I really want to believe it’s all a hoax. Why else would not one mainstream media outlet be reporting on the massive danger posed by the unused fuel rods in Fukushima Reactor 4? Today I learned (through a link posted by on Facebook by my friend, the author Susan Griffin) that a group of high-level scientists, [...]
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Staring down the crystal ball
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on May 2, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/staring-down-the-crystal-ball/
From Big Tobacco to Big Corn: the time to stand up for the right to health is NOW
Two years ago, I was taking multiple steroid inhalers every day for asthma, which began in the aftermath of a couple of bouts of pneumonia, and was always accompanied by typical seasonable allergy issues—coughing, sneezing, runny nose. In the summer of 2010, in addition to the usual asthma and allergy symptoms, I also came down [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on April 27, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/from-big-tobacco-to-big-corn-the-time-to-stand-up-for-the-right-to-health-is-now/
Round up the chemicals–for our children’s sake
When I was pregnant with my second son, born in 1998, I was living out in the country in a small house next to my parents’ bigger house. My son was born in late August, and all through that third trimester I spent a lot of time outside. In those years, my mother had the [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on April 4, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/round-up-the-chemicals-for-our-childrens-sake/
Occupy Health–Our Planet’s, Our Own–this May Day
It doesn’t take a genius to understand the premise of the new health care law, which is that all Americans should buy health insurance so that the healthy can help subsidize the sick. I don’t hear anyone whining about the fact that we are all required to buy car insurance, even though many of us, [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on March 26, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/occupy-health-our-planets-our-own-this-may-day/
Starving women, American chic style
Barely have the baubles of the Oscars faded into Hollywood history, when the bleak news of the real world comes flooding back in. School shooting in a high school cafeteria in Ohio. Keystone XL pipeline permit back on the table. Rick Santorum is arguing against the separation of church and state, and thumbing his nose [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 27, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/starving-women-american-chic-style/
Turn those pink ribbons green
I’m going to make a confession. I never could stand those pink ribbons. I’ve never done a “Walk for the Cure” or bought daffodils for cancer victims or even picked a cancer-cure-themed postage stamp. I’m glad to hear that the Komen Foundation has bowed to pressure and is restoring funding to Planned Parenthood, a worthwhile [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 3, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/turn-those-pink-ribbons-green/
Canaries in the Roundup Ready Fields
This morning I woke up with the phrase “canaries in the coal mine” playing over and over in my mind. Maybe it’s because one of the last things I read before going to sleep last night was an article about the harmful effects of methylmercury in songbirds. Methylmercury is the organic form of mercury, a [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on January 30, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/canaries-in-the-roundup-ready-fields/
Sex 101: From Plan B to Pleasure
I have mixed feelings about the decision of Secretary of Health Kathleen Sebelius to overrule the FDA’s recommendation to allow over-the-counter sales of Plan B, without any age restrictions. On the one hand, the knee-jerk liberal in me says wait a minute–access to contraception in any form should not be restricted. On the other hand, [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on December 7, 2011
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/sex-101-from-plan-b-to-pleasure/
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