Author: Erin Elizabeth

Another rare and terrifying superbug gene has been found. This time, on a U.S. pig farm. This discovery suggests it’s possible that raw meat could carry the germs into the human population. If you’ve ever thought about giving up meat, or even just pork, I’d think about it even more now. The researchers stressed (no doubt the meat industry was happy) that no pigs scheduled for slaughter carried the mutant gene and therefore no threat (yet) existed to people. Also, none of the pigs were sick, BUT, the mutant gene should not have been on the farm at all...

As a 19-year-old woman, Rachel Battersby was full of life and perfectly healthy but those days have gone. Battersby, from the Gold Coast, Queensland, contracted Lyme disease while on a trip to Sweden and the UK, and over the last 6 years her life has radically changed; her days are now filled with regular and severe convulsions which leave her writhing in pain. From the article: “In an effort to raise money to fly to Germany for world class treatment, Ms Battersby has released a video showing her condition at its worst – a 30-second clip that shows her writing on...

The grass is definitely greener now in Colorado, since Amendment 64was passed in the state back in 2012, then legalized in 2014. The state reported that the legalized weed operation managed to generate almost $2.4 billion in the last 12 months; $1 billion of this comes in sales of cold, hard cannabis! The industry has muscled into 6th place in terms of the state’s economic output, even surpassing gold mining, performing arts, sports and non-grain crops. The remarkable aspect of this first year’s sales of 112 metric tons of bud, has meant the cannabis industry has outperformed all private...