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| TABLE OF CONTENTS | Volume IX, Number 3
MAY/JUNE 1998 |
COVER STORY
THE TROUBLE WITH MEAT - Why Oprah Was Right, The Texas Cattlemen Were Wrong, And The Crisis Facing The American Hamburger Isn't Over
In 1992, when he was 11 years old, Damion Heersink of the southeastern Alabama town of Dothan attended a Boy Scout campout, and unwittingly ate a quarter-sized piece of uncooked hamburger. It's certainly not unusual for kids to eat hamburgers:
By Jim Motavalli
THE BIOTECH CENTURY - Playing Ecological Roulette with Mother Nature's Designs
We are in the midst of a great historic transition into the Biotech Age. The ability to isolate, identify and recombine genes is making the gene pool available, for the first time, as the primary raw resource for future economic activity on Earth. After thousands of years of fusing, melting, soldering, forging and burning inanimate matter to create useful things, we are now splicing, recombining, inserting and stitching living material for our own economic interests. Lord Ritchie-Calder, the British science writer, cast the biological revolution in the proper historical perspective when he observed that "just as we have manipulated plastics and metals, we are now manufacturing living materials."
CONVERSATIONS
NICOLS FOX - Investigating a Food Supply Gone Haywire
Like a lot of other Americans, journalist Nicols Fox, a former editor at the Washington Journalism Review and a correspondent for The Economist, first heard about the deadly E. coli O157:H7 bacteria in 1993. That was the year it attacked a group of Northwestern children, all of whom had eaten hamburgers at area Jack in the Box restaurants. Four of them died.
By Jim Motavalli
GREEN LIVING
NATURAL CRITTER CARE - Rethinking Food, Fun and Fleas for Fido and Fifi
SWIMMING UPSTREAM - New Products Fight the Backyard Pool's Chlorine Addiction
THE GREAT SUPPLEMENT SCARE - Are Herbal Remedies Under Attack From a Vast International Conspiracy?
POCKETBOOK POWER - How Well-Organized Boycotts Change Corporate Policy
SLOW, BUT STEADY - With the Green Tortoise Bus Line, Getting There is Half the Fun
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DISPARAGING MEAT
CURRENTS
JURASSIC DUMP - A Universal Studios Theme Park in Japan Sits on Top of a Toxic Waste Site
FOOD PORN - Organic Foods May Be Grown with Sewage Sludge and Drugs
SWEARING OFF SWORDFISH - Marine Campaigns Spotlight Wasteful Fishing Practices
FEELING THE HEAT - Can the Global Warming Agreement be Saved?
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