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Center for Food Safety Statement on Former President Trump's Victory in Presidential Election
Following the election of Donald Trump to a second term as president, Center for Food Safety (CFS) issued the following statement: "Donald Trump's previous tenure in office was marked by an extreme ...
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Protect Children from Toxic Pesticide's Act of 2020
The Protect America's Children from Toxic Pesticides Act (PACTPA) offers the most comprehensive pesticide protections since EPA was founded. Read the summary to learn more about this groundbreaking ...
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Finfish Aquaculture: A False Solution to Overfishing
Many tout aquaculture—the farming of finfish or shellfish in pens in oceans and other bodies of water—as a potential solution to reduce the burdens of overfishing. In actuality, industrial aquaculture ...
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The Food Safety Trade-Off: Why it is So Important a Progressive Victory Stopped the TPP
Most discussion about trade agreements, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, focuses on jobs and economic indicators, but there is little discussion about the impacts on our dinner plate.
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Industrial Aquaculture's Harmful Lessons
Since the National Marine Fisheries Service's failed first attempt at permitting a brand-new offshore aquaculture industry in 2016, environmental and fishing groups' worst fears about industrial ...
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Lawsuit Challenges Restrictive and Unclear GMO Food Labeling Rules
SAN FRANCISCO—Center for Food Safety (CFS) and a coalition of food labeling nonprofits and retailers filed an appeal last week with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, challenging a previous ruling ...
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Agribusiness Spends $22 Million, $25 per Vote, to Keep Consumers in the Dark
This week, I-522, a ballot initiative to label foods produced with genetic engineering (GE), was narrowly defeated in Washington State. Chemical companies and big food manufacturers spent $22 million ...
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Leading Scientists, Over 200 Groups and Companies Call for Monarch Protection
WASHINGTON— In the face of staggering declines of monarchs, more than 40 leading monarch scientists and ecologists and more than 200 organizations and businesses today urged Secretary of the Interior ...
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Major Flaws in European Glyphosate Assessment
WASHINGTON, DC (November 12, 2015)—Center for Food Safety is very disappointed by the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) assessment of the weed-killer glyphosate, released today. Glyphosate is ...
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CFS Files Lawsuit Challenging Open-air Testing of Genetically Engineered "Biopharm"Crops
Attorneys with Earthjustice and the Center for Food Safety filed suit in federal district court in Honolulu today asking the court to order the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to assess the ...
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Siding with Monsanto/Bayer, Trump EPA Once Again Greenlights Roundup
RT @protesterrabbit: Always buy seeds or use your own from previous year. I get mine from Mother Nature of Powell River, B.C. ! https://t.c… The legal battle around #chlorpyrifos continues. The 9th ...