McD's Contribution to a Heathier You

[j_b]

A recent Russian study found that an astounding 55.6% of the offspring of female rats fed genetically engineered soy flour died within three weeks. The female rats had received 5-7 grams of the Roundup Ready variety of soybeans, beginning two weeks before conception and continuing through nursing. By comparison, only 9% of the offspring of rats fed non-GM soy died. Furthermore, offspring from the GM-fed group were significantly stunted—36% weighed less than 20 grams after 2 weeks, compared to only 6.7% from the non-GM soy control group.

 

The study was conducted by Dr. Irina Ermakova, a leading scientist at the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). It was originally presented on October 10, 2005 to the symposium on genetic modification in Russia, organized by the National Association for Genetic Security (NAGS).

 

High mortality of GMO-fed rats

 

[rob]

good thing we're not female rats!!!!

[tvashtarkatena]

My garden's finally ready for planting. Damn, I'm a bit late this year.

 

Just gotta run to Lowe's for a 5 gallon drum of Roundup....oh, wait...the seeds I just bought say I won't need it.

 

 

[prole]

Nah, that just means you can drench the plants in Roundup without destroying them. Give those veggies an extra rinse, tho!

[KaskadskyjKozak]

 

Nobody was open in 11worth at 9:45 but McD's, so I ordered a double quarter pounder with cheese. Damn that hit the spot!

 

 

[j_b]

My garden's finally ready for planting. Damn, I'm a bit late this year.

 

Just gotta run to Lowe's for a 5 gallon drum of Roundup....oh, wait...the seeds I just bought say I won't need it.

 

 

"Industry regulators have known for years that Roundup, the world's best-selling herbicide produced by U.S. company Monsanto, causes birth defects, according to a new report released Tuesday: the independent scientific literature [shows] that Roundup and glyphosate cause endocrine disruption, damage to DNA, reproductive and developmental toxicity, neurotoxicity, and cancer, as well as birth defects. Many of these effects are found at very low doses, comparable to levels of pesticide residues found in food and the environment."

[rob]

 

 

 

[AlpineK]

Lots of controversy at the rattlesnake roundup

 

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[KaskadskyjKozak]

My garden's finally ready for planting. Damn, I'm a bit late this year.

 

Just gotta run to Lowe's for a 5 gallon drum of Roundup....oh, wait...the seeds I just bought say I won't need it.

 

 

"Industry regulators have known for years that Roundup, the world's best-selling herbicide produced by U.S. company Monsanto, causes birth defects, according to a new report released Tuesday: the independent scientific literature [shows] that Roundup and glyphosate cause endocrine disruption, damage to DNA, reproductive and developmental toxicity, neurotoxicity, and cancer, as well as birth defects. Many of these effects are found at very low doses, comparable to levels of pesticide residues found in food and the environment."

 

OH NOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[prole]

Wow, what an asshole.

[j_b]

Pharmageddon

 

Chad is one of thousands of "pillbillies" who descend on Florida every year from across the south and east coasts of America. Some come in trucks bearing telltale number plates from Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee, even far-away Ohio. Others come by the busload on the apocryphally named Oxycodone Express.

 

It's a lucrative trade. Chad tells us he has just paid $275 (£168) to the doctor inside the clinic, or pill mill, as it is pejoratively called. The doctor, who can see up to 100 people in a sitting, can make more than $25,000 in a day, cash in hand.

 

For Chad the profits are handsome too. He will spend $720 at a pharmacy on his 180 pills, giving him a total outlay of about $1,000. Back in Kentucky he can sell each pill for $30, giving them a street value of $5,400 and Chad a clear profit of more than $4,000. If he goes to 10 pill mills in Palm Beach on this one trip he could multiply that windfall tenfold. But then there's the other cost of the oxycodone trade, a cost that is less often talked about, certainly not by Chad or his accommodating doctor.

 

Every day in Florida seven people die having overdosed on prescription drugs – 2,531 died in 2009 alone. That statistic is replicated across the US, where almost 30,000 people died last year from abusing pharmaceutical pills.

 

It's an American catastrophe that has been dubbed pharmageddon, though it rarely pierces the public consciousness. Occasionally a celebrity overdose will attract attention – Anna Nicole Smith, Heath Ledger, Michael Jackson – but they are specks in a growing mountain of human mortality.

 

The White House last month said the abuse of prescription drugs had become the US's fastest-growing drug problem.

 

Declaring the trend an "alarming public health crisis", it pointed out that people were dying unintentionally from painkiller overdoses at rates that exceeded the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and the black tar heroin epidemic of the 1970s combined.

 

At the heart of the disaster is the powerfully addictive painkiller oxycodone, which comes in various brands – OxyContin, Roxicodone and Percocet. It is a legitimate therapy for those in great pain but has spawned a generation of addicts and, in turn, attracted crooked doctors who massively expanded the prescription of the drugs in up to 200 pill mills, most in southern Florida.

 

The epidemic has affected people of all ages but is becoming more prominent among teenagers and young adults.

 

Ric Bradsaw, the sheriff in Palm Beach, said: "There's a culture that's taking hold among teenagers that because a doctor prescribes these pills they can't be bad. Kids don't have the fear of pharmaceuticals that they do of illegal drugs."

 

[..]

 

Now, like Hernandez, Perry seeks solace by helping others to avoid her son's fate. She runs the Florida group Narcotics Overdose Prevention and Education – Nope. Together with the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians it is battling to persuade the state to introduce a monitoring database that would allow police and medical authorities to identify where the oxycodone is coming from, and in turn identify and shut down the pill mills. Though Florida is the epicentre of the oxycodone epidemic, with 98% of all the nation's doctors who handle the drug located here, astonishingly the state has no comprehensive database recording prescription histories.

 

Even more astonishingly its recently elected governor, the Tea Party favourite Rick Scott, has blocked the introduction of a database on grounds of cost.

 

That makes Perry see red. "Cost! For heaven's sake! What is the cost of a human life?"

 

The police are even more baffled. They point out that Florida's lack of regulation has allowed the pill mills to flourish.

 

Eric Coleman, a narcotics detective in Palm Beach, said the true cost of Florida's oxycodone disaster would surpass that of the database many times over if all costs related to the crisis – state subsidies for prescriptions, policing and incarceration of addicts, hospital visits for those who overdose, autopsies and paupers' burials for the dead – were added up.

 

The Palm Beach police force has many of the pill mills under surveillance and is steadily shutting them down. Over the past year 33 healthcare professionals have been arrested in Palm Beach alone and several have had their medical licences revoked.

 

Yet the police know that until a proper monitoring system is in place, the clampdown they are carrying out will only displace the problem. Pill mills are popping up in other parts of Florida, around Tampa and Orlando, as pill mill doctors move to new pastures.

 

"This crisis is going to get worse before it gets better," Coleman says. "It's heartbreaking to watch all the families ripped apart, the young lives ended, the damage these doctors – that honourable, esteemed profession that we trust to look after us – are leaving behind.

 

 

[ivan]

Pharmageddon

 

Chad is one of thousands of "pillbillies" who descend on Florida every year from across the south and east coasts of America. Some come in trucks bearing telltale number plates from Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee, even far-away Ohio. Others come by the busload on the apocryphally named Oxycodone Express.

 

It's a lucrative trade. Chad tells us he has just paid $275 (£168) to the doctor inside the clinic, or pill mill, as it is pejoratively called. The doctor, who can see up to 100 people in a sitting, can make more than $25,000 in a day, cash in hand.

 

For Chad the profits are handsome too. He will spend $720 at a pharmacy on his 180 pills, giving him a total outlay of about $1,000. Back in Kentucky he can sell each pill for $30, giving them a street value of $5,400 and Chad a clear profit of more than $4,000. If he goes to 10 pill mills in Palm Beach on this one trip he could multiply that windfall tenfold. But then there's the other cost of the oxycodone trade, a cost that is less often talked about, certainly not by Chad or his accommodating doctor.

 

Every day in Florida seven people die having overdosed on prescription drugs 2,531 died in 2009 alone. That statistic is replicated across the US, where almost 30,000 people died last year from abusing pharmaceutical pills.

 

It's an American catastrophe that has been dubbed pharmageddon, though it rarely pierces the public consciousness. Occasionally a celebrity overdose will attract attention Anna Nicole Smith, Heath Ledger, Michael Jackson but they are specks in a growing mountain of human mortality.

 

The White House last month said the abuse of prescription drugs had become the US's fastest-growing drug problem.

 

Declaring the trend an "alarming public health crisis", it pointed out that people were dying unintentionally from painkiller overdoses at rates that exceeded the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and the black tar heroin epidemic of the 1970s combined.

 

At the heart of the disaster is the powerfully addictive painkiller oxycodone, which comes in various brands OxyContin, Roxicodone and Percocet. It is a legitimate therapy for those in great pain but has spawned a generation of addicts and, in turn, attracted crooked doctors who massively expanded the prescription of the drugs in up to 200 pill mills, most in southern Florida.

 

The epidemic has affected people of all ages but is becoming more prominent among teenagers and young adults.

 

Ric Bradsaw, the sheriff in Palm Beach, said: "There's a culture that's taking hold among teenagers that because a doctor prescribes these pills they can't be bad. Kids don't have the fear of pharmaceuticals that they do of illegal drugs."

 

[..]

 

Now, like Hernandez, Perry seeks solace by helping others to avoid her son's fate. She runs the Florida group Narcotics Overdose Prevention and Education Nope. Together with the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians it is battling to persuade the state to introduce a monitoring database that would allow police and medical authorities to identify where the oxycodone is coming from, and in turn identify and shut down the pill mills. Though Florida is the epicentre of the oxycodone epidemic, with 98% of all the nation's doctors who handle the drug located here, astonishingly the state has no comprehensive database recording prescription histories.

 

Even more astonishingly its recently elected governor, the Tea Party favourite Rick Scott, has blocked the introduction of a database on grounds of cost.

 

That makes Perry see red. "Cost! For heaven's sake! What is the cost of a human life?"

 

The police are even more baffled. They point out that Florida's lack of regulation has allowed the pill mills to flourish.

 

Eric Coleman, a narcotics detective in Palm Beach, said the true cost of Florida's oxycodone disaster would surpass that of the database many times over if all costs related to the crisis state subsidies for prescriptions, policing and incarceration of addicts, hospital visits for those who overdose, autopsies and paupers' burials for the dead were added up.

 

The Palm Beach police force has many of the pill mills under surveillance and is steadily shutting them down. Over the past year 33 healthcare professionals have been arrested in Palm Beach alone and several have had their medical licences revoked.

 

Yet the police know that until a proper monitoring system is in place, the clampdown they are carrying out will only displace the problem. Pill mills are popping up in other parts of Florida, around Tampa and Orlando, as pill mill doctors move to new pastures.

 

"This crisis is going to get worse before it gets better," Coleman says. "It's heartbreaking to watch all the families ripped apart, the young lives ended, the damage these doctors that honourable, esteemed profession that we trust to look after us are leaving behind.

 

at least if they're all hopped up on oxycodone they won't have an appetite for big macs?

[Jim]

Pharmageddon

 

Chad is one of thousands of "pillbillies" who descend on Florida every year from across the south and east coasts of America. Some come in trucks bearing telltale number plates from Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee, even far-away Ohio. Others come by the busload on the apocryphally named Oxycodone Express.

 

It's a lucrative trade. Chad tells us he has just paid $275 (£168) to the doctor inside the clinic, or pill mill, as it is pejoratively called. The doctor, who can see up to 100 people in a sitting, can make more than $25,000 in a day, cash in hand.

 

For Chad the profits are handsome too. He will spend $720 at a pharmacy on his 180 pills, giving him a total outlay of about $1,000. Back in Kentucky he can sell each pill for $30, giving them a street value of $5,400 and Chad a clear profit of more than $4,000. If he goes to 10 pill mills in Palm Beach on this one trip he could multiply that windfall tenfold. But then there's the other cost of the oxycodone trade, a cost that is less often talked about, certainly not by Chad or his accommodating doctor.

 

Every day in Florida seven people die having overdosed on prescription drugs 2,531 died in 2009 alone. That statistic is replicated across the US, where almost 30,000 people died last year from abusing pharmaceutical pills.

 

It's an American catastrophe that has been dubbed pharmageddon, though it rarely pierces the public consciousness. Occasionally a celebrity overdose will attract attention Anna Nicole Smith, Heath Ledger, Michael Jackson but they are specks in a growing mountain of human mortality.

 

The White House last month said the abuse of prescription drugs had become the US's fastest-growing drug problem.

 

Declaring the trend an "alarming public health crisis", it pointed out that people were dying unintentionally from painkiller overdoses at rates that exceeded the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and the black tar heroin epidemic of the 1970s combined.

 

At the heart of the disaster is the powerfully addictive painkiller oxycodone, which comes in various brands OxyContin, Roxicodone and Percocet. It is a legitimate therapy for those in great pain but has spawned a generation of addicts and, in turn, attracted crooked doctors who massively expanded the prescription of the drugs in up to 200 pill mills, most in southern Florida.

 

The epidemic has affected people of all ages but is becoming more prominent among teenagers and young adults.

 

Ric Bradsaw, the sheriff in Palm Beach, said: "There's a culture that's taking hold among teenagers that because a doctor prescribes these pills they can't be bad. Kids don't have the fear of pharmaceuticals that they do of illegal drugs."

 

[..]

 

Now, like Hernandez, Perry seeks solace by helping others to avoid her son's fate. She runs the Florida group Narcotics Overdose Prevention and Education Nope. Together with the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians it is battling to persuade the state to introduce a monitoring database that would allow police and medical authorities to identify where the oxycodone is coming from, and in turn identify and shut down the pill mills. Though Florida is the epicentre of the oxycodone epidemic, with 98% of all the nation's doctors who handle the drug located here, astonishingly the state has no comprehensive database recording prescription histories.

 

Even more astonishingly its recently elected governor, the Tea Party favourite Rick Scott, has blocked the introduction of a database on grounds of cost.

 

That makes Perry see red. "Cost! For heaven's sake! What is the cost of a human life?"

 

The police are even more baffled. They point out that Florida's lack of regulation has allowed the pill mills to flourish.

 

Eric Coleman, a narcotics detective in Palm Beach, said the true cost of Florida's oxycodone disaster would surpass that of the database many times over if all costs related to the crisis state subsidies for prescriptions, policing and incarceration of addicts, hospital visits for those who overdose, autopsies and paupers' burials for the dead were added up.

 

The Palm Beach police force has many of the pill mills under surveillance and is steadily shutting them down. Over the past year 33 healthcare professionals have been arrested in Palm Beach alone and several have had their medical licences revoked.

 

Yet the police know that until a proper monitoring system is in place, the clampdown they are carrying out will only displace the problem. Pill mills are popping up in other parts of Florida, around Tampa and Orlando, as pill mill doctors move to new pastures.

 

"This crisis is going to get worse before it gets better," Coleman says. "It's heartbreaking to watch all the families ripped apart, the young lives ended, the damage these doctors that honourable, esteemed profession that we trust to look after us are leaving behind.

 

at least if they're all hopped up on oxycodone they won't have an appetite for big macs?

 

Amazing how many heath crises can be packed into one thread!!

[KaskadskyjKozak]

Amazing how many heath crises can be packed into one thread!!

 

Some people thrive on them, you know?

 

 

[j_b]

Amazing how many heath crises can be packed into one thread!!

 

all of them caused by dismantling of the regulatory apparatus by free market zealots like KKK.

[KaskadskyjKozak]

Amazing how many heath crises can be packed into one thread!!

 

all of them caused by dismantling of the regulatory apparatus by free market zealots like KKK.

 

more ad hominem from the oppressive neo-communistic thug!

[j_b]

still don't know what ad-hom means after all this time, jackass? You are truly hopeless.

[KaskadskyjKozak]

still don't know what ad-hom means after all this time, jackass? You are truly hopeless.

 

you, a most pathetic and joyless dud, wringing his hands at every problem incessantly, is calling someone else "hopeless"?

[j_b]

Amazing how many heath crises can be packed into one thread!!

 

Some people thrive on them, you know?

 

Precisely, if there is money to be made by preying on people, some demagogue will claim that it is in the name of "liberty".

[j_b]

still don't know what ad-hom means after all this time, jackass? You are truly hopeless.

 

you, a most pathetic and joyless dud, wringing his hands at every problem incessantly, is calling someone else "hopeless"?

 

polishing your crystal ball again, moron.

[KaskadskyjKozak]

Amazing how many heath crises can be packed into one thread!!

 

Some people thrive on them, you know?

 

Precisely, if there is money to be made by preying on people, some demagogue will claim that it is in the name of "liberty".

 

Precisely, some tools like you need problems to whine about incessantly as your motivation and purpose in life.

[j_b]

KKK likes freedumb so much that anyone who meets with his disapproval will be abused and smeared mercilessly. Neofascist cretin.

[j_b]

KKK thinks we should let freedumb rip and sell oxycodone over the counter, disband the FDA, EPA, etc ... because self-regulation of industries work. The miraculous recovery of the financial industry and the stock market post-2008 prove it. [/clown]

[KaskadskyjKozak]

KKK likes freedumb so much that anyone who meets with his disapproval will be abused and smeared mercilessly. Neofascist cretin.

 

Liar!

[KaskadskyjKozak]

KKK thinks we should let freedumb rip and sell oxycodone over the counter, disband the FDA, EPA, etc ... because self-regulations of industries work. The miraculous recovery of the financial industry and the stock market post-2008 prove it. [/clown]

 

Liar! Liar!