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Posted February 15, 2012
A champion of supplements in the House (Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-UT) sends a warning to FDA. Read more and Take Action to persuade others in Congress to join him!
Posted February 22, 2012
Please sign this petition urging Commissioner Margaret Hamburg of the FDA to label genetically modified foods. Americans have a right to know what they are eating! Sign petition now.
Posted February 1, 2012
Ask your senator or representative to make a one-minute floor speech opposing the FDA’s plan to sweep many supplements off the shelf and make the ones that survive much more expensive. Urge them, just as Senators Harkin and Hatch did, to ask the FDA to retract the guidance altogether and start over. Remind them that the NDI draft guidance is bad for the economy and costs American jobs. Read more and Take Action.
Posted February 16, 2012
President Obama has appointed former Monsanto VP and lobbyist Michael Taylor to become senior advisor to the FDA’s commissioner. This unthinkable linkage between food safety and corporate interests that have little regard for the public health must be stopped. President Obama must reverse this unimaginably dangerous policy of a “fox guarding the hen house” and isolate the FDA from corporate influence. Sign Petition.
Posted February 15, 2012
Eight integrative doctors are under attack in Louisiana. Read more and Take Action to support them.
Posted February 15, 2012
We’re angry! MILLIONS of us are angry and outraged at the approval of GM alfalfa. And on top of that, the USDA also did an end-run around the courts to keep GM sugar beets growing, AND approved a GM corn used for ethanol.
So what do we do? Surrender? Never! Read more and take action!
Posted February 13, 2012
Kentuckians are currently working to pass a new bill, S.B. 47, that will establish regulatory guidelines that prohibit government intrusion into private food contracts made between farmers and their customers. Read more.
Posted February 8, 2012
The American Academy of Pediatrics now says all boys between the ages of 11 and 12 should receive the HPV vaccine—the same one that has harmed so many girls. Please send a message to the American Academy of Pediatrics and the CDC denouncing their recommendations. Read more and Take Action.
Posted February 8, 2012
A legal petition has been filed with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) calling on the FDA to label genetically engineered (GE) foods. Senator Barbara Boxer (CA) and Representative Peter DeFazio (OR) have authored a bicameral Congressional letter in support of this petition and will be urging their fellow Members on Capitol Hill to sign onto their letter. Please join us in emailing your U.S. Senators and Representative, urging them to join the Boxer-DeFazio letter in support of labeling Read more and email your representatives TODAY.
Posted February 1, 2012
Dow Chemical is currently requesting unprecedented approval from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to market a genetically engineered (GE) version of corn that is resistant to 2,4-D, a major component of the highly toxic Agent Orange. Tell USDA To Do Its Job And Reject 2,4-D Resistant GE Corn! Read more and Take Action.