Raw milk is milk that has not been pasteurized.  Advocates swear by the health benefits of raw milk, while government officials seek to ban it.
In December 2009, the FDA asked a district court in California to impose a permanent injunction that would forever prevent the dairy Organic Pastures from selling its raw milk and [...]

More animals than ever suffer from injuries and stress on factory farms. Veal calves and gestating sows are so confined as to suffer painful bone and joint problems. The unnatural high-grain diets provided in feedlots cause severe gastric distress in many animals. And faulty or improperly used stun guns cause the painful deaths of thousands [...]

The overuse and miss use of antibiotics cancause multidrug resistance in ’superbugs’
A new study by Boston University biomedical engineers indicates that treating bacteria with levels of antibiotics insufficient to kill them produces germs that are cross-resistant to a wide range of antibiotics.
The research is published in the journal Molecular Cell, research led by Boston University [...]

Adding to the growing health and environmental concerns over genetically modified foods, study data reveals liver and kidney damage to rats.
Researchers have found that “data from trials with rats fed three main commercialized genetically modified (GM) maize” showed the rats suffered organ damage after just a few weeks. The research is published in [...]

Rarest of birs found in Afganistan
In one of those “OMG” moments, a species of bird discoverd in 1867 and observed alive by man on just three previous occasions since then, has been rediscovered.
The discovery was in a remote land corridor in north-eastern Afghanistan. The discovery was made as part of an international collaboration, which included [...]

Monkeys playing a game similar to “Let’s Make A Deal” have revealed that their brains register missed opportunities and learn from their mistakes.
“This is the first evidence that monkeys, like people, have ‘would-have, could-have, should-have’ thoughts,” said Ben Hayden, a researcher at the Duke University Medical Center and lead author of the study published [...]

Research from the EPA continues to find pharmaceuticals in fish. In particular, fish near waste water treatment plants in urban areas were found contaminated with small amounts of drugs. Several types of dfrugs were found in the fish. For the study, researchers collected fish from rivers that receive treated sewage in I5 [...]

Researchers at North Carolina State University are looking to soy as a way to make traditional canine cancer therapy more effective, less stressful for the dog and less costly for the owners.
Dr. Steven Suter, assistant professor of oncology, and NC State colleagues studied genistein – a molecule found in soy that has been shown to [...]

Moths need just the essence of a flower’s scent to identify it, according to new research from The University of Arizona in Tucson.
Although a flower’s odor can be composed of hundreds of chemicals, a moth uses just a handful to recognize the flower. It’s like identifying a piece of music from hearing only the [...]

It appears that sugar not only affects the behavior and learning of human children.
An interesting study from Montana State University finds that young horses may be easier to train if they temporarily lay off the sweets.
Horses are fed a mixture of corn, oats, barley and molasses — sometimes called “sweet grain” or “sweet feed” — [...]