Three mule deer wandered up to a brand-new bridge near Grass Lake, in the far north of California, and walked across it. The bridge was built just for them, and other animals, and a trail camera caught them taking advantage of it. Remarkably, the bridge was not even finished being built when they used it.…Continue reading The Kind of People Who Build Bridges for Animals
For years, the only way to fight against the weedkiller Roundup has been in a courtroom. Individuals who asserted that their lives had been forever altered by cancer from the weedkiller sued its maker, Bayer, which purchased the chemical’s original manufacturer, Monsanto, by the tens of thousands. At times, juries agreed with the plaintiffs and…Continue reading Kennedy Is in the Room. But Whose Science Is on the Table?
$53.5 billion. That is what twenty of the world’s largest grain, fertilizer, meat, and dairy companies paid their shareholders over 2021 and 2022. The United Nations estimates that it would cost about $51.5 billion to feed the 230 million most desperate, hungry people on earth. So a single slice of the food industry handed out…Continue reading $53.5 Billion: A Food System That Feeds Its Investors
By Jefferey Jaxen The headlines are eye-catching: a massive $8 billion legal loss for Johnson & Johnson. An astonishing figure, big enough to perhaps alert the public to the harmful effects of Risperdal. Almost immediately after the court shellacking, Johnson & Johnson’s stock price dropped. Financial analysts penned columns with their predictions and recommendations for…Continue reading $8B Legal Loss Puts J&J Back In Scandalous Spotlight
By Jefferey Jaxen Statnews recently reported, “there’s reason to believe two of the four choices made last winter for this upcoming season’s vaccine could be off the mark.” In other words, this year’s flu vaccine is mismatched. Statnews explains, “the Northern Hemisphere vaccine didn’t match the strains of those viruses that are now dominant.” Despite…Continue reading Flu Shot Pushed On Pregnant Women Despite Unanswered Safety Risks
Breaking news out of Philadelphia as Reuters is reporting that Johnson & Johnson must pay $8 billion in punitive damages to a man who previously won $680,000 over his claims that it failed to warn that young men using its antipsychotic drug Risperdal could grow breasts. The case is one of thousands in Philadelphia alone…Continue reading J&J Loses Again, Pays $8B Over Antipsychotic Drug Harm
NVIC’s 2019 Annual Report on U.S. State Vaccine LegislationBy NVIC Advocacy TeamCitizen involvement in the legislative process to protect the human right to exercise informed consent to vaccination increased to unprecedented levels in 2019 to meet the most aggressive and unwarranted attack on vaccine exemptions in U.S. history. In a 2019 Annual Report on U.S.…Continue reading VACCINE EXEMPTIONS UNDER ATTACK IN 2019
Minnesota Republican state Reps. Eric Lucero (Dayton) and Mary Franson (Alexandria) make a dynamic duo on their regular web series, The RIGHT View. During their recent episode they spotlighted special guest Big Pharma who volunteers to answer a series of clarifying questions regarding the pharmaceutical industry.