Posts tagged: #GMO

Take Action: Tell the USDA to Require Antibiotic Labeling; Tell Big Food Companies to Support GMO Labeling; Tell Whole Foods and Walmart to Reduce Food Waste

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Sign the Petition to Encourage the USDA to Require Labeling for Meat Grown with Antibiotics Although some companies label their meat as “antibiotic free”, the USDA does not actually regulate that term. This means a company can label their product … Read More

Take Action: Protect Communities Living With Fracking Today; Stop Sales of Fossil Fuels on Federal Lands; Demand Hillary Divorce Monsanto’s Lobbyists Now

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Protect Communities Living With Fracking Today Last year, the Environmental Protection Agency introduced a proposed rule that would cut methane pollution from new and modified fracking-related development. Fracking-related air pollution is bad for the climate and our health. But the EPA’s … Read More

In The News: Congress Stalls Genetically Engineered Salmon; Bringing Out the Chef in Children; The Diet of the 1980s May Be Why Americans Are So Fat Today

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Congress Stalls Genetically Engineered Salmon The federal spending bill is preventing the Food and Drug Administration to approve marketing genetically-modified Atlantic salmon. Hopefully because of the incredible backlash that this GM salmon provoked. Congress is now requiring the FDA to … Read More

Take Action: Support A Strong Clean Power Plan; Call to Stop Monsanto’s GMO Trolls in The Senate; Save the Endangered Species Act from Corporate Polluters

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Support A Strong Clean Power Plan The Paris climate agreement is a turning point for the world and the climate movement. It comes after an incredible year — President Obama rejected Keystone XL, Shell abandoned drilling in the Arctic, and … Read More

In The News: Results From Climate Conference in Paris; The GMO That Would Have Wiped Out Mankind; New Grocery Store Has High Quality Veggies For Fast Food Prices

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Results From Climate Conference in Paris So the climate conference took place in Paris last week and ended on December 11th. Countries from all over the world came to discuss what can be done about our rising temperatures. Obama says … Read More

Take Action: Call to World Leaders to Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change; Protect The Grand Canyon; Stop Monsanto’s Dream Bill

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Call to World Leaders to Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change The United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP21) in Paris is only a few weeks away. This global conference is our last chance to tackle catastrophic climate change. If the … Read More

In The News: Overweight at 18 and at Greater Risk for Sudden Death; Super-Muscly Pigs Created by Genetic Tweak; Putin Says Russia Will Be World’s #1 Exporter of Non-GMO Foods

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Overweight at 18 and at Greater Risk for Sudden Death If teenage girls didn’t already have enough problems, being overweight puts them at risk of sudden cardiac death. Sudden cardiac death is an unexpected death that occurs within an hour of … Read More

In The News: Short Answers to Hard Questions About Climate Change; Carbon Tax for Steak May Be the Best Way to Get People to Eat Less Meat; Scientists Just Genetically Modified a Mosquito to Be Malaria Resistant

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Short Answers to Hard Questions About Climate Change I know climate change can be complicated. There is a lot of science involved, and if you’re not a scientist, it can be confusing. So here is your cheat sheet to climate … Read More