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Talk Back with Gary Null – 12/02/12

Gary discusses stress, coffee versus coffee extract, flu shots and meditation as flu remedy, happiness, and excess salt. Related articles The Gary Null Show – Addictions and Lies – 11/29/12 The Gary Null Show – Lesser of Two Evils – 11/05/12 The Gary Null Show – Runaway Climate Change – …

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Stephen Lendman — Obama Votes for Romney

“Well, he might have,” said Mark Crispin Miller on his blog site. He doesn’t know. Nor do other voters. Corporate owned, programmed and manipulated electronic voting machines control things.   The Carter Center monitors elections globally. It refuses to do so in America because free, fair and open standards don’t exist.   …

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Rebekah Wilce — Big Ag Ad Blitz Puts GMO Labeling in Jeopardy

California Proposition 37 to label foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is up for a vote on Tuesday, November 6. It enjoyed broad popular support as of September, with a USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll showing support by 61 percent of registered voters. But in the two weeks following that poll, support dropped …

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Connect The Dots – GMO Labeling Initiative – 10/24/12

Dave Murphy and Lisa Stokke, the directors of Food Democracy Now, www.fooddemocracynow.org will join AlterNet and Huffington journalist, Alison Rose Levy on the radio program Connect the Dots on the Progressive Radio Network to discuss the California Right to Know/ GMO Labeling Initiative, of which Dave is Campaign Co-Director. Related …

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Our GMO Boycott Is Expanding

Getting genetically engineered foods properly labeled is an uphill battle, and Big Food is spending huge sums to make sure that doesn’t happen. Here’s what you can do about it. Three weeks ago we told you about [1] how the parent companies of some organic food brands are very quietly donating large sums …

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Agribusinesses Owning Natural/Organic Brands Betray Customers: Fund Attack on GMO Labeling Proposal in California

Proposition 37, a citizen’s initiative on the ballot on November 6 in California, would mandate clear labeling of genetically engineered (GE) ingredients on food packages. It has become a battleground pitting consumer and farmer advocates against multi-billion-dollar agribusiness corporations.Recent polling indicates almost 70% of citizens support informational labeling. And a …

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[Call to Action] URGENT! Tell your Senators to support GMO labeling – Americans shouldn’t have wait to find out what’s in their food!

Take action today to stop agribusiness lobbyists from giving away billions in federal subsidies to the agribusiness lobby.   Urgent Calls needed – Senate votes on GMO labeling amendment today! Yesterday was a better day in the U.S. Senate for family farmers, eaters and the environment, with several key amendments …

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Your rights or GMOs?

  Last chance to Drop the Money Bomb on Monsanto and Turn the Connecticut Massacre into the California Miracle! Exactly 20 years ago today, Vice President Dan Quayle announced a new policy by the first Bush administration that declared genetically engineered foods to be “substantially equivalent” to foods that farmers …

Progressive Commentary Hour – 04/16/12

Big Food, Monsanto, GMOs and threats to American farming Ronnie Cummins is the Executive Director of the Organic Consumers Association and author of “Genetically Engineered Foods: A Self Defense Guide for Consumers”.  He has been a life-long activist in the human rights, anti-nuclear, labor and agricultural movements. His current goal …