As a result of the recent e-coli outbreak from eating contaminated spinach, farmers in California, where most of our fresh spinach is grown, are plowing under their crop. Agricultural expert John Crespi says, “At this point, we don’t know how long the product will be kept off the shelf.” How did this happen?

Our agricultural policies are what actually caused this outbreak. Christopher Waniek writes in LiveScience.com that the only way to prevent this from happening in the future is to support local farms by buying at farm stands and farmers’ markets, where the produce is better quality, but may be more expensive, and to give up our addiction to cheap beef, which is an essential ingredient in fast food.
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This sounds like a philosophical or religious question, but it’s something that scientists are actually studying.
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When it comes to UFOs, the UK tries to hide the information they have?just as the government here in the US does. The problem is, because they’re a smaller country with a smaller bureaucracy, they’re not as good at it. But they also have a Freedom of Information Act (just like we do), and a major British paper has revealed the extraordinary efforts the Ministry of Defense went to in order to KEEP the documents that refer to UFOs secret.
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Scientists now think it was tuberculosis that killed off the herds of mastodons in prehistoric times. Researchers who have examined the skeletons of these gigantic beasts have found a type of bone damage that is unique to TB. What about TB in humans today? Public health officials are concerned about drug-resistant strains of TB that have arrived here from other countries. Like bird flu (if it becomes an epidemic in the future), the solution may be travel restrictions.
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