POPCORN LUNG STORIES

[Omaha Steve]

http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2004/05/popcorn-lung-index.html

"Is butter flavoring ruining popcorn workers' lungs?" USA Today, June 19, 2002

Confined Space Articles

* Lungs of the Living Dead, March 1, 2004
* Popcorn Workers Lung Trial Begins
* Better Late Than Never: EPA Tests Microwave Popcorn
* More on Popcorn Lung Trial, March 9, 2004
* Popcorn Lung Trial Update 3, March 10, 2004
* Popcorn Lung Trial Update 4 , March 11, 2004
* Jury Awards Popcorn Lung Victim $20 million: What Have We Learned? March 15, 2004
* Let No Rat Die In Vain, March 16, 2004
* Interview With Eric Peoples, March 17, 2004
* "Astonishingly Grotesque" Popcorn Lung Shows Failure of Regulatory System, April 4, 2004
* Popcorn Lung on NPR, April 20, 2004
* Second Popcorn Lung Trial Ends, May 2, 2004
* Second Popcorn Lung Suit Settled
* Third Popcorn Lung Trial Ends In Victory For Worker
* Manufactured Uncertainty Kills Workers, April 17, 2005
* Take four bulldozers and put them on your chest. Then put an elephant on top of those bulldozers. November 25, 2005
* Can We Still Trust Popcorn? Maybe Not If These Guys Say It's OK, April 27, 2006
* Government To Workers: Cough Your Lungs Out And Drop Dead, April 24, 2006
* Popcorn Lung Victim Dies: "Knowing That It Could Have been Avoided", May 3, 2006
* NIOSH, Congress Investigate Popcorn Lung, June 6, 2006
* Popcorn Lung: Unions Petition OSHA To Deal With Slow-Motion Chemical Disaster, July 26, 2006
* Popcorn Workers Lung: OSHA's Strange Definition of "Emergency"July 27, 2006
* Popcorn Lung: The Tragedy Continues, August 1, 2006
* Your Job Or Your Life: Popcorn Lung Comes To Wisconsin, October 22, 2006
* Are Respirators Enough To Protect Workers Against Popcorn Lung?, December 6, 2006
* CalOSHA Standards Board Chickens Out of Issuing Emergency Temporary Standard for Popcorn Lung, January 20, 2007

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[panader0]

1. I love popcorn but I have never eaten much of the microwave stuff

I prefer the air-popped stuff with real butter and too much salt. I don't eat it that much any more. I don't use margarine or any diet foods, no Splenda, no hydrogenated oils, or "partially hardened" oils etc. The fake stuff is bad for you.

[pansypoo53219]

2. never eat it.

pop mine in CORN oil, lots, with just the right amount of salt. plus i get it from the farmers market. freeze it. keeps forever. way better than the store stuff. also, WHITE! tried yelow, but not as tasty.

[jkshaw]

3. Goodness, Steve

I thought when I first saw your subject line that "popcorn Lung" was a descriptive term of the lung itself, from something like TB, Black Lung, something like that. The mental picture of a "popcorn lung" is pretty horrifying.

[PDJane]

4. Popcorn's another one of those things I don't eat......

Too much processed corn is GMO. Can't eat the stuff. It hates me. Throws my blood sugar for a long loop.