The Organic Consumers Association asks readers to help raise about $25,000 by September 15 for the Oregon and Colorado GMO labeling measures, arguing wins there are the best hope of stopping Rep. Mike Pompeo's bill to strip states of the right to require labels.
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Three victories - News from fluoridealert.org
Oliver Springs, Tennessee voted to stop fluoridating its water; Multnomah County, Oregon is swapping school fluoride tablets for sealants for 28,000 children; and East Bay and San Francisco utilities will warn 7.4 million people not to mix infant formula with fluoridated tap water.
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Safe Pesticides? No Such Thing. - 09.13.14 Newsletter from Organic Consumers Asssociation
The Organic Consumers Association newsletter relays soil experts' claims that apples have lost 80 percent of their vitamin C and that iron in vegetables fell 22 percent from 1930 to 1980, tying food quality to soil health. It also invites readers to the People's Climate March.
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Senate Chooses Corporate Interests Over People
Food & Water Watch's Wenonah Hauter criticizes the Senate's 54-42 vote defeating the Udall Amendment, saying those senators sided with wealthy donors and that efforts to protect food and water stay at risk while corporations can buy elections.
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Urge Congress to Stand Up for Bees - News from Center for Food Safety
The Center for Food Safety says EPA has yet to act on President Obama's directive to assess neonicotinoids and protect pollinators, and asks readers to press their representatives. It notes beekeepers have lost more than 30% of their hives annually over the past decade.
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Right to Know Colorado Wins GMO Labeling Debate at Citizens Initiative Review
Right to Know Colorado won an 11-9 vote from the Citizens Initiative Review panel on Proposition 105, the state's GMO labeling measure. Twenty voters chosen to mirror the state studied the initiative and heard both sides over three days; the panel will produce a voter guide.
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Food & Water Watch Sues USDA to Stop the New Poultry Inspection System
Food & Water Watch sued in federal court to block USDA's New Poultry Inspection System, arguing that handing condemnation and reprocessing decisions to slaughter plant staff violates the 1957 Poultry Products Inspection Act, which assigns that work to federal inspectors.
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We'll Be There. Will You? - Newsletter from Organic Consumers Association
OCA's newsletter cites soil scientists' claims that apples have lost 80 percent of their vitamin C and that iron, calcium and copper levels in vegetables fell sharply last century, blames industrial agriculture, and invites readers to the People's Climate March.
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Monsanto's Deadly 'Moron' Strategy - News from Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association asks readers to fund state GMO labeling campaigns, arguing that as weeds and insects survive existing chemicals, Monsanto and Dow answer with more of them, including an already-approved herbicide combining glyphosate and 2,4-D.
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The Senate Has a Chance to Even the Political Playing Field for Citizens by Supporting the Udall Amendment
Food & Water Watch executive director Wenonah Hauter urges the Senate to pass the Udall Amendment, saying it would curb the influence of money in politics after Citizens United and McCutcheon and make it easier to ban fracking and label GMOs.
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$27 Million to Defeat Your Right to Know! - News from Organic Consumers Association
An Organic Consumers Association fundraising appeal citing a Reuters report that GMO labeling opponents spent a record $27 million in the first half of the year, and asking readers to help raise $250,000 for the Oregon, Colorado and other state labeling campaigns.
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LISTEN LIVE! The 5th Citizens Conference on Fluoride - News from FluorideAlert.org
The Fluoride Action Network is taking registrations at the door for its fifth Citizens Conference on Fluoride, offering a Saturday live stream and free entry for congressional staff, and will hold a press conference arguing the EPA's safe fluoride goal should be zero.
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Stop Monsanto's Smoke and Mirrors! - News from Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association asks readers to help raise $250,000 by September 15 for GMO labeling campaigns in Oregon, Colorado and other states, citing a Reuters report that biotech lobbyists spent a record $27 million in the first half of the year.
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Last days to stop "Agent Orange" crops - News from Center for Food Safety
The Center for Food Safety urges readers to sign a petition before USDA's comment period closes September 8, arguing that approving Dow's 2,4-D-tolerant crops would add over a hundred million pounds of a herbicide linked to cancer and birth defects.
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Scientist Says EPA Safe Water Fluoride Levels Must be Zero
Former EPA risk assessment scientist William Hirzy will argue at the Fluoride Action Network's conference that EPA should set its fluoride goal for drinking water at zero. FAN notes the agency has not acted since a 2006 National Research Council review of fluoride's toxicity.
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Are GMO foods safe for us to eat? - Video by Jeffrey Smith
A short note pointing readers to a Jeffrey Smith video, in English with Chinese captions, which says GMO foods can cause many diseases and health conditions. The item observes that GMO foods have been sold in the U.S. for more than a decade.
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Goodbye monarchs? - News from The Center for Food Safety
A Center for Food Safety fundraising appeal describing a legal action, filed with the Center for Biological Diversity, Xerces Society and scientist Lincoln Brower, to compel Endangered Species Act protection for monarch butterflies, down over 90% in North America in 20 years.
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Whitewash Reviews: Part 2, Australia - News from FluorideAlert.org
A Fluoride Action Network bulletin urging supporters to send messages to Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council, arguing its 2007 fluoridation review was a whitewash and that signs point to the current review repeating it.
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