E Magazine articles from May 1998

E Magazine archives from May 1998

Nicols Fox: investigating a food supply gone haywire. (author discusses E. coli and other food-borne pathogens)(Interview)
May 1, 1998... Like a lot of other Americans, journalist Nicols Fox, a former editor at the Washington Journalism Review and a correspondent for The Economist, first heard about the deadly E. coli [O.sub.157]:[H.sub.7] bacteria in 1993. That was the year it...

Swearing off swordfish: marine campaigns spotlight wasteful fishing practices.
May 1, 1998... Thirty miles off Cape Cod, Dr. Carl Safina of the National Audubon Society's Living Oceans Program and pilot Charlie Horton circle desertlike stretches of blue water in a single-engine Super Cub. Their object: to locate schools of bluefin...

Food porn: organic foods may be grown with sewage sludge and drugs. (public protest against organic standards for food crops proposed by the USDA)
May 1, 1998... Last December, Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman made a greatly anticipated announcement that at once had farmers, consumers and organic retailers across the country holding their breath, then choking and bellowing in astonished protest:...

Feeling the heat: can the global warming agreement be saved? (US opposition to the Kyoto Global Warming Protocols)
May 1, 1998... It was a chronicle of a death foretold. The ink was hardly dry on the Kyoto Global Warming Protocols when the Senate voted 95 to 0 to reject any treaty that did not require developing countries to reduce their emissions of Nobal warming gases....

Jurassic dump: a Universal Studios theme park in Japan sits on top of a toxic waste site. (proposed theme park in Osaka, Japan)
May 1, 1998... There were the usual men in suits, and there were also actors dressed as Woody Woodpecker, Marilyn Monroe, Herman Munster and Groucho Marx. The place was Osaka, Japan, two years ago, and the occasion was the signing of an agreement between...

The trouble with meat. (foodborne pathogens)(includes related articles)(Cover Story)
May 1, 1998... In 1992, when he was 11 years old, Damion Heersink of the southeastern Alabama town of Dothan attended a Boy Scout campout, and unwittingly ate a quarter-sized piece of uncooked hamburger. It's certainly not unusual for kids to eat hamburgers:...

The biotech century: playing ecological roulette with Mother Nature's designs.
May 1, 1998... We are in the midst of a great historic transition into the Biotech Age. The ability to isolate, identify and recombine genes is making the gene pool available, for the first time, as the primary raw resource for future economic activity on...

The great supplement scare: are herbal remedies under attack from a vast international conspiracy?
May 1, 1998... Imagine walking into your favorite health food store only to find that, amid the aisles of organic produce and tofu, the shelves that once contained nutritional supplements were empty! No vitamins, no minerals, no herbs. That's what groups...

Pocketbook power: how well-organized boycotts change corporate policy.
May 1, 1998... After biking home from work, eating an organic salad for dinner, and sending off your annual dues to Greenpeace, you decide to kick back with an ice-cold Kirin Beer -- not realizing you're supporting Mitsubishi, destroyer of rainforests. You...

Swimming upstream: new products fight the backyard pool's chlorine addiction. (new alternatives to chlorine for disinfecting pools)
May 1, 1998... Anyone who has ever owned a swimming pool knows about being a slave to chlorine. Not only does the hapless pool owner have to buy the expensive chemical and lug it home for biweekly applications, but. also has to endure the stinging eyes,...

Slow, but steady: with the Green Tortoise Bus line, getting there is half the fun. (adventure tours bus line)
May 1, 1998... As any veteran of the 60s can report, the "long, strange trip" had very little to do with getting from point A to point B in a straight line. And that's just the way it is with Green Tortoise, a slightly eccentric bus line that has been taking...

Natural critter care. (growing popularity of natural pet care, which includes non-processed whole foods and other organic products)
May 1, 1998... Americans share their homes with more than 112 million cats and dogs, not to mention an assortment of reptiles, birds, horses and exotic animals. As pet owners become more health- and environment-conscious, they're starting to apply their...