Coca-Cola Fights to Stop Recycling Programs
Coca-Cola is?fighting a worldwide battle against recycling.?Coke says it supports recycling, and it even has a whole website to advertise how much it cares. But all over the world, Coca-Cola opposes public programs that make it easier to recycle plastic bottles.?When a state government in Australia considered creating a 10-cent refund on recycling plastic bottles, Coca-Cola poured money into a misleading campaign to oppose the plan. Then, when common sense won out and the plan passed,?Coke immediately sued the government to stop the program.?Coca-Cola has?run similar campaigns all over the world, and it won?t stop until we prove once and for all that consumers won?t stand for this madness.?Coca-Cola sells nearly 2 billion bottles every day, and a huge number of these end up littered or in landfills. This is?a totally unsustainable level of pollution, and if Coke wants to get serious about sustainability, it needs to start supporting recycling programs, not suing to stop them. Click here to sign the petition.
Tell Hershey’s to Kiss Monsanto Goodbye!
Last fall, while Californians were working to support their basic right to label genetically engineered foods through Prop 37, the Hershey 
Company, the nation?s largest chocolate-maker, contributed $519,000 to defeat them and your Right to Know what?s in your food. Rather than stand with Californians, Hershey’s joined with Monsanto, the world’s largest biotech seed company, who dumped in $8.1 million to stifle democracy and transparency.?If you?re uncertain why Hershey?s chose to climb into bed with Monsanto to defeat GMO labeling, consider the fact that Hershey?s Kisses are chock full of GMOs! Unfortunately, Hershey’s is caught in a huge pile of chocolate hypocrisy since Hershey?s sells GMO free chocolate in Europe, but keeps peddling GMOs in America.
?Tell the EPA: Yes! Protect my Drinking Water from Factory Farm Waste
Animal waste from factory farms is poisoning our drinking water and killing our lakes, rivers, streams ? even the Gulf of Mexico. Animals raised on factory farms generate more than 100 times more waste than humans. Yet this raw waste, unlike human waste, is not treated in sewage systems ? even though, according to a study conducted by Minnesota agricultural extension engineer, John Chastain, “the pollution strength of raw manure is 160 times greater than raw municipal sewage.”?? The waste from factory farm animals is contaminated with antibiotics, growth hormones and disease-carrying pathogens and bacteria. It also causes dangerously high levels of nitrates in drinking water. Most of it is stored in open lagoons, where it?s prone to spills and leaks, or spread on fields as fertilizer.?Please sign the petition below by Feb. 27, asking the EPA to make it a priority in 2014-2016 to force factory farms to stop polluting our drinking water and destroying our lakes, rivers and streams.
GMO Labeling Action Call: New York State GMO Labeling Legislation
GMO Free NY is a grassroots campaign working in conjunction with allies in the nationwide Coalition of States for GMO Labeling to get a mandatory GMO labeling law passed in New York State in 2013. 
If you want to know what is in your food, demand labeling of gmo’s. Please call State Senator Kenneth LaValle (631-473-1461 District / 518-455-3121 Albany) and ask him to immediately re-introduce? Senate Bill -S3908- NYS GMO Labeling Bill for our current 2013 Legislative Session. This has to be voted on by June 2013 or NY State waits until 2014 to try again. We can do this! Let’s be the first state to label GMOs in the nation! If we are what we eat, let us know what we’re eating! It’s time to label GMOs!
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