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Vermont passes bill to ban consumer use of bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides
The Vermont Legislature today passed a bill banning consumer use of neonicotinoid pesticides by July 2019. During the legislative session, thousands of Friends of the Earth members in Vermont called a…
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World Faces Ecological Collapse Unless Urgent Action Taken, Says Devastating Global Assessment
The world faces ecological collapse and mass extinctions unless dramatic action is taken to change social and economic systems, according to a global assessment launched today by The Intergovernmental…
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New York Passes Bill to Ban Dow’s Brain-Damaging Pesticide Chlorpyrifos
New York’s deadline for ending the use of chlorpyrifos will make it the first state to stop use of the chemical. In banning this dangerous chemical, New York legislators are prioritizing public heal…
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I’ve been a farmworker all my life. Here’s why you should buy organic food
Like millions of farmworkers who have labored in America’s fields and orchards, I know what it’s like to grow the food we eat using toxic pesticides.
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Amidst “insect apocalypse” Ace Hardware steps up and takes action on bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides
For the first year, all major garden retailers are on record committing to eliminate the use of neonicotinoid (neonic) pesticides on the products and garden plants that they sell.
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Concerned customers swarm Kroger stores nationwide
This week, more than 5,000 people across the country are swarming Kroger-owned (NYSE: KR) stores and delivering letters demanding that the retailer eliminate use of toxic pesticides on the food it sel…
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Customers swarm Kroger stores in nationwide action to eliminate toxic pesticides from food
Public health advocates, environmentalists and concerned customers will visit Kroger-owned (NYSE:KR) stores as part of a national action February 23-29 to demand that Kroger stop selling food grown wi…
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Organic for All: Results of the Organic Diet Biomonitoring Study
In this peer-reviewed study, we compared pesticide levels in the bodies of four American families for six days on a non-organic diet and six days on a completely organic diet. We found that an organic…
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A pesticides wake-up call: New study confirms the need to eat and farm organic
As organic farmers, we care deeply about the food we put in our bodies and how it’s grown. On our small farm in middle Georgia, my husband and I grow U.S. Department of Agriculture-certified organic…
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Pesticide levels drop after one week of eating organic
A groundbreaking peer-reviewed study published today in the journal Environmental Research found that switching to an organic diet significantly reduced the levels of synthetic pesticides found in all…