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Keep Nanotechnology Out of Organic! - Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: Petition, warning, protection, risks, humans, illness, health, food, government, environment, children, family, diet, ethics )

Daphna
- 5 days ago - change.org
Keep Nanotechnology Out of Organic! To tell the USDA that you want the National Organic Standards Board to take a strong stand against the use of nanotechnology in organic food.
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Sign the Petition, Send a Coat Hanger
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, women, treatment, protection, medicine, humans, illness, health, family, death, children, babies, prevention )

Daphna
- 6 days ago - act.credoaction.com
"We know what happens when women are denied access to reproductive health care including abortion. And we can't go back to an era of coat hangers and back alley abortions. Reconsider your vote on the Stupak Amendment. Tell House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and
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PLEASE Stand Up for Women's Reproductive Health and Choice, President Obama
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, women, prevention, medicine, humans, interesting, illness, health, ethics, children, protection )

Daphna
- 11 days ago - change.org
WHAT'S IT GOING TO TAKE TO PASS HEALTH CARE REFORM THAT SERVES WOMEN? LEADERSHIP. Despite hundreds of thousands of voters like you and me who called on members of the House of Representatives to include women's health care in health car
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Campbell's Soup: Stop Poisoning Our Food!- Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, warning, protection, humans, illness, health, food, family, diet, children, nutrition, safety )

Daphna
- 13 days ago - change.org
Consumer Reports has found that major canned food companies including Campbell's Soup are using cans that leach Bisphenol A (BPA) into food. BPA is linked to many health risks including reproductive abnormalities, neurological effects, height
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Take Action-Tell the RBGH Profiteers Why You Buy Organic to Avoid Genetically Modified Bovine Growth Hormone
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, children, diet, drugs, family, food, government, health, humans, nutrition, prevention, risks )

Daphna
- 15 days ago - organicconsumers.org
Following up on our successful campaign against Yoplait and Dannon, the Organic Consumers Association is now asking our members to write to ice cream companies that still allow the use of genetically modified bovine growth hormone (Dreyer's, Edy's
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Ask EPA To Ban Carcinogenic Pesticide Methyl Iodide -Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, warning, research, protection, humans, illness, health, government, environment, ethics, death, disease, risks )

Daphna
- 21 days ago - change.org
Under the Bush administration the EPA approved this carcinogenic new pesticide. However, a week ago, we heard promising news. The EPA has just indicated that it plans to re-consider methyl iodide, pending the results of California's independent Scientific
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Tell Your Senators to Extend Unemployment Insurance Benefits NOW - Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, women, protection, medicine, humans, illness, healthcare, health, government, ethics, abuse )

Daphna
- 25 days ago - secure2.convio.net
Every day, unemployment benefits are running out for thousands of jobless workers. This week, the Senate is considering a bill that would extend these vital benefits for 14 weeks in every state, and an additional 6 weeks in states with high rates of unemp
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Take Action: Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, warning, research, protection, medicine, humans, interesting, illness, health, ethics, food, diet, children )

Daphna
- 29 days ago - actionnetwork.org
Most doctors commonly warn their patients never to take antibiotics if they are not actually sick. Yet that is exactly what is happening on industrial farms where food animals often are given low doses of antibiotics over long periods of time to speed gro
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Protect Against Toxic Chemicals - The Petition Site
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, warning, protection, prevention, humans, illness, health, government, food, family, diet, children, environment )

Daphna
- 30 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The 33 year-old law that is supposed to protect Americans from exposure to toxic chemicals is so outdated that China legally exports toxic materials into the U.S. that are not only banned in Japan and Europe, but can't even be used domestically in China.
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Take Action-USDA Public Comment Period
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, study, protection, nutrition, humans, food, government, health, environment, ethics, family, diet, children )

Daphna
- 31 days ago - environmental-action.org
Right now, the USDA is taking public comments on what the 'natural' label on meat product should mean. Currently, meat produced by agribusiness on factory farms can count as natural -- even if the animals saw no light, had no room in the pens to even turn
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Take Action - Being a Woman Is Not a Pre-Existing Condition
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, health, healthcare, humans, women, protection, treatment, medicine, illness, ethics, family, government )

Daphna
- 35 days ago - change.org
Health care isn't fair. Women pay more and get less coverage than they need. Yet women have been left out of the debate on health care reform. It's time to make our voices heard.
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Take Action-American Cancer Society Cancer Network-Health Care Must Cost Less
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, cancer, disease, family, health, healthcare, humans, illness, medicine, protection, treatment, government )

Daphna
- 35 days ago - secure3.convio.net
This week the Senate Finance Committee passed a bill that capped health insurance premium at 13 percent of a person's annual income. It's a good step, but the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network believes that cap should be reduced to 10 percent
7 comments
Take Action- Tell Secretary Vilsack to Beef Up the USDA's E. Coli Testing Program
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, warning, safety, protection, humans, illness, health, government, food, diet, children, family )

Daphna
- 35 days ago - action.foodandwaterwatch.org
Food & Water Watch and other consumer groups have been telling the USDA for years that the agency needed to strengthen its E. coli policy. Because contamination starts much earlier in the process than when beef is ground into hamburger, the agency should
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Take Action - Stand With Peggy Robertson
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, protection, medicine, healthcare, government, ethics, disease, health, humans, illness, family, safety, treatment )

Daphna
- 35 days ago - action.seiu.org
Today, at Sen. Mikulski's HELP committee hearing "What Women Want: Equal Benefits for Equal Premiums," we met Peggy Robertson. Peggy is a mother of two young boys, and lives in Colorado with her husband. Her story is shocking, and one that every member of
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Take Action - Help Strengthen America's Toxic Chemicals Standards
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, children, diet, disease, environment, food, government, health, humans, illness, prevention, protection, research, risks, safety, science, study )

Daphna
- 36 days ago - change.org
Of the 82,000 chemicals available for use in the U.S., only about 200 have been required to be tested for safety. In fact, the 33 year-old law that is supposed to protect Americans from exposure to toxic chemicals is so outdated that China le
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