Mainstream Weekly

The Downside of Screen Time | Martha Rosenberg

Martha Rosenberg — 2026-03-07T23:18:24Z

Forty years ago when television was king in the US, women used to joke about setting the table with the remote control placed next to the fork, so addicted were people to TV. Flash forward to today

- 2026

How will US tariffs affect the pharmaceutical industry? | Martha Rosenberg

Martha Rosenberg — 2025-05-10T02:57:23Z

Drugmakers in the US have been exempted from tariffs but the pills and capsules may soon hit the fan. They are lobbying US president Donald Trump for more time to absorb tariffs and perhaps move their manufacturing sites according to published reports.
Many realize the trillion dollar a year Pharma industry has

- 2025

Interview with Frank A a food processing consultant | Martha Rosenberg

Martha Rosenberg — 2025-02-15T03:12:31Z

Excerpt from a new book
Food, Clothes, Men, Gas, and Other Problems
by Martha Rosenberg
2025
Paperback: 248 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8304898270
The book is available here on Amazon
__0__
In 2020, China

- 2025

Where Has Smaller and Alternative News Content Gone? Big Tech Has Monopolized the Web | Martha Rosenberg

Martha Rosenberg — 2024-09-28T00:03:25Z

While the Web began egalitarian

- 2024

Ritual Slaughter 'Still Criticized' and Supported | Martha Rosenberg

Martha Rosenberg — 2023-11-11T02:28:52Z

Since the publication of the first edition of Big Food, Big Pharma, Big Lies, ritual slaughter of animals — kosher, sanctioned by Jewish law and halal, sanctioned by Islamic law — has received more news coverage. Because the cattle, sheep, goats, and other animals are not stunned or rendered insensate during ritual slaughter, the suffering and agony can be prolonged and upsetting to watch.
In 2017, before Eid al-Adha, or the Islamic Feast of Sacrifice, Veysel Eroğlu the Minister of (…)

- 2023

Where Have All The Herons Gone, New Orleanians Wonder | Martha Rosenberg

Martha Rosenberg — 2023-03-18T03:57:18Z

by Martha Rosenberg *
In 2004, bird watchers, golfers and just those passing by in Audubon Park New Orleans were treated to an amazing rookery. Great egrets, cattle egrets, snowy egrets, little blue herons, green and tricolored herons, ibises, night herons and anhinga roosted and bred in trees on Oschner Island, next to the golf course. Mallard and wood ducks, geese and swans patrolled the swampy waters as Mississippi kites and hawks sailed overhead. Cormorants dried their wings on (…)

- 2023

Don't Call “Slaughter-Free” Meat, “Fake Meat” | Martha Rosenberg

Martha Rosenberg — 2021-10-29T17:45:44Z

by Martha Rosenberg *
What PR genius came up with the catchy, dismissive moniker “fake meat”? The term, along with the euphemistic “protein plants” for slaughterhouses, shows just how threatened meat producers have become by the legions now embracing plant-based meat....and the prospect of cultured meat coming up the rear.
There are many euphemisms for killing animals that seek to occlude the struggle and fight to the last breath that animals, who value their lives and don't want to die, (…)

- 2021

Questions About New U.S. Plant Engineering | Martha Rosenberg

Martha Rosenberg — 2021-10-01T18:30:29Z

“One of the reasons I started working in nanotechnology was so I could apply it to plants and create new technology solutions. Not just for food, but for high-value products as well, like pharmaceuticals.” So says the University of California Riverside's Juan Pablo Giraldo, lead researcher vaccine-maker Moderna.
A GMO or genetically modified organism is considered one whose genetic material makeup does not occur in nature but has been produced by enhancing, altering, or knocking out (…)

- 2021

USA: How Animal Rights Moved From Soggy Leaflets and Skateboards to a Movement | Martha Rosenberg

Martha Rosenberg — 2021-08-27T16:49:48Z

by Martha Rosenberg
In the 1980s, the animal rights movement was a sorry sight. In Chicago, it consisted of three to five activists handing out soggy leaflets in the rain outside a fur store on a Saturday, one also holding his skateboard. No one remembered to bring the signs and no one could agree whether to protest carriage horses or captive whales at the Shedd Aquarium on the next Saturday.
Passersby were abusive. “Your shoes are leather,” they would yell, a simplistic syllogism that (…)

- 2021

Diet Drug Pulled After Red Flags | Martha Rosenberg

Martha Rosenberg — 2021-01-09T19:56:17Z

by Martha Rosenberg *
By now, most people are aware of the US obesity statistics. In 2016, almost 70 percent of US adults were obese of overweight says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That means normal sized people are in the minority. (Some are even considered "anorexics.")
Today, the average American man weighs almost 198 pounds up from 166 pounds in the 1960s and the average American woman weighs 170 pounds up from 140 pounds in the 1960s. (The trend brings (…)

- 2021