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Posted by shari | Under Chemicals, Children's health, Eating organic, Making healthier choices, Water Thursday Mar 20, 2008HEALTH IMPLICATIONS OF FLUORIDE IN YOUR DRINKING WATER This quick Fluoride Action Network video shows us some of the major concerns of fluoride in drinking water. Check out the warning label on your toothpaste tube. It notes that the amount of fluoride in a single brushing (.25 mg) should not be swallowed, and if so, the label says you should contact a Poison Control Center. Interestingly, that’s the same amount that’s in an average glass of tap water. Learn more and watch:
CLONED MEAT NOW IN U.S. FOOD SUPPLY
Although the USDA only recently removed a voluntary market sale moratorium on foods from cloned animals, a Kansas cattleman claims these products are already in the U.S. food supply. “I have sold offspring of cloned animals into feedlots, and they are in the food chain,” said Donald Coover, a cattleman and veterinarian. Coover says he has sold semen from clones to many US meat producers in the past few years, and that others have been doing the same. Despite strong public opposition, the FDA has announced that these foods do not need to be labeled as such, so consumers buying meat dairy and eggs don’t know if the product came from a cloned animal. Fortunately, the USDA has clarified that foods labeled as “organic” cannot come from cloned animals.
Learn more: http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_10496.cfm
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