Mike Adams has compiled a set of informative and revealing videos available on the internet for hungry minds who are interested in ethical, healthy and earth-friendly consumer practices. The first video, featuring Tom Hanks, is a documentary about the conspiracy of auto and law makers in the interest of profits. The second video, called "Meet Your Meat" and narrated by Alec Baldwin, shows grahic information in gruesome detail about the horrific conditions of animals raised for food. The third movie, called "Black Gold," depicts how coffee farmers are being exploited and squeezed into poverty by big corporations. The fourth video is an animated short film, called "Be Careful What You Eat," starring the Animaniacs who cheerfully sing and dance as they shop. And the fifth is called "Vending Machine," (still being edited) and it will expose how junk food and soft drinks are behind the downfall of health accross the spectrum of the population. It also shows how these companies target children and adolescents, who may be outlived by their parents for the first time in history as result of junk food consumption.

Listening to an IPod or other portable digital music players at full volume using stock earphones for more than five minutes a day may cause hearing loss a new study finds. According to researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Children's Hospital in Boston, the study also provides guidelines for listening to digital music devices safely. The guidelines indicate that the average person won't sufer hearing loss when listensing to music using earphones at 70 percent volume for up to 4.6 hours per day. The researchers state that genre of music listened to doesn't make any signicant difference in producing sound levels. The damage may occur when delicate hair cells in the inner ear, which convert mechanical vibrations of sounds to electrical signals that the brain interprets as sound, are exposed to loud music or sound over a period of time.