Milk

Sugar: The Unhealthy Side Of Chocolate Milk

Hemi Weingarten | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living


Hemi Weingarten

Children are consuming too many calories from sugar. The additional sugar in flavored milk can add up to an extra 5 pounds of body weight over a school year.

"Got MILF?" T-Shirt Makers Sued By "Got Milk?" Creators

Carlos Cagin | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business


Talk about a serious lack of sense of humor: The dairy producers behind the ubiquitous "Got Milk?" slogan are suing a small T-shirt company that switc...

Reckless Claims That Hormonal Milk Is Safe

Samuel S. Epstein | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living


Samuel S. Epstein

The rBST hormone is injected in about 20% of USA dairy cows to increase milk production. While the industry claims that it's safe for cows, and that the milk is safe for consumers, this is blatantly false.

Name Your Cow, Get More Milk

David Becker | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green


David Becker

"Just as people respond better to the personal touch, cows also feel happier and more relaxed if they are given a bit more one-to-one attention," explains Dr. Douglas of Newcastle University.

Is Eli Lilly Milking Cancer by Promoting and Treating It?

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business


Jeffrey Smith

Would Eli Lilly consciously risk our health just to increase their profit? What kind of company are they, and can we trust them with our food?

The Truth About Eco-Friendly Milk

planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green


When it comes to finding milk that's green from the source, there are a handful of labels and acronyms that will help you discern green milk from its ...

Cleve Jones: The Man Behind the Curtain

Bil Browning | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics


Bil Browning

One outstanding impression from my interview with Cleve Jones was simple and all encompassing: he is no gay God; he has feet of clay.

When Should Gay Marriage Advocates Try to Reverse California's Prop 8?

William Bradley | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics


William Bradley

This week, a few organizations championing same-sex marriage will announce their opinions as to whether to try to reverse Prop 8 in 2010 or 2012.

PR 101: Dustin Lance Black Lawsuit Over Leaked Sex Pics

Bil Browning | Posted 09.05.2009 | Entertainment


Bil Browning

Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black is suing the website that published pictures of the writer having sex with an ex-boyfriend. This is an incredibly bad idea.

Dustin Lance Black's Naked Photo Lawsuit: 'Milk' Scribe Suing Over Nude Pic Release

New York Post | Posted 09.05.2009 | Entertainment


DUSTIN Lance Black, who won the screenwriting Oscar for "Milk," wants a Web site that posted X-rated photos of him and an ex-lover to pay. Black is su...

You're Appointing Who? Please Obama, Say It's Not So!

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 08.23.2009 | Green


Jeffrey Smith

The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar.

11 Common Health Myths, Busted

nytimes.com | Tara Parker | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living


Myths, half-truths and wives' tales persist in medicine. Sometimes doctors and nurses even believe things that aren't true or at least are unproven. T...

Perez Hilton Betrays Dustin Lance Black

Mike Alvear | Posted 07.18.2009 | Entertainment


Mike Alvear

Dustin Lance Black has heart. Perez Hilton stomped on it with the heel of a heavy, steel-reinforced boot.

10 Things You Should Know About Raw Milk

Chelsea Green | Makenna Goodman | Posted 07.06.2009 | Green


Guest post by Chelsea Green's Makenna Goodman In recent years, there's been a crackdown on small dairies producing raw milk, designed as an obstacle ...

Happy Birthday Harvey Milk (and thanks for giving us hope)

Joe Cutbirth | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics


Joe Cutbirth

The defining moment in my adult life came inconveniently about six months after I got the first big break in my journalism career. At least it seemed ...

Monsanto Forced Fox TV to Censor Coverage of Dangerous Milk Drug

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics


Jeffrey Smith

The following is the third in a series called Get Our Milk Off Drugs, written in response to pending legislation that would interfere with dairies lab...

Gay Parents? Don't Be Afraid For The Kids

Mary Liz Thomson | Posted 05.07.2009 | Living


Mary Liz Thomson

My brother and his partner beam proudly when the kids call them Dad. The people who know them well continue to be impressed.

China Tainted Milk: Court Rejects Exec's Appeal

AFP | Posted 04.26.2009 | World


A court in northern China on Thursday upheld a sentence of life in prison for the former head of the company at the centre of last year's scandal over...

China Milk Scandal: First Court Agrees To Hear Case

AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 04.25.2009 | World


BEIJING — A northern Chinese court has accepted a compensation suit against the dairy at the heart of the tainted milk scandal that sickened nea...

Jason Linkins

Bill O'Reilly Fears 'Milk' Replay In San Francisco

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics


It seems that as our Media Monitoring Project gets rolling, the enthusiasm of its participants will sometimes gallop away with them. That's the case ...

Hannity, The Kiss and Barney Frank, Gay Superstar

Paul Jenkins | Posted 04.04.2009 | Entertainment


Paul Jenkins

It is a measure of Hollywood's insecurity that we are probably months away from it being more acceptable to be a gay soldier than to be a gay actor.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING WHILE THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT PONDERS PROP 8?

Judy Wieder | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics


Judy Wieder

Mr. No More Nice Gay is pissed off because he suddenly gets it. He may be young, but he is struggling. And worse than that, his struggle is old: He's still not equal.

Got Milk?

Michael Jones | Posted 04.04.2009 | Entertainment


Michael Jones

What we see in Milk are straw men erected and blown down, over and over again. Anita Bryant made foolish, how hard is that?

Sean Penn To Lobby For Harvey Milk Day

AP | Posted 04.03.2009 | Entertainment


SAN FRANCISCO — Fresh from his best actor Oscar for his performance as Harvey Milk, Sean Penn is pushing California to officially recognize the ...

How Beijing Butchered Sean Penn's "Commie, Homo-Loving" Oscar Speech

David Flumenbaum | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment


David Flumenbaum

Around Asia, mentions of "gay" or "lesbian" were muted out of the Oscars broadcast. But the award for the most creative censorship method goes to China's CCTV for its work during Sean Penn's speech.