From the daily archives: Sunday, March 4, 2007

FDA Set to Approve Cow Antibiotic, Despite warnings it will harm people

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FDA approval of cefquinome, a 4th generation cephalosporin, a class of antibiootics used as a last ditch against human infections, is about to be approved for use in cattle despite warnings from the American Medical Association.

Story in the Washington Post. By Rick Weiss

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Illegal snowmobiler in Jewel Basin survives 8 hrs under avalanche. Will face penalties

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This happens every winter, some folks ride illegally into an area closed to snowmobiles and meet an avalanche. Jewel Basin is in the Swan mountain range, east of Kalispell, Montana. Story no. 1.  Story in the Casper Star Tribune

Story no. 2.  Illegal and ill-equipped snowmobiling. Montana Avalanche Victim […]

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey