A New York Times investigation of the US Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Center, Nebraska describes taxpayer-funded experiments on farm animals that fall outside even the minimal rules for laboratory animals. Rep. Louise Slaughter wrote to the USDA; the Aware Act followed.
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Advisories
Beware of Products Promising Miracle Weight Loss
FDA says many weight loss supplements, teas and coffees promising miracles do not live up to their claims and can cause serious harm. The agency has found hundreds of products spiked with hidden drug ingredients, including sibutramine from the withdrawn drug Meridia and fluoxetine.
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Cowbells for #milktruth? - newsletter 020615 from Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association argues industrial farms escape the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts through lobbied-for exemptions, pointing to a Washington dairy's untreated waste, an Iowa city spending $1 million a year on nitrate removal, and Toledo's fouled water.
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TELL THE U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE TO PROTECT THE THREATENED MONARCH BUTTERFLY
The Center for Food Safety asks readers to comment by March 2 in support of Endangered Species Act protection for the monarch butterfly. Its report blames herbicides like Roundup, used on genetically engineered crops, for destroying milkweed, the only plant monarch caterpillars eat.
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Leading Wisconsin Farm Group Rejects Industry-Led “Organic Check-off”
Wisconsin Farmers Union members voted overwhelmingly against the Organic Trade Association's proposed organic check-off, a mandatory levy on organic farmers, processors, distributors and retailers that would raise $20-40 million for research and promotion.
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Support OCA with Your Vote
The Organic Consumers Association asks supporters to vote for it in CREDO/Working Assets' February funding round, where the share each of three nonprofits receives depends on votes. Non-members can vote after signing any CREDO petition; voting ends midnight February 28.
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Mapping Ireland's Fluoridation Victories - newsletter from Fluoridealert.org
Councillors in Galway city and Cavan County have called on the Irish Government to end the national fluoridation mandate, joining seven other councils representing about 2 million residents. Galway also asked for a national referendum within 18 months.
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United States enters consent decree prohibiting illegal distribution of Luvena Prebiotic products
A federal judge entered a consent decree against Laclede Inc. and its president, barring distribution of unapproved or misbranded drugs and devices. The FDA said the company sold four Luvena Prebiotic vaginal products without approval despite repeated warnings.
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No "Fast Track" for Bad Trade - letter from Center for Food Safety
The Center for Food Safety opposes fast-track authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation deal negotiated in secret that leaks suggest would offshore jobs, open the U.S. to unsafe food imports and let corporations challenge environmental and health safeguards.
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Pesticides on Your Food? Not to Worry - Newsletter 012915 from Organic Consumers Association
This Organic Consumers Association newsletter argues the USDA downplays the pesticide residues it found in more than half of foods tested and skips glyphosate because testing costs too much. An alert also targets The Nature Conservancy's ties to Monsanto.
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Farm Bureau Case Challenging EPA's Right to Share Factory Farm Data Dismissed
A federal judge in Minneapolis dismissed the American Farm Bureau Federation and National Pork Producers Council's challenge seeking to block EPA from releasing records on factory farm location, size and ownership obtained under a 2013 Freedom of Information Act request.
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Baltimore City Council Unanimously Passes Resolution Calling for End to Overuse of Antibiotics on Factory Farms
Food & Water Watch's Wenonah Hauter marks Baltimore as the 50th US city to pass a resolution against antibiotic overuse in livestock. She notes that 80 percent of US antibiotic sales go to livestock production and that resistant infections kill 23,000 Americans a year.
Advisories
USDA Food Safety Tips for Areas Affected by Severe Weather
Ahead of a blizzard forecast for the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, USDA's FSIS issued power-outage food safety advice: keep thermometers in the refrigerator and freezer at 40F and 0F or lower, freeze water in small containers beforehand, and freeze refrigerated items.
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This Bandwagon Can't be Stopped - from fluoridealert.org
The Fluoride Action Network reports a second Irish community victory in 2015 and asks readers to keep circulating its press release marking 70 years of U.S. fluoridation. Queensland dropped its mandate in 2012 and Israel ended its national mandate in 2014.
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75% of supermarket foods contain this: GMO
EWG president Ken Cook asks readers to tell their representative to oppose the DARK Act, which would bar states from requiring GE labels. He cites polling that more than 90 percent of Americans back labeling and estimates 75 percent of supermarket foods contain GE ingredients.
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Are U.S. Food Giants Telling Us the Truth About Eggs and Beef?
The writer argues California's larger cages do nothing for hatchery chicks, citing the industry's own figure of 200 million male chicks killed a year, and points to video from a Whole Foods supplier showing sick hens on a certified-humane farm and to USDA's role at the Meat Animal Research Center.
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Fluoridation's 70th Anniversary - Not Something to Celebrate
Ahead of the 70th anniversary of water fluoridation on January 25, 2015, the Fluoride Action Network issued a press release disputing claims that the practice is safe and effective, and asks supporters to send it to local media and post it under fluoridation articles.
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NY State to Expand Fluoridation Ignoring Own Evidence of Harm & Ineffectiveness
The NYS Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation says a December 2014 state health department letter pushes New York's fluoridation rate from 71.4 to 78.5 percent, and cites state figures showing income disparities in cavities widened and decay fell in unfluoridated counties.
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