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Over the weekend, I was driving the countryside with my mother-in-law and we spotted a flock of wild turkeys, which always makes me crazy happy. We never used to see turkeys when I was a kid and that's all directly linked to the environmental impact of DDT on the Wisconsin wildlife. No turkeys, no hawks, no pelicans either, but now they're coming back and it's a beautiful thing. I found myself branching into a litany about the evils of pesticides, which then devolved into a rant about HFCS. Then I realized that the words coming out of my mouth sounded eerily very similar to a speech I'd heard from a crazy homeless person, only he brought his argument back around to Jesus, while mine cited the gospel of Michael Pollan. Read More »
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Cancer. If the word alone scares you, it may help to know that at least half of all deaths from the disease are preventable. "Although some people can do everything right and still get cancer," says the American Cancer Society's Colleen Doyle, R.D., "we've learned a lot about... Read More »
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