Sunday, November 24, 2024

How the President Can Curb Big Pharma Greed

Rep. Pocan’s letter urges President Obama to “use executive action and take concrete steps” to address the drug cost crisis, and lists three tools that the president can use.

Monsanto ground breaking sparks local backlash: 120 jobs not worth ‘toxic company in your...

“Pesticide resistant superweeds are a serious threat to our farmers, and piling on more pesticides will just result in superweeds resistant to more pesticides.”

The communal interdependency of nationalized healthcare

“Why when I choose from the corpus of terms relating to universal healthcare I choose nationalized healthcare, because healthcare is rendered a national issue when we all rely on it.”

Here are the worst abortion restrictions conservative state lawmakers passed this year

These included everything from bans on the safest, most common form of second-trimester abortion to laws that would outright re-criminalize abortion.

Undercover Investigation Exposes Shocking Neglect at Third Largest Pig Farm in U.S.

The Maschhoffs, the third largest pig producer in the U.S., has just been exposed for mistreating their pigs.

Simply PFAS: Lawsuit claims ‘all natural’ orange juice brand contains toxic forever chemicals

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances are a growing concern because of the many health impacts associated with exposure and their tendency to persist in the human body for months to years and in the environment for thousands of years.

Media silence after water protectors and police clash on MLK Day

On MLKDay 2017 water protectors were shot at and tear gassed once again by law enforcement in riot gear.

Illegal Herbicide Use on GMO Crops Causing Massive Damage to Fruit, Vegetable and Soybean...

One of the worst parts of this whole debacle is that farmers—by being forced to grow dicamba resistant GMO soybeans—are losing the choice of what they can grow.

FDA to Start Testing for Glyphosate in Food

The federal agency already tests for residues of many agricultural chemicals on food. Now it will include the widely used weed killer linked to cancer.

It’s official: California lists key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup as cancer-causing

We should all keep the pressure on the EPA to ban glyphosate, for good.