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Obama administration moves shell closer to arctic drilling
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service authorized the nonlethal, incidental, and unintentional take of small numbers of polar bears and Pacific walrus that result from Shell’s explo…
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Big Food Is Trying to Dupe You Into Loving Industrial Agriculture
Moms campaigning to raise awareness of pesticide use in industrial agriculture are elitist control freaks; organic farming uses dangerous chemicals too. And those antibiotic-resistant superbugs you�…
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Food and chemical industry spends millions on PR to attack organic, defend GMOs
A new report from Friends of the Earth — Spinning Food: How Food Industry Front Groups and Covert Communications are Shaping the Story of Food — documents unprecedented levels of spending fr…
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The billion-dollar business to sell us crappy food
At the turn of the last century, the father of public relations, Edward Bernays, launched the Celiac Project, whose medical professionals recommended bananas to benefit celiac disease sufferers. Those…
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Truth or deception? New report exposes how industry front groups are spending millions to shape the story of food
Organic and non-GMO food sales are skyrocketing as more and more people are choosing healthier, more sustainable food produced without synthetic pesticides, GMOs or the routine use of antibiotics and…
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Without climate protections, the Ex-Im Bank shouldn’t continue
The Export-Import Bank is set to expire on June 30, and concerns for its reauthorization have sparked one of the hottest debates in Congress. In a desperate attempt to reauthorize the agency, some Ex-…
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300,000 Demand Costco Say No to GMO Salmon
A coalition including Community Alliance for Global Justice, fishermen, members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 21 and concerned Costco customers rallied in front of the Costco…
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Protesters urge Costco not to sell genetically modified salmon
A dozen protesters met with a Costco executive Thursday to deliver a petition, urging the wholesale company not to sell geneticallymodified fish. The protesters told KIRO 7 they are particularly con…
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Costco members, fishermen, environmental and labor groups demand Costco say no to GMO salmon
ISSAQUAH, Wash. — A coalition including Community Alliance for Global Justice, fishermen, members of UFCW Local 21 and concerned Costco customers rallied in front of the Costco next door to store he…
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Genetically Modified Salmon: Coming To A River Near You?
While the debate over whether to label foods containing GMO ingredients plays out across the country, another engineered food has long been waiting to hit grocery stores: genetically modified salmon…