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Summertime Victories - Thanks to Care2 Members Taking Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: conservation, forests, wolves, toys, success, victory, Care2, Costco, mercury, GoodNews, trees, oceans, consumers, goodnews, wildlife, wildanimals, AnimalCruelty, children, news, health )

Robyn
- 42 days ago - care2.com
Campaign success! Through your help, wolves are protected as Endangered Species, farm animals' lives are improving, kids' toys are safer and millions of acres of forest have been saved. Read about these campaign victories and more on Randy Paynter's blog.
Health Care Rules - Spoof VIDEO
Health & Wellness  (tags: True Majority, health insurance, video, corruption, dishonesty, government, healthcare, ethics, lies, business, consumers, corporate, illness )

Rebecca
- 73 days ago - truemajority.org
This is a great spoof video by True Majority on how insurance companies change the rules constantly to undermine policy holders. It shows how they can do anything they want and we "have" to go along. It's funny...but it also is entirely too true. Share!
Grow Your Own Way - The New Frontier - Urban Farming
Health & Wellness  (tags: food, nutrition, humans, farming, consumers )

Roseann
- 95 days ago - commongroundmag.com
They're trading lawns for lettuce, bringing hens into the family fold and harvesting honey just steps from their back door. They're the new urban farmers, and they're coming soon to a yard near you (if they're not already there).
Seattle Grocery Chain Stops Selling Foods Made With High Fructose Corn Syrup
Health & Wellness  (tags: food, business, consumers )

Michael
- 103 days ago - naturalnews.com
<p>Seattle-area food cooperative PCC Natural Markets has removed all products containing high-fructose corn syrup from its shelves, and has announced that it will no longer carry any product sweetened with the controversial ingredient.</p>
Global Ban on Tobacco Ads: World Health Organization's New Call to Global Govenrnments
Health & Wellness  (tags: world, government, GoodNews, ethics, children, crime, corruption, consumers, ethics, risks, prevention, protection, warning, health, illness, disease )

Julia
- 134 days ago - thelohasian.com
WHO is asking governments worldwide to step up and protect an estimated 1.8 million youth
Inside the Ugly $25 Billion Pharmaceutical Marketing Industry
Health & Wellness  (tags: business, corruption, cover-up, consumers, americans, marketing, research, health, medicine, news, safety, science, society, study, illness, AlternativeMed, drugs, disease, government, interesting )

Julia
- 208 days ago - thelohasian.com
The frightening business of "selling disease." How a new Eli Lilly lawsuit is bringing Pharma marketing under the microscope.
Toxin Found in 'Natural,' 'Organic' Items [Washington Post]
Health & Wellness  (tags: natural, organic, consumers, hazard, safety, warning, cancer )

Souris
- 209 days ago - washingtonpost.com
Some major brands of shampoo, shower gel and dish soap marketed as "natural" or "organic" contain small amounts of a potentially dangerous chemical, according to a report released yesterday by the Organic Consumers Association.
California Lists Where Recalled Beef Was Shipped
Health & Wellness  (tags: corporate, consumers, farming, farms, humans, lies, marketing, money, safety, risks, research, humans, health )

Ginger
- 220 days ago - usatoday.com
SAN FRANCISCO -- More than 5,000 California supermarkets, restaurants, retailers and school districts received meat recalled last month by Westland/Hallmark Meat -- and now a state website lists their names and locations.
Take Action: GE (Genetically Engineered) Sugar? Not So Sweet
Health & Wellness  (tags: Monsanto, poison, Roundup weed killer, poison residue, EPA, genetic engineering, sugar, candy, lobbyists, americans, corruption, dishonesty, ethics, freedoms, lies, ecosystems, environment, children, consumers, farming, money, food, garden, health, health )

Rebecca
- 234 days ago - ga3.org
Half of the sugar used in the U.S. is beet sugar. A new option available this year is Monsanto's Roundup Ready sugar beet, genetically engineered to survive direct application of the weed killer, Roundup. The EPA raised the allowable residue level 5000%!!
RECALL USDA Speaks to Two Year Product Recall Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Company
Health & Wellness  (tags: recall, warning, corporate, consumers, ethics, safety, protection, prevention, food, ethics, regulations, government, investigation, failed protocol )

WindyColo
- 236 days ago - usda.gov
BEEF RECALL Details.Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Company,failure to comply with "FSIS regulations",FSIS veterinarians NOT called for *non-ambulatory cattle passing *antemortem inspection.Release No. 0046.08 021708 (*definitions cited/comments)
The (Possible) Perils of Being Thirsty While Being Green
Health & Wellness  (tags: consumers, environment, family, greenliving, green, recycle, recycling, humans, study, treatment, children, diet, exercise, risks, safety, research, protection, health )

Dana
- 279 days ago - nytimes.com
I HAVE the usual New Year's resolutions -- exercise more, lose weight, be a nicer person. I also hope to find out if I am inadvertently poisoning my children.
Group Sues FDA for Stronger Warnings
Health & Wellness  (tags: FDA, consumers, antibiotics, medicine, health, risks, safety, study, humans )

Danielle
- 282 days ago - news.yahoo.com
WASHINGTON - A consumer group sued the Food and Drug Administration Thursday, charging the agency is ignoring calls for stronger warnings that Cipro and similar antibiotics may cause serious tendon injuries. Labels of the fluoroquinolone family of
Sears Aims to Reduce and Phase Out Use of Polyvinyl Chloride
Health & Wellness  (tags: business, ethics, wal-mart, USconsumers, consumers, risks, health, safety )

Susiebell
- 300 days ago - chicagotribune.com
Sears Holdings Corp. said Wednesday it will move to phase out the use of the plastic PVC in packaging and merchandise at its Sears and Kmart stores, joining other retailers in targeting the plastic because of health and environmental concerns.
Support Strong Salt Reduction Efforts That Will Save Thousands of American Lives
Health & Wellness  (tags: Take Action!, health, humans, consumers, americans, food, nutrition, prevention )

Holly
- 334 days ago - takeaction.cspinet.org
On November 29, 2007, the Food and Drug Administration will hold a public hearing on salt reduction. Send a letter today to the FDA and let them know you support strong salt reduction efforts
Warn Indian Authorities Against GE Rice Field Trials
Health & Wellness  (tags: Take Action!, consumers, food, humans, genetically engineered, activism, greenpeacesafety )

Holly
- 334 days ago - greenpeace.org
India's food regulatory authorities need to receive a blast of messages from around the world - from people in countries which currently import Indian rice - to understand how costly and unwise GE field trials would be.
 

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