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Mar 19, 2014

Environmental and public health still secondary to product development in new national nanotech strategy

Dr. Steve Suppan

The 2014 National Nanotechnology Initiative Strategic Plan was released on February 28, a Friday afternoon. Perhaps it was a coincidence, but when the U.S. government doesn’t want to draw attention to a report, often that report will be released on a Friday afternoon.

Mar 11, 2014

Action Alert: Send 30,000 comments to the FDA on taking antibiotics out of our meat

IATP

A minimum of 23,000 people die in the United States due to antibiotic resistance, according to the Center for Disease Control. Yet, antibiotic resistance—the rise of so-called “super bugs”—is on the rise because of overuse and abuse of antibiotics in our food system. Eighty percent of antibiotics sold in the U.S.

Mar 10, 2014

U.S. groups voice concerns about meat industry demands in transatlantic trade deal

Shefali Sharma

Trade negotiators from the United States and the European Union are meeting in Brussels this week behind closed doors to inch towards a transatlantic free trade agreement, benignly referred to as the TransAtlantic Trade and Investment partnership (TTIP). Twenty-nine U.S.

Mar 5, 2014

Obama administration told to stop expanding "corporate rights" in trade agreements

Karen Hansen-Kuhn

One of the most controversial provisions in free trade agreements is the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism, which gives corporations the right to sue governments over public measures that undermine their expected profits. It’s a pretty outrageous assault on democratic structures.

Mar 4, 2014

Farm to School Youth Leadership Curriculum (all lessons and worksheets)

Farm to School Youth Leadership Curriculum

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