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		<title>Raw Milk in the News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin Raw Milk Association Lobbies Wisconsin Legislature Today, February 22 (Wisconsin Ag Connection, 1/31) Raw Milk Freedom Riders Plan Workshop and Rally to Support Vernon Herschberger March 1-2 in Sauk County, Wisconsin (The Bovine, 2/21 and 2/15) &#8220;Study Says Raw Milk Poses Risks,&#8221; Seems not to Reflect Corrected Numbers: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article (2/21) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spinning Suspect Ingredients in Baby Formula</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;That same day that I gave her the first bottle [of formula], she had terrible diarrhea, she had horrible spit-up, she had gas, she was crying with pain. . . . I went out that night and got a new formula that did not have the DHA and the ARA, and she&#8217;s never had diarrhea [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foodrightsnetwork.org/2012/02/spinning-suspect-ingredients-in-baby-formula/</link>
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		<title>Sewage Sludge in the News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[King County, Washington Brands Sludge Product and Pushes it at Northwest Flower and Garden Show: According to a press release reprinted in the West Seattle Herald (2/8), &#8220;King County’s clean-water utility has announced the launch of Loop, its new biosolids brand, at the Northwest Flower &#38; Garden Show at the Washington State Convention Center, Feb. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foodrightsnetwork.org/2012/02/sludge-news-6/</link>
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		<title>Atrazine: A &#8220;Molecular Bull in a China Shop&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Atrazine is an herbicide primarily manufactured by the multinational conglomerate Syngenta and commonly used on commodity crops, forests, and golf courses. Its potential harmful effects on human health have been documented since the 1990s. As a consequence, atrazine has been “unauthorized” in the European Union since 2004 (and in some European countries since 1991). However, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foodrightsnetwork.org/2012/02/atrazine-a-molecular-bull-in-a-china-shop/</link>
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		<title>Food News You Can Use</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;More Damning Evidence Points to Pesticide as Cause of Mass Bee Deaths: Bayer-produced imidacloprid harmful to bees even at very low levels&#8221; (Common Dreams, 1/30) &#8220;Dishonest Fox Chart: Food Stamps Edition&#8221;: According to Media Matters for America (1/30), a Fox News show run on Monday, January 30, &#8220;features mismatched data that does not answer the question [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foodrightsnetwork.org/2012/01/food-news-6/</link>
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		<title>Raw Milk in the News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Raw Milk Rally and Court Hearing for Wisconsin Dairy Farmer Vernon Hershberger Friday, January 27 at 12:00 pm in Baraboo: Vernon Hershberger has a court appearance scheduled tomorrow, Friday, January 27, 2012 at 1:00 pm at the Baraboo Courthouse, which is located on 515 Oak Street in Baraboo. Vernon is facing criminal charges for allegedly violating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foodrightsnetwork.org/2012/01/raw-milk-news-8/</link>
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		<title>Sewage Sludge in the News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Updated on Thursday, January 26, to add a late-breaking research article: &#8220;Measurement of Flame Retardants and Triclosan in Municipal Sewage Sludge and Biosolids&#8221; (Environment International, April 2012 volume): &#8220;The biosolids [from California and North Carolina] and SRM 2781 were analyzed for PBDEs, hexabromobenzene (HBB), 1,2-bis(2,4,6-tribromophenoxy)ethane (BTBPE), 2-ethylhexyl 2,3,4,5-tetrabromobenzoate (TBB), di(2-ethylhexyl)-2,3,4,5-tetrabromophthalate (TBPH), the chlorinated flame retardant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foodrightsnetwork.org/2012/01/sludge-news-5/</link>
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		<title>Food News You Can Use</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Senator Feinstein Calls on FDA to Ban Bisphenol A (BPA) From Food and Drink Containers (E&#38;E News (subscription only), 1/24): Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) introduced S. 136, the &#8220;Ban Poisonous Additives Act of 2011,&#8221; last January, which would ban BPA from baby bottles, children&#8217;s sippy cups, baby food and infant formula. The National Resources Defense Council [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foodrightsnetwork.org/2012/01/food-news-you-can-use-9/</link>
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		<title>Raw Milk in the News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin Farmer Vernon Herschberger Jailed and Released For Providing Unlicensed Raw Milk to Private Club Members: Herschberger appeared in court on January 11 (NBC 15, 1/11/12) on four misdemeanor charges. According toWKOW (1/10/12), &#8220;The court allowed Hershberger to go home on a $500 dollar bond, but he had to go through the jail booking process. &#8216;I object [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foodrightsnetwork.org/2012/01/raw-milk-news-7/</link>
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		<title>Sewage Sludge in the News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paragould Light, Water and Cable Required to Enclose Sewage Sludge Discharge Area (Arkansas) (Paragould Daily Press, 1/17/12) Charlotte, North Carolina Spins Sludge Spreading as &#8220;Resource Recovery&#8221; and &#8220;Nutrient Recycling&#8221; (Charlotte, NC, 2011) Union City, Indiana to Pay Fine for Arsenic Pollution from Spreading Sludge (Star Press, 1/14/12) Culpeper County, Virginia Denies Permit for ReCyc Systems [...]]]></description>
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