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You may have heard that Bill Gates is so rich that his investments make money faster than he can donate it.
But, the cash that appears to stack up, even as it's given away, is actually a sleight of hand.
Gates’ trick is self-dealing; he donates to the companies he invests in.
As revealed by investigative
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The transition from an industrial, polluting, wasteful agricultural system to one that supports the health of our soil, our crops and our people requires committed farmers—and committed leaders.
If, like us, you dream of an organic, regenerative food system led by independent family farmers, then reports that Joe Biden is considering former North Dakota Senator Heidi Heitkamp as a potential
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The city of Berkeley, California, is trying to make its residents healthier. As part of a health initiative, Berkeley is getting ready to become the first city in the US to require large grocery stores to stop selling junk food and candy in checkout aisles. The new rule is expected to go into effect March 2021.
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The cars that typically throng the huge highways weaving through Los Angeles are such an established part of the city’s fabric that when the coronavirus pandemic hit, their sudden absence felt bizarre to locals even eerie. But many Angelenos have now discovered a new sort of relationship with their streets.
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The International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) is a corporate-funded nonprofit organization based in Washington DC, with 17 affiliated chapters around the world. ILSI describes itself as a group that conducts “science for the public good” and “improves human health and well-being and safeguards the environment.” However, investigations by academics, journalists and public interest researchers show that ILSI is a lobby group that protects the interests of the food industry, not public health.
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Come November 3, Oregon residents will have a chance to approve the most far-reaching drug reform measure ever to make a state ballot when they vote on Measure 110, the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act. While the initiative indeed expands drug treatment, what makes it really revolutionary is that it would also decriminalize the possession of personal use amounts of all drugs, from psychedelics to cocaine and methamphetamine, as well as heroin and other illicit opioids.
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The typical American diet of processed junk food, factory farm meat and nutrient-deficient, pesticide-contaminated fruits and vegetables is killing us. Literally.
Yet thanks to corporate lobbyists, our taxpayer-funded government agencies are about to, once again, hand down federal Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) that will keep
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Citrus fruits are not native to the U.S., but they are now an integral part of Florida's agricultural growth and state identity. Citrus trees came with Europeans in the 1500s and quickly began growing in Florida. In return for serving during the Seminole War several hundred years later, John Eaton was given land under the government's plan. This was the birth of the citrus industry in Florida.
Read moreIndustrial factory farming threatens our health, our environment and our local economic and food security.
The handful of “Big Meat” corporations that monopolize industrial meat production are guilty of exploiting meatpacking workers, farmworkers, farmers and ranchers—and torturing billions of farm animals.
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How likely is it that a consumer buying Ducktrap River of Maine “All Natural” smoked Atlantic salmon would have any idea that the salmon in that product was raised on chemicals and antibiotics, in an industrial fish farm nowhere near Maine or the Atlantic?
Not very, we think.
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