Tell Coke: Stop Running Ads Claiming that Diet Coke and Aspartame are Healthy
Coca-Cola, which donated?$1.7 million?to defeat last year?s GMO labeling initiative in California, has rolled out an ad campaign carefully crafted to convince consumers that aspartame, the artificial sweetener in Diet Coke, is a ?healthy alternative? to sugar.?The?new campaign?takes the form of full-page advertisements disguised as public service announcements. The message? 
Aspartame is perfectly safe. It?s better for you than sugar. Drinking Diet Coke will help you stay thin and healthy.?It?s not true! Multiple studies, including?one?published in 2010 by the?Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine?have concluded just the opposite. Aspartame actually contributes to weight gain by stimulating your appetite. Other?studies?have revealed that aspartame increases carbohydrate cravings and stimulates fat storage and weight gain. Beyond weight gain, aspartame has been linked to?brain cancer?and to the accumulation of?formaldehyde, known to cause gradual damage to the nervous system, the immune system and to cause irreversible genetic damage at long-term, low-level exposure. Clearly, this ad campaign is full of lies!???Tell Coke to stop running ads claiming that Diet Coke and aspartame are healthy.
Bayer has just sued the European Commission to overturn a ban on the pesticides that are killing millions of bees?around the world. A huge public push won this landmark ban only months ago — and we can’t sit back and let Big Pesticide overturn it while the bees 
vanish. Bayer and Syngenta, two of the world’s largest chemical corporations, claim that the ban is “unjustified” and “disproportionate.” But clear scientific evidence shows?their products are behind the massive bee die-off that puts our entire food chain in peril. ?Just last month, 37 million bees were discovered dead on a single Canadian farm. And unless we act now, the bees will keep dying.?We have to show Bayer now that we won’t tolerate it putting its profits ahead of our planet’s health.?If this giant corporation manages to bully Europe into submission, it would spell disaster for the bees. Click here to sign the petition to tell Bayer and Syngenta to drop their bee-killing lawsuits now.
President Obama and EPA Administrator McCarthy: Reopen EPA investigations into fracking-related water contamination?
Over the past year, the Environmental Protection Agency has repeatedly shut down its own fracking-related water contamination 
investigations after being pressured by the oil and gas industry.?Thanks to EPA whistleblowers, the Los Angeles Times reported that the fracking investigation in Dimock, Pennsylvania, was shut down despite evidence from EPA’s water tests that Dimock’s drinking water was polluted with toxic fracking chemicals.?Tell new EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and President Obama to make sure the EPA does its job: Reopen these fracking investigations and provide residents with safe drinking water.
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