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Center for Food Safety Statement on Former President Trump's Victory in Presidential Election
Following the election of Donald Trump to a second term as president, Center for Food Safety (CFS) issued the following statement: "Donald Trump's previous tenure in office was marked by an extreme ...
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The Food Safety Trade-Off: Why it is So Important a Progressive Victory Stopped the TPP
Most discussion about trade agreements, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, focuses on jobs and economic indicators, but there is little discussion about the impacts on our dinner plate.
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Lawsuit Challenges Restrictive and Unclear GMO Food Labeling Rules
SAN FRANCISCO—Center for Food Safety (CFS) and a coalition of food labeling nonprofits and retailers filed an appeal last week with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, challenging a previous ruling ...
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Agribusiness Spends $22 Million, $25 per Vote, to Keep Consumers in the Dark
This week, I-522, a ballot initiative to label foods produced with genetic engineering (GE), was narrowly defeated in Washington State. Chemical companies and big food manufacturers spent $22 million ...
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Leading Scientists, Over 200 Groups and Companies Call for Monarch Protection
WASHINGTON— In the face of staggering declines of monarchs, more than 40 leading monarch scientists and ecologists and more than 200 organizations and businesses today urged Secretary of the Interior ...
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CFS Files Lawsuit Challenging Open-air Testing of Genetically Engineered "Biopharm"Crops
Attorneys with Earthjustice and the Center for Food Safety filed suit in federal district court in Honolulu today asking the court to order the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to assess the ...
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Siding with Monsanto/Bayer, Trump EPA Once Again Greenlights Roundup
RT @protesterrabbit: Always buy seeds or use your own from previous year. I get mine from Mother Nature of Powell River, B.C. ! https://t.c… The legal battle around #chlorpyrifos continues. The 9th ...
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Trump's EPA Defies Science, Proposes New Approval of Glyphosate
RT @protesterrabbit: Always buy seeds or use your own from previous year. I get mine from Mother Nature of Powell River, B.C. ! https://t.c… The legal battle around #chlorpyrifos continues. The 9th ...
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Poorly Tested Gene Silencing Technology to Enter Food Supply with Simplot Potato
November 7, 2014 (Washington, DC)--Center for Food Safety (CFS) is today warning consumers about a new genetically engineered (GE) potato that may soon enter the food supply. Because GE foods are not ...
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Lawsuit Targets FDA Approval of Controversial Animal Drugs Used in Food Production
November 6, 2014 (SAN FRANCISCO) – Center for Food Safety, the Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for approving several ...
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Center for Food Safety's Statement on Oregon Department of Agriculture's Re-approval of Mega-Chicken Factory Farm
Linn County, Oregon—Late yesterday, the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) announced that it is issuing an individual water quality permit to J-S Ranch, a mega-chicken production facility capable ...
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Environmental Groups Across the U.S. Call on EPA to Intervene in National Drinking Water Nitrate Crisis
United States – Today, a group of environmental and community organizations from across the United States penned a joint letter to the EPA, asking the agency to use its emergency powers to intervene ...