GNA 2008 News Archives

2008 Headlines:

• 01/06/09 - Sign the Petition to Support Jim Riddle for Agricultural Marketing Services Division of the USDA
• 01/05/09 - Faced with Concession Demands, Unions Search for Ways to Resist
• 01/05/09 - Monsanto's Roundup Residues in GM Food Cause Cell Damage
• 01/05/09 - The Transition Town Movement: Embracing Reality and Resilience, By Carolyn Baker
• 01/05/09 - OCA's Craig Minowa on the Year Ahead in Music and Activism
• 01/05/09 - The Gerson Therapy--An Interview with Charlotte Gerson
• 01/05/09 - The Growing War Between Modern Big Pharma Medicine and the Public
• 01/05/09 - Why Cod Liver Oil May Not Be as Useful or Harmless as You Thought - Mercola
• 01/05/09 - Afghanistan: America's Other Glorious War
• 01/05/09 - Atrazine in the Water
• 01/05/09 - Green Change: What You Can Do in '09
• 01/05/09 - U.S. Needs 50-Year Farm Bill--Wendell Berry
• 01/05/09 - Summary & Links to Top Stories of the Month on Genetically Engineered Foods
• 01/04/09 - Poll Reveals Americans Want GMO Labels, Strong Organic Standards & Stricter Food Safety Practices
• 01/04/09 - The Latest on Honey Labels: If it's Made in America, it's Likely not Organic
• 01/04/09 - New Restrictions on Hog Farms Start Today in North Carolina
• 01/03/09 - A New Year's Resolution--Don't Just Eat Organic, Wear It Too
• 01/03/09 - Nine Steps to Peace for Obama in the New Year--by Deepak Chopra
• 01/03/09 - 10 Reasons To Be Hopeful About 2009 -- and 3 Reasons To Be Terrified
• 01/03/09 - GMOs Not the Answer to the Food Crisis - Top Vatican Official
• 01/02/09 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #992 - A Tale of Two Toxicities
• 06/30/08 - The Baseless, and Failed, 'Move to the Center' Cliche
• 06/30/08 - High Court Deals Blow To Campaign Finance Law
• 06/30/08 - US Alarmed over Taliban's Progress in Afghanistan
• 06/30/08 - States Taking Initiative on Environmental & Climate Crisis while Feds Do Little or Nothing
• 06/30/08 - Why Organic & Justice-Minded Consumers Should Boycott Nike & Other Multi-National Brand Products
• 06/30/08 - Grit TV with Laura Flanders: A Glimmer of Light in Television Wasteland
• 06/30/08 - Nader Calls on Obama to Challenge the White Establishment
• 06/30/08 - Summary of Week's Stories on Global Food Crisis
• 06/30/08 - Key Developments in Food & Farming & Genetically Engineered Foods & Crops (June 2008)
• 06/30/08 - Making the Climate Crisis a Priority
• 06/30/08 - Wobblies Coordinate Global Day of Action Against Starbucks
• 06/30/08 - White House Blocks Key EPA Emissions Document on Greenhouse Gas Pollution
• 06/30/08 - The Bush Administration Steps up its Secret Moves Against Iran
• 06/30/08 - US Finally Issues Health Warning over Mercury Fllings
• 06/30/08 - National Livestock ID Program is Halted by Federal Court, For Now
• 06/30/08 - More on the Bee Crisis
• 06/30/08 - Who's Actually Winning in Iraq?
• 06/29/08 - The Climate Crisis: When Words Fail
• 06/29/08 - End of the Petroleum Age?
• 06/29/08 - Monsanto & White House Propaganda that Biotech Can Feed the World Exposed as Lies
• 06/29/08 - How 'Mad Cow' Prions Pose a Threat to All Non-Organic Food Consumers Including Vegetarians
• 06/29/08 - The DNA of Corn: Mexican Peasants vs. Techno-Science
• 06/29/08 - The Alternative to War in Iraq & Iran: Kill the Gas-Guzzler and Declare Economic War Against Oil
• 06/29/08 - Climate Crisis Coalition Newsfeed (June 29, 2008)
• 06/28/08 - Want Your Constitutional Rights Back? Sign a New Declaration for Independence Day
• 06/28/08 - What Is to Be Done? Assessing the Antiwar Movement
• 06/28/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #965
• 06/28/08 - War on Teen Smoking Stalls
• 06/28/08 - Green Party Presidential Candidate Cynthia McKinney on Mexican Oil Privatization, Fair Trade & Immigration
• 06/28/08 - Low Sperm Counts and Deformed Penises: The Chemical Industry Has a Hold on Your Reproductive Future
• 06/28/08 - Coming Clean: Struggle over Label Fraud in Organic Body Care Products
• 06/28/08 - Obama's Retroactive Support for Illegal Government & Telecom Spying Angers Progressives
• 06/28/08 - As the System Collapses: Creating the Next Society
• 06/28/08 - Small Farms Are Best for the Environment, Climate Stability, & Feeding the World's Population
• 06/28/08 - Chocolate-Lovers: Cocoa Industry Still Employs Child Labor under Slave-Like Conditions
• 06/28/08 - Obama Bypassing Public Finance
• 06/28/08 - Global Warming Twenty Years Later: Catastrophic Tipping Points Near
• 06/28/08 - Nanotechnology: Likely Extreme Hazards Already Present in 600 Consumer Products
• 06/28/08 - Are Congressional Democrats Leading Us to War With Iran?
• 06/28/08 - Industrial Farming: Our Strict, Chemical-Laden Diet
• 06/28/08 - Remembering George Carlin, by Paul Krassner
• 06/28/08 - Honeybee Disappearances Could Get Worse, House Panel Told
• 06/28/08 - Nanofoods: Size Really Does Matter
• 06/28/08 - 9/11, Deep State Violence and the Hope of Internet Politics
• 06/28/08 - Gardasil Not Approved for Older Women
• 06/28/08 - Salon.com Plays the Locavoreanism-Debunking Game
• 06/27/08 - How the Organic Movement Can Regain its Relevance
• 06/27/08 - Dairy Industry Commits to Reducing Greenhouse Gases
• 06/27/08 - General Accuses White House of War Crimes
• 06/27/08 - Starbucks Sued for Discrimination
• 06/27/08 - Nitrogen Madness: The Costs of Unsustainable Agriculture
• 06/27/08 - Iowa's Chefs And Their Farmer-Suppliers Get Busy Recovering From Disaster
• 06/27/08 - Whole Foods and Wal-Mart Execs Agree: We're Not Green
• 06/27/08 - U.S. Mayors Call for Boycott of Alberta Oilsands
• 06/27/08 - Grass-Fed Cows May Make Better Milk
• 06/26/08 - Big Box Campaigners Update (June 25, 2008)
• 06/26/08 - US Consumers Face Advent of Cloned Food Despite 77% Opposition
• 06/26/08 - Ciao FAO: Another "Failure as Usual" Food Summit
• 06/26/08 - Casualties of Tort War: Consumers
• 06/26/08 - Is the Future of Farming Vertical?
• 06/26/08 - Study Finds Imbalance on 3 Newspapers' Op Ed Pages
• 06/26/08 - California Requires Greenhouse Gas Labels on Cars
• 06/26/08 - Mayors Urge Stop to Bottled Water Use
• 06/26/08 - An Assessment of Antiwar Organizing and Activism
• 06/26/08 - Legal Action Filed to Outlaw Dangerous Nano-Silver Products
• 06/26/08 - Supreme Court Slashes Punitive Award in Exxon Valdez Oil Spill by 80%
• 06/26/08 - As Nanotechnology Gains Ground, So Do Concerns
• 06/26/08 - Obama Tilts Toward Center, Irking Some Activists
• 06/26/08 - Health Freedom Warning: Drug Company Seeks to Outlaw Vitamin B6 to Protect Pharma Profits
• 06/26/08 - Slaughterhouse Abuse of Downer Cows And Mad Cow Risk Continues
• 06/25/08 - What is Homeopathy?
• 06/25/08 - They've Got the World by the Belly
• 06/25/08 - These Wars Are About Oil, Not Democracy
• 06/25/08 - Bird Flu and the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918-19
• 06/25/08 - The Hedonists of Power
• 06/25/08 - Water Flowing Back Into Public Hands
• 06/25/08 - The Weekly Spin, June 25, 2008
• 06/25/08 - The Peaceful Revolution in Farmers' Markets
• 06/25/08 - The Missing Link Between Health & Agriculture
• 06/25/08 - Can Sustainable Agriculture Save the World? New Film Says Yes!
• 06/25/08 - Monsanto to Acquire Yet Another Seed Company
• 06/25/08 - Take This Quiz to Find Out if You are a Water Waster or Saver
• 06/25/08 - Pharma Reveals its Hand! Flood the FDA with Comments on Two Key Petitions!
• 06/25/08 - Earth Near Tipping Point, Climatologist Warns
• 06/25/08 - Milk on Trial as Cornell Expert Testifies at Fired Teacher's Hearing
• 06/24/08 - Biotech Crops for Biofuels
• 06/24/08 - John Bolton: Israel 'Will Attack Iran' Before New US President Sworn In
• 06/24/08 - Contaminated Veggies Are the Meat Industry's Fault
• 06/24/08 - Common Cooking Spice Found to Combat Diabetes, Obesity
• 06/24/08 - Action Alert: Agriculture Appropriations Bill Links NAIS to School Lunch Program!
• 06/24/08 - We're in Chemical Overload
• 06/24/08 - Occupations Abroad Always Lead to the Erosion of Liberties at Home
• 06/24/08 - Congress Addresses Nanotechnology
• 06/24/08 - Obama Camp Closely Linked With Ethanol
• 06/24/08 - Fluoride's Glory May Be Cresting
• 06/24/08 - Schools Are Taking the Mystery Out of the Meat They Serve
• 06/24/08 - Get Thee to The Farmers Market
• 06/24/08 - Germany, France Ban Pesticides Linked to Bee Deaths; Geneticist Urges US Ban
• 06/24/08 - Latest Big Pharma Attack on Natural Medicine: Take Action
• 06/24/08 - 12 Food Additives To Avoid
• 06/24/08 - EU Toughens Pesticide Rules
• 06/24/08 - Put Oil Firm Chiefs On Trial, Says Leading Climate Change Scientist
• 06/24/08 - Cindy Sheehan & Cynthia McKinney Link Forces for 2008 Election Campaign
• 06/24/08 - 'The World According to Monsanto' - Exposing One of the Most Evil Corporations on Earth
• 06/24/08 - New Farmers' Guide to Disaster Assistance Available
• 06/24/08 - Harry Reid Puts Mining Reform in a Deep Hole
• 06/24/08 - USDA to Korea and the World, Eat That Untested Beef and Like It
• 06/24/08 - The Color of Credit
• 06/24/08 - Organic Consumers Battle Organic Label Fraud with Litigation
• 06/24/08 - Meat Wars: Why Are the Koreans Dissin' our Beef?
• 06/23/08 - Biotech's Assault on Mexico
• 06/23/08 - Background of Obama's Foreign Policy Group
• 06/23/08 - Iowa: Agricultural Methods Exacerbate Flooding
• 06/23/08 - Coastal Governors Pledge to Protect Oceans from Offshore Drilling
• 06/23/08 - Controversy Surrounds Calypso Liquified Natural Gas Deepwater Port
• 06/23/08 - Yes, We Will Have No Bananas
• 06/23/08 - Top Stories of the Week on Genetically Engineered Crops & Foods
• 06/23/08 - Rebel Scientist Battles Dangerous Vaccines and Antibiotics
• 06/23/08 - Despite Economic Recession, Demand for Organics Keeps Growing
• 06/23/08 - Tell the Presidential Candidates to Ban Cluster Bombs
• 06/23/08 - Is Green the Color of Transparency?
• 06/23/08 - Behind the White House & UK Propaganda on Iraq: Peak Oil & Contractor Profits
• 06/23/08 - Fighting Climate Change: Food Miles vs. Food Choices
• 06/23/08 - Western Medicine Fails Tim Russert
• 06/23/08 - Good News: Aerial Pesticide Spraying of Urban Areas Suspended
• 06/23/08 - Are You Allergic to Wireless Internet?
• 06/23/08 - Bomb Iran? What's to Stop Us?
• 06/23/08 - Truth or Consequences - The Real Life Version
• 06/23/08 - Over 80% of Americans Say Country is Moving in the Wrong Direction
• 06/23/08 - Growing Strength-and Divide-in Climate Opinion
• 06/22/08 - Rotten Tomatoes: Latest Health Scare Exposes a Frayed Food-Safety Net
• 06/22/08 - The Great Pesticide Debate
• 06/22/08 - Biggest Firms Call for Huge Cuts in Emissions to Start Green Industrial Revolution
• 06/22/08 - Climate Crisis Coalition Newsfeed, June 22, 2008
• 06/22/08 - 3 in 10 Americans Admit to Racial Bias
• 06/21/08 - Solutions to the Global Food Crisis
• 06/21/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #964
• 06/20/08 - Texas Cotton Crop Hit Hard by Sand Storms And Heat
• 06/20/08 - To Prevent War with Iran: Impeach Bush Now
• 06/20/08 - Big Bad Boom: Radioactive Deja Vu in the Ever More Water Deficient American West
• 06/20/08 - The Real Reason for the U.S. War & Occupation: Deals With Iraq Are Set to Bring Oil Giants Back
• 06/20/08 - Congressman Obey & Other So-Called 'Anti-War Democrats' Continue to Fund the War
• 06/20/08 - Obama May Keep Bush's Secretary of Defense
• 06/20/08 - Pesticide Dangers to Human Health Carry Through Multiple Generations
• 06/20/08 - Why Koreans Still Reject U.S. Beef: Stop the Madness
• 06/20/08 - Cheap Food in the City? Grow Your Own
• 06/20/08 - Corn Utensils Not Helpful Without Widespread Public Composting
• 06/20/08 - Food Network Star Alton Brown Adds a Pinch of Sustainability to the Pot
• 06/20/08 - A Tale of Two Tomatoes: How and Why, in a Centralized Food System, a Little Bacteria Can Go a Long Way
• 06/20/08 - Democrats Agree to Shelter Telecom Companies, Expand Wiretap Powers
• 06/20/08 - Obama and Latino Voters: Brownout in Black Camelot
• 06/20/08 - Chipotle Restaurant Chain Adds More Local Ingredients
• 06/19/08 - Bill C-51 Threatens Natural Health Products In Canada
• 06/19/08 - America's Secret Army of Contractor Spies: The Intelligence Industrial Complex
• 06/19/08 - Soft Drink Companies Under Increasing Pressure to Halt Marketing to Kids
• 06/19/08 - Drugging Children to Keep Them Quiet
• 06/19/08 - Watch New Film on rBGH: "Your Milk on Drugs"
• 06/19/08 - Colorado's Chemical Injection
• 06/19/08 - Credibility Gap: Toxic Chemicals in Food Packaging and DuPont's Greenwashing
• 06/19/08 - Advocacy Group Calls on FDA to Ban Food Dyes
• 06/19/08 - Killer Cribs: Protecting Infants and Children from Toxic Exposure
• 06/19/08 - Wal-Mart Takes Greenwashing to a New Level
• 06/19/08 - How Grocery Stores are Emptying the Seas & Carting Away the Oceans
• 06/19/08 - Iowa Flooding Could Be An Act of Man, Experts Say
• 06/19/08 - The 2008 Elections: Of Whales and Worms
• 06/19/08 - Mother Earth's Triple Whammy: Why We Must Address the Energy, Climate & Food Crises Simultaneously
• 06/19/08 - Genetic Engineering - A Crop of Hyperbole
• 06/19/08 - Would You Like Some Hormone- Disrupting Chemicals with Your Perfumed Air?
• 06/19/08 - The Wal-Mart Effect: Small Bookstores Fight to Survive
• 06/19/08 - Countering Monsanto's Propaganda: Gene-Spliced Crops Will Not Feed the World
• 06/19/08 - Oops Nation: America's Torture Camps Run into Opposition from an Unexpected Source - the Supreme Court
• 06/19/08 - Of Weddings and Wedges: Equal Rights & Economic Justice for All
• 06/19/08 - Crop Supply Concerns Persist, Policy Options Discussed
• 06/19/08 - Kucinich Threatens 60 Impeachment Articles if Judiciary Doesn't Act
• 06/18/08 - The Prison Industrial Complex: 7.2 Americans in Jail, on Parole or Probation
• 06/18/08 - Thousands of High Income Americans Pay No Income Taxes
• 06/18/08 - 'Silver' Mercury Dental Fillings May Harm Pregnant Women
• 06/18/08 - PR Firm Edleman Launches Charm Offensive for GMO Giant Monsanto
• 06/18/08 - Overview of Mad Deer Disease (Chronic Wasting Disease) that is Slowly but Steadily Spreading Across the World
• 06/18/08 - Mark Bittman on Minimizing Meat
• 06/18/08 - Midwest Floods Recede, What's Being Washed Into the Groundwater?
• 06/18/08 - A Test of Six Green Dish Soaps
• 06/18/08 - As Fertilizer Flows From the Midwest, a Vast Algae Bloom Thrives Below the Mississippi
• 06/18/08 - In Midwest Floods, a Broad Threat to Crops
• 06/18/08 - Bacteria in Pork Showing Resistance to Antibiotics
• 06/18/08 - Democracy Now: Ralph Nader on Barack Obama
• 06/18/08 - Dallas Morning News Editorial: Korea's Beef With America
• 06/18/08 - Pinkwashing: Can Shopping Cure Breast Cancer?
• 06/18/08 - Monsanto's Gene-Altered Cotton in Asia Developing Pest Resistance from Mealy Bugs & Bollworms
• 06/18/08 - Hemp Baby!
• 06/18/08 - The Weekly Spin, June 18, 2008
• 06/18/08 - GE Wheat is Not the Solution to Drought
• 06/18/08 - Big Brands and Big Boxes Undermining Fair Trade?
• 06/18/08 - Vanishing Topsoil Threatens Sustainability of Human Life on Earth
• 06/18/08 - Unions Fuming over Obama's Economic Team
• 06/18/08 - Campaign Against Soybean Planting in the Amazon Gaining Momentum
• 06/18/08 - Former Senator Mike Gravel Calls for Independent 9/11 Investigation and Prosecution of Bush and Cheney
• 06/18/08 - Faith Groups Promoting Fair Trade Coffee
• 06/18/08 - Are There Deadly Superbugs in your Pork?
• 06/18/08 - The Lesser of Two Evils: Obama and the Fall Into Tyranny
• 06/18/08 - The Genetically Engineered Biofuels Hoax: A Dangerous Delusion
• 06/17/08 - How Green is that Product? Consumers Want to Know
• 06/17/08 - Intelligent Nutrients Launches New Line of USDA Certified Organic Body Care & Hair Care Products
• 06/17/08 - Toyota Announces Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle will be Ready by 2010
• 06/17/08 - Election Fraud in the Democratic Primaries 2008?: Clinton Beat Exit Polls by Wide Margin in Every State
• 06/17/08 - Impeachment: It Still Matters
• 06/17/08 - Sustainable Agriculture: The Food Revolution That Starts With Rice
• 06/17/08 - Denver Police Stock Up on Weapons for Protests at Democratic National Convention
• 06/17/08 - The US Must Enter the Global Green Economy --Before It's Too Late
• 06/17/08 - Nuclear Lobby Says Tainted Tomatoes Mean We Should Nuke All Our Food
• 06/17/08 - Human Cost of Brazil's Biofuels Boom
• 06/17/08 - Extreme Weather & Global Warming
• 06/17/08 - Midwest Floods, Food Inflation & Biofuels: Latest News
• 06/17/08 - More and More Organic Food Being Purchased by Restaurants, Schools, Hospitals, & Cafeterias
• 06/17/08 - Bayer & Monsanto: Who's Responsible for Selling the Most Chemical Poisons to Farmers & Gardeners?
• 06/17/08 - Despite Biotech Propaganda, Non-Genetically Engineered Crops Still Dominate Global Farming & Ranching with 97% of all Farmland
• 06/16/08 - Bottled Water: How Americans Got Sucked into a Corporate Con Game
• 06/16/08 - Will The World Survive Monsanto & Genetically Engineered Frankenfoods & Crops?
• 06/16/08 - Steal a Tree Go to Prison; Steal a Forest Meet the President
• 06/16/08 - US Soldier Refuses to Report for Active Duty in Iraq
• 06/16/08 - Biofuel Backlash: High Prices, Pollution Worries Hit Consumers
• 06/16/08 - Hawaii: With GM Taro Bill, Legislators Catered to Big Business
• 06/16/08 - Is Fascism an Impeachable Offense?
• 06/16/08 - Sierra Group's Deal with Clorox goes Sour
• 06/16/08 - California: Bay Area Hospitals Take Healthy Food Pledge
• 06/16/08 - Why NAFTA Is An Anger Point Fueling The Uprising
• 06/16/08 - In The Great Tradition, Obama Is A Hawk
• 06/16/08 - Plan Mexico: Fomenting Violence & Repression to Fight a Bogus War on Drugs
• 06/16/08 - U.S. Cities Promote Bicycling as Gas Prices Soar
• 06/16/08 - NYT Covers Food Safety Deregulation the US Beef Export Crisis
• 06/16/08 - The Family's Values: America's Most Influential (and Secretive) Religious Organization
• 06/16/08 - Catching Up: What the U.S. Must Do to Enter the Global Green Economy
• 06/16/08 - South Korean President Vows Not to Allow Imports of US Beef Over 30 Months Old
• 06/16/08 - Despite Opposition from His Own Party, Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich Vows to Continue Impeachment Effort Against Bush
• 06/15/08 - Four Dollars a Gallon Gasoline and Climate Change Both Call for the Same Solution: Collective Investment in Clean Energy
• 06/15/08 - Aurora's Heifer Supplier, 'Promiseland', Busted by the USDA
• 06/15/08 - Despite Economic Dip, Organic Food Sales Soar
• 06/15/08 - Big Pharma Attack on Alternative Medicine: Flawed St. John's Wort Study on ADHD Failed to Use Active Form of Herbal Extract
• 06/15/08 - U.S. Ranks Dead Last Among 19 Industrialized Nations in Preventive Medicine
• 06/15/08 - The Big Box Campaigners Update, June 13, 2008
• 06/15/08 - Tomato Scare & Food Safety Concerns Driving More & More Consumers to Buying Local & Organic
• 06/15/08 - Setback for Big Brother: Federal Court Suspends National Animal Identification System
• 06/15/08 - Germany Sees Organic Food Boom, Even as World Food Prices Soar
• 06/14/08 - Reviewing 'The Shock Doctrine in Action in New Orleans': The Bush Gang Are Not Incompetent, They're Evil
• 06/14/08 - Peak Oil & The Energy Crisis: Imagining a World Without Flight
• 06/14/08 - Food Crisis: USA Crop Forecasts Mean Higher Prices & Mounting Anger Against Food Commodity Speculators
• 06/14/08 - As Food Crisis Intensifies, Monsanto Steps Up its Lobbying
• 06/14/08 - USDA's Organic Factory Farming Scandal Continues to Unravel
• 06/14/08 - Grist Magazine Q&A with Van Jones about the Climate Security Act and Green Jobs
• 06/14/08 - Brain Drain Lowers Returns to Rural Education
• 06/14/08 - Starting an Organic Farm or Ranch
• 06/14/08 - If Rural America Really Mattered
• 06/14/08 - Water Pressure
• 06/14/08 - Countries are Renting Farmland Abroad
• 06/14/08 - Obama Must Learn from Kucinich's Election-Theft Impeachment Charges
• 06/14/08 - Look Out for Another 9/11 and State of Emergency: The US in the Final Six Months of Bush/Cheney Administration
• 06/14/08 - Monsanto Hopes Food Crisis Will Help Them Force Controversial Genetically Engineered Foods & Crops on Consumers
• 06/14/08 - Pennsylvania Township Challenges Corporate Personhood as it Bans Corporations from Dumping Sludge & Mining Wastes
• 06/14/08 - Obama's Chicago Boys by Naomi Klein
• 06/14/08 - The White House Returns to Stoking Fears About Potent Pot
• 06/14/08 - Legal Prescription Drugs Kill Far More Than Illegal Drugs, Florida Says
• 06/14/08 - Historic Battle Against Privatization of National Oil Industry in Mexico
• 06/14/08 - Factory Feedlot That Supplied Aurora Dairy with Milk Cows Loses Organic Certification
• 06/14/08 - Traffic Pollution Linked to Childhood Allergies
• 06/14/08 - Key Iraqi Leaders Deliver Setbacks to US
• 06/14/08 - Top Ten Reasons to Go Vegetarian
• 06/14/08 - Bill Introduced in Congress to Replace Corporate Dominated 'Free Trade' with Fair Trade
• 06/14/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #963 (June 12, 2008)
• 06/13/08 - Canadian Scientists Launch Massive Cancer Study
• 06/13/08 - Equal Exchange Partners with United Methodists for 100 Ton Challenge to Promote Fair Trade
• 06/13/08 - More Money for Food Safety Is Sought
• 06/13/08 - Engineering a Safer Burger
• 06/13/08 - Cuba's Urban-Ag Miracle: The U.S. Media Discover How Food Production Works Without Access to Cheap Oil
• 06/13/08 - Veterans to Deliver Impeachment Petition to Congressman Conyers' Office and Sit-In Until He Agrees to Meet
• 06/13/08 - GOP Convention Protest Dispute Returning To Court
• 06/13/08 - High Levels of Formaldehyde Found in Baby Furniture
• 06/13/08 - Smaller Restaurants Add Up to Green Savings
• 06/13/08 - Questions on U.S. Beef Remain
• 06/13/08 - Key Tomato Crop Approved
• 06/13/08 - A Dubious Harvest
• 06/13/08 - Giant Greenhouses in the UK
• 06/13/08 - California Files Lawsuit Against Mislabelled Cosmetics
• 06/13/08 - Where is the Recycling at Starbucks?
• 06/13/08 - Climate Change & Peak Oil Mean that Organic Farming Must Replace Energy & Chemical Fertilizer-Intense Industrial Agriculture
• 06/13/08 - Say No to U.S. Senate Approval of Warrantless Wiretapping & Retroactive Immunity
• 06/13/08 - The Tremendous New Video, The World According to Monsanto - How to Order a Copy in the USA
• 06/13/08 - The Food, Climate, & Energy Crisis: From Panic to Organic by Ronnie Cummins
• 06/12/08 - Toward A Greener Blacktop
• 06/12/08 - Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, National Edition
• 06/12/08 - Sustainable Farming and Fair Trade Helping South African Rooibos Farmers
• 06/12/08 - House Sends Bush Impeachment Articles to John Conyers' Judiciary Committee to Avoid Dealing with War Crimes
• 06/12/08 - New European Chemical Safety Law Has Global Impact
• 06/12/08 - Gore Vidal on Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment Against Bush & Cheney
• 06/12/08 - Iraq Correspondent Patrick Cockburn on the US-Iraqi Clash Over the Status of US Troops
• 06/12/08 - Vinyl Shower Curtains Release 100 Toxic Chemicals
• 06/12/08 - Jail Time for Former CIA Head Tenet for Covering Up Bush's Role in Aiding & Abetting 9/11 Attacks?
• 06/12/08 - Hospital Projects May Need Green Seal
• 06/12/08 - The Four Things Necessary to Turn this Historic Opportunity into Progressive Realignment
• 06/12/08 - Insurance Companies Dump OCA Boycott Target, Aurora Organic, for 'Willful Violations' of Organic Standards
• 06/12/08 - Drug Companies Are Killing You Legally While Robbing You Blind
• 06/12/08 - Pentagon Pundits, Media Reform and Talking Back to Bill O'Reilly
• 06/12/08 - The Truth About Why Raw Milk is Healthier Than Pasteurized Milk
• 06/12/08 - Hawaii Legislators Ignore Public Clamor for a Ban on Genetically Engineered Taro Plant
• 06/12/08 - After Congressman Kucinich Filed Impeachment Against Bush His Web Site Was Mysteriously Crippled
• 06/12/08 - Monsanto's Mythmaking Will Not Feed the World
• 06/12/08 - FDA Tries to Crack Down on Raw Milk Sales
• 06/12/08 - Climate Chaos is Inevitable - But Can We Avoid Climate Catastrophe?
• 06/12/08 - San Francisco Approves Nation's Largest Solar Incentive Program
• 06/11/08 - Move Over MoveOn: Grassroots Netroots Alliance (GNA) Launches New Progressive Campaign to 'Press the Politicians'
• 06/11/08 - Obama's Right Turn : A Slap in the Face for Progressives?
• 06/11/08 - USDA Refuses to Admit What 50 Million Organic Consumers Know: Organic Food is Healthier
• 06/11/08 - More Bad News on our Plates: Tainted Tomatoes
• 06/11/08 - Tests Reveal Chemical Vapors that May Invade Homes
• 06/11/08 - Kucinich Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against Bush in U.S. House of Representatives
• 06/11/08 - California Sues 'Natural' & 'Organic' Companies Over Carcinogen in Soaps Exposed by OCA
• 06/11/08 - Our 'Cheap Oil Fiesta' Is Over
• 06/11/08 - The Food & Farming Crisis: Wave of Grassroots Protests Across Brazil
• 06/11/08 - Food Crisis Highlights America's Massive Waste of Food
• 06/11/08 - Overview of Recent News Stories on the Oil Crisis & Middle East Developments
• 06/11/08 - Kucinich Escalates Impeachment Fight
• 06/11/08 - Pharm Goats: The Controversy over Genetically Engineering Animals to Make Drugs
• 06/11/08 - NY Anti-Biotech Activist Defeats Government Frame-Up on 'Terrorism' & Mail Fraud Charges
• 06/11/08 - The Weekly Spin, June 11, 2008
• 06/11/08 - High Lead Levels Close Local Ballfields
• 06/10/08 - New York Funds Alternative Fuel Vehicles for Private Fleets
• 06/10/08 - The Iran Trap, by Chris Hedges
• 06/10/08 - Mothers and Children call on Senate for Stronger Climate Legislation
• 06/10/08 - 15,000 Arkansas Hens Test Positive for Bird-Flu Exposure
• 06/10/08 - Open Letter from Green Party Presidential Candidate Cynthia McKinney to Barack Obama
• 06/10/08 - Federal Climate Crisis Bill: A Disaster Brought to You by The Nation's Leading Environmentalists
• 06/10/08 - AMERICAN BLACKOUT--One of the Most Important Videos of the Decade
• 06/10/08 - Pesticides: Germany Bans Chemicals Linked to Honeybee Devastation
• 06/10/08 - Congressman Kucinich Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against Bush
• 06/10/08 - World's Species Going Extinct Faster than Scientists Thought
• 06/10/08 - Losing Latin America: What Will the Obama Doctrine Be Like?
• 06/10/08 - Food Banks Ask Gardeners to Grow Extra for Hungry
• 06/10/08 - Chavez Urges Colombian Guerrilla Group, FARC, to Free Hostages, End Uprising
• 06/10/08 - Iraq Tells the US It Wants All Troops Back in Barracks
• 06/10/08 - Mass Public Transportation Can Address Gas Prices and Warming
• 06/10/08 - California Files Lawsuit Against Whole Foods, Avalon, and Others Whose Products Tested Positive for Carcinogenic 1,4-Dioxane in OCA Study
• 06/10/08 - A Local Immigration Crackdown
• 06/10/08 - EPA: 'Sludge Hill' as Clean as It Will Get
• 06/09/08 - Prices Leap for Corn and Crude Oil
• 06/09/08 - Clone Watch: The Brave New World of Cloned Animals, Food & Humans
• 06/09/08 - Biotech Giants Demand a High Price for Saving the Planet
• 06/09/08 - Wildflower Extracts Easily Kill MRSA Superbug
• 06/09/08 - Organics & the Recession: Saving Money on Organic Food
• 06/09/08 - Obama & Universal Health Care: Time to Put on the Pressure
• 06/09/08 - Food Allergies of 12 Million Americans Boost Organic & Natural Food Sales
• 06/09/08 - Obama, McCain, and the Right-Wing Extremists of AIPAC
• 06/09/08 - The Populist Uprising, by David Sirota
• 06/09/08 - Battle Continues Over Genetically Engineered Animal Feed in the EU
• 06/09/08 - Monsanto's GM Soybeans Drive Toxics, Deforestation, and Social Conflict in Latin America
• 06/09/08 - Bay Advocates Called Soft on Farm Pollution
• 06/09/08 - Biofuels and Commodity Speculation, Not Asian Imports , Are Main Trigger for Food Crisis
• 06/08/08 - The Daily Chimp: Key Political News Stories of the Week (June 7, 2008)
• 06/08/08 - The Future of Media Doesn't Belong to Murdoch; It Belongs to Us
• 06/08/08 - Fair Trade Coffee One Alternative for Small-Scale Farmer
• 06/08/08 - Drilling Carries a Hefty Environmental Price
• 06/07/08 - Robert McChesney and Josh Silver of Free Press on the National Conference for Media Reform
• 06/07/08 - Adrienne Maree Brown of the Ruckus Society on Media Justice, Election Protection and the Issue of Race in the 2008 Election
• 06/07/08 - New Report on Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods & Crops
• 06/07/08 - Climate Crisis Coalition Newsfeed (June 8, 2008)
• 06/07/08 - Global Food Crisis Demands Real Change, Not Business as Usual
• 06/07/08 - Bird Flu Strain Detected in 15,000 Chickens at Tyson Foods' Poultry Factories
• 06/07/08 - Group Petitions FDA to Ban some Food Colorings
• 06/07/08 - GM Crops Not the Solution for Food Inflation
• 06/07/08 - MRSA Superbug Found to be Widespread in Pigs, Pig Farmers
• 06/07/08 - Michael Pollan Calls for Crafting a Viable Alternative for the Next Farm Bill
• 06/07/08 - Forty Years after RFK's Death, Questions Linger
• 06/07/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #962
• 06/07/08 - Climate Findings Were Distorted by Bush Administrations, Probe Finds
• 06/07/08 - Overview of Mass Media Coverage of the World Food Summit
• 06/07/08 - Food Crisis Summit Ducks Crucial Issues
• 06/07/08 - USDA Says Tyson Used Antibiotics on Chicken
• 06/06/08 - Talking Food with Barack Obama
• 06/06/08 - Food Is Gold, and Investors Pour Billions into Farming
• 06/06/08 - A Primer on Organic Wines, and a Sweet Way to Bring Them to the Table
• 06/06/08 - Globalization Death Watch, Part I: Airlines, Cargo Ships Increasingly Desperate due to Rising Fuel Costs
• 06/06/08 - Bioenergy: Fueling the Food Crisis?
• 06/06/08 - Tracking Plastic's Breakdown Products
• 06/06/08 - House Passes Bill to Green Up Schools
• 06/06/08 - Rodale Institute Begins its Own Organic Vs GE Field Trials
• 06/06/08 - How Global Warming Is Helping Democrats Win The Heartland
• 06/06/08 - Is Golf Causing Diabetes?
• 06/06/08 - In Shift, FDA Says Mercury Fillings May Harm Some
• 06/06/08 - Kent County, DE, Wants Answers on Wal-Mart
• 06/06/08 - Obama Walks Fine Line at Major Pro-Israel Meet
• 06/06/08 - 250 Religious & Faith-Based Organizations Call for Ban on GM Crops and Patents on Living Organisms
• 06/06/08 - The Real Cost of Cheap Food
• 06/06/08 - Artificial Foods and Corporate Crops: Can We Escape the 'Frankenstate'?
• 06/06/08 - US Accused of Holding Terror Suspects on Prison Ships
• 06/06/08 - Common Dry Cleaning Chemicals Pose a Cancer Risk
• 06/06/08 - California GE Bill Making Progress
• 06/05/08 - U.S. Cities, Companies and Nonprofits Push Consumer Climate Fight
• 06/05/08 - Wealthy Financiers Looking to Agriculture for Major Investment
• 06/05/08 - The Big Box Campaigner Update (June 5, 2008)
• 06/05/08 - Mass. Health Care Reform One-Year Later: Clear Successes and Challenges Emerge
• 06/05/08 - Cloned Animals Research Report Published
• 06/05/08 - The Feed, from Union of Concerned Scientists (June 2008)
• 06/05/08 - Monsanto & USDA's Latest Propaganda: We'll Solve the World Food Crisis with GMOs, Patented Seeds, & Chemicals
• 06/05/08 - World Leaders Warned of Phony Solutions to Global Food Crisis
• 06/05/08 - The Weekly Spin, June 4, 2008
• 06/05/08 - Bird Flu Hits the UK and the U.S
• 06/05/08 - Kidney Patients Should be Notified of Potential Risk from Fluorides and Fluoridated Drinking Water
• 06/05/08 - Starbucks Aims for Low-Carbon, but Lags on Fair Trade
• 06/05/08 - Merchants of Death: Biotech Bullies, Speculators, & Agro-Toxics Corps Cash in on the Food Crisis
• 06/05/08 - While the World Starves, Leaders Miss the Point at Hunger Summit
• 06/05/08 - Wall Street Journal Covers the Rapid Growth of Backyard Vegetable & Herb Gardens
• 06/05/08 - Revealed: Secret Plan to Keep Iraq Under US Control No Matter if Obama Wins White House
• 06/05/08 - Message from an Organic Farmer: Apathy and Greed Fuel Food Crisis
• 06/04/08 - Organic Milk from Pasture-Fed Cows Contains Higher Levels of Beneficial Nutrients
• 06/04/08 - GMOs Will Only Make the Global Food Crisis Worse
• 06/04/08 - The Food Crisis: Destroying African Agriculture
• 06/04/08 - Are the Organic & Natural Body Care Companies Exposed by OCA for Having Carcinogenic Dioxane 1,4 in their Products Cleaning Up their Act?
• 06/04/08 - Food Crisis Moves to the Center Stage of Global Concerns
• 06/04/08 - Top Political News Stories from the Daily Chimp (June 4, 2008)
• 06/04/08 - Farmers and Food Activists Expelled from Hunger Summit
• 06/04/08 - Fair Trade has Real Impact for Small Coffee Farmers
• 06/04/08 - Spanish Wind Producer Seeks to Break Impasse in New York State
• 06/03/08 - Banking on Coal's Future
• 06/03/08 - Lead on Playing Fields can be Absorbed by Body
• 06/03/08 - To Create a Truly Sustainable Food System, We'll Have to Confront the Farm-Labor Crisis
• 06/03/08 - Ecosystem Damage Costs Trillions Per Year: Study
• 06/03/08 - Last Flight of the Honeybee?
• 06/03/08 - Dan Rather, Bill Moyers Join Thousands Fighting for Better Media in Minneapolis
• 06/03/08 - Cell Phone Use During Pregnancy Can Seriously Damage Your Baby
• 06/03/08 - Diverse Coalition Calls on Senate to "Fix or Ditch" Lieberman-Warner Bill
• 06/03/08 - Bananas Are Dying, Killed by Corporate Monoculture
• 06/03/08 - Film Trailer: The Business of Being Born
• 06/03/08 - Mothering Media: Angelina the Midwife
• 06/03/08 - Louisville Cafe Thrives in Slow Economy by Going Organic and Fair Trade
• 06/03/08 - Lucas County (OH) Looking to go Sweatfree
• 06/02/08 - False Promises and Foreign Influences: GE in Africa
• 06/02/08 - Stung by Losses, Nation's Beekeepers Try to Rebuild
• 06/02/08 - Is the Forest Stewardship Council Greenwashing Wood Products as Sustainable by Certifying Monoculture Tree Plantations?
• 06/02/08 - Newsweek Warns Oil Prices Could Hit $200 a Barrel in the Next Few Months
• 06/02/08 - Small Farmers Slam 'Empty Policies' Ahead of FAO Food Summit
• 06/02/08 - Plan Mexico: Plan Colombia Heads for Mexico
• 06/02/08 - The New Voter Suppression and the Progressive Response
• 06/02/08 - ALERT: Government Guts Pesticide Reporting Laws
• 06/02/08 - Wal-Mart Suffers Setback in California
• 06/02/08 - Growing Controversy Over Biofuels, Food Security, & Rising Food Prices
• 06/02/08 - The Jungle 2008: Government Manipulates Figures on America's Dangerous Meatpacking Plants
• 06/02/08 - Mass Public Pressure over Mad Cow Risks Forces South Korea to Delay Resumption of US Beef Imports
• 06/02/08 - Bush Administration Steps Up Immigration Raids
• 06/01/08 - Blackwater Sues San Diego
• 06/01/08 - The Worst Way of Farming
• 06/01/08 - Wake Up, America: Driving Toward Disaster
• 06/01/08 - Act On Climate Change, Top Scientists Warn US
• 06/01/08 - From Kennedy to Obama: Liberalism's Last Fling
• 06/01/08 - Let Them Eat Kale: Schools Get Serious about Nutrition
• 06/01/08 - Contaminated Education?
• 06/01/08 - How To Green The Global Economy: Nature's 100 Best
• 06/01/08 - Solving the Climate & Energy Crisis: Renewable Energy!
• 05/31/08 - Can Grilling Meat Cause Cancer?
• 05/31/08 - The Beginning of the End for Big Drugmakers?
• 05/31/08 - Who'll Unplug Big Media? Stay Tuned
• 05/31/08 - The Definition of a Progressive: Are You a Progressive?
• 05/31/08 - It Will Take a Lot More Than Gardening to Fix Our Food System
• 05/31/08 - Is Water Becoming 'The New Oil'?
• 05/31/08 - The World Torpedoes Ocean Fertilization: End of Round One on Geo-Engineering
• 05/31/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #961
• 05/31/08 - Leading Organic Food Company, Eden Foods Says BPA-free Cans Possible
• 05/31/08 - Campaign Checks Help Gas Terminal and Pipeline Company
• 05/31/08 - Solar Incentives Threaten Local Ownership
• 05/31/08 - Destroying Nature: Libertarianism and Unregulated Free Markets
• 05/30/08 - Ron Kovic on Stopping the War Machine & Military Recruiters
• 05/30/08 - Independent Booksellers Join Forces to Promote Localism & Independence in Book Trade
• 05/30/08 - The ADHD Scam and the Mass Drugging of Schoolchildren
• 05/30/08 - Vermont Wants Federal Permission for Farmers to Grow Hemp
• 05/30/08 - Obesity Epidemic Among US Children May Have Peaked, Study Says
• 05/30/08 - Swedish Company Will Vend Verified Sustainable Ethanol
• 05/30/08 - 111 Countries Sign Cluster Bomb Ban; US "Abstains"
• 05/30/08 - Farmer-Veteran Groups Focus on Healing
• 05/30/08 - Water Activist Defeat Nestle in California
• 05/30/08 - War Times-Decision Looms: Escalate, or Retreat & Retrench?
• 05/30/08 - McDonald's Australia Will Sell Certified-Sustainable Coffee
• 05/30/08 - Industrial Agriculture Now Outsourcing Farms to Mexico
• 05/30/08 - Peter Rosset: The Time has Come for Via Campesina and Food Sovereignty
• 05/30/08 - Fair Trade Colombian Coffee Looking Toward the Future
• 05/30/08 - WA County Looks to Ban Big Boxes
• 05/30/08 - California Air Pollution Kills
• 05/30/08 - Apocalypse in the Oceans
• 05/30/08 - Invitation to Steal: War Profiteering in Iraq
• 05/30/08 - 1968, Forty Years Later: Tariq Ali Looks Back on a Pivotal Year in Global Struggle for Social Justice
• 05/30/08 - It's Time to Stop Putting Toxic Sewage Sludge on Farmlands, Yards, and Backyard Gardens
• 05/30/08 - Teen Farmworker Dies in California Heat
• 05/30/08 - The Pentagon's Budget Crisis
• 05/30/08 - Melting Antarctic Glaciers May Be Releasing DDT, Says Study
• 05/30/08 - ACLU: Supreme Court Decisions Protect Workers From Retaliation for Reporting On-The-Job Discrimination
• 05/30/08 - Corrections: In Which The New York Times Perpetuates the Myth It Created - That George Bush Won Florida in 2000
• 05/30/08 - Is the World's Food System Collapsing?
• 05/30/08 - Interference by Major Brazilian Soybean Producer Holds up Release of Deforestation Numbers
• 05/29/08 - UN Calls for Moratorium on Agrofuels & More Action to Address Global Food Crisis
• 05/29/08 - Many Toys Sold in U.S. Still Contain High Levels of Lead
• 05/29/08 - How Safe Are America's Green Cleaning Products?
• 05/29/08 - US Economy: The Worst Is Yet to Come
• 05/29/08 - Common Herbicide Disrupts Human Hormone Activity
• 05/29/08 - Canadian Government Still Doing Monsanto's Dirty Work--Suppressing Labels on Genetically Engineered Foods
• 05/29/08 - Vandana Shiva: Why We Face Both Food and Water Crises
• 05/29/08 - How State and Local Prosecutors Can Take Down Bush
• 05/29/08 - Shielding Corporate Criminals: Bush Administration Rules Limit Lawsuits
• 05/29/08 - Switzerland Bans GMOs till 2012
• 05/29/08 - Superclass: The Six Thousand Rich People Who Rule the World
• 05/29/08 - Army Suicides On Rise, Again
• 05/29/08 - Australian Chefs Reject GMOs
• 05/29/08 - Toward a Civil, Inclusive National Conversation on Food -- Over a Savory Tart
• 05/29/08 - Switzerland Extends Ban on GE Crops Through 2012
• 05/29/08 - Economist Challenges Government Data: Unemployment Rate is Actually 13% and Inflation 7.5%
• 05/29/08 - Michigan WIC Whacks Organic: Evidently, Women, Infants, and Children in Need Don't Deserve Organic
• 05/29/08 - South Korea Government to Force Controversial US Beef on Market Despite Continued Resistance from Consumers, Unions, and Grocers
• 05/29/08 - Health Insurance Company Paid its Workers Bonuses to Cancel Patient Policies
• 05/29/08 - Bush & Cheney's Torture Chambers: Where is the Outrage?
• 05/29/08 - New Study Reports Widespread Eating Disorders
• 05/29/08 - Vets with PTSD Are Getting Short Shrifted
• 05/29/08 - Stopping the War Machine: Military Recruiters Must Be Confronted
• 05/28/08 - New Movie on Monsanto: Frightening Food for Thought
• 05/28/08 - Burger King, Facing Increasing Public Pressure, Agrees to Pay Florida Tomato Pickers a Better Wage
• 05/28/08 - Dr. Paul Farmer Challenges Profit-Driven Medical System While Bringing Healthcare to Poor Communities Worldwide
• 05/28/08 - What To Do About the Price of Oil
• 05/28/08 - Superbugs On the Rise; GMOs to Blame?
• 05/28/08 - White House Denies CA Right to Restrict Emissions
• 05/28/08 - Here Comes the Wave of Green Collar Jobs
• 05/28/08 - Synthetic Fields of Play Spur Turf War
• 05/28/08 - Hospital-bred Superbugs Escaping into Communities, Threatening Children
• 05/28/08 - GMO News Update (May 23, 2008)
• 05/28/08 - Organically Reared Cows Produce Healthier Milk
• 05/28/08 - Landmark Bill Introduced in Congress to Force Industry to Prove 80,000 Chemicals Are 'Kid Safe'
• 05/28/08 - House Takes a Stand Against Pentagon Propaganda
• 05/28/08 - New Government Report Shows Climate Change Will Ravage Conventional Agriculture & U.S. Forests
• 05/28/08 - Experts Admit Food Prices & Mass Hunger for the Poor Will Continue for Next Decade
• 05/28/08 - Mass Media Report Bush 'Plans Iran Air Strike by August'
• 05/28/08 - Hidden Nuclear Handout Exposed in Senate Climate Bill
• 05/28/08 - The Weekly Spin, May 28, 2008
• 05/28/08 - Remembering Utah Phillips: America's Folksinger for Freedom, Peace, & Justice
• 05/28/08 - Starving People for Profit: GM Foods the Problem, Not The Solution
• 05/27/08 - Senate Passes No-Strings War Funding Bill
• 05/27/08 - With Migrant Workers in Short Supply, a Farmer Looks to Machines
• 05/27/08 - Suspicions Deepen on Food Labs
• 05/27/08 - Cosmetics Firms Heed Calls for Organics
• 05/27/08 - More Canadians Suffer Food Poisoning
• 05/27/08 - Organic-Food Desire, Soaring Grocery Bills Contributing to Trend
• 05/27/08 - Peak Oil and the Collapse of the Petroleum-Based Economy Are Coming
• 05/27/08 - OCA Files Letter With USDA Supporting Demands for Investigation of Horizon's "Organic" Factory Farms
• 05/27/08 - Sweet Victory: Florida Farmworkers Force Burger King to Pay Higher Rate to Tomato Pickers
• 05/27/08 - Small Canadian Seed Company Takes on Monsanto over Monopoly Patents
• 05/27/08 - Legal Defense Fund Moves to Stop Animal ID Program; Files Intent to Sue Letter with USDA and Michigan Department of Agriculture
• 05/27/08 - War Immemorial Day - No Peace for Militarized U.S.
• 05/26/08 - Vets for Peace Booted from National Memorial Day Parade
• 05/25/08 - Climate Crisis Coalition Newsfeed (May 25, 2008)
• 05/25/08 - Study Cites High Cost of Global Warming, Says Action Would Be Cheaper
• 05/24/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #960
• 05/24/08 - How Safe are Vaccines?
• 05/24/08 - Petition Seeking a Cancer Warning on Cosmetic Talc Powder Products
• 05/23/08 - Alert: Mainstream Media Attempts to Bury Homeopathy
• 05/23/08 - Testimony from the OCA to USDA on Preserving Organic Standards & Expanding Organics
• 05/23/08 - Record set for World's Largest Fair Trade Coffee Break!
• 05/23/08 - U.S.: No Funds to Keep Up Pesticide Survey
• 05/23/08 - House Subpoenas Karl Rove
• 05/23/08 - US, on Behalf of Big Pharma, Might Just Choke the WHO
• 05/23/08 - Strict Guidelines Urged for Nanomaterials
• 05/23/08 - Biotech News Update--Monsanto, Bayer, Syngenta
• 05/23/08 - New CIELAP Report: Update on a Framework for Canadian Nanotechnology Policy
• 05/23/08 - Hazardous Nanotech Exposed in Grocery Store Aisles
• 05/23/08 - Activist Goes to Court to Ask That Bush be Arrested at Convention
• 05/22/08 - Nonstick Toxicity
• 05/22/08 - Research Targets Dad's DNA
• 05/22/08 - A Climate Change Industrial Policy
• 05/22/08 - Lessons from a Sustainable-Food Conference at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
• 05/22/08 - Corporate Influence on State Supreme Courts Show Need for Reform
• 05/22/08 - EPA Toxicity Risk Assessments in Crisis
• 05/22/08 - Big Box Campaigner, May 21, 2008
• 05/22/08 - Grist Magazine On Water Conservation
• 05/22/08 - Terminator Seed Ban Under Threat
• 05/22/08 - Where to Find BPA-Free Products
• 05/22/08 - Easy Conversion of Organic Matter to Hydrogen Discovered by Researchers
• 05/22/08 - A Magnesium Deficiency Increases Cancer Risk Significantly
• 05/22/08 - The Weekly Spin, May 21, 2008
• 05/22/08 - Did Monsanto Lobby USDA to Stop Monitoring Pesticide Safety?
• 05/22/08 - Winning the War on Food: Sprouting Seeds and Saving Seeds
• 05/22/08 - The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder
• 05/21/08 - USDA to Ban 'Downer' Beef
• 05/21/08 - Nanotubes May Pose Health Risks Similar to Asbestos
• 05/21/08 - Paying for War at the Pump
• 05/21/08 - Family Farmers Are Not to Blame for Food Crisis
• 05/21/08 - Moles Wanted
• 05/21/08 - Food Crisis USA: Millions of Mainstream Americans Are Struggling to Put Food on the Table
• 05/21/08 - Mass Bee Deaths in Germany Spur Ban on Pesticides
• 05/21/08 - World Food Crisis: More Fairy Tales About Genetically Modified Crops
• 05/21/08 - Locavores Redefining U.S. Food Markets
• 05/21/08 - Hunger Meets Chaos in the Horn of Africa
• 05/21/08 - National Public Radio Looks at the Future of Laboratory-Grown Meat
• 05/21/08 - ALERT: Stop Bush Biotech Bullying
• 05/21/08 - World Food Crisis Rippling Out Like a Tsunami
• 05/21/08 - Toxic Fire Retardant Chemicals Found in Common Baby Products
• 05/21/08 - World Food Crisis: Fat Chance
• 05/21/08 - The Last Roundup: Big Brother is Watching Eight Million Americans
• 05/21/08 - UK Government Has Been the Most Right-Wing Since the Second World War
• 05/21/08 - Wanna Know a Secret (Law)?
• 05/21/08 - UN Criticizes India Gov't for Forcing GMO Seeds on Small Farmers
• 05/21/08 - Broward Democrats Vote to Ask Crist to Block Proposed Floating Gas Plant and Pipeline
• 05/21/08 - Retired CIA Analyst Warns Former Middle East Commander, Admiral Fallon, to Speak Out Before Bush & Cheney Attack Iran
• 05/20/08 - Organic Trade Association Will Work for Farm Bill Passage, Praises Congress for Support
• 05/20/08 - Peak Oil and Corporate Control of Oil Resources
• 05/20/08 - EU Health Chief Appeals for Ban of Cancer-Causing Pesticides
• 05/20/08 - Reaching Well Beyond the Farm
• 05/20/08 - John Conyers, House Judiciary Chair, Threatens Bush with Impeachment if He Attacks Iran
• 05/20/08 - USDA Head Downplays Calls To Cut Biofuel Mandate
• 05/20/08 - Democrats Want Chemical in Plastic Investigated
• 05/20/08 - Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military Worse Than Nuclear Weapons
• 05/20/08 - Google Health - Technology Achievement or Privacy Disaster?
• 05/20/08 - Immigration Agency Plans New Family Detention Centers
• 05/20/08 - Iraq Veterans Describe Atrocities to Lawmakers
• 05/20/08 - Carbon Credits: 'the Environmental Version of Sub-Prime Mortgages'
• 05/20/08 - 'Stuffed and Starved': Important Book Takes on Global Food Conglomerates
• 05/20/08 - A Dozen Men's Shaving Creams Get Put to the Blade
• 05/20/08 - Behind the Rise in Prices: A Plan to Torpedo the Dollar
• 05/20/08 - Nightly Vigils in South Korea Focus on US Meat Safety
• 05/20/08 - Democracy in America: Running Out of Hope by Bill Moyers
• 05/20/08 - Future Hope: Mazzocchi, Speth and Capitalism's Future
• 05/20/08 - Buy Better Groceries: Interactive Health & Nutrition Analysis from the Washington Post
• 05/19/08 - Ottawa Prepared to Slap Toxic Label on Widely Used Chemicals
• 05/19/08 - 30 Agrochemical Products Banned in Nigeria After Deaths
• 05/19/08 - One Country's Table Scraps, Another Country's Meal
• 05/19/08 - Biotech Companies Rush to Patent Plant Genes
• 05/19/08 - CAFOs in Conflict: Huge Farms Increase Efficiency but Create Environmental Concerns
• 05/19/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #959 (May 15, 2008)
• 05/19/08 - Warning: Using a Mobile Phone While Pregnant can Seriously Damage your Baby
• 05/19/08 - Shoppers Buying Peace of Mind
• 05/19/08 - World Food Crisis: Predatory Agribusiness
• 05/19/08 - Silence Broken: Hurricane Evacuation -- For Citizens Only?
• 05/19/08 - Affording Organics in a Time of Recession
• 05/19/08 - A New Round of Raids As The Economy Sours
• 05/19/08 - Bayer: A History of Profit from Suffering
• 05/19/08 - The Truth About Milk: Raw vs Pasteurized
• 05/19/08 - Monsanto: History of Contamination and Cover-up
• 05/19/08 - Climate Justice: Promoting Equity in Dealing with Climate Change
• 05/19/08 - Federal Food-Aid Package Promotes GMOs
• 05/19/08 - Wobblies Launch "Spring Offensive Against Starbucks"
• 05/19/08 - Wal-Mart Continues to Morph the Food Sector
• 05/18/08 - Monsanto's Bullying Increases Sales for Louisiana Dairy
• 05/18/08 - Tropical Rainforests are Planet's Lungs
• 05/18/08 - GMO Corn Contamination of Organic Farm in France Stirs Major Debate
• 05/18/08 - Food Profiteering: Corn-Based Ethanol Has Always Been About Corporate Profits, Not Reducing Greenhouse Pollution
• 05/18/08 - Climate Crisis Coalition Newsfeed (May 18, 2008)
• 05/18/08 - General Mills Takes Leadership Step in Switching to Whole Grain Breakfast Cereals
• 05/17/08 - Why Michael Pollan and Alice Waters Should Quit Celebrating Food-Price Hikes
• 05/17/08 - Why Americans, As Well as Koreans, Should Be Worried About Mad Cow Tainted USA Beef
• 05/17/08 - Chicago Once Again Allows Controversial Foie Gras to Be Served in Restaurants
• 05/17/08 - John Cusack's War: The Actor Battles to Un-embed Hollywood with His New Film, War, Inc.
• 05/17/08 - The World Bank, the IMF, and the Multinationals: Manufacturing the World Food Crisis
• 05/17/08 - Why You Should be Worried if Your Kids' Cereal is Widely Known
• 05/17/08 - Pharmaceutical Payola: Drug Marketing to Doctors
• 05/17/08 - Danger Signs: Global Biodiversity is Declining Rapidly
• 05/17/08 - Polar Bears Listed as Threatened
• 05/17/08 - CA Senate Pushes Bisphenol A Ban
• 05/17/08 - Number of Conscientious Objectors on the Rise
• 05/16/08 - Grist Magazine On Buying Eco-Products in Bulk
• 05/16/08 - Study Confirms Lead Fragments in Venison
• 05/16/08 - Three Hundred and Sixty 9/11 Rescue and Cleanup Workers Have Died, Including 80 from Cancer
• 05/16/08 - Bush/Cheney Propaganda Campaign to Prepare for War with Iran Runs into Difficulties
• 05/16/08 - Iraq Vets Plead with a Deaf & Dumb Congress to Stop the War
• 05/16/08 - Freedom To Marry: California Ends Gay Couples' Exclusion From Marriage
• 05/16/08 - Here Come the Terminator Mosquitoes, Genetically Engineered Insects
• 05/16/08 - Solving World Grain Crisis: Increase Diversity of Grain Supplies
• 05/16/08 - Video Shows How Converting U.S. Farmland to Organic Would Reduce Greenhouse Gas Pollution by 25%
• 05/16/08 - Senate Passes Farm Bill Conference Agreement
• 05/16/08 - EPA Needs to Investigate Toxicity of Sewage Sludge Spread on America's Conventional Farms
• 05/16/08 - Terminator Seeds are "Grossly Immoral" say Theologians
• 05/16/08 - Why that Organic Label on Your Milk Doesn't Tell the Whole Story
• 05/16/08 - New Neurological Disease Infecting Pig Processing Plant Workers
• 05/16/08 - Enter to Win a Grass-Fed Cow!
• 05/16/08 - Polar Bears Finally Get Listed as an Endangered Species
• 05/16/08 - OCA and Allies Submit Petition to USDA Demanding Transparency of Talcum Powder and Ovarian Cancer Link
• 05/16/08 - Video: Interview with Rodale Institute CEO on How Organic Farming Will Combat Climate Change
• 05/16/08 - The Weekly Spin, May 14, 2008
• 05/15/08 - Obama Reality Check
• 05/15/08 - Global Call to Stop the Planting of Genetically Engineered Trees
• 05/15/08 - Insecticides in Pet Shampoo May Trigger Autism
• 05/15/08 - Will Rising Food Costs Make You Fat?
• 05/15/08 - The Promise of Green Paint
• 05/15/08 - Alarm at Weed-Kill Chemical in Water
• 05/15/08 - Chemicals in Plastic Feeding Bottles Could Lead to Obesity in Babies
• 05/15/08 - House Passes $290 Billion Farm Bill
• 05/15/08 - Israel at 60: Zionism's Fatal Flaw
• 05/15/08 - How Obama WON Tuesday, Even Though He Lost WV Primary
• 05/15/08 - Wasteful Biofuels Subsidies Keep Our Addiction to Oil
• 05/15/08 - The French Student Worker Revolt of 1968: 40 Years Later
• 05/15/08 - Why Organic Food Culture Will Keep Growing: Understanding Consumer Behavior in Tough Times
• 05/15/08 - Center for American Progress: What Are You Paying for the War?
• 05/15/08 - The Bike Revolution: Pedaling Toward Cleaner Cities
• 05/15/08 - Stop the Marketing of Violent PG-13 Films to Young Children
• 05/15/08 - The College Student Loan Racket: Economic Crunch Starves Greedy Colleges
• 05/14/08 - Schools Go Sustainable: Greening College Food Services
• 05/14/08 - Webb GI Bill Would Encourage Young People to Join the Military
• 05/14/08 - Starbucks Continues to Fail on Environmental Front
• 05/14/08 - U.S. Using Food Crisis to Boost Bio-Engineered Crops
• 05/14/08 - Michael Moore Making '9/11' Sequel
• 05/14/08 - Polite Fascism in the USA: Election Fraud News by Michael Collins
• 05/14/08 - Thousands of Protesters March Against GM Crops at UN Summit
• 05/14/08 - Cargill: Key Player in Global Food Crisis
• 05/14/08 - Is Who Becomes the Next President All That Matters?
• 05/14/08 - Organic Cotton Project in India Saves Farmers from Suicide
• 05/14/08 - Anti-GMO Victory in France
• 05/14/08 - Starbucks Continues to Fail on Environmental Front
• 05/14/08 - Winter Soldier on the Capital Hill--Listen In
• 05/14/08 - Californians Boot Proposed Nestle's Bottled Water Plant
• 05/14/08 - Firms Seek Patents on 'Climate Ready' Altered Crops
• 05/14/08 - States Remove Local Barriers to Eco-Friendly Homes
• 05/14/08 - Ways of Ancient Mexico Reviving Barren Lands
• 05/14/08 - Farmers Unable to Cash In on Soaring Food Prices
• 05/14/08 - Pollution and Blood Clots
• 05/14/08 - How to Green Your Yard -- Even More
• 05/13/08 - White House vs White Bear: Bush Must Decide Whether To Save The Polar Bear As The Ice Melts
• 05/13/08 - Domestic Spying Far Outpaces Terrorism Prosecutions
• 05/13/08 - World CO2 Levels At Record High, Scientists Warn
• 05/13/08 - Will the Warmongers & Psychopaths Running the USA & The World Ever Change?
• 05/13/08 - Inside the Egg Factory: Farmer Ernie's Chamber of Horrors
• 05/13/08 - Amid Global Food Crisis, Biotech Companies are Exposed as Climate Change Profiteers
• 05/13/08 - Organic Coffee Market in USA Reaches One Billion in Annual Sales
• 05/13/08 - How Pot Became Demonized: The Battle Between Politics and Science over the use of Marijuana as a Medicine
• 05/13/08 - Hawaii Passes Landmark Solar Roofs Bill
• 05/13/08 - Restaurants Downgrade Ingredients as Food Costs Increase
• 05/13/08 - USDA Makes Implanted Computer Chips Its De Facto Standard for Controversial National Animal ID System
• 05/13/08 - Climate Crisis Coalition Newsfeed, May 12, 2008
• 05/13/08 - Crises At Home
• 05/13/08 - Chicago City Council Moves to Try to Stop a Preemptive Attack on Iran
• 05/13/08 - How Green Are Consumers & Why Don't They Trust Big Corporations?
• 05/13/08 - Toxic, Unlabeled Chemicals in Cosmetics
• 05/13/08 - Koreans Angry that USDA is Blocking Meat Industry Tests of All Cows at Slaughter for Mad Cow Disease
• 05/13/08 - Clout-Heavy Dean Foods Kills USDA Investigation of Their Horizon Label
• 05/12/08 - Solving the Energy, Climate & Food Crisis: Why We Should Support the Revitalization of Small Farms in the Global South
• 05/12/08 - Unexplained Mass Die-Off Hits German Hives
• 05/12/08 - Solar Industry Needs Workers
• 05/12/08 - Common Weedkiller May Cause Hormonal Problems
• 05/12/08 - Breast vs Bottle: The New Battleground
• 05/12/08 - Scientist Team Creates First GM Human Embryo
• 05/12/08 - Minnesota is Ground Zero in the Debate Over Ethanol
• 05/12/08 - Behind the Food Riots: A Debate on How Best to Farm
• 05/12/08 - World's Giants to Alter Food Equation
• 05/12/08 - Families Make Case for Vaccine Link to Autism
• 05/12/08 - Study Documents Chemicals in U.S. Coastal Waters
• 05/12/08 - Ugandan Organic Exporters in DDT Scare
• 05/12/08 - Seeking Sustainability
• 05/12/08 - Nanoparticles Scrutinized for Health Effects
• 05/12/08 - Fifty-Three Percent of Americans Say They Won't Buy Genetically Engineered Food
• 05/12/08 - Seattle Mayor: Stop Buying Bottled Water
• 05/12/08 - San Francisco Vying to be Champion Recyclers
• 05/12/08 - Stop-Loss On the Rise
• 05/12/08 - How Should Sustainable-Food Advocates Respond to the Latest Farm Bill Proposal?
• 05/11/08 - The Perfect Food Shortage
• 05/11/08 - Solving the Food, Health, & Energy Crisis: Local & Organic Production on Smaller Farms
• 05/11/08 - What is USDA Trying to Hide by Denying U.S. Beef Companies Rights to Test Animals for Mad Cow Disease?
• 05/11/08 - Over 100 Pro-Impeachment Candidates Running for Congress
• 05/11/08 - Politics 2008: GOP Getting Crushed in Polls, Key Races
• 05/11/08 - Bill McKibben on Climate Change: A Last Chance for Civilization
• 05/11/08 - The Global Food Crisis: Peter Montague
• 05/11/08 - Depleted Groundwater Threatens Food Chain
• 05/11/08 - Harmful Chemical Wafts Off Your TV
• 05/11/08 - Pine Beetles Ravage Canadian Forests: Toxic Synergy of Climate Change & Greedy Industrial Forest Practices
• 05/10/08 - MEXICO: No Place for Small Farmers at the Supermarkets
• 05/10/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #958 (May 8, 2008)
• 05/10/08 - Good Reasons to Support Local Farmers
• 05/10/08 - Survey: Consumers Like to Buy Local: Organics a Significant Portion of Purchases
• 05/10/08 - Timothy LaSalle of Rodale on the Surprising Climate Benefits of Organic Farming
• 05/10/08 - An Eco-Friendly Gift Guide for Mother's Day
• 05/09/08 - Always the Low Paycheck!
• 05/09/08 - Organics May Soon Be Out of Reach for Many Consumers
• 05/09/08 - Portrait of an Oil-Addicted Former Superpower
• 05/09/08 - Lawsuit: Del Monte Ripping Off Migrant Workers
• 05/09/08 - World's Worst: US Consumers Rank Last in Eco-Consciousness
• 05/09/08 - The Iraq Supplemental Funding Bill in Congress: A Three Ring Circus
• 05/09/08 - FEED - Food & Environment Electronic Digest - May 2008
• 05/09/08 - Biodegradable Home Product Lines, Ready to Rot
• 05/08/08 - North Carolina: Students Occupy Chancellor's Office, Demand No Sweatshops, No Union Busting
• 05/08/08 - Consumer Alert: Hazardous, Commonly Used Fire Retardants Lurking in Indoor Dust
• 05/08/08 - Climate Crisis Coalition Newsfeed, May 8, 2008
• 05/08/08 - Beware -- Food Crisis Getting Worse
• 05/08/08 - Five-Part You Tube Debate on Third Parties
• 05/08/08 - Honeybee Hives in U.S. Seeing Continued Decline, Survey Says
• 05/08/08 - Grist Magazine on Soil Health
• 05/08/08 - Consumers Cut Back on Spending for Clothing as Economic Recession Deepens
• 05/08/08 - The Polluting Of The Environmental Protection Agency
• 05/08/08 - Farmland is Vastly Overpriced--The Next Mortgage Boom & Bust Will Devastate Rural America
• 05/08/08 - The Weekly Spin, May 7, 2008
• 05/08/08 - Controversy Growing Over Supermarkets Importing Organic Food from China
• 05/08/08 - Newsweek Provides a Glimpse of the World Elite: What Power Looks Like
• 05/08/08 - Federal Lab Officials Admit to Utah Physicist, Dr. Steven Jones, That They Can't Explain the Total Collapse of the Twin Towers on 9/11
• 05/08/08 - New Food Safety Rules May Do More Harm Than Good
• 05/08/08 - Burger King Caught Spying on Student Farmworker Activists in Florida
• 05/08/08 - The Monopoly of the Food Supply: Price Inflammation and One Corporation's Allergy to Labels
• 05/08/08 - Wyndham Hotels to Serve Organic and Fair-Trade Certified Starbucks Coffee
• 05/08/08 - EPA Ignoring Toxic Perchlorate Rocket Fuel in Drinking Water
• 05/08/08 - Bush Hammered Over Comments About India and Global Food Crisis
• 05/08/08 - The Pentagon vs. the U.S.: How Americans Have Become Targets of Their Own Military
• 05/08/08 - Even Wall Street Admits Real Solution to World Food Crisis is Helping Poor Farmers Sustainably Grow More Food
• 05/08/08 - Just How 'Green' is That Shirt?
• 05/08/08 - Latest Media Coverage & Congressional Debate on the Biofuels Hoax & World Food Crisis
• 05/08/08 - Is Immigration Off the Table in Election 2008?
• 05/08/08 - EPA not Super-Interested in Keeping Rocket Fuel Out of Drinking Water
• 05/07/08 - Urban Farmers' Crops Go From Vacant Lot to Market
• 05/07/08 - The Scoop - May 2008
• 05/07/08 - Remembering Kent State Shooting Victims
• 05/07/08 - You Tube on U.S. ILWU Union Strike Against the War
• 05/07/08 - BPA Ban Making Progress in California Senate
• 05/07/08 - New Generation of Farmers and Farmers Markets in California
• 05/07/08 - Important New Book Exposes Election Fraud 2000-2008
• 05/07/08 - Risk of Bird Flu Pandemic Probably Growing
• 05/07/08 - The Environmental and Health Costs of Exploiting Alberta's Tar Sands
• 05/07/08 - What's in Your Multiple Vitamin? Detecting Real Quality, Part 2
• 05/07/08 - Consumer Groups Champion Internet Freedom Preservation Act
• 05/07/08 - Will the White Collar Criminals Who Have Wrecked the Economy Ever Do Time?
• 05/07/08 - Democrat Leaders Continue to Supply Funding for the War
• 05/07/08 - Racial Disparities Persist in Drug Arrests
• 05/07/08 - Fueling the Debate: Agrofuels, Biodiversity, and Our Energy Future
• 05/07/08 - Report Targets Costs Of Factory Farming
• 05/07/08 - 66 Deaths in Immigrant Prisons Signal Need to Shut Down ICE
• 05/06/08 - Second Largest US Physicians Group Endorses Medical Marijuana
• 05/06/08 - Nutrasweet - A Look at the History of Deception Behind Its Marketing (Part 2)
• 05/06/08 - What's in Your Multiple Vitamin? Detecting Real Quality
• 05/06/08 - ALERT: Genetically Engineered Candy for Mothers Day?
• 05/06/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #957
• 05/06/08 - Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer's U.S. Senate Race Picks Up Speed
• 05/06/08 - Protestors Shut Down Biotech Company Headquarters in Europe
• 05/06/08 - Ouster of Sierra Club's Florida Leaders Stirs up a Storm of Controversy
• 05/06/08 - EU Proposal to Allow U.S. Practice of Feeding Slaughterhouse Waste to Pigs & Chickens Sparks Outrage in Europe
• 05/06/08 - South Korean Consumers, Worried About Mad Cow, in Uproar over Government Lifting Ban on U.S. Beef Imports
• 05/06/08 - Biofuels: Disaster for Food, People & The Planet--Short You Tube Video
• 05/06/08 - Biofuel, Food Shortages, & the Comeback of the Biotech Bullies
• 05/06/08 - Wake Up Obama & Hillary & McCain: New Poll Says 68% of Americans Want to Bring Troops Home within Six Months
• 05/06/08 - Few Details on Immigrants Who Died in Custody
• 05/06/08 - Leading Green Group, Friends of the Earth, Endorses Obama After He Opposes Gas Tax 'Holiday'
• 05/06/08 - Support N.C. Farmworkers
• 05/05/08 - Court Orders Tyson to Suspend Ads For Antibiotic-Free Chicken
• 05/05/08 - Obama: The Lesser of Three Evils
• 05/05/08 - What the Pentagon Pundits Were Selling on the Side: Propaganda Meets Corporate Lobbying
• 05/05/08 - Update on Political Situation in Mexico May 5, 2008
• 05/05/08 - Farm Bill: Billions for Corporate Agribusiness with Nickles & Dimes for Organics
• 05/05/08 - Giant Food & Biotech Corporations Make Billions in Profit from Growing Global Food Crisis
• 05/05/08 - Canadian Schools Sent Brochures from Climate Change Skeptics
• 05/05/08 - Two Senators - A World Apart on Issues - Show Why Global Warming Bill May Fail
• 05/05/08 - Death by Dioxin
• 05/05/08 - Air Pollution Impedes Bees' Ability to Find Flowers
• 05/05/08 - Organic Food Goes Global but at What Cost?
• 05/05/08 - The Lost Supermarket
• 05/05/08 - Breast Milk Contains C8, Study Concludes
• 05/05/08 - Chickens Adopting Urban Lifestyle
• 05/05/08 - Bio-Fuel Debates Heats up in Washington State
• 05/05/08 - Grist on Lead and Gardens
• 05/05/08 - Outrage at European Moves to Feed Animal Remains to Chickens
• 05/05/08 - Shell Makes Run On Water
• 05/05/08 - The Forever Waste
• 05/04/08 - Organic Trade Association is More Than Satisfied with Farm Bill Conference Deal
• 05/04/08 - The Gospel of Consumption
• 05/04/08 - May Day 2008 Statement from the Iraqi Labour Movement
• 05/04/08 - More Gardeners Give Organic Products a Try
• 05/04/08 - Repealing Corporate Personhood: Taking Back The Republic, In Four Easy Steps
• 05/03/08 - America's Chemically Modified Soldiers
• 05/03/08 - Rising Food Prices Hit Organics
• 05/03/08 - The New Green/Biotech Revolution And World Food Prices
• 05/03/08 - The Vitamin You Need to Prevent Prostate Cancer
• 05/03/08 - Powering School Buses Is A Natural Gas
• 05/03/08 - North Dakota Man Facing Years in Prison After Buying Salvia Divinorum on eBay
• 05/03/08 - Climate Crisis Coalition Newsfeed, May 2, 2008
• 05/03/08 - U.S. Slow to Take Action on Phthalates, Bisphenol-A Chemicals in Plastics
• 05/03/08 - Study Links Parkinson's Disease With Chemical Exposure to Pesticides
• 05/03/08 - Maine Town Bans GMOs
• 05/03/08 - War of The Future: Robot versus Robot
• 05/03/08 - New Report Warns of Widespread Genetic Contamination & Corporate Domination through 'Agro-fuels'
• 05/03/08 - Forbes Magazine Covers the Organic Body Care Controversy
• 05/03/08 - An Apple Peel a Day Could Keep Cancer at Bay
• 05/03/08 - Deadly Animal Virus May Soon Come to U.S. Mainland
• 05/03/08 - The Holistic First Aid Kit: What to Include and Their Common Uses
• 05/03/08 - All Salmon Fishing Banned on West Coast
• 05/03/08 - Top Political News Stories of the Week--May 2, 2008
• 05/03/08 - White House Scrambles to Keep Up with Global Food Crisis--Still Claiming Gene-Altered Crops Will Feed the World
• 05/03/08 - MRSA Superbug Invades Public Schools as Conventional Medicine Ignores Natural Cures
• 05/02/08 - Download the "True Food Shopping Guide" to Avoid GMO's When You Shop
• 05/02/08 - Advertising Watchdog Receives Record Complaints Over Corporate 'Greenwash'
• 05/02/08 - An Interview with Stacy Malkan, Co-Founder of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
• 05/02/08 - Consumers Still Buying Organic and Living Green Despite Economy
• 05/02/08 - Will Pot Ever Be Legal in This Schizoid Country?
• 05/02/08 - Common Chemical in Plastic Bottles, BPA Headed For Possible Ban
• 05/02/08 - Big Pharma Digs In as World Health Crisis Grows Worse
• 05/02/08 - Major National Anti-war Assembly to be Held in Cleveland in June
• 05/02/08 - The Fire Bell in the Night and Our Real Terror: While We Debate Reverend Wright, The Economy Goes To Hell
• 05/02/08 - Heparin Contamination Fiasco Reveals Dirty Secret of Drug Industry: Their Pills are Made in China
• 05/02/08 - Popular Radio Announcer Ousted After Ripping Monsanto's Goon Squads
• 05/02/08 - Force Retailers to Stop Selling Baby Bottles with BPA
• 05/02/08 - Crumbcatchers: America's Political, Economic, & Social Crisis Intensifies
• 05/02/08 - How to Order "The World According to Monsanto/Le Monde Selon Monsanto"
• 05/02/08 - Maine Jury Acquits Peace Activists For Senate Office Sit-In
• 05/02/08 - Losing the Forest for the Trees: Tree Monocultures and the Biofuel Boom
• 05/02/08 - Biotech & Agrofuels in Latin America; Next-Generation Biofuels
• 05/02/08 - Mythmaking and Democracy
• 05/02/08 - Bush Lawyer Won't Say if Congress can Limit President's Power
• 05/01/08 - Hazardous BPA Still Allowed in Plastic Bottles & Can Liners
• 05/01/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #956
• 05/01/08 - Justice Dept. OKs Harsh Interrogation Tactics
• 05/01/08 - Cheney Lawyer Claims Congress Has No Authority Over Vice-President
• 05/01/08 - White House Undermines EPA On Cancer Risks, GAO Says
• 05/01/08 - FDA Faulted for Approving Dangerous Studies of Artificial Blood
• 05/01/08 - US Senator Russ Feingold Statement at Hearing on 'Secret Law and the Threat to Democratic and Accountable Government'
• 05/01/08 - Mexico Update: Counter-Attack by Mexico's Right Wing Against Peaceful Civil Resistance Movement
• 05/01/08 - The Global Ruling Class
• 05/01/08 - Can We Hold the Wal-Mart's of the World Accountable?
• 05/01/08 - Bush Confesses to Waterboarding: Arrest Bush
• 05/01/08 - US Sacrificing Workers' Rights for Colombia FTA
• 05/01/08 - Longshore Workers Plan Walkout To Protest Wars by
• 05/01/08 - USDA Isn't on Board With Beef Industry's Downer Cow Ban
• 05/01/08 - 'Small Wind' Power Plants Are Blowing Strong
• 05/01/08 - The Bush Administration's ANWR Deception
• 05/01/08 - Taking the Fire Out of Farming in Africa
• 05/01/08 - To Save Rivers, She Helps Farmers
• 05/01/08 - Grain Companies' Profits Soar As Global Food Crisis Mounts
• 05/01/08 - Critics Fault Industry's Influence
• 05/01/08 - Farm Animal Industry Must Change, Says Pew Commission
• 05/01/08 - Report Targets Costs Of Factory Farming
• 05/01/08 - So-Called Free Trade Equals Forced Immigration: Support the 'Right Not to Emigrate'
• 05/01/08 - Are Your Teeth Toxic?
• 05/01/08 - The Weekly Spin, April 30, 2008
• 05/01/08 - Advertising Watchdog Receives Record Complaints Over Corporate 'Greenwash'
• 05/01/08 - U.S. Eyes Shift Away From Corn Ethanol
• 05/01/08 - Groups Demand EPA Stop Sale Of 200+ Potentially Dangerous Nano-Silver Products
• 05/01/08 - AK Teens Tackle Tough Environmental Issues
• 05/01/08 - Vermont Becomes 7th State to go "Sweat Free"
• 04/30/08 - Latest Developments on Farm Bill & Biofuels
• 04/30/08 - Kenyan Conservationists Call for Pesticide Ban After Hippos Die
• 04/30/08 - New Evidence Links Mercury Emissions to Rates of Autism
• 04/30/08 - Emptying the Breadbasket
• 04/30/08 - Household Cleaners, Air Fresheners Linked to Asthma in Adults
• 04/30/08 - Nutrasweet - the History of this Toxic Chemical and Its Promotion (Part 1)
• 04/30/08 - Bronner's Files Lawsuit to Stop Organic Labeling Fraud in Body Care Sector
• 04/30/08 - New Report Spells Out the Critical Health Risk in Adding Human Antibiotics to Animal Feed in U.S. Farms
• 04/30/08 - Supreme Court Gives Republicans a Boost
• 04/30/08 - UN: Biofuel Production 'Criminal Path' to Global Food Crisis
• 04/30/08 - Canada's C-51 Law May Outlaw 60% of Natural Health Products; Big Pharma Pushing to Criminalize Supplements
• 04/30/08 - Burger King Goes Back on Its Pledge
• 04/30/08 - How Safe Are Green Cleaning Products?
• 04/30/08 - Rev. Jeremiah Wright is Right about how U.S. Government Uses Blacks for Medical Experiments, Including AIDS
• 04/30/08 - Bridgewater Cafe Sticks to Fair Trade Ethic
• 04/29/08 - Making Health Care Greener
• 04/29/08 - Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps Files Lawsuit Against Major 'Organic' Cheater Brands
• 04/29/08 - Martin Luther King, Presente!
• 04/29/08 - The Criminalization of Raw Milk: A Mennonite Farmer is Hauled Away
• 04/29/08 - Mass Mobilizations in Mexico Temporarily Stop Bush-Calderon Oil Privatization
• 04/29/08 - There is No Food Shortage: A Gap Between Rich and Poor Makes Free Markets Fail
• 04/29/08 - What is the Real Cause of Agflation--Rapidly Rising Food Prices?
• 04/29/08 - More Media Coverage of World Food Crisis & Biofuels
• 04/29/08 - New Stealth Chemicals Hidden in Your Food
• 04/29/08 - NGO: Gov'ts Ignored Food Crisis Warnings for Years
• 04/29/08 - House Democrats Look to Fund War Through 2009
• 04/29/08 - Evicted South LA Farmers Dig In
• 04/29/08 - Agricultural Giant Battles Small Farmers
• 04/29/08 - Burger King Exec Uses Daughter's Online ID To Chide Immokalee Coalition
• 04/29/08 - The US and China Are Over a Barrel
• 04/29/08 - Bush Administration Cracking Down on Undocumented Farmworkers
• 04/29/08 - Killer Lice
• 04/29/08 - Pinch of Racism
• 04/29/08 - The Future of Dirt
• 04/29/08 - Wal-Mart Costs Society More
• 04/29/08 - CALL-OUT TO OCA MEMBERS: National News Magazine Seeks Interview with Customers of Whole Foods Market - deadline in 24 hours
• 04/29/08 - Dr. Bronner's Soap Company Files Lawsuit Against Bogus Organic Labels on Body Care Products
• 04/28/08 - Subsidizing Corporate Crime and Rewarding Constitutional Abuses
• 04/28/08 - Mend Holes in World Safety Net
• 04/28/08 - Making a Killing from the Food Crisis
• 04/28/08 - Democrats Push Food Safety Bill Despite Concerns
• 04/28/08 - The Clock is Ticking for an Attack on Iran
• 04/28/08 - Here's a Bad Idea: Biofuel Gas from Trees
• 04/28/08 - The Real Crisis of Argentina's Agricultural Sector
• 04/27/08 - 'Agflation' The Escalating Costs of Food
• 04/27/08 - Negotiators Reach Tentative Farm Bill Deal
• 04/26/08 - How Does Aspartame Damage Your Brain?
• 04/26/08 - Forty Years After Historic Columbia Strike, Four Leaders of 1968 Student Uprising Reflect
• 04/26/08 - Is an Attack on Iran Imminent?
• 04/26/08 - The World Food Crisis
• 04/26/08 - Gallup Poll: Many Americans OK With Increasing Taxes on Rich
• 04/26/08 - As Enlistment Rates Fall, Military Recruiters Target Undocumented Immigrants