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The Unhappy Marriage of Economics and Health Care
Health & Wellness  (tags: economy, lies, media, propaganda, politics, government, congress, americans, abuse, usa, u.s., healthcare, healthcare, ethics, dishonesty, interesting, investigation, medicine, risks, safety, society, treatment, warning, protection, prevention, family )

JL
- 2 days ago - healthcare-now.org
America's health care system is collapsing, and we can blame the Economics profession. Most economists approach health care in the wrong way, viewing it as a commodity
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Video: Innovative Therapy Helps Minnesotans Recover From Trauma
Health & Wellness  (tags: research, science, study, discovery, concept, health, humans, interesting, abuse, healthcare, protection, treatment, study, society, risks, safety )

JL
- 6 days ago - kstp.com
5 Eyewitness News has been granted a rare glimpse at an innovative therapy that's helping Minnesotans recover from trauma in ways other therapies have not enabled them to do.
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Take Action: Give a Mother's Day Gift to America's Moms and Babies!
Health & Wellness  (tags: congress, usa, politics, lies, economy, cover-up, abuse, americans, u.s., propaganda, healthcare, ethics, treatment, warning, women, society, risks, safety, science, prevention, medicine, investigation, health, healthcare, children, babies )

JL
- 7 days ago - donations.diabetes.org
Tell Congress this Mother's Day we must do more to support better health for moms and babies. Ask your Members of Congress to support the Gestational Diabetes Act to create a tracking and surveillance system for gestational diabetes & provide research f
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Take Action: Tell Congress: Address Financing for Long-Term Services and Supports
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, children, healthcare, ethics, humans, health, government, protection, prevention, society, safety, risks, women, warning, investigation )

JL
- 8 days ago - change.org
Our current system forces people to spend down their financial assets until they reach poverty before they can receive the help they need, fails to provide realistic opportunities for personal planning, and fails to provide adequate support to families &
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ACTION NEEDED Protect Our Nation's Horses and Keep the Food Supply Safe
Health & Wellness  (tags: conservation, ecosystems, wildlife, nature, destruction, endangered, environment, safety, sadness, world, violence, death, disease, food, prevention, research, safety, treatment, warning, illness, government, healthcare, health, diet, family, nutrition, p )

Kelly
- 11 days ago - secure.humanesociety.org
Crucial new legislation, titled the Safeguard American Food Exports (SAFE) Act (H.R. 1094/S. 541), was recently introduced in Congress that will protect consumers from toxic horsemeat and end the cruel slaughter of America's horses as well as their export
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The High Price of Our Fertilizer Addiction
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, americans, children, crime, farming, Food, fertilizer, orgnaic crops )

Kit
- 20 days ago - commondreams.org
Compared to the lifetime of grieving ahead for the people of West, Texas, a few years of reduced crop yields is a small price to pay for converting from "conventional" to organic farming.
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Why Your Supermarket Only Sells Five Kinds of Apples
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, americans, Apples, children, diet, disease, environment, family, food, government, healthcare, illness, medicine, protection, research, safety, science, society )

Kit
- 22 days ago - motherjones.com
Every fall at Maine's Common Ground Country Fair, the Lollapalooza of sustainable agriculture, John Bunker sets out a display of eccentric apples.
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Jason's Deli: What's Healthy & What's Not
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, americans, food, Jasons Deli, healthy food choices )

Kit
- 22 days ago - foodbabe.com
Jason's Deli is one of the places my family loves to eat. When I would come home from college to visit, we would go there all the time. We'd have sandwiches, soup, salad, those little free mini corn and gingerbread muffins and free ice cream-->
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*TAKE ACTION* Tell Congress: Cosponsor the Local Farms, Food, and Jobs Act!
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, americans, Congress, cancer, diet, disease, drugs, environment, food, healthcare, illness, medicine, Petition, prevention, protection, safety, science, society )

Kit
- 25 days ago - secure3.convio.net
It sounds like simple advice: "Eat your fruits and veggies." But it's not so easy. Our country spends too much money subsidizing crops like corn and soybeans that get turned into processed junk food, instead of expanding access to foods that are-->
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*TAKE ACTION* Stop Objectifying Teen Girls!
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, body image, girls, Victoria's Secret )

Kit
- 30 days ago - secure3.convio.net
This is not magic - this is using the distortion of young women's body image and insecurity as a source of profit. There are a variety of things teenage girls "want to be" -- safe, respected, encouraged, valued, to name a few.
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Coming Soon: Franken Meats and Fish! GMO Approved!
Health & Wellness  (tags: GMO, food, meat, fish, animals, warning, environment, diet, ethics, food, health, news, nutrition, research, science, abuse )

Bernard
- 32 days ago - activistsjourneytolife.blogspot.com
The first genetically modified meat and fish could be approved this summer. We do many things to which we cannot know what the consequences might be. Genetically modified foods is one of these things.
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Sign ALDF's Petition to Protect Your Food! Stop Ag-GAG!!
Health & Wellness  (tags: Ag-Gag, Beyond just animals, protection, healthcare, humans, death, disease, abuse, interesting, children, diet, environment, ethics, research, risks, safety, medicine, food, government, investigation, news, drugs, family, health, nutrition, prevention, wom )

Roxie
- 32 days ago - org2.democracyinaction.org
Ag gag laws undercut the ability of police and prosecutors to do their jobs--and prevent consumers from seeing the abuse of animals, contamination of crops, illegal working conditions, and risky food safety practices that are common practice behind the
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Monsanto Company: Tell The Truth About Pesticide-Resistant "Superworms"!
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, AlternativeMed, cancer, death, diet, children, ethics, food, family, health, government, investigation, nutrition, prevention, protection, science, society, warning, Monsanto, law, politics, gov )

Bettina
- 35 days ago - act.watchdog.net
An agricultural giant called the Monsanto Company has risen to the top of the corporate food chains thanks to their genetically modified corn and soybean sees, seeds bred to withstand and even produce their own herbicides and pesticides.
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