A NEW STUDY REVEALS...WEEK 6We will have our peanuts back! - Canadian Ailines International has cancelled a program that offered peanut-free flights to passengers who suffer from a potentially deadly allergy. The program was cancelled after 18 months when the airline realized it could not guarantee the safety of passengers prone to fatal peanut reaction, spokeswoman Diana Ward said. "Our reviews indicated it was impossible to maintain a consistent level of service," Ms. Ward said. "There just was no guarantee of a peanut-free environment. It was becoming unmanageable." The Globe and Mail, Tuesday, October 24th, 1996 Parents Sue Distillers Over Birth Defects - "America's distillers are anxiously watching the first of a series of legal actions in which they are being blamed for causing birth defects." The Daily Telegraph, 26th April, 1989 Inhuman meat eating - "Meat eating is to animals what white racism is to people of colour, anti-semitism is to Jewish people, homophobia is to gay men and lesbians." and: "The presence of meat proclaims the disempowering of women." and: "If you are a piece of meat you are subject to a knife... Rape too is the implementation of violence in which the penis is the implement of violence." Carol J. Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist Vegetarian Critical Theory, Polity Press, 1990 Food advertising on television to children - "Advertisers, keen to push any product with big budgets ... and manufacturers who, like the tobacco industry, are focusing on young, impressionable people at the time when lifelong habits are formed". Geoffrey Cannon, "Battle for the British Diet", The Sunday Times, July 3, 1983 Peril in Bread Roll: Can Hot Dogs Cause Leukaemia? - "Research has linked high consumption of hot dogs with an increase in childhood leukaemia." The Times, 23rd June, 1994 Meat Eaters Blamed for Damaging Planet - "Richer lifestyles and increased consumption are responsible for between half and three-quarters of environmental damage in the West caused by natural habitat and air pollution. Meat eaters are particulary to blame" The Independent, 21st November, 1991 My Son Was Sugar Addict, Says [Eric] Clapton. - "I didn't think he should be drinking Coca Cola. I didn't think it was good for him... that's when I first encountered a full-tilt tantrum... He lay on the floor and screamed for what seemed like hours. Real hysterics, as if he was in a withdrawal situation. It was sugar addition." Daily Express, 25th February, 1992 The Dangers of Dental Fillings - "...Frightening diseases of unknown aetiology should be part of the picture. An American researcher obligingly claimed that dental amalgams could cause Alzheimer's disease." Form 1994 BBC Panorama: "The Poison in Your Mouth"
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