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Encinitas Union Elementary School District Case Study
With 30% of students participating and about 1,800 students served daily, Encinitas Union’s Nutrition Services Department maintains a commitment to scratch cooking.
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Billboard at Kroger HQ Demands Retailer Eliminate Bee-killing Pesticides Used to Grow Food it Sells
A new billboard near the Cincinnati headquarters of Kroger (NYSE: KR) demands that the largest traditional grocery corporation in the U.S. stop using toxic pesticides linked to dramatic declines in po…
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Organic, Plant-Forward, Scratch Cooked School Meals: A California Case Study
As schools across the nation grapple with how to feed kids healthier, more sustainable food on tight budgets, an inspiring story from Northern California provides a roadmap for change.
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Friends of the Earth Statement on Impending Nomination of Tom Vilsack for USDA Secretary
We are deeply disappointed that President-elect Biden appears to have selected an agribusiness lobbyist with a tarnished record on civil rights, consolidation, and the environment as his USDA Secretar…
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TIAA’s Accumulation of Farmland is Not Responsible
TIAA’s “Responsible Investment in Farmland” report series highlights the fact that in 2011 TIAA was one of a group of businesses that developed the Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI) Far…
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160+ Organizations Urge President-Elect Biden to Withdraw Heidi Heitkamp from Consideration for USDA Secretary
A coalition of more than 160 environmental, food justice, sustainable agriculture, workers’ rights, animal welfare, social justice, public health, and anti-hunger organizations sent a letter today t…
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Federal Court Declares Genetically Engineered Salmon Unlawful
Today, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) violated core environmental laws in approving the genetically engineered salmon.
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Public Comment on Darling 58 American Chestnut Closes
The release of genetically engineered chestnut trees could have irreversible and unpredictable impacts on vulnerable forest ecosystems.
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Growing Climate Solutions Act Opposition Letter
We, the undersigned organizations, encourage you to oppose the Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2020 (S. 3894/H.R. 7393).
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222 organizations reject “Growing Climate Solutions Act”
222 farmer, farmworker, environmental justice, climate, environmental, faith-based, animal welfare, and other groups today wrote to Members of Congress to urge them to oppose to the Growing Climate So…