Aquafina has changed its labels to reflect what it actually is – P.W.S. or Public Water Source – tap water. Granted, it is filtered. The company explains a seven-step process on its website, which includes UV light, reverse osmosis, a charcoal filter, and ozonation. Under the pressure from Corporate Accountability [...]
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Splendid Spoon is a company founded in New York by Nicole Centeno in 2011, and you can really tell its New York based roots based on how the company operates. Recently, I received a box of organic smoothies and soups from the company, and placed them in my [...]
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Carrol Krause, a former reporter for the Herald-Times of Bloomington, Indiana, had to retire from her journalism career because of an ovarian cancer diagnosis in 2014. Before she passed away in February, she wrote a blog titled ‘Stories by Carrol’ highlighting the best and the worst of her last days. A few [...]
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Some love stories get tested early in the relationship. When Las Vegas bartender Rob Mooberry started feeling extremely unwell, his girlfriend Amanda Mutchler, who was working at the same place – the Cosmopolitan Hotel & Casino as a waitress, and he were together for less than six months. After [...]
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These antibiotics received countless warnings time and time again. Since 1992 consumers have reported the devastating effects they can have on the body, and yet the FDA did nothing. In 2016, the drug warning was finally updated to include the reports, but for many it was too late, [...]
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Today about 9 billion chickens are raised for food in the U.S. annually, a staggering 1400% increase from 50 years ago. Back then, the chicken were raised by more than 1.6 million independent farmers, while today less than 30,000 farms — many of them concentrated factory farms — raise billions of [...]
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As a holistic dentist who’s been working in his field of choice for over 40 years, Lester Sawicki has learned an awful lot about teeth, and what dental patients really want for that matter. Many of them want not only healthy teeth but also whiter teeth, something that can be [...]
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A wise person once said, “if we know who buys our NASCAR drivers, shouldn’t we know who buys our politicians?” Helping to fill that void is young entrepreneur Nick Rubin, who created a browser plugin (aka a web-based app) at age 17 to help citizens find out exactly who’s [...]
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For most people, the consumption of berries is limited to only a few different types, and they are almost never organic. Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries (in that order) are the three most popular types in the U.S., but they’re almost never organic and are often heavily sprayed with chemicals, [...]
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Originally based out of Leverkusen, Germany, the pesticide, GMO crop, and drug producing company Bayer has long been known for several different controversies, including the safety of its products. In 2020, Bayer completed the sale of its Animal Health business unit to Elanco Animal Health Incorporated [...]
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