For more than 20 years, federal meat inspectors, who work for the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) part of the United…
One night in 1997, as Americans were parked on the couch in front of an episode of Touched by an Angel, they…
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Gene flow from GMO crops to non-altered/non-GMO crops along with broad-spectrum herbicides can “increase the risk of herbicide resistant weed populations”
Today the public no longer laughs at animal lovers nor do food producers ignore us.
In January we saw the logical conclusion of the arm-yourself-against-government-tyranny rhetoric that the NRA promotes
Pharma has already eceived $1 billion of our hard earned tax dollars to develop Covid vaccines
In April, TV ad expenditures for the top 10 prescription drugs increased to $183 million from $156 million in March
Eid observors buy animals to slaughter The lamb having its throat slit didn’t want to die. “The animal tried to stand up…
Even though 1,000 workers at Tyson’s slaughterhouse in Waterloo, Iowa, have tested positive for the coronavirus, it has reopened. Tyson has said…
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