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Wave of "Ag Gag" Bills Threaten Food Safety and Freedom of the Press

by Rebekah Wilce — March 13, 2013 - 7:02am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Animal Rights, Food, Food Rights Network

    • Remember "fecal soup"? A CBS "60 Minutes" exposé in 1987 documented widespread food safety violations by the poultry industry, making use of undercover video from a hidden camera placed by the "60 Minutes" crew. The episode vindicated U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) whistleblower Hobart Bartley, who had been ignored and threatened by his superiors and finally transferred to another plant when he warned of unsanitary conditions at a Simmons Industries plant in Missouri.

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    Wenonah Hauter, Author of "Foodopoly," Discusses Why Corporate Control of America's Food System Affects YOU

    by Rebekah Wilce — March 4, 2013 - 7:43am
  • Topics: Food, Food Rights Network

    • Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of the national advocacy organization Food and Water Watch, will be in Madison, March 18, to read from her acclaimed new book "Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America." Publishers Weekly calls it a "tour de force."

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    Bills to Label Genetically Engineered Foods Introduced in Illinois and Iowa

    by Rebekah Wilce — February 19, 2013 - 9:25am
  • Topics: Food Safety, Agriculture, Genetic Engineering, Food Rights Network

    • Bills were introduced in the Iowa and Illinois state senates last week that would require genetically engineered (GE) foods to be labeled. Iowa's bill would require labeling if a food contains more than nine-tenths of a percent GE ingredients, whereas Illinois' bill has a one percent threshold.

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    Exposed: Whole Foods' and the Biggest Organic Foods Distributor's Troubled Relationships with Workers

    by PRW Staff — February 5, 2013 - 8:19am
  • Topics: Corporations, Food, Food Rights Network, Labor

    • - by Ronnie Cummins of the Organic Consumers Association and Dave Murphy of Food Democracy Now!

    The union is like having herpes. It doesn't kill you, but it's unpleasant and inconvenient, and it stops a lot of people from becoming your lover. --John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market

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    "Don't Ask, Don't Tell": Concerned Citizen Uncovers Whole Foods' Policy on Selling Food Grown in Sewage Sludge

    by Rebekah Wilce — December 18, 2012 - 9:57am
  • Topics: Agriculture, Sludge, Corporations, Food Rights Network

    • Don't fancy the thought of your spinach and carrots being grown in sewage sludge?

    Neither does Mario Ciasulli, a semi-retired electrical engineer living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Mario likes to cook, and enjoys good food. When he found out last year about the practice of spreading dried and heated human and industrial waste as "fertilizer" on food crops, he was upset.

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    California GMO Labeling Supporters Confront $41 Million Opposition and 13-Point Poll Slide

    by Rebekah Wilce — October 25, 2012 - 12:34pm
  • Topics: Genetic Engineering, Campaign Finance, Food Rights Network, Public Relations

    • California Proposition 37 to label foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is up for a vote on Tuesday, November 6. It enjoyed broad popular support as of September, with a USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll showing support by 61 percent of registered voters.

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    "Citizens for Fire Safety" Smoked Out: Front Group Folds After Exposé

    by Rebekah Wilce — September 10, 2012 - 8:31am
  • Topics: Journalism, Front Groups, Food Rights Network, Health

    • Manufacturers of flame retardant chemicals, an industry that got a boost from Big Tobacco's shadow money decades ago, are being exposed to increased public scrutiny. In the fallout, a front group formed by the three biggest manufacturers, calling itself "Citizens for Fire Safety," has been shuttered.

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    Approval of New Chemical-Resistant GMOs Likely to Prompt Pesticide Escalation

    by Jill Richardson — August 28, 2012 - 7:45am
  • Topics: Agriculture, Genetic Engineering, Corporations, Food Rights Network

    • A decade and a half after farmers began planting the first genetically engineered (GE) crops, the future is clear. The scientists who pioneered genetic engineering thought of themselves as environmentalists, creating products that could reduce pesticide use. Instead, they have simply perpetuated the same "pesticide treadmill" as their pesticide-peddling counterparts resulting in the application of a greater volume of ever more toxic pesticides.

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    Looking for Kids' Books? Avoid This Propaganda

    by Rebekah Wilce — August 22, 2012 - 10:58am
  • Topics: Genetic Engineering, Children, Education, Food Rights Network

    • Did you know that genetic engineering (GE) "is helping to improve the health of the Earth and the people who call it home"? A trade group funded by Monsanto wants your kids to believe it.

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    Good Week for Chemical Reform

    by Rebekah Wilce — August 9, 2012 - 8:55am
  • Topics: Environment, Food Rights Network, Health, Politics

    • A bill to improve reporting standards for toxic chemicals has passed out of committee to the U.S. Senate for a vote, and anti-regulatory czar Cass Sunstein has headed back to academia.

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