Recent Votes

• U.N. Agency: Serious Pesticide Threat in Former Soviet Union — Naharnet

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  The EU and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will spend seven million euros ($9.1 million) over the next four years to help contain the risks in 12 countries in the region, spanning Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

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• GMO Battle in Boulder Ends With Discontent

  Since 2008, the Boulder Colorado community has been divided over the issue of planting of genetically modified crops on the approximately 16,000 acres of public land. While the planting of the first GM crop -- corn -- was permitted in 2003, it was not until farmers asked for per …

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• FDA Restricts Certain Antibiotics In Animals

  In the waning days of 2011, the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") posted a notice in the Federal Register announcing its withdrawal of a 34 year attempt to regulate routine uses of penicillin and tetracycline in animal feed. Tom Philpott over at MotherJones called out the age …

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• Central Valley Business Times

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  James Wheaton, an Oakland attorney who is listed as the measure’s proponent, must collect signatures of 504,760 registered voters – the number equal to 5 percent of the total votes cast for governor in the 2010 gubernatorial election – in order to qualify it f …

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• farmlandgrab.org | New global land rush trampling human rights

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  At least 428 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa rely on the land without holding Western-style legal ownership.

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