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Maine will be the first state to put government vaccine mandates to a popular vote. Everywhere we look, we find signs of out-of-control Big Pharma influence on state governments and in Congress. The growing power of medical trade groups is threatening health choices, too, as doctors put pressure on state departments of children and family services to remove newborns from parents if they refuse to consent to risky or nonessential medical procedures, such as the vitamin K shot.
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You may not realize it but some foods you eat may have been grown in soil containing toxic sewage wastes. Labeling is not required. In 2019, about 60 percent of sewage sludge from 16,000 wastewater processing facilities in more than 160 U.S. cities has been spread on our soils — farmland and gardens, as well as schoolyards and lawns.
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The Maine Board of Dental Practice may be engaging in antitrust violations, according to a petition filed with the Federal Trade Commission by three nonprofit groups — Consumers for Dental Choice, Organic Consumers Association and Mercury Policy Project. At issue is what the complaint calls two competitive factions that have divided modern day dentists: those who use mercury and those who do not.
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At a public hearing today, the Maine Board of Dental Practice will hear testimony from advocacy groups and members of the public who want the board to enforce a state law that requires dentists who still use amalgam fillings to give every patient a specific fact sheet—before installing the filling. The fact sheet, written by the Maine Department of Health, makes it clear that amalgam fillings are primarily mercury, that mercury is a major pollutant and that non-toxic
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AUGUSTA, Maine – October 31, 2019 - Three national nonprofits have petitioned the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate the Maine Board of Dental Practice for antitrust violations. According to the petition, the dental board refuses to enforce the state’s amalgam fact sheet law. As a result, some dentists who still use dental amalgam are withholding
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Maine law requires that every dentist who still uses amalgam fillings give the patient a specific fact sheet—before installing the filling.
Unfortunately, we know from testimony before the Maine legislature last year, that too many Mainers aren’t getting this fact sheet, ever.
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U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, a Democrat from Maine, emphasizes the need for more financial funding of small farms and food businesses that engage in sustainable agricultural practices.: “Our food economy is growing rapidly and financial support will be a big part of that continued growth going forward. I’m so pleased to see this first-in-the-country credit union that will support the unique needs of small farms and food businesses. I hope other states take note and help to close the gap between farmers and their financial institutions,” she said in a statement.
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The Maine Department of Environmental Protection tested the sludge, solid waste that remains after the treatment of domestic and industrial water, for the presence of three “forever chemicals”: PFOA, PFOS, and PFBS. Of 44 samples taken from Maine farms and other facilities that distribute compost made from the sludge, all contained at least one of the PFAS chemicals.
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Since becoming law a year ago, the number of Maine towns and small communities with a food sovereignty ordinance has grown to more than 40. And according to those behind the movement, it’s showing no signs of slowing down.
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A new independent expert analysis of feed sources available for land-based and open-pen salmon farms calls into question claims by Norway-based Nordic Aquafarms (NAF) that an aquaculture project the company proposes to build on a 54-acre site in Belfast will be sustainable.
“Nordic Aquafarms CEO Erik Heim, as well as other company representatives, have repeatedly told the public that their project, unprecedented in size and therefore untested at scale, will be completely “sustainable,” said Katherine Paul, Maine resident and associate director of the Organic Consumers Association (
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