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Targeting: the President of the United States, members of the US Senate and members of the US House of Representatives
Started by: Food First
183 Civil Society Groups Urge President Obama and the U.S. Congress to Curb Food Speculation to Address the Urgent Hunger Crisis
Started by: Food First
183 Civil Society Groups Urge President Obama and the U.S. Congress to Curb Food Speculation to Address the Urgent Hunger Crisis
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WASHINGTON, DC - Four labor unions and two environmental organizations representing six million people today announced their support for national cap-and-trade climate change legislation in 2009. Such legislation would place an overall national limit, or cap, on greenhouse gas emissions and auction emissions allowances.
The Blue Green Alliance says this legislation is an effective way to rapidly put millions of Americans back to work building a clean energy economy and to reduce global warming emissions to avoid the worst effects of climate change.
The Blue Green Alliance says this legislation is an effective way to rapidly put millions of Americans back to work building a clean energy economy and to reduce global warming emissions to avoid the worst effects of climate change.
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America, meet your farmer.
The maker of Stone-Buhr flour, a popular brand in the western United States, is encouraging its customers to reconnect with their lost agrarian past, from the comfort of their computer screens. Its Find the Farmer Web site and special labels on the packages let buyers learn about and even contact the farmers who produced the wheat that went into their bag of flour.
The maker of Stone-Buhr flour, a popular brand in the western United States, is encouraging its customers to reconnect with their lost agrarian past, from the comfort of their computer screens. Its Find the Farmer Web site and special labels on the packages let buyers learn about and even contact the farmers who produced the wheat that went into their bag of flour.
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Environmentalists girded for two contradictory possibilities in the first months of the Obama administration: the rapid rollback efforts by the Bush White House to open more of the country's public forests to logging, mining and drilling and new Democrat-led legislation that could increase timber extraction on public lands, starting with threatened spotted owl habitat in the Pacific Northwest.
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As the debate between conventional and organic milk consumers gets louder, we spoke with two local dairy farmers and gave each the same questions; here are their positions on their milk.
Allen Smith, a fifth-generation conventional dairyman, owns Great Bay Farm in Greenland. His 100-cow herd is primarily Holsteins. Organic dairyman Luke Mahoney rents Brookford Farm in Rollingsford and his herd, mostly Jersey, numbers about 25 head.
CP: What do you feed your herd?
Allen Smith, a fifth-generation conventional dairyman, owns Great Bay Farm in Greenland. His 100-cow herd is primarily Holsteins. Organic dairyman Luke Mahoney rents Brookford Farm in Rollingsford and his herd, mostly Jersey, numbers about 25 head.
CP: What do you feed your herd?
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Amid massive government bailouts of the nation's banks, we speak to the Reverend Jesse Jackson about Reduce the Rate, his new campaign urging the Obama administration to slash the interest rates on crippling student loans. We also speak with Alan Collinge, founder of Student Loan Justice and author of The Student Loan Scam: The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History˜and How We Can Fight Back.
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We predicted late last year before, during, and after the election that 2009 would begin a time of change and challenge for dietary supplements. It looks like the first shoe has dropped: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) presented a report to Congress last week, titled Dietary Supplements: FDA Should Take Further Action to Improve Oversight and Consumer Understanding.
A link to the full 70+ page report appears at the end of this article. Here are a few highlights:
A link to the full 70+ page report appears at the end of this article. Here are a few highlights:
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Traditional approaches to supplying food are an inefficient 'band aid', says Pedro A. Sanchez. New evidence shows that helping farmers to help themselves is more effective and would be six times cheaper.
