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A New Blog on Food
posted by OrangeClouds115 2008-07-05 23:28:28There's a new blog about food! Check out La Vida Locavore - a blog for anyone whose crazy life includes planting, growing, weeding, fertilizing, raising, picking, harvesting, processing, cooking, baking, making, serving, buying, selling, distributing, transporting, composting, organizing around, lobbying about, writing about, thinking about, talking about, playing with, and eating food!
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A New Section on this Site
posted by OrangeClouds115 2008-06-07 23:49:50Well, we started out talking about the 2007 farm bill and in the end we got a 2008 farm bill instead. Congress finally passed it, Bush vetoed it, and for the second time ever, Congress overrode Bush's veto.
As a result, we've got a new section on this site. A few of the issues listed here are now no longer issues. Instead, they can be found under the category "Success Stories." Years of hard work from countless individuals all over the country went into these victories and we are proud to celebrate them and their accomplishments. Congratulations and thank you to everyone who worked on banning mandatory arbitration in livestock/poultry contracts and mandatory COOL. You are all heroes.
Congress Will Finally Vote on the Farm Bill
posted by OrangeClouds115 2008-05-09 21:25:32Nearly a year after they started to debate it, Congress agreed on a farm bill which they will vote on soon. Bush, naturally, plans to veto it.
Here is Tom Philpott's take on the bill.
The Farm Bill: We're Almost Done
posted by OrangeClouds115 2008-05-02 13:38:32Here's the latest on the farm bill after this week. Looks like another extension until May 16 and then - who knows? Maybe we'll have a 2007 farm bill before 2008 is half over.
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It's Official. Local Food is a Bipartisan Issue.
posted by OrangeClouds115 2008-05-01 00:19:26On April 29, 2008, President Bush said:
One thing I think that would be -- I know would be very creative policy is if we -- is if we would buy food from local farmers as a way to help deal with scarcity, but also as a way to put in place an infrastructure so that nations can be self-sustaining and self-supporting. It's a proposal I put forth that Congress hasn't responded to yet, and I sincerely hope they do.
More news from our favorite news sources!
Center for Science in the Public Interest
FTC Settles With Nationally-Recognized Maker of Healthy Remedy
Statement of CSPI Director of Litigation Stephen Gardner
The FTC's crackdown on Airborne is welcome and should serve as a template for similar actions against many other companies. CSPI represents Airborne purchasers in the private class action in California that has settled and awaiting court approval. If the court approves the settlement, victimized Airborne purchasers will get millions of dollars, perhaps as much as $20 million, in refunds.
CSPI Praises Senators for Bipartisan Food Safety Bill
Statement of CSPI Food Safety Director Caroline Smith DeWaal
The bipartisan FDA Food Safety Modernization Act would help refocus the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on preventing, rather than just reacting to, food-borne disease outbreaks. Senators Richard Durbin, Judd Gregg, Christopher Dodd, Richard Burr, Tom Harkin, and Lamar Alexander have developed constructive legislation in a bipartisan manner, proving that the safety of the food we serve our families is not a partisan political issue.
CSPI Blasts NCAA Decision to Keep Beer Ads
Statement of George Hacker, CSPI's Director of Alcohol Policies
The NCAA continues to put profit over principle by continuing to embrace advertising for beerthe number-one cause of alcohol problemsduring its popular sports telecasts. In contrast, the NCAA rejects advertising for distilled spirits, most wine, sports wagering, gambling, nightclubs, firearms and weapons, and NC-17-rated motion pictures, among others.
Dirty Dining: Restaurants Need Food Safety Letter Grades, Says CSPI
Inspection Reports Hard to Find in Many Cities
WASHINGTONIn Atlanta, chicken salad stored at a balmy 50 degrees. Inadequate hand washing in Boston. Mouse droppings in a Minneapolis ice machine. A live roach scampers across a Pittsburgh cutting board. These are some of the gory details uncovered in an analysis by the Center for Science in the Public Interest of 539 restaurant inspection reports from 20 cities. Two-thirds of restaurants had these and other high-risk food safety violations.
Pressure Grows to Expel Beer Advertising from NCAA Basketball
College Presidents, Athletic Directors, and Coaches Appeal to NCAA
WASHINGTONWhen the executive committee and Division I board of directors of the National Collegiate Athletic Association meet for their annual gatherings in Indianapolis on August 7, it is likely they will have to take a hard look at the organization's policies on advertising alcoholic beverages during the "March Madness" national championship basketball tournament.
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Environmental Health News
Worldwide battle for water.
The wars of the next few decades could be fought over access to water, say some analysts.
Our good earth.
Even as humankind is ratchetting up its demands on soil, we are destroying it faster than ever before.
Toxic wastes alarm in Lagos, Nigeria. They are dangerous say experts.
Residents of Babs Animasahun Surulere Lagos fear that some strange wastes dumped under the cover of darkness in the area may be toxic.
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PhysOrg.com: Latest Science and Technology News
Researchers Isolate Microorganisms That Convert Hydrocarbons to Natural Gas
(PhysOrg.com) -- When a group of University of Oklahoma researchers began studying the environmental fate of spilt petroleum, a problem that has plagued the energy industry for decades, they did not expect to eventually isolate a community of microorganisms capable of converting hydrocarbons into natural gas.
For coronary artery disease patients, B vitamins may not reduce cardiovascular events
In a large clinical trial involving patients with coronary artery disease, use of B vitamins was not effective for preventing death or cardiovascular events, according to a study published in the August 20 issue of JAMA.
French doctor accused in plastic surgery scam arrested in Spain
A French cosmetic surgeon who went on the run after being tried for mutilating and endangering the lives of dozens of men and women has been arrested in Spain, police sources said Tuesday.