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Science and Public Polling Make it Clear: New York Must Restrict Bee-Killing Neonicotinoids
Contact your elected officials to support S699A, in order to protect the health of the environment, pollinators, and New Yorkers.
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Cluck, No! Why Choosing Chicken Over Beef Won’t Save Us
Swapping factory-farmed hamburgers for chicken wings will fail to adequately address the climate catastrophe and would actually exacerbate many of the pressing environmental, health, and worker justic…
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Friends of the Earth Statement on the Confirmation of Tom Vilsack as Agriculture Secretary
Secretary Vilsack’s second tour at US Department of Agriculture must look dramatically different than his first.
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Letter to IFC on Factory Farming
We can significantly reduce agriculture’s impact on climate — but only if we shift production away from industrial animal agriculture and energy intensive monoculture.
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Groups Demand Home Depot, Lowe’s End Sales of Roundup
Lowe’s and Home Depot are well-aware of the research that shows glyphosate is linked to an increased risk of cancer. And yet these dangerous pesticides still line their shelves,
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Food Service Company Aramark Rejects GE Salmon
Top food service company Aramark just announced its commitment not to sell genetically engineered (GE) salmon. The producer of the salmon, AquaBounty Technologies, announced plans to sell its fi…
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Organic School Food Roadmap
This report outlines six key strategies and shares seven brief case studies from diverse school districts that show how school districts with various food service models can successfully source organi…
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Tahoe Truckee Unified School District Case Study
The food service program’s total annual budget of about $3.5 million enables investments in quality nutritious foods, as well as in the food service staff who make it all possible.
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Natomas Unified School District Case Study
Vince Caguin joined Natomas Unified School District (NUSD) in 2012, after 24 years working professionally as a chef.
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San Francisco Unified School District Case Study
San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) has a unique mixture of self-operated food service and vended meals.