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Industrial Animal Production and Slaughter
- November 15, 2001: Farm Sanctuary sues USDA,
wants USDA to stop allowing downed cows in food supply. The animals could carry anthrax or mad cow disease.
- October 19, 2001: Tainted, antibiotic-resistant
meat and poultry common in US.
- October 19, 2001: Good news: The Center for a Livable Future at the prestigious Johns Hopkins School of Public
Health is taking factory farming seriously. They
will study and evaluate the effects of breeding large numbers of food animals in concentrated facilities.
- October 17, 2001: Great resource for actions and information about manure contamination and confinement operations:
Families Against Rural Messes. Focus on Illinois but has info on other U.S.
states.
- September 27, 2001: Check out the GRACE Factory Farm Project: all
you want to know about factory farms!
- September 24, 2001: Getting corporations out of agriculture:
Learn about how South Dakota and Nebraska amended their constitutions.
- September 20, 2001: US piglets now are routinely given irradiated
animal blood parts in their food.
- September 19, 2001: Tour de Stench: Take
a tour of Kentucky chicken factory farms.
- August 20, 2001: Action Alert: Tell your U.S. Senator: Don't give tax breaks for "renewable energy"
from incineration of factory-farmed hog and cattle manure.
- August 1, 2001: Poultry workers routinely denied wages.
- Learn more about slaughterhouses from the Government
Accountability Project.
- July 8, 2001: Hogging It: Estimates of Antimicrobial
Abuse in Livestock" a report from the nonpartisan Union of Concerned Scientists, describes the growing
public health problem caused by antibiotic resistance. Take
action.
- Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser on his visits to slaughterhouses.
- June 23, 2000: Report: Cattle cut up while
alive.
- June 3, 2001: Join the Halt Hog
Factories campaign.
- May 11, 2001: The true story of corporate hog farms,
a report from IATP with horrifying pictures.
- April 15, 2001: Feature article on slaughterhouses: Modern meat: A brutal harvest.
- February 2001: Inhumane slaughter continues
in the U.S.; many slaughterhouses not complying with regulations.
- February 27, 2001: Working conditions in
American slaughterhouses today: illegal immigrants, unsafe environments, worker injuries and contaminated meat/poultry.
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- How to Be an Activist-
1. Ask your organization to join
our coalition against irradiation and for consumer labels on ALL irradiated foods. List of coalition members
2. Get background materials from Food
& Water.
3. See our Action Alerts.
4. Distribute our handouts.
5. Ask for a speaker for
a local event.
6. Send us the name of your local newspaper that might be interested
in covering the irradiation issue or publishing an opinion piece.
7. Write a letter to the editor about irradiation.
8. If there is an irradiation facility in your area or if local
grocers are selling OR PLAN TO SELL irradiated foods, contact us for help in organizing a demonstration.
9. Write comment cards and give to your grocer saying you won't buy irradiated products. Ask your neighbors
to focus on one grocer.
10. Write a letter to Congress
about irradiated food. See blue box below for contact info.
11. Sign up to receive action alerts and to send comments to FDA about
labeling. We never sell your name.
12. Join Public Citizen's radfood
listserve for updates.
13. Don't forget to VOTE in EVERY election! Get an absentee ballot if you won't be home!
Progressive Links of the Week
1. Learn about the way regulations SHOULD be crafted--using the Precautionary Principle--at the Science
and Environmental Health Network.
2. Monsanto parody site.
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Irradiation damages antioxidants and increases free radicals.
Current Food Irradiation Actions: Top
- Chicago-area activists, get involved in a local group!
- May 10, 2001: Send
a fax to companies that plan to irradiate to say you won't buy their food.
- April 27, 2001: Update
and new action alerts from Public Citizen.
- Yes, this is still current! April 2001: Write a letter of protest. World-trade bureaucrats put forth astonishing proposal to eliminate
the food irradiation dose limits determined
by national governments. Health and safety regulations would also be eliminated. Read the Codex Summary Report (at site, click on "Summary Report of the 17th ICGFI Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland,
1-3 November 2000").
- Do you live near Chicago, IL, Bridgeport, NJ, Brentwood, LI, NY, or Carthage, MO? Help stop irradiation facilities being built near you.
- Call Del Monte (fresh foods) at 1-800-543-3090 to say you won't buy the "fresh" foods packaged in
glass and plastic that they plan to irradiate.
- Midwesterners: Write a letter to irradiated meat retailer
Hyvee.
- Contact the papaya industry headquarters in Hawaii, and tell them you are boycotting Hawaiian papayas. Some
irradiated Hawaiian papayas are being sold on the mainland--without the required labels--since August 2000. Action alert and sample letter.
- Call world's largest retailer Wal-Mart at 1-800-925-6278 and say you won't buy the irradiated meat they plan
to sell.
- Call Tyson to say you won't buy the irradiated chicken they plan to sell: 1-800-233-6332.
- Call Kraft at 800/543-5335 to say you won't buy the lunch meats they plan to irradiate.
Don't worry, be happy that your food is irradiated, genetically
engineered, and treated with pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, fungicides, waxes, preservatives, and chlorine.
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