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Spam SUVs

February 1, 2001
Hormel Foods Corporation, the creators of Spam, is teaming up with General Motors to make car parts out of pork and turkey byproducts. They will supply GM with a binding agent, known as "GMBond," that is made from animal protein... continued

I Couldn’t Do My Homework Because I’m Vegetarian

February 1, 2001
A new Dutch study has concluded that if your teenagers are having trouble in school, it may be because you raised them vegetarian. Plants do not make the crucial vitamin B-12, so diets that avoid animal products can lead to... continued

Hunters Beware: Mad Cow Strikes Deer & Elk

February 1, 2001
Government spokesmen who assure us that there's never been a case of Mad Cow Disease in the United States have ignored the fact that a similar disease, Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), has infected large parts of the deer and elk... continued

El Ninos More Frequent, Bringing Extreme Weather

January 30, 2001
An ancient coral reef in Papua New Guinea reveals that El Ninos and La Ninas, the pulses of warm and cold water in thePacific that cause extreme weather patterns such as droughts, floods and storms, have never been stronger than... continued

Mad Cow Disease May Be Caused By Insecticide

January 30, 2001
An insecticide that has long been applied to the spines of cattle in the U.K. in order to ward off flies could be thecause of Mad Cow Disease. Cambridge University researcher David R. Brown has shown that the organophosphates in... continued

More Earthquakes – Are They Connected?

January 30, 2001
A modern earthquake rocked southwestern Greece last week, but there were no reports of damage or injuries. The 4.1magnitude quake occurred under the ocean, west of Athens. A 4.2 magnitude quake hit Iran last week as well. No reports of... continued

Germans Raid Zoos For Food

January 30, 2001
As the Mad Cow Disease panic hits Germany and suspected meat is being recalled, butcher shops are empty and restaurants are no longer serving steaks. During the first BSE scare in November, shoppers switched to game, but they are now... continued

Modern Knight Templar Dead In Israel

January 29, 2001
A Scottish tourist who died mysteriously in Israel may have been a member of the secret organization known as theKnights Templar. Israeli journalist Barry Chamish says that he has evidence that the heart was removed after his death,as part of... continued

Will Mad Cow Disease Come to the US?

January 29, 2001
Europe is in a panic over Mad Cow Disease, to the point that long-time meat eaters have become vegetarians and zookeepers in Germany are surreptitiously slaughtering zoo animals for food. In humans the mad cow prion produces Kreutzfield-Jacob Syndrome. It's... continued

100,000 Thought Dead In India Quake

January 29, 2001
After an aerial reconnaissance of the area devastated by last week's earthquake, Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes says that one hundred thousand people may be dead and two hundred thousand or more injured. In scenes reminiscent of the aftermath of... continued