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  • Now Even You Vegetarians Can Get Your Daily Allowance of Antibiotics

    I cut way back on my consumption of meats mostly for sustainability reasons. Living in an area where restaurants with grass fed and antibiotic-free meats are few and far between, I decided not to take the chance. But a new study

  • Better Burgers at Burger Lounge

    The Burger Lounge, which opened in 2006, now has 3 locations across San Diego offering organic and healthy burger alternatives for one of the healthiest, if not greenest, of cities. Created by Dean Loring and Mike Gilligan,

  • A Picture is Worth: Improve Your Immune System

    Sign in Amsterdam hotel. TreeHugger has often noted that we need a bit of good bacteria. Source via

  • Drug Take Back Programs On the Rise

    Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy Company just announced that it has joined the list of facilities that can and will take your unused and outdated medicines and properly dispose of them "by an FDA-approved company." Neither

  • Tyson Injects Unborn Chickens with Antibiotics, Sues USDA to Keep Antibiotic-Free Label

    In a baffling case of doublespeak, the world's largest meat processing company Tyson Foods has publicly admitted to injecting chickens with antibiotics—but it's suing the US Department of Agriculture in order

  • Car Care Tips, Organic Chai Tea and How to Trash Prescription Drugs

    :: Keep your car clean and well-tuned to lower your carbon footprint.

  • Soil Bacteria Thrive on Antibiotics: A Potential Reservoir of Antibiotic-Resistance

    Soil bacteria have thumbed their ‘nose’ at antibiotics this week. A surprising study in the journal Science shows that soil bacteria can thrive on antibiotics alone. The bacteria apparently have no problem using our most trusted weapons against them as

  • Best of Design Democracy '08: Accessories

    We've been spotlighting Design Democracy '08 a lot this week; we love the idea of combining design, technology, mass customization and local manufacturing. The design competition that's looking at reconfiguring the way we consume things is confident

  • Michael Pollan on What Sustainability is Really About

    Michael Pollan writes in the New York Times about how the word sustainability is losing its meaning.

  • Antibacterial Cleaners Do More Harm Than Good

    John previously noted that the triclosan in antibacterial soaps and cleaners was a gender bender that was disrupting the natural grown of frogs and was found in 55% of the rivers and streams in America, and provided a long and surprising list of

  • Microscopic Biodiversity Vital for You and Me

    Just because you don't see them, doesn't mean they're not there--or that they're not imperative to our survival. The health of our planet depends on billions and billions of tiny, invisible organisms, according to

  • Keep Antibiotics Working

    An estimated 70 percent of all antibiotics used in the United States are regularly added to the feed of livestock and poultry that are not sick. The antibiotics are used to promote growth for the animals, but they also have negative effects on human

  • How Industrial Farming Hurts Us, Even if We Don't Eat It

    Even if you don't eat meat or buy organic, our industrial farming system can be seriously bad for your health. The Food and Drug Administration is about to approve the drug cefquinome for use in cattle, where there are more than a dozen other drugs

  • Factory Farms Should Make Safer Turkeys

    The turkeys on our Thanksgiving dinner tables this year are different from the ones the Pilgrims had at the first Thanksgiving. Nearly all of the 50 million turkeys Americans will eat on Thursday will come from animal factories. While raising turkeys

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