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		<title>Consumers Allege Perdue&#8217;s &#8220;Humane&#8221; Poultry Labels Are &#8220;False and Deceptive&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.foodrightsnetwork.org/2013/04/consumers-allege-perdues-humane-poultry-labels-are-false-and-deceptive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebekah Wilce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered what labels like &#8220;humanely raised&#8221; and &#8220;cage free&#8221; mean when you&#8217;re looking at a package of meat or eggs at the supermarket? Do corporations actually live up to the claims on the labels? Well, a consumer class action lawsuit in New Jersey is trying to bring a little truth to labeling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chemical Industry Clout Delays EPA Regulation of Hexavalent Chromium</title>
		<link>http://www.foodrightsnetwork.org/2013/03/chemical-industry-clout-delays-epa-regulation-of-hexavalent-chromium/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebekah Wilce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hit 2000 film Erin Brockovich, which tells the story of how a novice legal clerk holds a huge corporation liable for contaminating a town&#8217;s drinking water with the carcinogenic chemical hexavalent chromium, or chromium (VI), ends in justice for those harmed. But as it turns out, Hinkley, California, the real-life town featured in the movie, is still contaminated. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebekah Wilce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, March 18th, 2013, WORT 89.9 FM &#8220;A Public Affair&#8221; host John Quinlan interviewed Wenonah Hauter, the director of Food &#38; Water Watch. Hauter was in Madison to speak that evening at the Goodman Center at an event hosted by the Food Rights Network, a project of Madison’s Center for Media and Democracy. Hauter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wave of &#8220;Ag Gag&#8221; Bills Threaten Food Safety and Freedom of the Press</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebekah Wilce</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.foodrightsnetwork.org/?p=1598</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember &#8220;fecal soup&#8221;? A CBS &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; exposé in 1987 documented widespread food safety violations by the poultry industry, making use of undercover video from a hidden camera placed by the &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; crew. The episode vindicated U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) whistleblower Hobart Bartley, who had been ignored and threatened by his superiors and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have a Cold One, Brought to You by the Foodopoly</title>
		<link>http://www.foodrightsnetwork.org/2013/03/have-a-cold-one-brought-to-you-by-the-foodopoly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebekah Wilce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[- by Wenonah Hauter Tonight, millions of people will enjoy a beer. What the vast majority of them probably won&#8217;t realize is that the variety of brands they see in the stores come from just two foreign-based multinational companies that control 80 percent of the market here in the U.S. While many of America&#8217;s favorite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wenonah Hauter, Author of &#8220;Foodopoly,&#8221; Discusses Why Corporate Control of America&#8217;s Food System Affects YOU</title>
		<link>http://www.foodrightsnetwork.org/2013/03/wenonah-hauter-author-of-foodopoly-discusses-why-corporate-control-of-americas-food-system-affects-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebekah Wilce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of the national advocacy organization Food and Water Watch, will be in Madison, March 18, to read from her acclaimed new book &#8220;Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America.&#8221; Publishers Weekly calls it a &#8220;tour de force.&#8221; Since 2005, Food and Water Watch has lead the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raw Milk Dairy Organic Pastures Sues FDA Over Interstate Raw Milk Sales Ban</title>
		<link>http://www.foodrightsnetwork.org/2012/12/raw-milk-dairy-organic-pastures-sues-fda-over-interstate-raw-milk-sales-ban/</link>
		<comments>http://www.foodrightsnetwork.org/2012/12/raw-milk-dairy-organic-pastures-sues-fda-over-interstate-raw-milk-sales-ban/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebekah Wilce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Dairy Reporter, the country&#8217;s largest raw milk dairy, California-based Organic Pastures Dairy, has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) &#8220;alleging that the agency repeatedly failed to respond to its petition to amend a law that forbids the sale of raw milk-based dairy products across state lines.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago&#8217;s Brilliant Plan: Sludge Soccer Fields</title>
		<link>http://www.foodrightsnetwork.org/2012/12/chicagos-brilliant-plan-sludge-soccer-fields/</link>
		<comments>http://www.foodrightsnetwork.org/2012/12/chicagos-brilliant-plan-sludge-soccer-fields/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebekah Wilce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a local publication in Hinsdale, Illinois, the Chicago metropolitan area has opted to replace a soccer field&#8217;s soil with &#8220;biosolids&#8221; &#8212; dried sewage sludge &#8212; in several batches and re-sod. Apparently two other local soccer fields have also been sludged. Why? It&#8217;s cheaper than &#8220;good, new black dirt.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221;: Concerned Citizen Uncovers Whole Foods&#8217; Policy on Selling Food Grown in Sewage Sludge</title>
		<link>http://www.foodrightsnetwork.org/2012/12/dont-ask-dont-tell-concerned-citizen-uncovers-whole-foods-policy-on-selling-food-grown-in-sewage-sludge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.foodrightsnetwork.org/2012/12/dont-ask-dont-tell-concerned-citizen-uncovers-whole-foods-policy-on-selling-food-grown-in-sewage-sludge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebekah Wilce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t fancy the thought of your spinach and carrots being grown in sewage sludge? Neither does Mario Ciasulli, a semi-retired electrical engineer living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Mario likes to cook, and enjoys good food. When he found out last year about the practice of spreading dried and heated human and industrial waste as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Study Reveals Widespread and Copious Use of Toxic Flame Retardants</title>
		<link>http://www.foodrightsnetwork.org/2012/11/new-study-reveals-widespread-and-copious-use-of-toxic-flame-retardants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.foodrightsnetwork.org/2012/11/new-study-reveals-widespread-and-copious-use-of-toxic-flame-retardants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebekah Wilce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[- by Rebekah Wilce A study published this week in the Environmental Science &#38; Technology journal, &#8220;Novel and High Volume Use Flame Retardants in US Couches Reflective of the 2005 PentaBDE Phase Out,&#8221; reveals that 85% of couches purchased in the United States between 1985 and 2010 contain chemical flame retardants. The most prevalent include [...]]]></description>
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