Eat Safer Website Screens Packaging for Toxin


Although food manu- facturers have pledged to voluntarily eliminate bisphenol A (BPA)—an endocrine disruptor linked to develop- mental problems in fetuses, infants and children—in their packaging materials, it’s still found in the lining of many canned goods. Recent testing by an advocacy group found BPA in 70 percent of nearly 200 samples, including products from Campbell and Kroger, which have joined the pledge. “It’s in beer, coffee, tea, energy drinks and aerosol cans


for whipped cream... it’s everywhere,” says Samara Geller, a database and research analyst with the Environmental Work- ing Group (EWG). According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, BPA is safe at the levels people are exposed to via canned foods, but many consumers would rather not take the risk.


Consequently, EWG created a new tool to help con-


sumers avoid the 16,000 products that may have BPA in their packaging. The numbers listed on package UPC codes can be compared against the database at Tinyurl.com/EWG-BPA- Lookup. “Our main goal was to get this out quickly to as many people as possible,” says Geller. “The UPC code is really your best defense to finding out what they’re talking about,” because product names can change.


Lobster Liberation Monks Free Creatures from Certain Doom


A handful of monks from the Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Soci- ety living on Canada’s Prince Edward Island spent a day buying up all the live lobsters they could find at the lo- cal fish market, and then chartered a boat. Once out to sea, they recited a brief prayer over their writhing cargo and set them loose in the Atlantic. “The whole purpose for us is


to cultivate this compassion toward others,” says one of the monks. “It doesn’t have to be lobsters, it can be worms, flies, any animals; it can also be driving slower, so we don’t run over little critters on the street.” One participant, Victoria Fan, says, “It’s rethinking the


way you normally see these creatures. Their happiness is as important as your happiness, their suffering is as important as your suffering.”


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