http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEV5AFFcZ-s&feature=colike

Big Ag doesn’t advertise the chemicals it stuffs into animals, so the scientists conducting these studies figured out a clever way to detect them. Bird feathers, like human fingernails, accumulate chemicals and drugs that an animal is exposed to. So scientists from Johns Hopkins University and Arizona State University examined feather meal — a poultry byproduct made of feathers.

via Arsenic in Our Chicken? – NYTimes.com.

“If you put a label on genetically engineered food you might as well put a skull and crossbones on it.” — Norman Braksick, president of Asgrow Seed Co., a subsidiary of Monsanto, quoted in the Kansas City Star, March 7, 1994

“Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the FDAs job.” — Phil Angell, Monsantos director of corporate communications, quoted in the New York Times, October 25, 1998

via Millions Against Monsanto: The Food Fight of Our Lives.

… many sleeping problems may have roots in the human body’s natural preference for segmented sleep …

via BBC News – The myth of the eight-hour sleep.

We hear this is a good website to estimate how much a car repair should cost.

OK, I’m officially NEVER drinking Pepsi products again.