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Congress Will Finally Vote on the Farm Bill
posted by OrangeClouds115 2008-05-09 21:25:32Nearly a year after they started to debate it, Congress agreed on a farm bill which they will vote on soon. Bush, naturally, plans to veto it.
Here is Tom Philpott's take on the bill.
The Farm Bill: We're Almost Done
posted by OrangeClouds115 2008-05-02 13:38:32Here's the latest on the farm bill after this week. Looks like another extension until May 16 and then - who knows? Maybe we'll have a 2007 farm bill before 2008 is half over.
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It's Official. Local Food is a Bipartisan Issue.
posted by OrangeClouds115 2008-05-01 00:19:26On April 29, 2008, President Bush said:
One thing I think that would be -- I know would be very creative policy is if we -- is if we would buy food from local farmers as a way to help deal with scarcity, but also as a way to put in place an infrastructure so that nations can be self-sustaining and self-supporting. It's a proposal I put forth that Congress hasn't responded to yet, and I sincerely hope they do.
Book Review - and Netroots Nation '08 News
posted by OrangeClouds115 2008-04-30 17:05:32I am proud to announce that our panel proposal for Netroots Nation 2008 was accepted! We will be welcoming four fantastic experts as our panelists this summer: Mark Winne, Michele Simon, Judith McGeary, and Margaret Krome.
In between now and July, we will be doing our best to introduce the netroots community to our four panelists so you can come prepared to the convention with good questions to ask (or questions to submit in advance or via liveblog if you can't be there)
Please check out a book review of Mark Winne's new book Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty.
Ohio Primary Looks at Food Issues
posted by OrangeClouds115 2008-02-28 09:20:55Ohio's experienced an influx of dairy CAFOs, and both candidates are trying to woo voters with their platforms on these industrial mega-farms. In anticipation of the March 4 OH primary, DailyKos diarist Zwoof takes a look at each candidate, their positions, their advisors, and their histories on this issue. Check it out!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/28/6576/57159/394/465402
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Center for Science in the Public Interest
Senate Move on FDA Funding Praised
Statement of CSPI Food Safety Director Caroline Smith DeWaal
Along with my colleagues in the Alliance for a Stronger FDA, I stand in strong support of Senator Herb Kohl's move to include $275 million in new funding for the Food and Drug Administration in the pending emergency supplemental appropriations bill. Virtually no one, inside or outside Congress, believes that the FDA has the resources necessary to assure the safety of Americans' food, drugs, and medical devices. The proof hits home for American consumers every day.
o one, inside or outside Congress, believes that the FDA has the resources necessary to assure the safety of Americans' food, drugs, and medical devices. The proof hits home for American consumers every day...
Brewers Urged to Stop Marketing Beer Shirts to Young Girls
Miller, Guinness, and Foster's Logos Used on Tees at Popular Teen Retailer 'Forever 21'
WASHINGTONThe nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest today urged Miller Brewing Co., Foster's, and Diageo, the parent company of Guinness, to stop allowing logos for those beers to be used on tee shirts sold at Forever 21, a retailer popular with teenage girls. CSPI says that the arrangement is in violation of the beer industry's voluntary advertising and marketing code. Though it is administered by the Washington, D.C., lobby group the Beer Institute, the code explicitly states that no beer brands or logos "should be used or licensed for use on clothing
intended for use primarily by persons below the legal drinking age."
Which Food Additives Are Safe? Which Aren't?
Nutrition Action Healthletter Revisits "Chemical Cuisine," the Classic A-to-Z Guide
WASHINGTONWould you like some butylated hydroxytoluene with that?
If a waiter offered you some BHT in a restaurant, you'd probably decline. Yet that chemical is one of scores of hard-to-pronounce additives that routinely show up in the fine print on packaged foods' ingredients lists. Is BHT safe? For the record, food manufacturers use it to keep oils from going rancid, but animal studies differ on whether in promotes or prevents cancer. The Center for Science in the Public Interest, publisher of Nutrition Action Healthletter, says it warrants caution. Nutrition Action's revised "Chemical Cuisine," its classic guide to food additives, is the cover story in the May issue...
Maine Taxes on Soda, Beer & Wine Applauded
Similar Increases Could Help Reduce Health Care Costs by Funding Prevention, Says CSPI
WASHINGTONGovernors, state legislators, and members of Congress interested in simultaneously bridging budget gaps and improving public health should look north to Maine. There, the legislature passed and Governor John Baldacci signed a package of tax increases on soda, beer and wine to help pay for a state health insurance program for small businesses and the self-employed. The nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest, which has long supported modest increases in taxes on soda and alcoholic beverages if the revenues are used to promote public health, today applauded Maine policy makers...
House to Consider Comprehensive FDA Reform Bill
Statement of CSPI Food Safety Director Caroline Smith DeWaal
After numerous food borne illness outbreaks and scores of hearings on Capitol Hill, House Energy and Commerce Chairman John Dingell, together with Representatives Frank Pallone, Bart Stupak, and Diane DeGette, has introduced today a package of urgently-needed FDA reforms that, if enacted, will go a long way toward restoring Americans' confidence in the safety of our food supply....
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Environmental Health News
World's giants to alter food equation.
In India and China, meat is becoming much more likely to be on the menu. Changing diets are creating unprecedented demand for animal feed.
Behind the food riots: a debate on how best to farm.
Around the world, governments are trying to stave off food riots. Many experts call these Band-Aid solutions, saying what's needed is a radical rethink of how the world gets its food. However, they're deeply divided about which way to go.
The dangers of the deltas.
From the Mekong to the Mississippi, river mouths have long lured farmers, fishers and traders. But the same geography also guarantees they will be periodically inundated.
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PhysOrg.com: Latest Science and Technology News
Eruptions subside at Sicily's Mount Etna
The eruptions that have shaken the Mount Etna volcano on the southern Italian island of Sicily have subsided, experts said Sunday at the Palermo Geophysics and Volcanology Institute.
Oil powered Norway gradually turns into the wind
As Norway prepares for a future after oil, the gale-force potential of harvesting wind power off its long coastline has become an increasingly attractive proposition.
Families will make case for vaccine link to autism
(AP) -- Families claiming that a mercury-based preservative in vaccines triggers autism will challenge mainstream medicine Monday as they take their case to a federal court. They seek vindication and financial redress from a government fund that helps people injured by shots.