Product Recalls: Cat vitamins (El Paso Times) —The Hartz Mountain Corp. of Secaucus, N.J., is recalling 3,600 bottles of Hartz Vitamin Care for Cats because the product might be contaminated with salmonella, which could infect pets and people who come into contact with the cat vitamins. [News Source]

Why bees are nothing to laugh at. Bees are one of nature’s most important pollinators, and – put simply – our food depends on them. [News Source]

Off target in the war on cancer. Throughout the industrial world, war on cancer remains focused on commercially fueled efforts that can find and treat the disease. Meanwhile, the struggle basically ignores most of things known to cause cancer. [News Source]

Diet for a dying planet. Organic ecological farming is the only way we will be able to address the ecological crisis related to farming, the agrarian crisis emerging from industrial globalized agriculture, and the public health crisis coming from using war chemicals to produce our food. [News Source]

New grocery entrants vie for a bite of Southern California. A massive Whole Foods opens next week, to be followed shortly by Fresh & Easy and Sprouts. All position themselves as healthier alternatives, but conventional markets aren't standing still. [News Source]

The lethal legacy of lead. New studies link the reduction of lead in the environment to a drop in crime rates in nine nations some two decades later. The findings may help explain why some inner city residents have disproportionately high crime rates. [News Source]

The lethal legacy of lead. New studies link the reduction of lead in the environment to a drop in crime rates in nine nations some two decades later. The findings may help explain why some inner city residents have disproportionately high crime rates. [News Source]

Children Overexposed to Rocket Fuel Chemical. 250,000 American one-year-olds are exposed to perchlorate above the government’s safe dose, from food sources alone. [News Source]

A spotlight on the green side of bottled water. Last summer, environmentalists took on bottled water as an example of an unnecessary product that uses scarce resources and adds more plastic to overtaxed landfills. [News Source]

Building cancer awareness. Lung cancer takes the lives of about 162,000 each year among which are approximately 21,000 preventable deaths because of radon exposure. [News Source]

Emissions fuel debate. With attention focused on fuel economy debates on the East Coast, General Motors and other automakers are now trying to snuff out a call for stricter vehicle emission standards emanating from the West Coast. [News Source]

A spotlight on the green side of bottled water. Last summer, environmentalists took on the bottled water industry. On their Web sites and in their press releases, many environmental groups pointed to bottled water as a prime example of an unnecessary product that uses scarce resources and adds more plastic to overtaxed landfills. [News Source]