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Wake Up, Little Sushi On sustainable sushi	Umbra Fisk	29 Nov 2006	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, My wife and I love sushi, but we're increasingly concerned about sustainable harvesting. Although we treat ourselves to sushi only once or twice a month, it adds up, and we can't help but wonder about the impact. There's no sensation in the world like letting a slab of sashimi salmon dissolve in your mouth, but can my wife and I continue to enjoy sushi without feeling guilty? What can people like us -- environmental ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, fishing, food and agriculture, oceans, toxics (all these topics)

Adventures in Agriculture U.S. gets approval for ozone-depleting pesticide, despite international objections		06 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Adventures in Agriculture U.S. gets approval for ozone-depleting pesticide, despite international objections Pursuing its goal of world destruction (mwahaha!), the U.S. won approval to continue using and making a pesticide banned under an international ozone treaty. The decision, which countered the recommendation of the treaty's technical committee, allows a 5,900-ton methyl bromide exemption in 2008 -- ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Filet of the Land New studies give conflicting advice about the benefits and risks of eating fish		18 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Filet of the Land New studies give conflicting advice about the benefits and risks of eating fish Two studies released yesterday are likely to confuse you even further about the benefits and risks of eating fish. A report from the Harvard School of Public Health claims that fish consumption can reduce the risk of coronary death by 36 percent, and total mortality by 17 percent -- benefits that far o ...
Topics: food and agriculture, health, marine life, news, toxics (all these topics)

Take Me to Your Weeder Solar-powered robot could pick weeds and reduce herbicide use		13 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Take Me to Your Weeder Solar-powered robot could pick weeds and reduce herbicide use Here's an innovative idea for limiting herbicide use: A solar-powered robot with 20/20 vision and depth perception that uses GPS navigation to search out and destroy weeds. As it moves along at three miles per hour, the two-foot-tall, five-foot-long robot, designed by engineers at the University of Illinois, can tel ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news, solar voltaic power, toxics (all these topics)

The Killing Fields Study links breast cancer to farm work		13 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
The Killing Fields Study links breast cancer to farm work October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Think that has nothing to do with the environment? Guess again. A new study of women in Windsor, Ontario, found that those who have worked on a farm are 2.8 times more likely to develop breast cancer than those who haven't. The research was published yesterday in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. "If you ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news, toxics (all these topics)

AZM Grace EPA will phase out highly toxic pesticide		13 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
AZM Grace EPA will phase out highly toxic pesticide If you've been avoiding Brussels sprouts because of pesticide contamination -- as opposed to the grossness -- you're in luck: by next year, the U.S. EPA plans to phase out organophosphate azinphos-methyl (AZM) on the odiferous buds, as well as on nuts and nursery stocks. By 2010, AZM would be banned completely, affecting growers of apples, blueberries, cherries ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Whose 'Cide Are They On? California regulating pesticide air pollution and fish farming		30 May 2006	Daily Grist
Whose 'Cide Are They On? California regulating pesticide air pollution and fish farming California is trailblazing again: It aims to be the first state in the U.S. to tackle air pollution from pesticide use. State officials hope to eliminate tons (literally) of smog-forming gases that waft from pesticide-treated agricultural regions. California's Department of Pesticide Regulation -- long acc ...
Topics: air pollution, California, food and agriculture, news, toxics (all these topics)

He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tuna California loses suit to make tuna companies issue mercury warnings		15 May 2006	Daily Grist
He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tuna California loses suit to make tuna companies issue mercury warnings California law requires products containing chemicals that could cause reproductive harm or cancer to have warning labels, but a state Superior Court judge has ruled that the law does not apply to mercury-licious canned tuna. Mercury has been shown to slow neurological development, thus the ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, marine life, news, toxics (all these topics)

The Fume, the Crowd, the Berries EPA withdraws plan to approve toxic fumigant methyl iodide		27 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
The Fume, the Crowd, the Berries EPA withdraws plan to approve toxic fumigant methyl iodide After contriving to approve toxic fumigant methyl iodide for use in strawberry fields forever, the U.S. EPA has withdrawn the plan in the face of fierce opposition from California officials, labor unions, and enviros. The approval of methyl iodide was to be the culmination of a nearly 15-year search for a sub ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Up the Arsenic Chicken with arsenic a daily part of American diet		05 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Up the Arsenic Chicken with arsenic a daily part of American diet You may be getting a significant dose of poison with your Chick'n Stix. Arsenic is a U.S. government-sanctioned supplement to chicken feed -- it's used to kill parasites and promote growth -- despite being a known carcinogen and being implicated in other illnesses. Although the average American's chicken consumption has incre ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Food and Drug Administration, news, toxics (all these topics)

Bug Me Not On organic pesticides	Umbra Fisk	29 Mar 2006	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Recently, an article in my newspaper stated that federal and state guidelines allow the spraying of "organic pesticides" on organic crops. I thought organic crops were pesticide-free. I am very disappointed to find out that there are sanctioned "organic pesticides" which, with probably little to no independently researched information, may or may not pose a risk to my health. Tell me the paper got it wrong ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, food and agriculture, toxics (all these topics)

Save the Life of My Child Organic diet causes pesticide levels to plummet in children, study finds		24 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Save the Life of My Child Organic diet causes pesticide levels to plummet in children, study finds If you needed that extra nudge to start feeding your kids organic grub, here it is: In a recent U.S. EPA-funded study, 23 Seattle-area youngsters were switched to an all-organic diet, and the levels of pesticides in their bodies declined to essentially zero after only five days. When the kids started eating conventionally g ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news, toxics (all these topics)

Arsenic and Old Rice Arsenic levels in U.S. rice could pose health risk		03 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Arsenic and Old Rice Arsenic levels in U.S. rice could pose health risk U.S.-grown rice contains an average of 1.4 to 5 times the amount of arsenic found in rice from Europe, India, or Bangladesh. According to a study published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, people consuming American rice at a "subsistence level" -- about one pound of dry rice a day -- may get a dose of ars ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Berate and Barrel Open-barrel trash burning becoming a hot issue for states		07 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Berate and Barrel Open-barrel trash burning becoming a hot issue for states Not interested in paying the $1- or $2-per-bag fee for trash disposal? Just throw it all in a barrel in your backyard and burn it. That's what thousands of upstate New Yorkers -- and millions of rural Americans -- do, and it's making some environmental activists hot under the collar. But a bill t ...
Topics: food and agriculture, New York, news, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics (all these topics)

Ay-Yay-Yayurvedic Imported herbal remedies found to contain lead and other nasties		15 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Ay-Yay-Yayurvedic Imported herbal remedies found to contain lead and other nasties Ayurvedic herbal supplements imported from South Asia may contain lead, mercury, and arsenic, sometimes at levels high enough to cause serious health problems, including vomiting, convulsions, and seizures. A new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 20 percent of the remedies purchased in the U.S. ...
Topics: food and agriculture, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Poison Spray Afghan poppy fields mysteriously sprayed with chemicals		06 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Poison Spray Afghan poppy fields mysteriously sprayed with chemicals Recently, planes have been flying over the poppy fields of Afghan farmers, spraying them -- along with houses, orchards, and perhaps even families -- with toxic chemicals apparently intended to kill poppy crops and keep them from being converted to heroin. Afghan President Hamid Karzai expressed shock at th ...
Topics: Afghanistan, food and agriculture, toxics (all these topics)

All the Same Toxicity, Now With 90 Percent Ubiquity! Rocket-fuel chemical taints lettuce and milk throughout the U.S.		01 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
All the Same Toxicity, Now With 90 Percent Ubiquity! Rocket-fuel chemical taints lettuce and milk throughout the U.S. Here's some unsettling food news: Perchlorate, an explosive component of rocket fuel, was found in about 90 percent of lettuce samples and 97 percent of milk samples from around the U.S. tested by the Food and Drug Administration. Health officials said the levels of contamination found shouldn' ...
Topics: food and agriculture, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Soy Story On the environmental impacts of soy	Umbra Fisk	18 Nov 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I'm interested in learning more about the treatment and genetic modification of soy and how prevalent this is. I think a lot of folks choose products such as soy milk because they think they are making a better choice for the earth, as well as themselves. I think this is an overlapping issue and qualifies for your help. Perhaps a slant toward educating us on the state of soy farming and production would be an acc ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, food and agriculture, GMOs, toxics (all these topics)

Fish 'n' Chicks Study finds excessive mercury in 20 percent of women of childbearing age		22 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Fish 'n' Chicks Study finds excessive mercury in 20 percent of women of childbearing age A new Greenpeace-commissioned study on the correlation between fish consumption and levels of mercury in the body has produced interim results, and they may cause you to think twice about your next order of a tuna-salad sandwich. The study analyzed hair samples sent in by people, many of whom read about the study on the inter ...
Topics: food and agriculture, marine life, toxics (all these topics)

If We Weren't Already Fireproof, This Would Burn Us Up Flame Retardants Found in Many Grocery-Store Foods		03 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
If We Weren't Already Fireproof, This Would Burn Us Up Flame Retardants Found in Many Grocery-Store Foods A new study of grocery items like fish, meat, and dairy products revealed that virtually all of them contain detectable levels of PBDEs, human-made chemical fire retardants used in carpeting, electronics, and furniture that may or may not cause cancer. (We'll get to the "may or may not" part in a second.) PBDEs ...
Topics: food and agriculture, toxics (all these topics)

Rotterdam It Convention on Dangerous Chemicals Goes Into Effect		25 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Rotterdam It Convention on Dangerous Chemicals Goes Into Effect The Rotterdam Convention, an international treaty meant to protect developing nations from dangerous chemicals already banned or restricted in wealthy nations, went into effect yesterday, after garnering support from 50 signatory countries, as needed to give it the force of international law. Many toxic chemicals, particularly pesticides for agriculture, t ...
Topics: food and agriculture, health, toxics (all these topics)

Irrigation Irritation Agricultural Water Efficiency May Do More Harm Than Good		28 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Irrigation Irritation Agricultural Water Efficiency May Do More Harm Than Good Using water more efficiently in farming may ultimately increase long-term water shortages, warn some water experts. Although efficiency efforts -- such as lining irrigation ditches to prevent leaks and delivering water directly to roots rather than flooding fields -- are touted as a solution ...
Topics: climate, food and agriculture, green living, toxics, United Kingdom, water pollution (all these topics)

Patently Absurd GM Giant Monsanto Sues Canadian Farmer		21 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Patently Absurd GM Giant Monsanto Sues Canadian Farmer Speaking of genetic drift: The Canadian Supreme Court began hearing arguments on Tuesday in a case that has become a cause celebre for both opponents and fans of agricultural biotechnology. Agro-giant Monsanto Co. sued Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser when its patented biotech canola was found growing in his ...
Topics: Canada, environmental justice, food and agriculture, GMOs, politics, toxics, United States (all these topics)

I Am the Toxic Walrus Arctic Natives, Minding Own Business, Suffer From Our Pollutants		13 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
I Am the Toxic Walrus Arctic Natives, Minding Own Business, Suffer From Our Pollutants Toxic industrial chemicals, carried north by wind, ocean, and river currents, are polluting the traditional diet of native Arctic peoples in Greenland and Arctic Canada. The pollutants, including PCBs and up to 200 other hazardous compounds, are first consumed by zooplankton, then trav ...
Topics: Arctic, Canada, food and agriculture, health, oceans, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Which 'cide Are You On? GM Crops Linked to Rise in Herbicide and Pesticide Use		08 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Which 'cide Are You On? GM Crops Linked to Rise in Herbicide and Pesticide Use Pesticide and herbicide use on genetically modified (GM) crops in the U.S. has risen markedly over the past eight years, surpassing the concentration of agrochemicals sprayed on conventional crops, according to an analysis of U.S. government data. This research appears to blow a hole in one of the primary arguments in favor of GM crops -- that ...
Topics: food and agriculture, GMOs, toxics (all these topics)

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