A Fluoride Action Network fundraising bulletin reporting $98,546 raised from 468 donors against a $100,000 year-end goal, asking readers for the remaining $1,414 before midnight and naming a signed book as the donor raffle prize.
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Brazil Seeks to Contain Mad Cow Scare
After a suspected mad cow case surfaced in December, Japan, China, South Africa, South Korea and Saudi Arabia banned Brazilian beef. The piece recalls the 2003 US case, after which 98 percent of the $3 billion US overseas beef market evaporated and more than 90 countries imposed bans.
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Anti-fluoridation campaign needs your support
A Fluoride Action Network bulletin reports its 2012 fundraiser passed its $100,000 goal, reaching $101,287 from 523 donors, with $11,637 raised from 130 people on the final day. Paul Connett describes plans for a 2013 fighting fund and points to the group's expanded online health database.
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The most arrogant mayor in the U.S.
A Fluoride Action Network fundraising bulletin: $68,618 raised from 338 donors, $1,396 short of a $70,000 mini-goal that triggers $9,000 in further pledges. It offers a $102 Fluoride Fighting Kit for three days and outlines plans for more videos and speakers in 2013.
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Tell the FDA: No Frankenfish!
Consumers Union calls the FDA's environmental assessment of AquaBounty's fast-growing engineered salmon flawed, citing allergenicity tests on just six fish, incomplete sterility, and the lack of GMO labeling. A 60-day comment period precedes any approval.
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An impossible task made possible - Campaign against fluoridation
A Fluoride Action Network fundraising bulletin reporting $53,503 raised toward a $100,000 year-end goal and laying out a pledge strategy to reach an interim $70,000 target by December 31.
Advisories
USDA Offers Food Safety Tips as Winter Storm Strikes Central U.S., Moves Eastward
USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service issued guidance as a winter storm moved east, urging households to keep appliance thermometers, coolers and plenty of ice so perishable food stays below 40 degrees during outages. Under Secretary Elisabeth Hagen's rule: when in doubt, throw it out.
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After Years of Livestock Industry Wrangling USDA Issues Final "Animal ID Rule" --- Comments by Grassroots Farm and Consumer Groups Made an Impact
The USDA released its final Animal Disease Traceability rule on December 20, and farm and consumer groups voice cautious optimism. Changes include exempting hatchery chicks shipped across state lines and accepting brands and tattoos as identification, after more than 60 groups objected to the draft.
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Portland's battle for fluoride-free water and democracy
A Fluoride Action Network bulletin reporting that Kirkland, Ontario and Milton, Florida have stopped fluoridating, promoting a petition asking HHS to treat fluoridation products as unapproved drugs, and appealing for donations ahead of Rick North's Portland report.
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How Science Can Deceive You about Your Cell Phone
Magda Havas of Trent University argues industry funding skews cell phone radiation research. She points to Henry Lai's review of 85 papers: 75 percent of those finding no genotoxic effect were funded by the wireless industry or military, while 80 percent of those finding a link were not.
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Live Animals Are Bad Charitable Gifts Say Experts
The piece argues livestock sent abroad as charitable gifts usually end up suffering the same poverty and lack of feed and veterinary care as the families receiving them, and finds Heifer International's own answers about feeding, medicating and sheltering the animals unsatisfying.
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Action Alert Synthetic Nutrients in Organic Foods
Cornucopia urges readers to comment on a USDA rule that would keep allowing synthetic nutrients in organic foods, after the National Organic Standards Board rejected corporate petitions for eight such nutrients and manufacturers turned to the USDA instead.
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How Drug Company Money is Undermining Science
Drawing on journalism professor Charles Seife's Scientific American expose, Mercola describes how drugmakers funnel money to prominent researchers studying their products through speakers bureaus and similar arrangements, with institutions and regulators doing little to stop it.
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FAN Fundraiser gets off to a cracking start
A Fluoride Action Network bulletin reporting $11,645 raised from 13 donors toward a $100,000 year-end goal, listing donation premiums, and reprinting an article by media officer Carol Kopf on her decades of fighting fluoridation.
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FAN Gearing up For its Biggest Fundraiser Yet
The Fluoride Action Network's year-end appeal. After raising $74,168 from 512 donors last year, it is aiming for $100,000 from 1,000 donors, and will send 30 bulletins in December mixing fundraising updates with campaign material. It counts Waterloo, Ontario's referendum among its wins.
Legal Actions
Anti-Fluoride Group Submits More than 35,000 Signatures to Portland in ‘Confident’ Bid to Force Vote
Clean Water Portland gathered more than 43,000 signatures, well past the 19,858 required, to force a referendum on the city council's September 2012 fluoridation ordinance. The plan stops until the council repeals it or puts it to voters, most likely in May 2014.
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Why Won't Europe Eat U.S. Meat?
Europe has barred most US beef since 1989 over growth hormones such as melengestrol and trenbolone acetate. The European Commission's veterinary committee points to an association between steroid hormones and certain cancers, and to high breast cancer rates in North America.
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Great News Report on Fluoridation Risks
The Fluoride Action Network's Stuart Cooper urges readers to watch and share a WTVD-11 investigation by Steve Daniels on water fluoridation in Durham, N.C., featuring resident Corey Sturmer, who has dental fluorosis and is campaigning to end fluoridation there.
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