The Fluoride Action Network asks supporters to lobby Dallas's mayor and council before a January 28 vote on buying fluoridation chemicals for 2015, a decision covering more than 1.2 million people that would make Dallas the largest U.S. city without fluoridation.
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Action needed: 16,451 short for GMO Labeling Petition to Obama
The Environmental Working Group asks supporters to sign a petition urging President Obama to honor his 2007 pledge to require labeling of genetically engineered food, saying 23,549 have signed and 40,000 are needed before the State of the Union address.
Legal Actions
Federal judge approves consent decree with California dietary supplement maker
A federal judge signed a consent decree barring Health One Pharmaceuticals of City of Industry, California and owner Richard Yeh from selling products until they meet FDA supplement manufacturing rules, and ordering recall and destruction of goods made from September 2011 on.
Law & Regulations
USDA Says “Yes” to Pesticide Drift, Approves Dicamba-Tolerant Crops
Food & Water Watch director Wenonah Hauter condemns USDA's approval of Monsanto's dicamba-tolerant soybeans and cotton, citing the agency's own estimate that dicamba use will rise 88-fold on soybeans and 14-fold on cotton, and Monsanto's bid to raise cottonseed tolerances 150-fold.
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Victory & Poster Winners set FAN off to a cracking start in 2015
Councilors in Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania voted to rescind their February 2014 decision to restart fluoridation, after residents raised concerns. The Fluoride Action Network also reports its December fundraiser reached $148,476 from 802 donors, near its $150,000 target.
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12 Ways Consumers Can Drive GMOs off the Market
An Organic Consumers Association newsletter accuses Monsanto and industry-paid scientists of falsely calling GMO crops safe, faults labeling campaigners who repeat that line, and offers 12 things consumers can do. It also covers Vermont defending its GMO labeling law in federal court.
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Promotion of fluoridation in NZ: If all else fails change the language!
Critics argue New Zealand health authorities are now redefining words to defend fluoridation: under the Medicines Act they hold fluoride is a medicine as a tablet but not at water fluoridation levels. The piece answers that a medicine is defined by its purpose, not its dose.
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A Huge Thank You and Happy New Year to You All from FAN
A year-end letter from the Fluoride Action Network thanking donors for a record fundraiser that brought in $145,805 from 783 donors and asking readers to vote in its poster competition.
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The Great FAN poster competition. Please vote!
A fundraising update from FAN reporting $130,008 raised from 701 donors against a goal of $150,000 from 1,000 donors by midnight Dec 31, with two donors offering to match the next $9,806, posted ahead of a vote on the group's poster designs.
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Defending Democracy - Newsletter from Center for Food Safety
A year-end appeal from the Center for Food Safety recounting 2014: Vermont enacted the first standalone GE labeling law, Connecticut and Maine passed conditional ones, five counties banned or paused GE crops -- Maui despite an $8 million industry campaign -- and Kauai required pesticide disclosure.
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A message from Rebekah Wilce, Milkmaids vs. Monsanto
A fundraising letter from Rebekah Wilce of the Center for Media and Democracy, describing the group's reporting on Monsanto in Hawai'i and Oregon and asking readers for a donation.
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Victory is in sight!
A fundraising appeal from Jeffrey Smith of the Institute for Responsible Technology, asking readers for a one-time or monthly donation to push consumer rejection of GMOs past a tipping point.
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Fluoridegate: An American Tragedy - Newsletter from Fluoridealert.org
A Fluoride Action Network bulletin revisiting David Kennedy's documentary on the downgraded cancer findings in the 1990 National Toxicology Program fluoride study, reprinting EPA toxicologist William Marcus's comments, and reporting on a year-end fundraising drive.
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You kicked the hornets nest - Newsletter from Organic Consumers Association
A year-end appeal from the Organic Consumers Association, which says it is $120,000 short of a $200,000 goal that Mercola.com will match, and criticizes a Monsanto-linked group's petition casting GMO labeling supporters as alarmists who reject science.
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Only FOUR days to go. Can FAN do it? Newsletter from fluoridealert.org
A Fluoride Action Network fundraising newsletter reporting $110,163 raised from 589 donors toward a $150,000 goal by Dec. 31, asking readers three questions about fluoridation and reminding them of a poster competition deadline.
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Ten Key Papers that Challenge the Pro-fluoridtion Mantra
An anti-fluoridation writer introduces a list of ten papers, nine studies and one review, that he says undercut claims fluoridation is safe, effective and cost-effective, promising to cover the safety papers in part two. A Fluoride Action Network fundraising update follows.
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Are you buying organic milk from these dairies? - newsletter 12-22-14 from Organic Consumers Association
An Organic Consumers Association newsletter from December 2014, carrying a dispatch from a 15,000-strong climate march in Lima and an action alert pressing Organic Valley, Horizon and Aurora to follow Stonyfield out of the dairy trade group suing Vermont over its GMO labeling law.
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Is your State Targeted by the Fluoridation Lobby?
A fundraising update from Fluoride Action Network director Paul Connett reporting $9,034 from 66 donors in one day and $81,901 from 421 donors overall, ahead of campaign manager Stuart Cooper's account of the money behind fluoridation promotion.
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