USDA Withholds Names Of Turkey Companies Spreading Salmonella (tags)
update on the turkey salmonella outbreak which has spread to 35 states as of November
Hormel Slaughterhouse Blood Mist Paralyzing Workers (tags)
The USDA founded in 1906 in response to Upton Sinclair's description of the agony of pigs at a Hormel plant in MN. is In 2011 once again in the news, because its workers are being paralyzed by inhaling blood mist
Trump Accelerating and Multiplying The Ways Animals Are Harmed (tags)
speeding up slaughterhouse lines, letting stalking hunters into national parks, pardoning a slaughterhouse owner, putting more meat fish & dairy into school lunches, abandoning marine mammals etc
Chuck Grassley And Steve King: Iowa Animal Abusers (tags)
Chuck Grassley has harmed billions of animals. It's time to remove him from the Senate
Cows On Fire In Washington. USDA Won't Let Montana Use Firefighting Helicopters (tags)
The biggest fire in Washington history, one of nearly 70 burning in Western states, has burned an area bigger than Rhode Island. States ask for volunteers. Inaction and lack of prioritization by the federal government has made this the worst fire season eve
19 Ways the USDA Kills People, Animals, Birds, And/Or Trees (tags)
From killing tens of millions of birds for corporate farms, 'controlled' burns which in uncontrolled fashion burn many square miles of plants, censorship of Mad Cow and other spongiform encephalopathy diseases, to requiring taxpayers to subsidize fast food ads overseas and torturing animals in a 55 square mile USDA complex in Nebraska, the USDA is a major cause of human disease, animal agony, environmental destruction, and energy waste.
Demand The Permanent Closure Of A Taxpayer Funded "Meat Animal" Research Center in Nebrask (tags)
Help shut down a 55 square mile animal concentration camp in southern Nebraska run by the USDA
Mad Cow, Mad Deer, Mad Elk Etc Links On Rense (tags)
The USDA, CDC, NIH, FDA etc continue to suppress news of Mad Cow, Mad Deer, Mad Pig, Mad Sheep, Mad Fish, Mad Milk etc in the US
Stop NY Gov Cuomo From Massacring 165,000 Geese And Mute Swans (tags)
For untold decades, the USDA has secretly acted to kill millions of birds. Now it is behind the scenes in Governor Cuomo's plan to murder 165,000 geese as well as mute swans.
news stories which inform the public of the dangers of chicken flesh
Food Stamp Fraud Begins In USDA Which Subsidizes Multinational Butchers , Dairy Cow Abuses (tags)
The USDA since the inception of the food stamp program has spent trillions subsidizing the butchers and dairy interests which cause many kinds of disease, environmental waste and animal agony.
Brain Trust: The Hidden Connection Between Mad Cow Disease and Misdiagnosed Alzheimer’s (tags)
Brain Trust summarizes a possible looming public health emergency in the United States. Health and Agriculture authorities in the United States and in Canada like to play down any suggestion that the food chain is unsafe, particularly when it comes to the dreaded mad cow disease that has killed over 150 people in the UK and Europe. Authorities assure us that there is nothing to worry about over here. Mad cow disease is predominantly a European problem, they say.
Halt Approval of Agent Orange Resistant Corn (tags)
The purpose of this event is to increase the number of public comments sent to the USDA to oppose this proposal by Dow Chemical Corporation. Given the trend at the USDA, it will take more than merely public comments top prevent this outrage, but this is the essential first step - to make certain the will of the people is in the public record.
USDA; Try "Coexistence" w/ Monsanto; HELL NO! (tags)
Scientific studies show increasing links between consumption of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and severe health risks, yet under Obama's USDA censorship remains business as usual. Lack of truth in labeling of GMO products deprive consumers of freedom of choice and the right to know what is in the food we are eating. Instead of protecting consumers, the USDA becomes the "long arm of Monsanto" by protecting their unregulated experiments on consumers in North America and elsewhere by exposing people to GMO products against their knowledge and consent.
The Sherrod factor
Obama Supports Food Inc.'s World Domination and All We Get Is the White House Garden? (tags)
While Michele Obama took the needed steps in tearing out the White House lawn and planting an organic garden, her husband isn't so quick to drop the old pandering to biotechnology habits of big agribusiness corporations. With Obama's chosen staff of Tom Vilsack, Rajiv Shah, and Islam Siddiqui we have a continuation of the revolving door between corporate agribusiness, biotechnology and government regulators.
GM Food Producers Put USDA in Their Pocket (tags)
The primary intent of this passage is to deny local or state rights to regulate genetically engineered crops or food.
Is The Bush White House Advancing Fascist Agenda? (tags)
With the illegal “war on terror,” renewal of the USA PARTIOT Act, the Real ID Act of 2005, and the implementation of the National Animal ID Act, is the Bush administration taking the Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms of unwitting United States citizens? In this summary of the documentary “One Nation Under Siege,” we can see the pattern of our freedoms falling by the wayside, one at a time.
'Hungry' dropped from report (tags)
If they are going to waste money producing all these worthless government reports at least they should write them in English that everybody can understand instead of using "very low food security" to mean "hungry"
Hold Bayer Accountable for LL601 GE Contamination of Rice (tags)
USDA to retroactively approve Bayer's illegal LL601 GE rice after contamination discovered. Write letter to hold Bayer Crop Science accountable for contaminating US food supply with GE rice (LL601), aka "Liberty Link" rice, resistant to Bayer's manufactured "Liberty" glufosinate herbicide brand.
Loans for Mexican Nationals offered by USDA to purchase rural property in USA.
Suspected coverup of American Mad Cow cases investigated by Canadian Parliament (tags)
I do not have cable tv, but it would appear, based on the Internet, that American media sources are burying the story. Time to blow the whistle...
USDA Downed Animal Ban Under Attack by Agribusiness (tags)
The USDA's recent downed cow ban represents a long overdue policy shift, and it is imperative that we do everything in our power to maintain it, and hopefully to expand it. Please write today.
Citizens Required to Ask County if BSE Meat sold in restaurants, supermarkets.
SAn Diego mad cow street theater! (tags)
The danger from mad cow is real. We are doing an action in San Diego highlight how the USDA is misleading the public.
Civil Liberties and the Real World (tags)
Perhaps in their haste to champion individual freedoms (regardless of consequence), libertarians have forgotten that the Constitution begins; "We the people..."