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By Dr. Mercola As unbelievable as it sounds, current law makes it illegal for food producers to share certain types of scientific information with you. So when Diamond Food relayed health information about the omega-3 fats in walnuts on product packaging and also on their Web site, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) attacked. Even though the information was entirely true , and backed by peer-reviewed scientific research.
FDA Says Walnuts Are a "New Drug"
Dominos
Ajka alumina plant accident
Detail from natural-colour satellite image, showing the northwestern corner of the dam of reservoir N° 10 collapsed, freeing about a 700,000 cubic metres of highly alkaline and caustic red mud (2010/10/09, picture from Digitalglobe ). Natural-colour satellite image of the area surrounding the spill. The Ajka alumina sludge spill was an industrial accident at a caustic waste reservoir chain of the Ajkai Timföldgyár alumina plant in Ajka , Veszprém County , in western Hungary . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] On 4 October 2010, at 12:25 CEST (10:25 UTC ), [ 5 ] the northwestern corner of the dam of reservoir no. 10 collapsed, freeing approximately one million cubic metres (35 million cubic feet) of liquid waste from red mud lakes.
2012
Ecuador & Bolivia Grant Mother Earth Strong Constitutional & Legal Rights
What is “Right’s of Nature”? “ Rights of Nature is the recognition and honouring that Nature has rights. It is the recognition that trees, oceans, animals, mountains have rights just as human beings have rights. Rights of Nature is about balancing what is good for human beings against what is good for other species, what is good for the planet as a world. It is the holistic recognition that all life, all ecosystems on our planet are deeply intertwined. “ Source