Saturday, January 25, 2014

Health Care

Supreme Court exempts religious non-profits from Obamacare birth control requirements.

Exercise can double chances of surviving cancer. The US has been waging war on cancer for decades, it's probably spent hundreds of billions of dollars, and they just now figured this out.

Monsanto is supposedly breeding better food.
"But here’s the twist: The lettuce, peppers, and broccoli—plus a melon and an onion, with a watermelon soon to follow—aren’t genetically modified at all. Monsanto created all these veggies using good old-fashioned crossbreeding, the same tech­nology that farmers have been using to optimize crops for millennia. That doesn’t mean they are low tech, exactly. Stark’s division is drawing on Monsanto’s accumulated scientific know-how to create vegetables that have all the advantages of genetically modified organisms without any of the Frankenfoods ick factor."
It's a nice marketing story, but I'm skeptical.

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