Wenonah Hauter of Food & Water Watch criticizes USDA's approval of fresh apple imports from China, citing a 2014 Chinese government survey that found a fifth of the country's farmland polluted with chemicals and heavy metals, and warning of pesticide residues and invasive pests.
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Got Glyphosate? Find Out! - newsletter 042315 from Organic Consumers Association
An Organic Consumers Association newsletter whose lead essay argues that regenerative organic agriculture and reforestation, paired with an 80 to 90 percent cut in fossil fuel emissions, could sequester enough carbon dioxide to reverse global warming rather than merely slow it.
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Organic Watchdog Grows Scientific Staff, Leadership Capacity The Cornucopia Institute Adds Staff, Announces Board Election Results
The Cornucopia Institute elected organic distributor Mitch Blumenthal to a two-year board term and re-elected Kevin Engelbert, Dave Minar and Goldie Caughlan, with Helen Kees continuing as president and Engelbert as vice-president.
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Making it Happen: the Maker Movement Makes Its Mark in Colorado
Colorado Maker Hub, a new Loveland-based nonprofit founded by Elizabeth VanDyne, launched as a statewide resource for makers, offering Maker Faires, factory tours and online tools for youth education, robotics and inventor business development.
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[BREAKING] Bill to "Fast Track" massive trade deal just introduced
Congress received a bill to fast-track approval of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation deal covering 792 million people and 40 percent of the world economy that is being negotiated in secret. Critics say fast track would cap debate at 90 days and bar amendments.
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Ready for GMO Labels, Hillary? Newsletter 041615 from Organic Consumers Association
OCA's newsletter argues the global agriculture system sits at the heart of climate change, and asks readers to press Hillary Clinton, an avowed supporter of Monsanto and GMO crops, to back the labeling more than 90 percent of Americans say they want.
Advisories
FDA warns consumers not to use muscle growth product called Tri-Methyl Xtreme
FDA urges consumers to stop using Tri-Methyl Xtreme, a muscle-growth supplement sold online and in gyms that claims to contain anabolic steroids and has been linked to serious liver injury in reports from California, New Jersey and Utah. No deaths from the product have been reported.
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Media Advisory: Capitol City Fruit Plans Clinton Visit April 15, 2015
A media advisory for the tour and business roundtable Hillary Clinton will hold at Capital City Fruit in Norwalk, Iowa, with press contacts for pool coverage and an offer of a facility tour with the company's chief operations officer afterward.
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Lowe's Agrees to Phase Out Bee-Toxic "Neonics"
Lowe's committed in its 2015 corporate responsibility report to phase out sales of products containing neonicotinoid pesticides within 48 months as suitable alternatives appear, stock more organic and non-neonic products, and work with growers to drop neonics on bee-attractive plants.
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Dedicated to Dirt - Newsletter 040915 from Organic Consumers Association
OCA's newsletter marks the UN's declaration of 2015 as the International Year of Soils, arguing that fertilizers, pesticides, tilling and monocrops have stripped US topsoil, and calls for a Sakuma berry boycott after a family was poisoned by methyl bromide in the Virgin Islands.
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Organic Stakeholders Sue USDA Over Allegedly Illegal Power Grab
A coalition of 15 organic producers and farmer, consumer, environmental and certification groups sued the USDA, saying it bypassed the customary public hearing and comment process when it changed how allowed synthetic and prohibited natural substances are reviewed.
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Controversial Animal Drugs Backed by Corporate Science
A Food & Water Watch report says drug companies and agribusinesses write, fund and edit much of the peer-reviewed research on livestock drugs. More than three-quarters of the 78 studies it examined on the growth promoter Zilmax were industry-authored or industry-funded.
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The Meat Debate We Should Be Having - Newsletter 040215 from Organic Consumers Association
OCA's newsletter takes up the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee's February 19 advice to eat less red and processed meat and argues the panel did not tell the whole truth. An alert targets factory farm waste marketed as organic fertilizer.
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As long as we let them - Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association asks readers to help raise another $35,000 by March 31, with gifts matched by an anonymous New England donor. It cites the World Health Organization's finding that Roundup causes cancer and a new bill that would block mandatory GMO labeling.
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Killing you softly. And secretly
A fundraising appeal seeking $110,000 by March 31 to meet a donor's matching offer and pay for GMO labeling campaigns in Maine and other New England states.
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Doubling Down on Monsanto - Newsletter 03/26/15 from OCA
An Organic Consumers Association newsletter responding to the WHO finding that glyphosate probably causes cancer, describing Monsanto's denials, the reintroduction of the DARK Act by Rep. Mike Pompeo, and OCA's state labeling campaigns and matched March fundraiser.
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Urgent: Help us shut down the DARK Act!
An Environmental Working Group fundraising appeal asking readers to give toward a $50,000 midnight goal to fight a newly introduced House bill, which it calls the DARK Act, that would block states from requiring labels on genetically engineered foods.
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News on Monsanto and Cancer—Take Action to Ban Roundup Herbicide
After a WHO expert panel concluded glyphosate probably causes cancer in humans, the Organic Consumers Association asks readers to press EPA, which is reviewing the herbicide, to ban it and to weigh studies the group says Monsanto worked to discredit.
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