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Con Agra sued over GMO "100% Natural" cooking oils

If you use Wesson brand cooking oils, you may be able to join a class action against... more

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Bachmann Electrocuted In Attempt To Cut Power At EPA

Oil City, PA Early Friday morning GOP frontrunner Michelle Bachmann was found... more

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15 Food Companies That Serve You 'Wood'

The recent class-action lawsuit brought against Taco Bell raised questions about the... more

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NO ORGANIC FOOD FOR YOU! The FDA along with LAPD raids a local organic market

The time for citizen arrests is now. A combined force of feds and Los Angeles cops... more

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FDA declares walnuts a drug

The Food and Drug Administration is telling California-based Diamond Foods that they... more

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Radiation in Our Food

Though the horrendous tsunami that hit Japan on March 12, 2011 seems like old news in... more

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Smokers Today, Fast Food Industry Tomorrow: How New Smoking Legislation Affects Us All

Hasn't the FDA done enough?

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All the Disgusting Pictures the FDA Is Going to Put on Cigarette Boxes

In an effort to curb smoking, cigarette boxes will now come with these graphic images... more

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New Cigarette Warning Labels: Can I get a Pack of Crusty Lung Light Menthol 100 Extra Slims Please?

Good news everybody! It’s still legal to suck disease straight down your throat,... more

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From the Community: Obama on Afghanistan, Wal-Mart and cigarette warning labels

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President Obama to move US closer to leaving Afghanistan!Submitted by kennymotown
Obama is likely to announce a plan to withdraw 10,000 troops from Afghanistan.

Obama spokesman Jay Carney said Tuesday that the president had finalized his decision on the withdrawal plan and would address the nation from the White House at 8 p.m. Wednesday. He said the president informed his national security team of his plans during a White House meeting Tuesday morning.

Wal-Mart Wins in Sexual Bias CaseSubmitted by Incredulous
The Supreme Court sided with Wal-Mart in a sex bias suit, ruling that the certificaton of class was not consistent with federal rule.

"Today's decision is deeply disturbing. The highest court in our nation has turned its back on collective remedy for workers facing widespread injustices," said Joe Hansen, international president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. "The UFCW will continue to demand accountability from Walmart to its workers who deserve fair treatment, fair pay and respect on the job."

FDA Reveals Bigger, Graphic Warning Labels For Cigarette PackagesSubmitted by Misti
The FDA has unveiled nine new graphic cigarette warnings, which will cover 50 percent of the packaging and be required on all cigarette packages by September 2012.

Cigarette packages will now carry one vivid color image and one of these warnings about the consequences of smoking: "Cigarettes are addictive"; "Tobacco smoke can harm your children"; "Cigarettes cause fatal lung disease"; "Cigarettes cause cancer"; "Cigarettes cause strokes and heart disease"; "Smoking during pregnancy can harm your baby"; "Smoking can kill you"; "Tobacco smoke causes fatal lung disease in nonsmokers"; and "Quitting smoking now greatly reduces serious risks to your health."

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Pop a Viagra and ... Go Deaf?

Could Viagra make you, ahem, hard of hearing? Researchers are uncovering evidence that... more

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Protesters to milk cow on Capitol Hill

Raw milk supporters say they plan to milk a cow on Capitol Hill to protest federal... more

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Tea Party and Hippies Unite: Food Safety and the President’s Food Safety Czar

Why has the Food Safety Modernization Act (S510) encountered opposition from the Tea... more

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California state legislature passes bill to require labels on genetically engineered salmon

Dissatisfied with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) current review of the first-ever proposed commercialization of genetically engineered (GE) salmon, late yesterday the California Assembly Health Committee approved a bill which would require that all GE fish sold in California contain clear and prominent labeling. The bill, AB 88, was introduced by Assemblymember Jared Huffman. The Center for Food Safety (CFS), a co-sponsor of the bill, applauds the Health Committee for protecting the public’s right to know how their food is produced.

“The FDA has indicated that it will not require these GE fish to be labeled once they are approved,” said Rebecca Spector, West Coast Director of the Center for Food Safety. “As such, it is incumbent on the California State legislature, starting with the Health Committee, to let the people of California make informed choices about the food they eat by requiring the labeling of GE fish sold in California.”

Public opinion clearly and consistently calls for food labeling. Recent polls indicate that 95% of the public want labeling of genetically-modified foods, and that nearly 50% of the public would not eat seafood that has been genetically engineered. Consumers sent nearly 400,000 public comments to FDA demanding the agency reject this application and require mandatory labeling of this transgenic salmon should it decide to approve it.

The Center for Food Safety recently called on the FDA to recognize the immense public outcry for mandatory labeling of untested, unapproved transgenic salmon. CFS led a broad coalition of consumer, environmental, religious and animal welfare groups, along with commercial and recreational fisheries associations and food retailers, grocers and chefs in demanding the FDA deny approval of the long-shelved AquaBounty transgenic salmon and require mandatory labeling of the fish is approved despite intense opposition. If approved the transgenic salmon would be the first genetically engineered animal intended for human consumption.

“Until FDA completes an adequate environmental and human health review of genetically engineered salmon, it is up to individual states to protect consumers and their families,” said Spector. “California has always been a leader in environmental and food safety laws, and AB 88 continues this tradition by protecting the public from a potentially harmful food technology. More importantly, it gives consumers the right to know what they are eating and gives them a choice in the marketplace.”

Read CFS’s testimony presented at the Health Committee hearing at the link.Dissatisfied with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) current review... more

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Are drug companies making a marijuana super pill?

My name is Michael Dancheck; I am a 40 year old Network Engineer that has been recently disabled due to severe nerve pain caused from overuse of my right arm. I also happen to fall into the 1% - 4% of people that experience serious side effects from all of the medications that can help alleviate my pain. I found that on occasion marijuana would help with several of my symptoms and didn’t understand why it didn’t work all of the time. I immersed myself in the subject and began extensive research. I was intrigued by all the information I found and taught myself how to cultivate legally under Colorado law. I want the public to understand all I have learned about marijuana and my thoughts of why the FDA really wants to keep this plant illegal.

What does not make sense to me is that the marijuana plant is deemed as having NO medicinal value by the FDA. Through my research, I found each strain has a different chemical composition which is why we experience different effects with each one. Marijuana is mostly comprised of THC, Cannabinoids, and Flavonoids. THC helps to relieve pain and has psychoactive properties. Cannabinoids have different effects for each type ranging from: pain relief, nausea relief, anxiety relief. One type, CBN, shrinks and kills tumors. Flavonoids are proven to protect against heart disease.

Currently, the drug companies are producing Marinol which is 100% THC. Why does the FDA allow them to make this drug if the plant has no medicinal value? Now, they are trying to synthetically make each type of identified cannabinoid. Their plan is to make several types of pills. Each of which will contain different levels and combinations of THC and Cannabinoids so they can target specific ailments/diseases with each pill.

This brings us to the question which should be presented to the FDA. Why are the drug companies permitted to make Marinol if marijuana is classified as having no medicinal value? Since these drugs are mimicking every element of the marijuana plant why is this plant still illegal? Although you can not patent a plant, you can however patent a process or chemical. As long as this plant remains illegal the drug companies stand to make billions if they can perfect these pills. America deserves to know who's being paid off

Please consider my story.

Regards,
Mike DancheckMy name is Michael Dancheck; I am a 40 year old Network Engineer that has been... more