I actually sketched out four Halloween comics—and scrapped them all—before coming up with this one. The challenging part is demonstrating the negative health effects of sugar without…
Halloween Sugar
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Political Satire
The FDA’s Wheel of Salmonella
Watching the FDA trip over its own clumsy self while groping for answers on Salmonella is a sad affair. Following the FDA-encouraged destruction of tens of millions of dollars of…
Negotiating with Big Pharma
What happens when the Bush Administration negotiates drug prices with private industry using public money? To answer the question, just consider the situation with U.S. government “negotiations” over the prices of prescription drugs for Medicare…
Greenwashing
Have you noticed over the last year how virtually every large corporation is trying to make consumers believe their products are “Earth friendly?” Everything from toxic cosmetics to smog-producing…
The Plastic Bag Ban
In late March, 2007, San Francisco became the first U.S. city to ban the use of plastic bags by grocery stores. For the record, I’m in favor of the San Francisco bag ban. It’s the right decision…
HPV Vaccine: Texas Tyranny
On Friday, Feb. 2, Texas governor Rick Perry issued an executive order that bypassed the will of the people and the entire Texas legislature, mandating the vaccination of young girls with the HPV vaccine…
Diabetes in America
I don’t know what things were like when you were growing up, but when I was a kid, I often heard the statement that if you didn’t finish the food on your plate, it was some sort of humanitarian crime…
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