Saturday, April 12, 2025

Have Your Coke and Guzzle It Too

The world’s largest purveyor of sugary sodas now peddles empty-calorie science too. The corporate giant’s latest scientific fraud is prompted by corporate panic.
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People’s vaccine: Calls grow for equal access to coronavirus vaccine as rich countries hoard...

A growing movement is calling for the development of a people’s vaccine and the suspension of intellectual property rights to expand access.

How to keep indoor air clean to reduce the chance of spreading Covid

Using increased ventilation or running an appropriately sized air cleaner or filter can add an extra layer of protection.

Sanders demands probe of push to give company patent for public-funded cancer treatment

Sanders demanded a probe of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) patent proposal in a letter to Christi Grimm, inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Reducing food waste can protect our health, as well as our planet’s

Reducing food waste can address two major problems facing humanity today: cost of food waste and the impact on the health of our people and our planet.

Buyers should beware of organic labels on nonfood products

Without effective oversight, unscrupulous retailers have an incentive to continue cashing in on the organic seal.

This pandemic brings out the worst in our CEOs

Last year, CEOs signed a pledge to be better corporate citizens. Then the pandemic hit.

Not Lovin’ It

McDonald's new ad campaign is trying to tap into people’s emotions linking their positive feelings of love with the Golden Arches. Maybe it would be better served to ask the workers about the “love” they’re getting from McDonald’s.

Judge blocks California from putting cancer warning on Roundup

So far, juries in three trials have ordered the company to pay billions after concluding that the product did cause cancer.
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‘Millions of lives are at stake’: Pressure grows on Biden to back WTO waiver...

“The world needs 10 to 15 billion doses to reach herd immunity, and right now all of the global production together is on track to make 6 billion doses this year.”