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Congress has amended the Organic Food Production act to allow food additives and processing aids such as chemical stabilizers in organic foods, without public review. It has also granted organic food producers the right to continue antibiotic treatment and genetically engineered feeding of young cows prior to their entering organic production, and the emergency substitution of non-organic ingredients for organic ingredients without the public being informed.

The amendment was strongly backed by the Organic Trade Association and opposed by the Organic Consumer’s Organization. It leaves the United States with the weakest organic food production standards in the developed world.
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In her new diary, Anne Strieber writes: “On the anniversary of my burst aneurysm in October of 2004, many people have asked me what I’ve learned. I?ve written about this extensively in many of my earlier diaries, but I thought I?d sum it up here. You might even call this diary ‘What I Learned from the Sick Year’ (to paraphrase of the diet book I am posting, one chapter at a time, every week on this website).”

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A super-massive black hole has been discovered at the center of our galaxy. Black holes absorb everything that comes near them, even light. They are the most massive objects in the universe, and the most destructive.

Steve Connor writes in the Indpendent that black holes are the strangest things in the universe. How can there be a hole in space? It does sound impossible, but astronomers say black holes are real, despite the fact that they’ve never seen one, even with a satellite or powerful telescope. All the evidence for black holes is circumstantial. In other words, astronomers know they’re there because of the way they make other things in the solar system act.
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Newswise – In the event of a bird flu influenza pandemic, the world’s vaccine manufacturers will be in a race against time. But now researchers at the University of Wisconsin, working with scientists at the University of Tokyo, have discovered a quicker, more efficient way to make flu vaccine. As soon as an effective avian flu vaccine is created, drug companies will be able to replicate it in large quantities, so that we can all be immunized.
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