Posted on July 9th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
Why isn’t this story being publicized everywhere? And do we really need even more reasons to start eating vegetarian?
Avian flu at Va. farm prompts more testing
By the Associated Press HARRISONBURG –
More than 50,000 turkeys on a farm west of Mount Jackson tested positive for avian flu antibodies, prompting additional testing and surveillance at area poultry […]
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Filed under: Animal Rights, FDA, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Government, Medical News, Politics, Uncategorized, vegetarianism
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 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
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