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USDA's Reckless Plan to Privatize Food Safety

by Jill Richardson — September 17, 2013 - 6:19am
  • Topics: Food Safety, Food, Food Rights Network, Outsourcing America Exposed, Politics

    • My friend Jim, a farmer, jokes about bringing a bowl of manure and a spoon to the farmers' markets where he sells his beef. "My beef has no manure in it, but you can add some," he'd like to tell his customers.

    I'm sure you'd pass on manure as a condiment. But unless you're a vegetarian or you slaughter your own meat, you may have eaten it. And if the USDA moves forward with its plan to make a pilot program for meat inspection more widespread, this problem can only get worse.

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    Wisconsin Citizens Speak Out about Raw Milk

    by Rebekah Wilce — September 13, 2013 - 6:28am
  • Topics: Raw Milk, Food, Food Rights Network, Politics

    • Across the United States, the majority of states allow legal sales of raw, or unpasteurized, milk in one form or another, whether retail, on the farm, or via "herd share" arrangements. A growing number of Wisconsin citizens would like to add this state to that list once and for all.

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    The Other NRA: How the Insidiously Powerful Restaurant Lobby Makes Sure Fast-Food Workers Get Poverty Wages and Have to Work While Sick

    by PRW Staff — September 5, 2013 - 7:51am
  • Topics: Food, Real Economy Project

    • -- by Steven Rosenfeld

    While thousands of fast-food workers were preparing to walk off their jobs earlier this summer to seek raises to $15 an hour, the industry's corporate lobbyist, the National Restaurant Association, was celebrating a string of political victories blocking state minimum wage increases and preempting local sick day laws.

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    "Pandora's Lunchbox" -- Ingredients in Processed Food Products May Surprise You

    by Lisa Graves — August 13, 2013 - 8:05am
  • Topics: Agriculture, Children, Corporations, Food, Food Rights Network, Health, Marketing, Science

    • "The vitamin D in your milk ... is almost surely a derivative -- after many chemical stages -- from lanolin from Australian sheep wool, concocted in a factory in China. ... Vitamin A, is often synthesized from acetone, a principal ingredient in nail polish remover," notes George Kenney based on his interview with Melanie Warner, a former writer for the New York Times.

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    Genetically Engineered Burrito? Chipotle Labels GMO

    by Rebekah Wilce — July 17, 2013 - 5:57am
  • Topics: Genetic Engineering, Corporations, Food, Food Rights Network

    • The fast food burrito chain Chipotle, which advertises "food with integrity," became the first restaurant chain in the United States to label genetically modified ingredients in its food in March 2013.

    Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have sparked concerns about potential human health effects and confirmed environmental effects. Chipotle has 1,450 restaurants as of June 2013 and $2.7 billion in annual revenue, so the labeling is no small potatoes.

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    U.S. Senate Votes Down State GMO Labeling

    by Rebekah Wilce — May 29, 2013 - 6:43am
  • Topics: Genetic Engineering, Food, Food Rights Network, Politics

    • In the midst of a week of debates and speeches about the federal farm bill (S. 954), supporters of the right to know whether or not food products contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs) suffered a setback on May 23. An amendment (S. Amdt.

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    Victory for Food Rights and Wisconsin Farmer Vernon Hershberger

    by Rebekah Wilce — May 27, 2013 - 6:46am
  • Topics: Raw Milk, Food, Food Rights Network

    • In what has been roundly declared a victory for food rights and private food transactions by supporters, a jury returned a verdict of not guilty on three of four charges against Wisconsin raw milk farmer Vernon Hershberger in the early morning hours of May 25.

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    Raw Milk Supporters Rally in Baraboo, Wisconsin for Farmer Vernon Hershberger's Criminal Trial

    by Rebekah Wilce — May 22, 2013 - 6:28am
  • Topics: Agriculture, Raw Milk, Food, Food Rights Network

    • Farmer Vernon Hershberger's trial started May 20 in Baraboo, Wisconsin, and will most likely continue until May 24 at the earliest. Hershberger is a raw milk producer. As the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) has reported, he is charged with four misdemeanor offenses: operating a retail food establishment without a license, operating a dairy farm as a milk producer without a license, operating as a dairy plant without a license, and violating a holding order. If convicted, the Amish father of ten children faces up to 30 months in county jail and fines of over $10,000.

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    Is Monsanto's New Genetically Engineered Soy a Health Food?

    by Jill Richardson — May 16, 2013 - 6:22am
  • Topics: Corporations, Food, Food Rights Network, Health

    • Monsanto just announced a deal with DSM Nutritional Products to sell a new type of genetically engineered (GE) soybean: one with supposed nutritional benefits.

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    GMO Labeling Passes Vermont House as Activists Prepare to March Against Monsanto

    by Rebekah Wilce — May 15, 2013 - 6:58am
  • Topics: Genetic Engineering, Food, Food Rights Network, Politics

    • In an advance that makes history, Vermont's House of Representatives passed a bill on May 10 requiring foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to be labeled. This is the furthest any such legislation has made it through the legislative process in the United States.

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