The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decision to ban saccharin generated a predictable reaction from the food and beverage industries, but also aroused the many consumers of this product (current U.S. consumption is 5 million pounds per year). Following hasty Congressional hearings, more than 100 senators and...
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This year I have been growing vegetables in my backyard, and when I can, baking my own bread. While a sense of back-to-the-earth may be a part of my motivations, my vegetable garden is also, in a way, my personal protest against capitalism. I have come to realize that foods are corporate products, not grown to feed...
Suppose we can and do read the small print, what does it tell us? Carrageenan, glycol monostearate, BHT, diglycerides, propylene glycol alginate! Most of us are none the wiser. Although It was a great triumph when consumer pressure forced the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) to require listing of non-foods on food...
One of the films that Steve gave me was called "Pregnancy testing in the 70's". It was a panel discussion between six members of the medical profession. The trend of the discussion was how important routine early pregnancy tests are, since women could go into X-ray therapy, for instance, unaware of their pregnancy...