At 05:23 PM 11/19/03, you wrote:
>Good Afternoon List Friends,
>This may be a bit away from my usual postings but I found the internet
>article below a fascinating exchange between Joseph D. Rosen, Ph.D.,
>editor of "Health Facts and Fears", a publication of the AMERICAN
>COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH, the editor of Consumer reports and some
>very well informed readers.
A quick parsing of ACSH's press releases shows what a well-balanced and
scientifically sound organization they appear to be:
* <../press/releases/traces041003.htm>New Report Explains Assessment,
Significance of Trace Levels of Environmental Chemicals in the Human Body
* <../press/releases/comments040803.htm>Comments on the EPA's Drafts
About Cancer Causation
* <../press/releases/children100802.htm>Are Children More Vulnerable to
Environmental Chemicals?
* <../press/releases/cryingboy080702.htm>The Boy Who Cried Rodent
Carcinogen; The law requiring toxic warnings is beyond reason
* <../press/releases/ddt061002.htm>Thirtieth Anniversary of Misguided
Ban on DDT Without This Pesticide, Millions Die of Malaria, Says Health
Group; Senate To Extend Ban
* <../press/releases/tips052302.htm>For Your Upcoming Picnic, Don't
Hold the Mayoand Other Summer Tips on How to Stay Healthy
* <../press/releases/mail102301.htm>Health Group Urges Irradiation to
Protect Mail
* <../press/releases/anthrax100501.htm>Scientists Advise Calm in the
Wake of the Anthrax Exposures
* <../press/releases/perc070301.htm>Science Group States Dry-Cleaning
Chemical Poses No Health Threat to Consumers
* <../press/releases/school_buses060401.htm>Activists' Diesel-Fuel
Report Smoky, Says Public Health Group
* <../press/releases/dbcp041400.htm>Scientists Find Environmental
Group's Report on DBCP lacks Scientific Basis
* <../press/releases/endmod062999.htm>Environmental Endocrine
Modulators Do Not Threaten Human Health
* <../press/releases/traceChem043099.htm>New Report Explains
Assessment, Significance of Trace Levels of Environmental Chemicals
* <../press/releases/festschrift022399.htm>Scientists Honor ACSH
Founders with Festschrift
* <../press/releases/koop021299.htm>Independent Panel Formed to Review
Safety of Vinyl Plastic Products
* <../press/releases/Phthalates111398.htm>Independent Panel Forms to
Conduct Phthalates Safety Review
* <../press/releases/HDMenu103098.htm>Mother Natures Own Carcinogens Do
Not Spoil Holiday Meals!
* <http://www.acsh.org/publications/reports/canpol.html>Public
Health
Group Warns Against Using Cancer as a Political Ploy
* <../press/releases/BrownerBrodsky072398.htm>Scientists Slam
Unscientific PCB Allegations
* <../press/releases/NYPIRG071698.htm>Panel of Scientists Call NYPIRG's
Statement on Lead Poisoning in New York City Misleading
* <../press/releases/scigroup061998.htm>Scientific Group Reviews the
Greatest Unfounded Health Scares of Modern Times
* <../press/releases/leadpoisoning2.htm>New Report Criticizes Mark
Green's Latest Lead Scare
* <../press/releases/pesticide.htm>Health Group Calls Pesticide Report
"Misleading and Designed to Scare"
* <../press/releases/summertips.htm>For Your Upcoming Picnic, Don't
Hold the Mayo and Other Tips on How to Stay Healthy in Summer
* <../press/releases/fluoridation.htm>Scientists Urge Governor Whitman
to Take Action to Fluoridate All New Jersey Water Supply
* <../press/releases/perc.htm>Scientists Assure NYC Residents: Dry
Cleaning Emissions Are Not a Health Hazard
* <../press/releases/air.htm>Science Panel Rejects EPA Plan to Make Air
Standards Even Stricter
* <../press/releases/poisons.htm>Award-Winning Journalist Scores Media
for Exaggerating Environmental Risk
* <../press/releases/toxicdecep.htm>Science Panel Rejects Claim of
Latest "Chemical Scare" Book, <../press/releases/toxicdecep.htm>Toxic
Deception
* <../press/releases/nycac.htm>National Science Panel Launches New York
Affiliate to Monitor City's Health Priorities
* <../press/releases/bst.htm>Scientific Panel Rejects NY Green Party
Claims Regarding rBGH Milk Safety
* <../press/releases/tax.htm>Scientists Criticize City for
Taxpayer-Funded Mailing Exaggerating Risks from Household Chemicals
* <../press/releases/ethics.htm>ACSH President To Receive Ethics Award
From Chemists' Group
* <../press/releases/micetomen89.htm>Scientific Community Agrees:
America's Food Supply is Safe
What is missing from their website is a statement of where their money
comes from!
Lead, DDT, Cancer, PCBs, dry cleaning solvents, these are all actually good
for you it seems, just like irradiated meat. Ignore the fear-mongers,
trust the vendors, they really have your best interests at heart. Oh, by
the way, you really ought to lock your cows in the barn and feed them grain
and hormones, it's the American Way! Don't believe all that nonsense about
mastitis, high somatic cell counts, and animal longevity, it's just a
leftie plot to undermine the Free World economy. And, if we're wrong
about rBST and human health, we're prepared to lie about it anyway....
Ok, I'll shut up now.
Jonathan & Nina White, Cheesemakers <mailto:jonathan@cowsoutside.com>
Bobolink Dairy: grass-fed raw-milk cheeses and wood-fired breads
located between Vernon, New Jersey and Warwick, New York
public tastings on the farm,every Fri 12-6, Sat 9-5 and Sun 12-5
please visit us at: <http://www.cowsoutside.com>
