Watching Your Parent Die Is Absolute Hell

By: Christine Burke/Scary Mommy  My dad was dying long before we received the devastating news on a cold winter morning. After suffering a minor stroke, my father’s stage 4 cancer was discovered quite by accident while he had follow-up tests to prevent further strokes. As my father relayed the news to me, I gripped the…

Major Beef Supplier, Cargill, Sold Off Their Last U.S. Feedlots To Invest In Plant-Based Proteins

By: Kate Good/One Green Planet  The name Cargill might not be familiar to your average grocery shopper in the United States, but they are the largest privately held food and agriculture company in the world. Cargill has managed to gain this status primarily from their agricultural commodity business, working in trading, purchasing, and distributing goods…

Hand-Foot-And-Mouth Disease On The Rise: Experts Beg Parents To Know The Signs

By: Rebecca Endicott/Little Things  Every parent worries about the infectious childhood illness that sweeps through classrooms and after-school programs this time of year. Most kids get their inoculations early on to avoid old-fashioned diseases like mumps and rubella that used to effect huge swathes of children every year. Even better, there’s now an annual flu shot…

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