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Rice is a major food commodity and staple food for many, and adding fish to flooded rice paddies has been a farming tradition practiced in a number of Asian countries for many centuries—even for more than 1000 years in some Chinese areas, the United Nations reports.
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Three U.S. nonprofit groups filed a suit Thursday against Mississippi based Sanderson Farms, Inc. for falsely advertising products that contain a wide range of unnatural and in some cases prohibited substances, as “100% Natural.” Substances include antibiotics, steroids, hormones and even a drug with hallucinogenic effects
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Psychological research shows people are too tribal and afraid to admit they were wrong to regret their votes.
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Consumer groups use a novel strategy to sue a poultry producer over claims the drug turned up in its products.
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Chimicles & Tikellis LLP is investigating a potential class action lawsuit against Aurora Organic Dairy (“Aurora”) following recent reports that Aurora falsely advertises and mislabels its milk as “organic” when, in fact, it is not organic and does not meet the requirements for organic labeling.
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"Democrats will not win back power merely by serving as an alternative to Trump and Republicans."
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"By federal law, all chickens have to be cleared of antibiotics before they leave the farm," says the folksy, flannel-wearing actor in a Sanderson Farms "Truth about Chicken—Supermarket" video.
So imagine our surprise when we learned that government testing of Sanderson chicken products uncovered 11 instances of antibiotics for human use in Sanderson chicken—after it had left the farm.
One of those antibiotics, chloramphenical, is not only prohibited in food-producing animals, but according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National
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Investigative journalists drop a bombshell about DEA complicity in the the murders of 300 people, and it barely makes a blip in the U.S. media
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According to one survey, 20 percent of Gen Xers and eight percent of boomers are making the switch from alcohol to pot.
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Since the Agricultural Act of 2014, the federal crop insurance program (FCIP) has been the cornerstone agricultural policy in the United States, and is the largest such program globally, with about $100 billion in coverage annually.
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