Your Health: Are vitamins good or bad? (The New Straits Times) There is a new study that suggests that you could die if you take an antioxidant vitamin supplements like A, C and E. That is right! It says that not only do the vitamins not make you healthier or live longer but that they may even shorten your life. [News Source]

Farm bill upends normal political order. In the battle over the farm bill, President Bush is broadly aligned with liberal Bay Area activists, while Speaker Pelosi is protecting billions of dollars in subsidies to the richest farmers. [News Source]

It’s the meat not the miles. Buying local certainly reduces the miles food goes before we eat. But consumers aiming to shrink their ecological footprint will get more bang for their environmental buck by eating less red meat and dairy, reports a new study. [News Source]

Toxins from treated lumber could leach into soil, be drawn into vegetables. There is some concern amongst vegetable gardeners and those who have small children who might play in (or eat) the soil that is contaminated by chemicals leaching out of treated wood. [News Source]

Nigel Lawson on the overblown fears of climate change. He was famously Margaret Thatcher's 'brilliant Chancellor'. Now he wants to convince us that fears of climate change are overblown. Should we take Nigel Lawson seriously? [News Source]