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Livestock factories commonly treat pigs, cattle and chicken with antibiotics to prevent animal disease and promote growth. About half of the antibiotics produced in the US are used in the raising of animals for human consumption.

The result of such overuse is a growing human health hazard: antibiotic-resistant bacteria that can cause deadly diseases. In May of 1999, a report by the Minnesota Health Department found that human infections by antibiotic-resistant germs increased almost eightfold between 1992 and 1997.

The Institute of Medicine, a division of the National Academy of Sciences, first reported this problem back in 1989.

Just 10 years later, in 1999, the US Food and Drug Administration announced its plan to start regulating the use of antibiotics in livestock factories. One can only speculate whether their tardy attempt to create guidelines came in response to a 1998 New England Journal of Medicine study which noted that a strain of salmonella bacteria had emerged that was resistant to five different antibiotics!

Source: Rachel’s Environment & Health Weekly, March 9, 2000.

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Exposed Canadian Breasts at Risk
Canada has the world's highest extremely low frequency (ELF) magnetic fields in residential areas. This includes the electric power frequency. And we have among the most elevated exposure for cellular phone and mast emissions. Not surprisingly, we also have the world's greatest incidence of breast cancer.

The Problems of Internet Pollution
The conquest of time and space began with the telegraph wires over 155 years ago. It had two important consequences: the world began to be electrified and human beings became capable of influencing faraway places with no time delay. Both of these have adversely affected life on earth.

Water, Water Everywhere
Ever since Walkerton's tragic deadly E. coli outbreak, Canadians across this country are asking, "Is our tap water really safe?" We have every right to ask. Walkerton, a fiasco of cover-ups and incompetence whose resulting deaths and illnesses were unnecessary, could have happened anywhere in Canada..

Healthy Animals Don't Get Sick!
Foot and mouth disease is a historic contagious viral disease in cattle and other cloven-hooved animals. It often causes no symptoms and animals can go on to regain health following exposure. It's considered safe for people to eat meat from exposed or affected animals.

Britain Still Slaughtering Cows
Over two and a half million animals were slaughtered, burned and buried in Britain this spring because of foot and mouth disease (FMD). By May, another 150,000 condemned animals awaited slaughter, held up by more than 200,000 carcasses needing burial.

Like Oil and Water
Modern farming activities are no longer limited to small, family-owned operation.

Cellphones And Your Child's Health
Getting your child a cellphone for safety's sake? Consider this: Absorption of microwaves in the cellphone frequency range is greatest in an object about the size of a child's head. Also, the thinner skulls of children allow greater penetration.

Hanging Up on Electromagnetic Radiation
A monitor for baby, an electric blanket for grandma and a cellphone for sister..

Is Your Teenager Begging For A Cellphone?
Nine million Canadians use cellphones: That number grows by more than 5,000 new users per day, with teenagers comprising the fastest growing segment.

The Nature Challenge
When we read about health issues in the newspaper or seestories on TV, the focus is almost always on the potential benefits of the latest medical "breakthrough, such as an exciting new drug, technique or technology.

Chickens As Toxic Machines
No more cute little red hen: Today's caged chickens growsick and die to produce our bacteria-laden eggs and meat. My local supermarket lists the price of eggs on the wall: White eggs, extra large: $2.

The Truth About Beef
Beef or chicken?"-a common question asked in restaurants every day. Ifyou're like most of us, fowl is first on your list.

Superbugs, Viruses, and Agribusiness
Sometimes it seems that if an industry doesn't want to heed the message, it shoots the messenger. Microbiologist James Zahn, PhD, formerly with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), has identified bacteria in the air surrounding industrial hog farms.

Electromagnetic Pollution
Tall, cellular antennas on school roofs will be a less common sight in Vancouver, BC, thanks to a groundbreaking decision by the Vancouver School Board (VSB). The Board has banned new cellular antennas from school lands.

E. coli in Cattle

Fit for Human Consumption?

Finger on the Trigger
If you must pack a cellphone, treat it like a loaded pistol. Keep it turned off. Don't carry it near ovaries, testicles, or the heart.

Electro Awareness
Electromagnetic fields can substantially affect your health. Man-made frequencies can interfere with the body's natural rhythms. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC 2002), a subset of the World Health Organization, classifies EMF as a Group 2B carcinogen ("possibly carcinogenic) based on "consistent statistical associations of high-level residential magnetic fields with a doubling of the risk of childhood leukemia.

Radiation Report
Cell Towers Cover the Land Under the guise of public safety, the American Congress has passed another law requiring the blanketing of the United States from end to end with more communications tower.

Don't Dial Cell for Safety

Canadian Meat Laced With Drugs
Evidence of rampant drug use in livestock has Europeans seeking to ban Canadian beef and pork. A European Union audit released by the Canadian Health Coalition reveals uncontrolled use of cancer-causing hormones, antibiotics, endocrine disruptions and other agro-chemicals in meat.

Protein Makes Cattle Sick
Despite earlier fears and trade disputes over Brazilian beef, free-range South American cattle are healthier than intensively farmed North American and European livestock. That's the opinion of Bolivian cattle rancher Edward Luttwack.

Disease Scientist Blasts Kill Policy
One of Britain's leading advisers on foot and mouth disease says his government slaughtered hundreds of thousands of animals it didn't need to in the campaign to contain the outbrea.

Cancerous Pork Drug Ban
You now have extra reason to stop eating pork. Canadian hog farmers use a known carcinogenic drug to speed the growth of pigs destined for market. New evidence shows the hormone drug, Carbadox, can harm workers, animals and the environment and is being systematically abused by farmers.

Chickens, Cows and Pigs on Drugs
About 9.3 million kilograms (20.5 million pounds) of antibiotics were given to animals in 1999, up 15 per cent from 1998, according to the Animal Health Institute (AHI). The trade group held that 80 per cent were used for therapeutic purposes, although many of the drugs do double as growth promoters.

Electromagnetic Hazards Caught on Tape
A new film, "Public Exposure: DNA, Democracy and the Wireless Revolution," is a must-have for anyone concerned about electromagnetic radiatio.

Cell Phone Towers Scrutinized
Electromagnetic radiation emitted from cell phone towers may pose a danger to humans, according to new research commissioned by Green Member of European Parliament Caroline Luca.

Wireless Phone Watch
Want to know how much radiation your cell phone emits? Check out the online list compiled and published by CNET.com. The chart lists units in SAR, or specific absorption rate, which is a way of measuring the quantity of radiofrequency energy that is absorbed by the body.

We Are Stewards of This Earth
When God created heaven and earth, he commanded that humans be the stewards of His creation. When I look at what has been done to this creation today, I wonder if God is satisfied. We have failed bitterly at being good stewards by focusing on our own needs. What was given to us to protect we have exploited.

Study Renews Cellphone Fears

Cost of Illness Just Sick

Five Ways to Get your Fruits and Veggies

Supersize Dilemma

The Cell-Phone Tumour Link

Free GE Video Viewing

Protecting BC Naturopathy

Electromagnetic activists making waves
Many school kids may no longer be walking under live wires, so to spea.

Is your home safe?

Counteracting cataracts

Mercury and autism

Down on the Factory Farm
Intensive animal agriculture means that more animals suffer now than at any time in human history. Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) statistics show that over 665 million factory-farmed animals were slaughtered in Canada in 2004. Behind these statistics are sentient beings.

The Compassionate Carnivore
Every spring, men would come to my uncle's farm and buy their family's Easter lambs and goats. Most just loaded them into their trucks and drove away, but one man wanted to kill and dress his purchase on the spot. I remember seeing my uncle wrapping a rope around the branch of a tree while the man waited, holding the lamb in his arms-and then I ran away.

Something's in the Air
When Martin Weatherall retired, he wanted to get away from it all. The former Toronto police investigator and his wife bought a place in the Ontario countryside. But almost as soon as the couple moved in, Weatherall started feeling sick.

Health Risks From Wireless Technologies
Suppose several hundred marine biologists were to study your swimming pool. A reasonable percentage of them report that you've got sharks in your pool. Would you dive in? Would you let your kids swim in the pool? According to European reports, cellphone radiation may be the shark in the water, and it is endangering our health.

Farm Sanctuary
Gene Baur is one of a rare breed of animal rights activists who treats a very emotional subject pragmatically. He and his Farm Sanctuary organization are dedicated to ending the inhumane treatment of animals intended for slaughter and to improving the conditions under which animals become food.