?Stop Pushing the Filthy Chicken Rule
The proposed “Modernization of Poultry Slaughter Inspection” regulation, would turn most poultry inspection over to poultry companies so that they can police themselves. The proposed rule would decrease the number of USDA inspectors in poultry plants while increasing line speeds up to 175 birds per minute or three birds per second. In order to compensate for missed fecal contamination, the proposed rule would permit companies to use more anti-microbial chemicals to clean the poultry carcasses. This rule will lead to unsafe food and unsafe working conditions, and will put consumer health at risk by allowing inadequate inspection of poultry. Watch the video to find out what’s really in your chicken. Then, click here to to tell President Obama and Secretary Vilsack to abandon their “Filthy Chicken Rule.”
Speak Out Against Dominion’s Cove Point Fracked Gas Export Terminal
The fracking industry is proposing the construction of a web of new pipelines and processing plants across Maryland and Virginia in order to export natural gas to overseas markets. The development of Cove Point, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility located right on the Chesapeake Bay in Southern Maryland, is the linchpin in this plan. Dominion’s Cove Point facility is the first LNG export terminal slated for the East Coast,? if completed, this fracked gas export terminal will give the fracking industry access to huge new 
foreign markets, increasing domestic gas prices and encouraging even more toxic drilling in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Virginia, while putting increased pressure on Maryland and New York to lift their moratoriums on fracking. Maryland Governor O’Malley and the state Public Service Commission must sign off on key permits, and so far they haven’t taken a public stance on Cove Point. Governor O’Malley has unambiguous 2016 presidential ambitions, and is positioning himself as a progressive and environmental champion, so if we speak out loudly enough we may be able to pressure him to act.?The Public Service Commission is currently accepting public comments on the facility, giving us an important opportunity to demonstrate massive opposition to Cove Point throughout the region.?Tell Governor O’Malley and the Maryland Public Service Commission: Block Dominion’s Cove Point fracked gas export terminal. Click here to submit a public comment.
Tell Monsanto to Pull Its Butterfly Killing Herbicide?
Our monarch butterflies are vanishing — and all signs point to Monsanto as the main culprit. Monarch’s population has reached the lowest numbers ever recorded. Now, an independent study has linked the monarch’s decline with Monsanto?s Roundup pesticide.?This corporate giant knows what it’s doing. We need to fight this now, before it?s too late for the butterflies.?The annual mass migration of 60 
million monarchs from Canada to Mexico is one of the most beautiful phenomena in the natural world. But it’s now?on the verge of being a relic of history, and a key link in our food chain is under threat.?The monarch butterfly is in a serious, decades-long decline. The WWF has reported that this winter, the monarchs are only occupying an area of 1.7 acres in Mexico, down from 45 acres in 1996. An evolutionary strategy based on eating a common weed seemed smart — until Monsanto came along. Just one state along the monarchs’ migration route, Iowa, is reported to have lost 98 percent of its milkweed.?Monsanto products like Roundup dominate the agricultural market worldwide. This corporate giant sells matching genetically-engineered plants resistant to its pesticides –?and encourages factory farms to douse fields with gallons of Monsanto’s herbicides.?But sprayed over vast areas, these poisons effect the entire ecosystem. Monsanto’s Roundup is also wiping out the monarchs’ primary food source?–?a plant called milkweed. Scientists have linked the monarch’s rapid population decline to the spread of Monsanto’s pesticides. Tell Monsanto to save the monarchs by pulling its ecosystem-threatening herbicide.
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