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The Origin of U.S. Dietary Guidelines
Current U.S. dietary policies still reflect the basic design of the food guides from the early part of this century. In 1894, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) developed the first food composition tables and dietary standards for Americans. In 1916, the first daily food guides appeared in U |
Good Medicine Archive
2011 Issues Ivy League Animal Cruelty: PCRM Uncovers Shocking Animal Cruelty at Nation's Top Schools Good Medicine Autumn 2011 Vol. XX, No. 3 |
Department of Energy Blocks NASA’s Planned Monkey Radiation Experiments
Brookhaven National Laboratory Confirms Cancellation of Space Agency’s $1.75 Million Boondoggle WASHINGTON—NASA’s plan to expose live squirrel monkeys to radiation has been canceled, according to a statement just released by Brookhaven National Laboratory. Administration officials informed the non |
PCRM Urges NASA Inspector General to Block Monkey Experiment
PCRM Urges NASA Inspector General to Block Monkey Experiment A proposed NASA-funded experiment will bombard squirrel monkeys with harmful ionizing radiation to test the dangers of interplanetary travel, according to a government document recently uncovered by PCRM. PCRM physician John Pippin, M.D., F.A.C.C., and |
NASA's Monkey Experiments: One Giant Leap Backward
NASA astronauts aboard space shuttle Atlantis tweeted from space for the first time last month. But just as NASA was making advances in social networking, it was setting its animal welfare policy back decades. The space agency announced plans to expose squirrel monkeys to radiation in an attempt to understand the |
NASA Engineer Resigns to Protest Agency’s Monkey Radiation Experiments
In today’s economy, it takes courage to walk away from a job. It takes conviction if it’s the job you dreamt of since childhood. Recently, April Evans left NASA when the agency refused to address her concerns—and those of a growing number of scientists—about its misguided plan to irradiate |
Victory! NASA Forced to Suspend Cruel Monkey Experiments
For more than a year, PCRM has worked to block NASA’s planned radiation experiments on live squirrel monkeys. With your help, the experiments have been canceled. In 2009, NASA announced a $1.75 million grant to Dr. Jack Bergman of McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., to study the effects of deep-space radiati |
PCRM Confronts NASA over Monkey Radiation Experiment
PCRM Confronts NASA over Monkey Radiation Experiment PCRM doctors are urging NASA to leave monkeys out of the space race. The space agency recently approved a proposal to conduct radiation studies on live squirrel monkeys. In the planned experiment, researcher Jack Bergman will irradiate squirrel monkeys in an at |
NASA Engineer Resigns Over Monkey Radiation Experiments
NASA engineer April Evans recently resigned when the space agency refused to address her concerns about its proposed monkey radiation experiments. Evans’ decision to quit NASA, where she was an architect on the International Space Station, has received extensive coverage, including a story in the Houston Chr |
Talk Show Host Bill Maher Asks NASA to Halt Monkey Experiment Plan
The new season of Real Time with Bill Maher starts later this month. On the show, political satirist Maher discusses hot-button topics with unflinching honesty. Last month, he was equally candid when he made a lifesaving request to NASA. He wrote and asked the space |
Victory! NASA Suspends Monkey Radiation Experiments
NASA has cancelled the proposed monkey radiation experiments that PCRM has strongly opposed. Administration officials informed PCRM that the experiments have been dropped due to scientific and ethical concerns. Meanwhile, the space agency issued a statement Dec. 9 explaining that it is planning an extensive review |
Doctors Call for Sanctuary for NASA Squirrel Monkeys
A group of Massachusetts physicians is asking McLean Hospital to release 10 squirrel monkeys to sanctuaries. The monkeys were slated for NASA’s radiation experiments, which were recently canceled thanks in large part to PCRM’s efforts. In a letter to the president of McLean Hospital near Boston, whe |
Giant Leap Backward: NASA's Cruel Radiation Testing on Monkeys
BREAKING NEWS: NASA Forced to Suspend Cruel Monkey Experiments! It has been two decades since NASA conducted radiation research on nonhuman primates, but recently, the agency announced plans for experiments that involve the irradiation of live monkeys. Even worse, NASA plans to use this four-year study as a bas |
Is Victory Near in NASA Monkey Radiation Experiments Campaign?
'Don't Nuke the Monkeys' billboards targeted cruel NASA experiments. Documents recently released indicate that NASA may have to cancel its proposed radiation experiments involving live monkeys. Your e-mails can help stop the experiments. While |
PCRM Online Archive
May 2012: Read this issue> Bill Maher Asks Congress to Pass Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act; Nearly Half of Supermarket Chicken Tainted by Feces; Billboard, Protest Urge End of Lethal Pig Use in Trauma Training; PCRM’s Food for Life Program Launches New Website; Use of Cats in Pediatrics Training |
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