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Globalized Beef, Palm Oil & Timber Corporations Now Main Cause of Tropical Deforestation

9:45 am in Beef, Business & Politics, deforestation, Food & Health, Travel & Nature, union of concerned scientists by TreeHugger

palm oil deforestation photo Land cleared in Indonesia for a palm oil plantation, photo: H Dragon/Creative Commons Confirming what previous studies have shown, new research from the Union of Concerned Scientists shows that the main threats to tropical forests are no longer from...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bt Toxin Detected In Most Pregnant and Non-Pregnant Canadian Females Tested

11:12 pm in Beef, corn syrup, dairy farms, Food & Health by TreeHugger

Pregnant photo Pregnant. Image credit:by Miky Jpeg, Flickr A first ever report of its kind, documenting trace levels of Bt protein (Cry1Ab) measured in a majority of (30) pregnant and (39) non-pregnant Canadian women tested could indicate a serious health risk...or not. (More research is needed to determine if significant public health risks are indicated by this limited data.) Hopefully some informed answers will be forthcoming from FDA and USDA, and from the Canadian authorities, as well. See the coverage inRead the full story on TreeHugger

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