Dear Lisbon Reporter and NaturalNews readers,

Yet another China food scandal is unfolding. 900+ people have been arrested as part of a huge crackdown. Food scammers were harvesting rat meat (and other bizarre animals), modifying it with gelatin and other materials, then selling it as lamb meat in the markets:
http://www.naturalnews.com/040182_rat_meat_China_lamb.html

Nuclear waste is now leaking from the Hanford nuclear facility in Washington state:
http://www.naturalnews.com/040192_Hanford_nuclear_facility_radiation_leak_Washington_state.html

Only a century behind the times, the American Academy of Pediatrics has finally given its nod of approval to home births / midwives:
http://www.naturalnews.com/040195_AAP_home_births_midwives.html
 

Police terrorize school teachers and students in Oregon with unannounced "terror drill" that fired off guns and made students think they were all going to be killed:
http://www.naturalnews.com/040194_terror_drill_school_shooting_police.html

Citrus fruit significantly reduces the risk of breast cancer:
http://www.naturalnews.com/040193_breast_cancer_prevention_foods_citrus_fruit.html

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