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Endangered species and human health are at risk! 750,000,000 genetically engineered mosquitoes are scheduled to be released in Florida soon. Take action now to stop the first-ever mass release of a GMO insect.
Oxitec, the British biotech corporation that developed the GMO mosquito, won’t stop in Florida. They already have plans to launch an experiment in Harris County, Texas, and to sell boxes of GMO mosquitoes directly to uninformed consumers across the U.S. in stores like Home Depot and Lowe’s.
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Whether you’re excited about new meat alternatives, or you’d rather eat regenerative and organic grass-fed beef, we can all agree on one thing: Fake meat, like all
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Finally, we have a groundbreaking opportunity to radically reform pesticide policy in the United States!
If passed, the Protect America's Children from Toxic Pesticides Act (PACTPA) would mean a comprehensive overhaul of federal pesticide regulations.
It would put
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One year into the COVID-19 pandemic and shutdowns, Congressman Bill Posey has introduced a bill called the Pandemics Require Evaluating, Planning, And Responding Effectively (PREPARE) Act. H.R. 834 would establish a bipartisan National Commission on the COVID-19 Pandemic to conduct an investigation into the origins of SARS-CoV-2 and a
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President Biden’s Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack wants to use $30 billion in tax dollars to create a Carbon Bank where companies that don’t want to stop polluting can buy credits generated from soil carbon sequestration to “offset” their greenhouse gas emissions.
Leave it to “Mr. Monsanto” to give carbon farming a bad name by linking it to a market in hot air! If Vilsack wants to
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Citing what it says is mounting public support, a group of environmental, legislative and farm leaders called Tuesday for a moratorium on new confined animal feeding operations, saying the large-scale livestock-raising facilities pollute Iowa's water and air and harm rural communities.
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When Donald Trump told gathered supporters in D.C. Wednesday afternoon that “we’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, and we’re going to the Capitol,” they didn’t wait. They started to march right away.
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If you think the people President-Elect Joe Biden appoints to lead the executive branch should be people who 1) don’t have ties to agribusiness, fossil fuel companies or corporate lobbyists, 2) represent the diversity of America, and 3) are ready to act with the urgency that the climate, economic, health and farm crises demand, please sign this petition in support of the climate justice cabinet.
The Sunrise Movement and Justice Democrats have proposed a
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Donald Trump had to withdraw scientist Michael Dourson’s Environmental Protection Agency nomination. A hired-gun for Monsanto, Dow and DuPont, there were even Republican Senators who couldn’t bring themselves to vote for him.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are known as Death, Famine, War and Conquest. One could say that in the U.S. military, the “Four Horsemen of Pharma” are these four drugs: pyridostigmine bromide (PB), mefloquine (Lariam®), smallpox vaccine and anthrax vaccine.
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