Yes, there’s mercury in your salmon and melamine in little Jenny’s formula, but not enough to do any real damage.
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Happy Holidays!
A few holiday gifts to share. Here’s one of my favorite YouTube videos, Free Hugs. It’s 3:39 minutes, the length of the Sick Puppies song, All the Same. This one, Free Parking, has a theme similar to Free Hugs, but it’s by filmmaker Kurt Kuenne and is quite a bit longer, 16:23. Watch the beginning…
Eat fish? Don't read this
The LA Times had a story today on melamine in farmed fish from China, the source of 70 percent of farm-raised fish. This isn’t exactly breaking news. Recent melamine-in-milk stories have mentioned melamine in animal feed, which means fish, shrimp, beef, pork, and poultry were likely to be contaminated. Melamine-in-fish stories go back to the…
The need for health and the right to health
“We’ve let Reaganistic ‘screw you, I’ve got mine’ thought run us for close to 30 years and we now have a near-depression. Let’s try something new. Let’s give a damn about each other.”
Direct-to-consumer: The ads we love to hate
Last week the CEO of Roche Pharmaceuticals had some candid comments on direct-to-consumer advertising: Direct-to-consumer promotion [of drugs] was the single worst decision for the industry. … When industry says we’re spending all the money on R&D but actually it’s spending it on TV advertising to preserve margins, it doesn’t get much credibility. William Burns…
Melamine update
What happened in China, and what threatens a widening swath of the world’s food supply, is a human tragedy that can’t be understood simply in terms of science.
Economic recovery and healthcare reform
Many of the ideas in Clinton’s plan were too complex to be communicated efficiently and effectively. This made political positioning, always difficult, even more delicate.
