If you live in Marin County or the greater San Francisco Bay Area, chances are you’ve already heard the news that Marin officials have confessed to

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Do you grow or eat organic food? Do you want your county to be able to forbid the GMO mongers from setting up camp in your backyard? Do you want to stop mad scientists from putting deadly drugs into food plants? Then you’re the right person to say ‘no’ to Obama’s choice of Tom Vilsack [...]

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Some vegans can be a bit preachy. Like Louisa May Alcott, they’ve hit on something good and they’re not going to miss a single chance to talk to you about it. While I’m all for evangelizing for a good cause, I’ve never been comfortable with the concept of converting people. I think each of us [...]

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Local news gives you a strong feeling about a town and its people. When you read that a small town like Bolinas, California feeds its homeless neighbors out of its own pockets, rather than through an agency, you figure their must be some very nice folks living there. But when you read about another town [...]

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The USDA and Big Ag (the people who brought California the plan of spraying pesticide on human beings in the 2007 LBAM debacle) have conspired in order to pour millions of dollars in funding into blocking California Proposition 2, up for the vote in November 2008. What is it that Prop 2 proposes that factory [...]

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Sometimes, life is poetic in its demonstrations of simple lessons. Every summer and winter, our home is visited by ants. They come in two varieties, for which we have common names. 1) Sugar ants – these are the larger, common ants you likely know best. 2) Oil ants – these are the tiny, tiny ants [...]

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Greetings Readers! On the vegan forums and blogs I visit, I see three things that concern me. 1) Parents who are scared about their kids going vegan. Understandably, they are concerned about proper nutrition. I applaud that and certainly share their worries of a child being malnourished by adopting an animal-product-free diet that consists mainly [...]

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