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Collagen Supplements Test Positive for Heavy Metals

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Last updated on: May 26, 2020

The Organic Consumers Association and the Clean Label project recently tested 28 top-selling collagen supplement brands sold through Amazon. The results from testing show that 64% of supplements tested positive for measurable levels of arsenic, 37% tested positive for measurable… [read]

Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna Co-Sponsor Cory Booker’s Farm System Reform Act

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Last updated on: May 11, 2020

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) have announced that they will co-sponsor the Farm System Reform Act (FSRA) introduced by Cory Booker (D-NJ). Khanna also introduced companion legislation in the House of Representatives. The FSRA is designed… [read]

Pig Farmers Will Start Culling Herds Due to Lack of Processing Plants

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Last updated on: May 4, 2020

President Trump’s recent executive order to keep meat and poultry processing plants open during the COVID-19 pandemic might not be enough to keep farmers from culling their herds. Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture Collin Peterson, D-Minnesota, told a… [read]

Millions of Chickens Gassed as Food Supply Chain Collapses

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Last updated on: April 28, 2020

As COVID-19 deaths in the United States finally pass the 1 million mark, another population will see a decline of twice that many. Delmarva Poultry Industry Inc announced that poultry plants in Delaware and Maryland will “depopulate” (humanely kill) 2… [read]

Four out of Five Samples of Walmart Pork Contained Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

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Last updated on: December 23, 2019

In a recent report released by World Animal Protection (WAP) entitled U.S. Pork and the Superbug Crises, 80 percent of the samples tested from Walmart Stores in the Mid-Atlantic region contained bacteria resistant to at least one antibiotic. On the… [read]

Court Strikes Down ‘Ag-Gag’ Law That Criminalized Undercover Reporting, Says It Violated First Amendment

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Last updated on: February 6, 2019

Up until last month in Iowa, there was an “ag-gag” law that made it illegal to lie about your intentions when accessing an agricultural production facility. On January 9th a federal court struck down the law, deeming it unconstitutional. The… [read]