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Golden Years May is Older Americans Month
The theme for the 50th annual Older Americans Month 2013 is Unleash the Power of Age, to appreci- ate and celebrate the vitality and aspirations of older adults and their contributions to our communities. These productive, active and influential members of society share essential talents, wisdom and life expe- riences with their families, friends and neighbors.
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Natural Aids Antibiotic-Free Meats are on the Rise
Although sales of antibiotic-free meat comprise a tiny fraction of the total market, retailers like Whole Foods, Costco and Trader Joe’s cannot get enough antibiotic-free meat to meet the demand, according to a New York Times re- port. In a Consumer Reports National Research Center telephone survey, more than 60 percent of respondents said they would be willing to pay at least five cents a pound more for meat raised without antibiotics. For three years, Scott Sechler, owner of Bell & Evans, an organic meat processing
company near Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania, has been feeding his chickens a specially milled diet laced with oregano oil and a touch of cinnamon as a method to fight off bacterial diseases that plague meat and poultry producers without resorting to antibi- otics, which some experts say can be detrimental to the humans that eat the meat. Noodles & Company, a fast-growing chain of more than 300 restaurants, has added antibiotic-free pork to the ingredients customers can add to their pastas. It ensured a year’s supply in advance by committing to receiving cuts of meat that were not in relatively high demand. Dan Fogarty, executive vice president, remarks, “We’re deliberately voting with our pocketbooks.”
Pill Chill Birth Control Meds Foul
Global Waters
After ethinylestradiol (EE2), the active in- gredient in most birth control pills, has done its duty in prevent- ing pregnancy, it can begin a second life as a pollutant that harms
wildlife, creating “intersex” fish and amphibians, and is difficult and costly to remove from wastewater streams that carry it into natural waterways. EE2 is only one of many synthetic hormones that humans excrete into wastewater. The European Union wants to
upgrade 1,360 wastewater treatment plants to utilize necessary charcoal-fil- tering technology to tackle EE2 con- tamination across England and Wales. Meeting proposed limits will require ex- penditures of $41 billion to $47 billion, according to Richard Owen, a professor at the University of Exeter, in the UK. In the journal Nature, Owen and
Susan Jobling, Ph.D., an ecotoxicologist at London’s Brunel University, write that more public debate on EE2 regulation is needed. “Animals are exquisitely sensi- tive to it,” observes Jobling. Owen queries: “Are we willing to pay this cost as a society or would we prefer to live with the environmental impact?”
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LiveScience.com
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