How Well-Organized Boycotts Change Corporate Policy After biking home from work, eating an organic salad for dinner, and sending off your annual dues to Greenpeace, you decide to kick back with an ice-cold Kirin Beer—not realizing you’re supporting Mitsubishi, destroyer of rainforests. You can’t have a Coke, either, because the company sponsors an aquarium that […]
Are Herbal Remedies Under Attack From a Vast International Conspiracy?
New Products Fight the Backyard Pool’s Chlorine Addiction
Why expose Fluffy or Fido to synthetic chemicals when there are so many healthier green options nowadays?
Playing Ecological Roulette with Mother Nature’s Designs We are in the midst of a great historic transition into the Biotech Age. The ability to isolate, identify and recombine genes is making the gene pool available, for the first time, as the primary raw resource for future economic activity on Earth. After thousands of years of […]
In 1992, when he was 11 years old, Damion Heersink of the southeastern Alabama town of Dothan attended a Boy Scout campout, and unwittingly ate a quarter-sized piece of uncooked hamburger. It’s certainly not unusual for kids to eat hamburgers:
“Free speech not only lives, it rocks!” exulted Oprah Winfrey February 26 upon hearing that an Amarilllo jury had dismissed the “mad cow” case against her and co-defendant Howard Lyman of the Humane Society of the United States. The resounding victory came in the first test case of one of the nation’s 13 “food disparagement” […]
Marine Campaigns Spotlight Wasteful Fishing Practices Thirty miles off Cape Cod, Dr. Carl Safina of the National Audubon Society’s Living Oceans Program and pilot Charlie Horton circle desert-like stretches of blue water in a single-engine Super Cub. Their object: to locate schools of bluefin tuna, 500- to 700-pound fish that are highly prized by commercial […]
Organic Foods May Be Grown with Sewage Sludge and Drugs Last December, Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman made a greatly anticipated announcement that at once had farmers, consumers and organic retailers across the country holding their breath, then raising their voices in astonished protest: The proposed federal organic standards for U.S. food crops included inherently […]
A Universal Studios Theme Park in Japan Sits on Top of a Toxic Waste Site There were the usual men in suits, and there were also actors dressed as Woody Woodpecker, Marilyn Monroe, Herman Munster and Groucho Marx. The place was Osaka, Japan, two years ago, and the occasion was the signing of an agreement […]
