Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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.”
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Dr. Paul Farmer: Centuries of inequality in the US laid groundwork for pandemic devastation

“All the social pathologies of our nation come to the fore during epidemics.”
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Pentagon ran a secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China at the height of the...

The U.S. military ran a secret anti-vaccination campaign at the height of the pandemic in the Philippines and other nations to sow doubt about COVID vaccines made by China, according to a new investigation by Reuters.

Trump Administration fires thousands of US health workers, putting well-being of Americans at ‘serious...

Termination emails were sent out to employees of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and several smaller agencies.

Two years in, we need to learn the lessons of this pandemic

It’s time we flex the power that comes with being essential and fight for a new economy that favors people, not just corporations.

Exposure to common herbicide potentially harms endangered species

“Finally the EPA has been forced to acknowledge atrazine’s far-reaching harms.”

US coronavirus data will now go straight to the White House. Here’s what this...

Despite the inevitable challenges that come with tackling a pandemic in real time, the CDC remains the best-positioned agency – not just in the US but the entire world – to help us manage this crisis as safely as possible.
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Pandemic, wildfires & heat Wave: Undocumented farm workers face ‘triple threat’ as West Coast...

“Farmworkers have continued to work during this whole time, despite fears of contracting COVID-19 in the workplace, despite fears of getting heat stress while they’re at work, and now despite fears of the dangers that wildfire smoke brings.”