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You probably don’t give antibiotics much thought—until you need them. But what happens if you need them, and they don’t work?The U.S. Centers for Disease Control says antibiotic-r…
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Brave New World: What You Need to Know About Gene-Edited Farm Animals
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For decades, the biotech industry has spun a narrative around genetically engineered crops that could be summed up very simply as “jam tomorrow, instead of bread and butter today.”S…
Read moreWant Factory Farms Banned? Ask Congress to Support This Bill!
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According to a recent poll, at least half of U.S. consumers oppose industrial factory farming.Now some federal legislators (and some presidential candidates) are catching…
Read moreTell Amazon.com to Stop Selling Fake CBD!
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Consumer alert: Before you pay $200 an ounce for what you think is a premium, phytocannabinoid-rich hemp extract, be aware that Amazon.com doesn’t actually sell CBD. Ever search for “CBD…
Read moreThis Label Defrauds Consumers. Tell Congress to Change It!
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When you see a “Product of U.S.A.” label on a package of meat you should be able to assume that the meat you’re looking at came from an animal raised and processed here in the U.S….
Read moreFactory Farmed Turkeys—Nothing to be Thankful For
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Thanksgiving dinner means only one thing for millions of us: turkey. Of the 100 million turkeys on farms around the U.S., 46 million of them will be eaten on Thanksgiving Day. Americans will con…
Read moreCan Organic Farming Save the World? Yes. But Only Through a Transformation in U.S. Food & Farm Policy
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Organic farming is a win-win for people, animals and the planet. But it’s so much more than a set of practices used to grow food. Organic agriculture takes a holistic approach that em…
Read moreLet’s Boycott and Ban Factory Farms
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October 16 was World Food Day. So we thought it fitting to remind consumers why it’s critical to boycott industrially produced meat, and why we should never give up the battle to end factory farm…
Read moreHow Climate Change Is Changing the Menu—and What We Can Do About It
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What will we eat in the future? What was once an rhetorical musing has now become the critical question of our time as scientists grapple with tricky questions about life—and larde…
Read moreSix Children
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Over the course of next year, six children will stare down Monsanto in U.S. courtrooms.Six children, whose childhoods have been interrupted by excruciatingly painful cancer treatments.Six…
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