The Center for Food Safety asks readers to phone the White House urging President Obama to protect bees from toxic pesticides, saying the administration will soon announce a plan and that pesticide companies are lobbying to keep their products out of it.
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Do Cruel Animal Photos Change Your Eating Habits? Many Say No.
Martha Rosenberg writes that many people tune out factory farm cruelty footage, telling themselves the images are exceptions or that the practices must be lawful, and compares that reasoning to patients who assumed FDA approval made drugs like Vioxx safe.
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Carcinogens in 80 percent of your food?
An Organic Consumers Association appeal noting that a World Health Organization agency concluded glyphosate, the key ingredient in Roundup, likely causes cancer in humans, and asking for $145,000 more toward GMO labeling campaigns in Maine and other New England states.
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BREAKING: Maine Launches Bill to Label GMOs NOW!
Maine lawmakers have introduced LD 991, which would remove the trigger clause requiring five Northeast states to act before Maine's 2013 GMO labeling law takes effect. The Organic Consumers Association, leading the coalition, asks readers to help raise $200,000 by March 31.
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Bill to WEAKEN toxic chemical regulation introduced in the Senate
An EWG fundraising appeal opposing the chemical safety bill from Senators Tom Udall and David Vitter, which the group says would leave BPA, flame retardants and other chemicals barely regulated. EWG asks readers to help it raise $20,000 by midnight.
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Poisoned Earth, Poisoned Children - Newsletter 031215 from Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association argues that farmers apply more synthetic nitrogen than crops absorb, polluting air and water, and alerts readers that the EPA still permits Dow's chlorpyrifos on farms, parks and golf courses despite known risks to children and farmworkers.
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Gene Giants Kick OCA Off SXSW Food Panel - Newsletter 030615 from Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association says a SXSW Interactive organizer disinvited it from a panel after Cathleen Enright of the Biotechnology Industry Organization objected. Enright told OCA by phone that GMO agriculture is sustainable and that evidence of health concerns has been discredited.
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DEADLINE Tonight: Please vote for OCA! - Organic Consumers Association
A fundraising appeal from the Organic Consumers Association asking supporters to vote for the group in a CREDO/Working Assets funding contest before the midnight February 28 deadline.
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USDA Records Reveal Staffing Shortages Undermining Food Safety
Food & Water Watch's analysis of USDA records obtained under FOIA found half of FSIS districts had double-digit inspector vacancy rates through most of FY2014, and inspection verification procedures fell 15.6 percent between FY2010 and FY2014.
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DEADLINE MARCH 3: Tell President Obama to Ban Bee-Killing Pesticides
The Organic Consumers Association asks readers to sign a petition by March 3 urging the White House Pollinator Health Task Force to ban bee-killing pesticides. OCA and allied groups plan to deliver the signatures to the White House on March 4.
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Food & Water Watch Commends FTC Action to Block Sysco-US Foods Merger
Food & Water Watch director Wenonah Hauter praises the FTC for suing to block the Sysco-US Foods merger, which she says would have handed one firm three-quarters of the foodservice delivery market and risked price hikes for restaurants, cafeterias, hospitals and stadiums.
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GMO Apples Approved, Consumers Fight Back - Newsletter 021915 from Organic Consumers Association
The USDA approved the first genetically engineered apple, the non-browning Arctic Apple, despite hundreds of thousands of petitions against it, and FDA review of it is only voluntary. Organic Consumers Association argues fast-food and food-service buyers, not shoppers, are the real market.
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Advocates Urge FTC to Reject Post-MOM Brands Cereal Merger
Twenty-two consumer, farm, faith and hunger groups asked the FTC and 50 state attorneys general to investigate the proposed Post Holdings-MOM Brands merger, which they say would leave the four largest cereal firms selling nearly 90 percent of ready-to-eat cereal, up from 80 percent in 2014.
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GMO apples approved - from EWG
An EWG action alert on the USDA's approval of two non-browning GMO apple varieties, which will reach stores unlabeled. It urges readers to tell Congress to co-sponsor the Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act from Sen. Barbara Boxer and Rep. Peter DeFazio.
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A Fine Kettle of Chips - Newsletter 021515 from Organic Consumers Association
An Organic Consumers Association newsletter whose lead essay attacks the International Dairy Foods Association for suing Vermont over its GMO labeling law and backing H.R. 4432, the bill consumers call the DARK Act, which would preempt state labeling laws.
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One bad apple…
USDA approved the genetically engineered 'Arctic' apple, which does not brown when sliced. Critics warn that masking browning could hide spoilage in a product already prone to recalls, that FDA does no independent pre-market safety testing, and that the apples would carry no mandatory label.
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Food & Water Watch Seeks Overturn of Court Decision Allowing Implementation of New Poultry Inspection System
Food & Water Watch filed notice that it will ask a federal appeals court to overturn a ruling that a lower court lacked jurisdiction to stop USDA's New Poultry Inspection System, which hands key inspection duties to poultry companies with limited government oversight.
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USDA Approves GMO Apples Despite Opposition from Apple Industry and Consumers
Food & Water Watch criticizes USDA approval of Okanagan Specialty Fruits' non-browning Arctic Apples, saying the agency glossed over unintended effects of the RNA interference method used, economic and contamination risks, and the chance consumers will misjudge freshness.
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