These people say that the most important thing you can do to help the environment is to go vegetarian. For example, Kelly Freston wrote this article last year in the Huffington Post: Vegetarian is the New Prius: Last month, the [...]
Look, Mom — No Cavities!

I went to the dentist today. And guess what? No cavities! This is the first time I’ve had no cavities in years. And you would think that I would be more prone to dental decay — considering the stress I’ve had on my body over the past year (childbirth, breast feeding). Here’s the interesting thing… [...]
Genetically Modified Poison
Here is a great video explaining the problems of GM foods globally: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9SywTI3jsI&rel=1] Also, here’s a link to The Dying Fields, a PBS documentary about the suicides among farmers in India. There is a suicide every eight hours. You can watch the whole thing online. This is what Linn-Cohen Cole was referring to in her [...]





