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	Weston A. Price Foundation URL: http://www.westonaprice.org/ ODP description: Information on the benefits of nutrient-dense foods and the foundation's agenda in the areas of education and research; articles on specific foods such as soy products. Page description: Your source for independent and accurate information on diet and health. We support traditional foodways, organic farming, pastured livestock, truth in labeling, prepared parenting, nurturing therapies, access to clean certified raw milk and a ban on soy infant formula.
	Fast Food for a Fast World URL: http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/press/rollingstone1.html ODP description: US fast food revenues exceed higher education, personal computers, and software. US spends more on fast food than any other entertainment activity combined. Article from Rolling Stone magazine. Page title: Press Articles - Rolling Stone 1
	True Food Organization URL: http://www.truefood.org/ ODP description: Activist site sponsored by GreenPeace focusing on organic food. Includes extensive information and links. Page title: TRUEFOOD.ORG
	Irradiation - How Safe Is Your Dinner? URL: http://magazines.ivillage.com/goodhousekeeping/diet/nutrition/articles/0,12873,284558_290455-9,00.html ODP description: Good Housekeeping article on the pros and cons of food irradiation, including recent FDA decisions and the debate over labeling for consumers. Page title: How Safe Is Your Dinner?
	Microwaved Food: The Dangers URL: http://www.relfe.com/microwave.html ODP description: Reviews evidence suggesting that microwaving food destroys nutrients and makes certain substances toxic, leading to adverse health effects. Page title: Microwave Cooking is Killing You! Page description: Microwave cooking is killing you! Learn about the unknown health problems associated with eating microwaved food
	Social Issues Research Centre URL: http://www.sirc.org/ ODP description: Provides research and reporting on food, health, and other lifestyle matters, and campaigns against scares. Page title: Social Research - Social Trends Analysis Page description: The Social Issues Research Centre was established to conduct research and promote debate on all aspects of lifestyles and social behaviour. SIRC aims to provide new insights on current social and cultural trends, and to present a balanced perspective on key social issues.
	Biodevastation2000 URL: http://www.biodev.org ODP description: Non-profit movement that aims to stop all forms of genetic engineering on food and limit the power government has over the food economic system. Page title: biodev :: home, biodev :: home
	Organic Consumers Association URL: http://www.organicconsumers.org/ ODP description: For the labeling of genetically engineered or biotech or GMO or Novel food, and encouraging organic food and pesticide reduction. A clearinghouse for activists. Page title: Organic Consumers Association Page description: Research and Action Center for the Organic, Buy local, and Fair trade movements.
	Ladies Home Journal on Nutrition URL: http://www.lhj.com/home/Nutrition.html ODP description: Features facts to help you eat healthy and control your food intake. Page title: Nutrition Page description: Nutrition information from Ladies' Home Journal Online
	HingePin URL: http://www.hingepin.com/env-nutrition.html ODP description: Brings together research from indexed journals in environmental medicine, clinical ecology, toxicology, molecular biology, and genetics to provide a new framework for understanding nourishment. Intended as a sourcebook as well as a teaching tool. Page title: HingePin Integrative Learning Materials - See Environmental Nutrition: Understanding the Link between Environment, Food Quality, and Disease Page description: This book/textbook
	BBC URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1098564.stm ODP description: Farmed Salmon Contaminated - Aquaculture practice of concentrating feed from other ocean fish, provided to farmed salmon contain high levels of PCB's, according to research. Page title: BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| Farmed salmon 'contaminated' Page description: Some farmed salmon contain high levels of potentially dangerous man-made chemicals, according to research.
	World Food Safety Organisation URL: http://www.worldfoodsafety.org/ ODP description: Aims to provide food safety professionals with a neutral forum for the exchange of ideas and experience. Page title: WFSO
	Foundation for Food Irradiation Education URL: http://www.food-irradiation.com ODP description: Organization that provides informative information and strives to improve communications about food irradiation to the public via the industry, media, and academia. Page title: www.food-irradiation.com - This is a test
	Campaign for Real (Raw) Milk URL: http://www.realmilk.com/ ODP description: Advocates the consumption of clean, unpasteurized, whole milk, and additive-free organic dairy products. Find out how to get raw milk and read articles on the health benefits of raw milk. Page title: A CAMPAIGN FOR REAL (RAW) MILK! Page description: A CAMPAIGN FOR REAL MILK: Consumption of clean, unpasteurized, whole milk, and additive-free organic dairy products from old fashioned pasture-fed cows confers excellent health and promotes ecologically friendly farming.
	War on Fat URL: http://www.angelfire.com/pa/sergeman/issues/healthcare/fat.html ODP description: Information and articles about the war on fat. Page title: "War on Fat" - or...how statist gluttony eats responsibility and liberty