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    New Food Pyramid sets the record straight on overstated health risks of Mercury
    The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s new Food Pyramid released earlier this week recommends certain fish that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) agreed should not be eaten at all by young children and women of childbearing age due to mercury contamination.

    Why Uncle Sam Tells You What to Eat

    Industry Applauds New Food Guidance System as Unscientific
    April 19, 2005 - New System Is Wonderfully Weak on the Risks of Meat and Dairy Products; Appropriately Little Emphasis on Vegetarian Choices

    A Plant-Based Diet is a Healthy Choice -- For Sissies - USDA
    ...cancer protection is just one of many potential health benefits of a plant-based diet. Eating an abundance of vegetables, fruits and other plant foods may protect against heart disease, stroke, diabetes, hypertension and birth defects.
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    Irradiated meat is just as healthy, if not healthier than organic meat -- radiation kills bacteria just as effectively as it does people, and saves billions of dollars that would otherwise have to go toward producing cleaner meat and maintaining the health of livestock.
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