In yet another blow to German chemical giant Bayer, a U.S. court recently dismissed the company’s proposed $2 billion settlement as unconscionable in seeking to prevent future legal claims from cancer victims exposed to Roundup.
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Toxic chemicals are showing up in the wrappers of America’s favorite burgers. In 2020, consumer advocates released a report finding that several of the nation’s largest fast food chains all had packaging with elevated levels of fluorine, indicating treatment with chemicals called PFAS.
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Our current agricultural system is characterized in large part by industrial-scale farms that grow only one species of crop at a time, with no or inadequate rotation. Although industrial agriculture over time the system has degraded the land, water, and other resources we depend on for life.
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Four months after the World Health Organization declared coronavirus a pandemic, cases in the United States continue to rise. Many facets of our national economy are being tested by this crisis and the food system has been particularly hard hit.
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Earlier this year, Kellogg’s quietly announced that, by 2025, it will phase out pre-harvest use of glyphosate in its major wheat and oat supply chains. This important action comes after the company’s products appeared in several reports finding glyphosate residues in nearly every sampled popular breakfast foods.
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Denny’s joins a growing group of major fast food and fast casual chains (McDonald’s, Wendy’s, KFC, Chipotle, and others) that have established policies prohibiting the use of medically important antibiotics in chicken.
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Antibiotic resistance threatens our ability to treat infections such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, and salmonellosis, among others; the result is that previously controllable diseases are becoming more and more fatal.
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