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Is Cannibalism Good For You?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy, Video, Neuroscience, Flesh Eating, Kuru, Brain, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Talk Nerdy to Me, Prions, Cannibalism, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Cara Santa Maria, Mad Cow Disease, Science News

2012-05-09-Screenshot20120509at1.36.03PM.jpgIs eating people dangerous? Nutritional? Healthy? What actually happens, physiologically, when human flesh is consumed?

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Drugs, Poisons and Metals in Our Meat -- USDA Needs A Major Overhaul

David Kirby | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Cafo, Prions, David Kirby, Upton Sinclair, Food Safety, Residues in Food, Heavy Metals, Antibiotic Resistance, Epa, Usda, Mad Cow, Fda, Factory Farm, Antibiotics, Fsis, Health, Beef Safety, Michelle Obama Health, Healthy Living News
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Washington dumped some more bad news Friday afternoon when the USDA's Office of Inspector General issued a damning and unsettling report on the department's "National Residue Program for Cattle."

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You Want Chicken Poop With That Steak? Why FDA Should Ban Feces From Feed

David Kirby | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Animal Factory, Animal Feed, Usda, Fda, Cafo, Factory Farm, Prions, Bse, Obama, Cattle Feed, Mad Cow Disease, Chicken Manure, Animals, Healthy Living News
David Kirby

We feed chicken manure to cattle because it's cheap; and because we produce far too much of it to properly dispose of as fertilizer.

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Monogamous Animal Relationships (PHOTOS)

ThienVinh Nguyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepoll, Animals, Monogamous Animals, Bald Eagles, Red-Backed Salamanders, Bonnethead Sharks, Monogamy, Black Vultures, Beavers, California Mice, Gibbons, Prions, Faithful Animals, Prairie Vole, Green News

While it's practically impossible to find an animal species that's completely monogamous (unless you count the angler fish or the flatworm fish, where...

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