Several large dairy producers and food companies have made news recently by getting rid of recombinant bovine growth hormone, also known as rBGH or rBST, from their milk supply. This is great news for consumers, since this genetically engineered growth hormone is known to cause harm to cows and may pose health risks to humans. But in Missouri, things appear to be going backwards. SB 1279 is in the Missouri Senate and would restrict dairy labeling telling you whether your dairy was produced without the artificial hormone rBGH / rBST.

Bats Perish, and No One Knows Why

By TINA KELLEY
Published: March 25, 2008

Al Hicks was standing outside an old mine in the Adirondacks, the largest bat hibernaculum, or winter resting place, in New York State.

It was broad daylight in the middle of winter, and bats flew out of the mine about one a minute. Some had fallen to the ground where they flailed around on the snow like tiny wind-broken umbrellas, using the thumbs at the top joint of their wings to gain their balance.

CALLING B.S. ON THE IDEA OF 'MARIJUANA ADDICTION'

The U.S. government believes that America is going to pot --
literally. Earlier this month, the U.S. National Institute on Drug
Abuse announced plans to spend $4 million to establish the nation's
first-ever "Center on Cannabis Addiction," which will be based in La
Jolla, Calif. The goal of the center, according to NIDA's press
release, is to "develop novel approaches to the prevention, diagnosis
and treatment of marijuana addiction."

Not familiar with the notion of "marijuana addiction"? You're not

The following is an excerpt from my recently published globe-spanning philosophical novel, “Changing History”. “Changing History” is the story of seven international travelers who meet by happenstance in a snowstorm in the wild mountains of Tibet, stumble upon a teahouse and spend the night with a traveling Buddhist monk and nun. During the night, in Chaucerian style, the seven tell life stories about events and circumstances that led to their travels to Tibet and forced each to question fundamental aspects of her/his life, society and the world.