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Opinion: If you want to be healthy, stop eating seed oils
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Opinion: If you want to be healthy, stop eating seed oils

Seed oils have been marketed as hearth-healthy since the 1960s. Courtesy︱Twitter With soaring obesity rates, spikes in allergies, and increasing rates of heart disease, it’s time for Americans to reclaim their health and stop consuming seed oils.  Seed oils, like canola, corn, safflower, soy, grapeseed, rice bran, and cottonseed oils, are high in polyunsaturated fats,...

Opinion: New social media law, not Meta, endangers Canadians
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Opinion: New social media law, not Meta, endangers Canadians

Canada’s dispute with Meta comes in the middle of a record-setting wildfire season. Courtesy | Facebook The controversy unfolding between Canada and Meta should be a warning about the dangers of outsourcing a country’s safety. Canada’s Online News Act, also known as Bill C-18, became law in June, according to CTV News. While the Canadian...

Hillsdalians from Montana react to state climate change ruling
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Hillsdalians from Montana react to state climate change ruling

Lake Ellen Wilson in Glacier National Park. Courtesy | Sierra Dilworth Montanans in the college community have divided reactions to a recent court decision that says the state’s promotion of fossil fuels violates the Montana Constitution. Charles Steele, chairman of economics, business, and accounting, grew up in Montana before studying and then teaching at Montana...

Michigan Court Overturns ‘Forever Chemicals’ Regulations
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Michigan Court Overturns ‘Forever Chemicals’ Regulations

Levels of PFAS in locations tested by the U.S. Geological Survey. Courtesy︱U.S. Geological Survey Drinking water in the city of Hillsdale is free of so-called forever chemicals, according to a report from the Board of Public Utilities. But last week Michigan’s Court of Appeals overturned the state’s regulations on the substances, which can contaminate water...