John Stauber is the founder and executive director of the nonprofit Center for Media and Democracy in Madison, Wisconsin. He is the co-author with Sheldon Rampton of Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush’s War on Iraq (2003) and Mad Cow USA (1997).
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Alice Waters’ Chez Sludge
The world-famous advocate of local, organic food now advocates controversial "organic biosolids compost" for gardens.
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Mad Cows and Americans
Lax testing standards for North American cattle could be masking a wider contagion
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