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You have a right to know what’s in your food!
We can all agree that we should be able to know what’s in the food that we’re eating. Unfortunately, because we don’t have labeling for foods with genetically engineered ingredients, you don’t know if the food you are eating has ingredients that have been altered in ways that could never happen in nature.
Sign the petition below to ask your state and federal elected officials to require labeling for all genetically engineered foods.
Petition to Elected Officials:
Genetically engineered foods are pervasive, largely untested, and unlabeled. I deserve the right to know whether the food I buy is genetically engineered or not. I urge you to support federal legislation that would require the labeling of all genetically engineered foods.
When you take action on this issue, we’ll keep you informed on this and other important issues.
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We can all agree that we should be able to know what's in the food that we're eating. Unfortunately, because we don't have labeling for foods with genetically engineered ingredients, you don't know if the food you are eating has ingredients that have been altered in ways that could never happen in nature.
Sign the petition below to ask your state and federal elected officials to require labeling for all genetically engineered foods.
Learn more about genetically engineered foods.
In 2010, the Food and Drug Administration began paving the way for approval of genetically engineered (GE) salmon. The first transgenic animal approved for human consumption, GE salmon would open the floodgates for GE cows and pigs, which biotech companies are waiting in the wings to finally commercialize after years of research and development.
Not to be outdone by the FDA, last year the U.S. Department of Agriculture approved three GE products. First, the department announced that it would allow unrestricted growing of GE alfalfa, which could destroy the organic dairy industry and block farmers from the export market since many countries wont accept GE-contaminated crops. The USDA has also partially deregulated GE sugar beets and approved a new type of GE corn that is designed to facilitate ethanol production.
With all of these new genetically engineered foods being approved, we need labeling more than ever. Find out more about GE Foods.
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Fracking is injecting a massive volume of water, sand, and chemicals underground at high pressure to break up a rock formation, allowing oil or gas to flow up the well.
Fracking threatens the air we breathe, the water we drink, the communities we love and the climate on which we depend.
Please sign the petition below. We'll be delivering these signatures to your elected officials.
Learn more about fracking
Fracking involves the injection of millions of gallons of "frack fluid" into dense shale rock in order to crack the rock and release oil or natural gas. Frack fluid contains any combination of up to nearly 600 chemicals along with millions of gallons of water and sand. People who live in areas where fracking occurs experience contaminated water, reduced property value, increased truck traffic, loud noise, explosions and even illness.
You can find reports and fact sheets on our site: http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/fracking/
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Ask Secretary Vilsack to Keep the Ban on Chinese Chicken!
It is not the time to expand the list of Chinese food products allowed into the United States. In addition to ongoing problems with China's food safety standards and inspection system, nothing has changed since U.S. inspectors found filthy and unsanitary conditions in Chinese poultry processing facilities.
We need to let the USDA know that consumers don't want more unsafe food products. Our health is not a political game!
Take action to make sure chicken from China doesn't end up on your plate.
Learn more
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Good Food Starts with a Fair Farm Bill
Most of us would prefer to feed ourselves and our families good, healthy, local, sustainably produced and affordable food. Unfortunately, there are many things that get in our way and don't allow this to happen.
Sign the petition below to show your support for making our food system fair for all! We'll deliver it to your members of Congress.
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Ask Your Senators to Co-sponsor the Bill to Ban GE Salmon
Genetically engineered salmon is on track to be the first GE animal approved for human consumption. It's time to stop this Frankenfish for good by passing a bill to ban GE salmon in the U.S.
The FDA is trying to approve GE salmon as a new animal drug, but the truth is, U.S. food agencies don't have a way to fully evaluate the impacts of GE salmon on human health or the environment. Last fall, we delivered over 90,000 comments from our supporters opposing the approval of GE salmon and so far, the FDA hasn't approved it.
Can you ask your senators to co-sponsor the bill to ban GE salmon (S. 230)?
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Factory Farms Do Not Belong in the Ocean!
We can all agree that factory farms on land are bad for our health, our communities, and the environment. What many don't know is that there are threats to create and expand factory farms in our oceans.
Similar to land-based factory farms, factory fish farms are floating sea cages crammed with fish that are often fed unnatural diets and treated with antibiotics and other drugs. Worst of all, just like factory farms on land, these create a lot of waste- only the waste from factory fish farms goes directly into the ocean.
Sign the petition below to stop factory fish farms in U.S. federal waters. We'll deliver it to the decision makers who are pushing this terrible idea.
Learn more.
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Investing in America's public water infrastructure could create new green jobs. Ask your members of Congress to ensure we have clean water and green jobs by signing the petition below to Renew America's Water.
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It's Time to Stop Poisoning Ourselves. Call For a Ban On Triclosan!
There is a dangerous substance still being widely used in the U.S. despite evidence that it is a real and imminent threat to public and environmental health. Most products labeled as "antibacterial," "antimicrobial," "Microban" or "Biofresh" contain this dangerous chemical called triclosan.
Triclosan is a pesticide that has been popping up in products we use everyday like soap, toothpaste, deodorant and even baby changing stations. It is so dangerous that it was banned in Japan and Canada, and classified as an irritant dangerous for the environment and very toxic to aquatic organisms by the EU. It persists in the environment and is recognized, like BPA, as an endocrine disruptor -- a substance that interferes with the body's hormones.
Can you join us in calling for an end to the use of triclosan for non-medical purposes? Fill out the form below to add your name to the petition.
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Sign the Pledge to Take Back the Tap
Tap water is a better choice than bottled for our health, our wallets and our environment.
Did you know that...
... Bottled water is not safer than tap water. In fact, the federal government requires far more rigorous and frequent safety testing and monitoring of municipal drinking water.
... Bottled water is thousands of times more expensive than tap water. Compare $0.002 per gallon for most tap water to a range of $0.89 to $8.26 per gallon for bottled waters.
... Bottled water hurts the environment. After millions of barrels of oil are used to produce and ship plastic water bottles, 90 percent of them land in the garbage or our waterways instead of the recycle bin.
Take control of your right to water, sign the pledge:National Action
Challenge the Corporate Control of our Food System!
Right now just a handful of companies like Monsanto, Cargill, Tyson and Smithfield influence most of the food we eat. Decades of bad farm policy and unchecked corporate mergers have left massive agribusiness giants with too much power over the food system. This is bad news for both farmers and consumers. Now, after years of government looking the other way, some in the Department of Justice seem to realize there's a problem.
Can you sign our petition and tell them that it's time to finally take on the monopolies in our food system?