Posted on June 29th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
Usually Emily covers the farm bill kinds of stories for us, but she’s away so I will take a stab at it.
Under the Cheney-Bush Administration, most federal agencies are almost out of a job, and exist only so that the industries they regulate can police themselves, hint hint, wink wink. We saw it with […]
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Filed under: Activism, Emily Oppenheimer, FDA, Food Safety, FrecklesCassie, Health, Politics, Republicans, Secondary Featured Stories
Posted on June 13th, 2007 by Emily Oppenheimer
Like common misunderstandings about the treatment of the farm animals that give us food, the treatment of the pets which give us companionship are usually falsely romanticized and at the same time, kept from view. And for good reason. No decent person wants to know, or likes to see, that the animals we benefit from […]
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Filed under: Activism, Animal Rights, Emily Oppenheimer, Featured Stories, Health, Moral Issues
Posted on June 2nd, 2007 by Emily Oppenheimer
Both Coca-Cola and Pepsi have recently caved under the pressure of animal rights activists (PETA, mostly) and will no longer finance testing on animals that’s not required by law.
Elaine Palmer, a spokeswoman for PepsiCo, said that while the company had never supported the idea of animal testing, “We had not been policing it, so that […]
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Filed under: Activism, Emily Oppenheimer, Featured Stories, Health, Moral Issues
Posted on May 12th, 2007 by Emily Oppenheimer
The phrase “eco-terrorist” was coined almost two decades ago. Since then, it’s caught on. It’s loosely applied to radical environmentalists and the animal rights community ever more frequently.
Since 2005, the government has brought over 20 cases against environmentalists that have redefined not only free speech, but also redefined environmentally motivated property destruction – like […]
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Filed under: Constitution, Emily Oppenheimer, Environment, Featured Stories, Government, Opinion, Politics
Posted on May 6th, 2007 by Emily Oppenheimer
The Safe Food Act of 2007 has just been submitted by Rep. DeLauro and Sen. Durbin. The act aims to create a single Food Safety Administration that differs from the FDA in that it’s not made of a mix of agencies and businesses with conflicting priorities and goals. And the Food Safety Administration would be […]
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Filed under: Emily Oppenheimer, Environment, FDA, Featured Stories, Food Safety, Health, Opinion, Politics
Posted on April 25th, 2007 by Emily Oppenheimer
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, responsible for inspecting safety standards for businesses and workplaces and protecting workers’ health, is relaxing their responsibilities, to say the least-
…to limit new rules and roll back what it considered cumbersome regulations that imposed unnecessary costs on businesses and consumers.
Across Washington, political appointees — often former officials of the […]
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Filed under: Corruption, EPA, Economy, Emily Oppenheimer, Featured Stories, Government, Labor Issues, Politics
Posted on April 24th, 2007 by Emily Oppenheimer
Today, April 24th, is Equal Pay Day. Equal Pay Day marks the amount of extra time women must work to catch up with what men made last year. This means that by now, the average woman will have to have worked almost four months longer than the average man for the same amount of money, […]
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Filed under: Economy, Emily Oppenheimer, Featured Stories, Government, Politics, Sexism/Racism, Women's Rights
Posted on April 22nd, 2007 by Emily Oppenheimer
Since Bush took office in 2000, college tuition rates have risen almost 40%, while funding for programs that offer scholarships and college aid has been cut drastically. Two-thirds of college students are tens of thousands of dollars in debt by the time they graduate.
But there are some beneficiaries of this system- banks and other […]
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Filed under: Corruption, Economy, Emily Oppenheimer, Featured Stories, Government
Posted on April 19th, 2007 by Emily Oppenheimer
Why? Because 70 percent of the world’s poorest are women (and their children). As one of the biggest reasons for this, Alternet cites the fact that women are still expected to take care of domestic tasks, and traditional “women’s work” is not valued in current economic systems.
In fact, according to economists, the people who do […]
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Filed under: Emily Oppenheimer, Featured Stories, Politics, Women's Rights
Posted on April 19th, 2007 by Emily Oppenheimer
The 2003 ban on “partial-birth” abortion (a term made up by “pro-lifers” that isn’t used in scientific circles and has no scientific basis) has been upheld. The ban makes no exception for the health or life of pregnant women, and doctors could face up to two years in prison for violating the ban in favor […]
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Filed under: Abortion, Emily Oppenheimer, Featured Stories, Government, Medical News, Women's Rights
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