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Dangerous pesticide preemption rider scrapped from 2018 Farm Bill
By keeping this troubling component out of the final bill, committee members stood up to preserve state and local governments’ ability to protect the public from these toxic chemicals.
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Friends of the Earth Applauds D.C. Council for Increasing Healthy, Sustainable Food Options in Schools
The Council of the District of Columbia voted unanimously today to increase healthy, plant-forward meal options for students. The legislation also formally adopts the Good Food Purchasing Program acro…
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Sanderson Farms loses motion to dismiss NGO lawsuit on false and misleading advertising
The judgement comes after Sanderson Farms, the nation’s third largest chicken producer, announced late last week that it would stop the routine use of medically important antibiotics to prevent dise…
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Senate Agriculture Committee Must Reject Scott Hutchins as USDA Chief Scientist
The Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry will today hold a hearing on the nomination of Scott Hutchins to be the U.S. Department of Agriculture undersecretary for research, educatio…
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245 farming, farmworker, public health, labor, food safety, and environmental organizations urge Senate to reject Hutchins for USDA science chief
245 organizations representing farming, farmworker, public health, labor, food safety and environmental interests sent a letter to the U.S. Senate today urging them to oppose the nomination of Scott H…
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It’s Time to Stop Paying for Pesticides With Our Health: Organic for All Must Become the Norm
This research confirms what is intuitive and supports what the President’s Cancer Panel told us nearly a decade ago: reducing exposure to cancer-causing chemicals, including pesticides, reduces you…
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Chain Reaction report urges burger restaurants to beef up policies to eliminate routine use of antibiotics
The fourth annual Chain Reaction scorecard grades the nation’s 25 largest hamburger chain restaurants on their antibiotics policies and practices.
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Chain Reaction IV: Burger Edition
How top restaurants rate on reducing antibiotic use in their meat supply chains.
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Changing the Main Course of Climate Change
Agriculture produces an astounding one-third of all global greenhouse gas emissions. Meat and dairy alone generate about half of those food-related emissions — more than the combined tailpipe…
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Scaling Up Healthy, Climate-Friendly School Food
Within this broader vision of climate-friendly foodservice, this report focuses primarily on strategies for increasing offerings of healthy, cost-effective plant forward foods.