https://znetwork.org/author/mrosen/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Sun, 04 May 2025 10:37:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/mrosen/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-will-happen-to-federal-meat-inspectors-ask-health-and-animal-advocates/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-will-happen-to-federal-meat-inspectors-ask-health-and-animal-advocates/#respond Sun, 04 May 2025 10:37:03 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283322 For more than 20 years, federal meat inspectors, who work for the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) part of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), have highlighted their waning power in meat plants and its effect on the food risks they are charged to prevent. What will happen now? There is a natural antipathy between [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-will-happen-to-federal-meat-inspectors-ask-health-and-animal-advocates/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-consumer-drug-advertising-turned-the-public-into-pill-poppers/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-consumer-drug-advertising-turned-the-public-into-pill-poppers/#respond Tue, 07 Nov 2023 17:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1257121 One night in 1997, as Americans were parked on the couch in front of an episode of Touched by an Angel, they were touched by something else unexpected: an ad for a prescription allergy pill called Claritin®, promoted directly to the consumer! Prescription drugs had never been sold directly to the public before, because, without [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-consumer-drug-advertising-turned-the-public-into-pill-poppers/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/new-and-improved-diseases-launched-by-drugmakers-to-sell-drugs/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/new-and-improved-diseases-launched-by-drugmakers-to-sell-drugs/#respond Thu, 20 Jul 2023 15:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1249730 Are drugmakers running out of familiar diseases to float to the public to sell drugs? (See: Have Drug; Need Patients!) Apparently so because Pfizer is now selling transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy in a new marketing campaign. Few can say it much less have ever heard of it. (Drugmakers call it ATTR-CM since they know that initialism [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/new-and-improved-diseases-launched-by-drugmakers-to-sell-drugs/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/questions-about-us-pharmaceutical-plant-research/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/questions-about-us-pharmaceutical-plant-research/#respond Fri, 01 Oct 2021 09:01:01 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1050634 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/questions-about-us-pharmaceutical-plant-research/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-animal-rights-moved-from-soggy-leaflets-and-skateboards-to-a-movement/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-animal-rights-moved-from-soggy-leaflets-and-skateboards-to-a-movement/#respond Mon, 23 Aug 2021 09:01:58 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1049535 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-animal-rights-moved-from-soggy-leaflets-and-skateboards-to-a-movement/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zmagazine/white-supremacy-it-goes-to-the-very-top-of-the-nra/ Mon, 08 Mar 2021 18:19:24 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=zmagarticle&p=1044303 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-pharma-our-covid-savior/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-pharma-our-covid-savior/#respond Thu, 29 Oct 2020 09:01:51 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1039888 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-pharma-our-covid-savior/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pharma-tries-to-cash-in-on-covid-shutdowns-with-its-best-selling-drug/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pharma-tries-to-cash-in-on-covid-shutdowns-with-its-best-selling-drug/#respond Tue, 01 Sep 2020 09:01:45 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1037966 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pharma-tries-to-cash-in-on-covid-shutdowns-with-its-best-selling-drug/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zblogs/eid-slaughter-sacrifice-is-sad-day-for-animals/ https://znetwork.org/zblogs/eid-slaughter-sacrifice-is-sad-day-for-animals/#respond Mon, 27 Jul 2020 17:05:27 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=blogpost&p=1036803 https://znetwork.org/zblogs/eid-slaughter-sacrifice-is-sad-day-for-animals/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zmagazine/tyson-opens-slaughterhouse-despite-1000-sick-workers/ Sat, 13 Jun 2020 19:33:25 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=zmagarticle&p=1034831 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/tyson-opens-slaughterhouse-despite-1000-sick-workers/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/tyson-opens-slaughterhouse-despite-1000-sick-workers/#respond Mon, 11 May 2020 09:02:13 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1033100 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/tyson-opens-slaughterhouse-despite-1000-sick-workers/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zmagazine/why-is-animal-research-so-seldom-in-the-news/ Sun, 02 Feb 2020 22:28:05 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=zmagarticle&p=1028574 The animal-research industry is a vast, macabre enterprise richly supporting medical centers and individual researchers with almost no transparency or accountability]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/new-years-resolutions-for-the-pharmaceutical-industry/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/new-years-resolutions-for-the-pharmaceutical-industry/#respond Sun, 05 Jan 2020 09:01:43 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1027749 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/new-years-resolutions-for-the-pharmaceutical-industry/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-is-animal-research-so-seldom-in-the-news/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-is-animal-research-so-seldom-in-the-news/#respond Sat, 23 Nov 2019 09:03:27 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1025777 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-is-animal-research-so-seldom-in-the-news/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-slick-consulting-firms-get-us-on-drugs/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-slick-consulting-firms-get-us-on-drugs/#respond Thu, 01 Aug 2019 09:01:54 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1022433 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-slick-consulting-firms-get-us-on-drugs/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/beware-the-drug-industrys-lucrative-gmo-drugs/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/beware-the-drug-industrys-lucrative-gmo-drugs/#respond Wed, 08 May 2019 09:02:03 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1019827 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/beware-the-drug-industrys-lucrative-gmo-drugs/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/consumer-drug-ads/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/consumer-drug-ads/#respond Thu, 11 Apr 2019 09:01:12 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1019023 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/consumer-drug-ads/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zmagazine/drug-company-executives-defend-their-prices-on-the-hill/ Mon, 01 Apr 2019 09:00:39 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=zmagarticle&p=1018699 Pharma has two lobbyists for every member of Congress. It spends more on lobbying than tobacco, oil and defense contractors combined]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/drug-company-executives-to-defend-their-prices-on-the-hill/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/drug-company-executives-to-defend-their-prices-on-the-hill/#respond Wed, 27 Feb 2019 09:04:30 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1017828 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/drug-company-executives-to-defend-their-prices-on-the-hill/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zmagazine/how-medical-conflicts-of-interest-get-dangerous-expensive-drugs-in-your-medicine-cabinet/ Fri, 01 Feb 2019 17:38:41 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=zmagarticle&p=1016767 How bad is Pharma’s brazen financial infiltration into U.S. medicine? ]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/opioids-for-depression/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/opioids-for-depression/#respond Thu, 29 Nov 2018 09:01:46 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1015106 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/opioids-for-depression/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/getting-dangerous-expensive-drugs-in-your-medicine-cabinet/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/getting-dangerous-expensive-drugs-in-your-medicine-cabinet/#respond Tue, 27 Nov 2018 09:03:17 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1015070 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/getting-dangerous-expensive-drugs-in-your-medicine-cabinet/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/one-in-8-takes-antidepressants/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/one-in-8-takes-antidepressants/#respond Sat, 07 Jul 2018 09:02:14 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1011421 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/one-in-8-takes-antidepressants/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pharma-paid-and-trump-delivered/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pharma-paid-and-trump-delivered/#respond Thu, 17 May 2018 09:00:33 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1010155 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pharma-paid-and-trump-delivered/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/big-pharma-still-tries-to-push-dangerous-drug-class/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/big-pharma-still-tries-to-push-dangerous-drug-class/#respond Sun, 18 Feb 2018 09:01:12 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1007640 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/big-pharma-still-tries-to-push-dangerous-drug-class/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/making-people-unhealthier-across-the-globe/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/making-people-unhealthier-across-the-globe/#respond Wed, 20 Sep 2017 09:01:30 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1002390 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/making-people-unhealthier-across-the-globe/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mainstream-media-does-pharmas-bidding/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mainstream-media-does-pharmas-bidding/#respond Tue, 27 Jun 2017 08:59:51 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=999579 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mainstream-media-does-pharmas-bidding/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/proof-that-the-pharma-business-model-actually-wants-people-sick/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/proof-that-the-pharma-business-model-actually-wants-people-sick/#respond Fri, 10 Mar 2017 09:01:18 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=995862 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/proof-that-the-pharma-business-model-actually-wants-people-sick/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/you-wont-believe-the-outrageous-ways-big-pharma-has-bribed-doctors-to-shill-drugs/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/you-wont-believe-the-outrageous-ways-big-pharma-has-bribed-doctors-to-shill-drugs/#respond Wed, 27 Jul 2016 09:00:47 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=988712 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/you-wont-believe-the-outrageous-ways-big-pharma-has-bribed-doctors-to-shill-drugs/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zmagazine/what-big-pharma-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about-the-opiod-epidemic/ Sun, 26 Jun 2016 14:19:27 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=zmagarticle&p=987737