Stop the Approval of the GMO Potato!

McDonald’s biggest potato supplier is just a few steps away from getting approval on their new GMO potato, which has not been adequately tested and may be unsafe for human consumption. To make matters worse, these potatoes would be sold unlabeled in supermarkets and restaurants ? so consumers won’t even be able to decide for themselves whether to purchase them. Click here to sign the petition to stop the approval of the GMO potato!

Dunkin’ Donuts: Stop Using Styrofoam Cups

Dunkin? Donuts is one of the most popular restaurant chains around. They sell more than 1.7 billion cups of coffee a year, but unfortunately most of them come in Styrofoam.?Hydrofluorocarbons, a chemical that is found in Styrofoam, is terrible for the environment. It can trap up to 1,000 times more heat than CO2. It also takes up 25% of landfill space! Styrofoam takes 500 years to break down, and in those 500 years, some animals will eat it. When animals eat Styrofoam, it prevents digestion, causing starvation, leading to death. Styrofoam is not only bad for the environment and animals, it’s also bad for people. ?90,000 workers making it are at risk. The effects are usually irritated skin, eyes, stomach effects, and common cold. If a worker is constantly having contact with Styrofoam, it can cause hopelessness, headaches, sleepiness, weakness, or effects on the kidney.?Please help had your voice to the thousands that are asking Dunkin’ Donuts to switch to more Earth friendly cups by Earth Day, April 22, 2015. Click here to take action.

Stop the Tyson Foods Anti-Farmer Act!

The meat industry is at it again, trying to get special favors from Congress. Thankfully, two Congress members, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) and Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), are trying to protect farmers and consumers. The House of Representatives will soon vote on its 2015 agriculture spending bill. If Tyson Foods, the nation’s largest factory farm?producer of beef, chicken and pork gets its way, the bill will help the company continue to slaughter chickens in filthy and dangerous conditions and cheat the farmers who raise animals for companies like Tyson. Rep. DeLauro has introduced an amendment to the spending bill, that would prohibit the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) from spending any funds to implement Tyson’s “Modernization of Poultry Slaughter Inspection Rule,” or what Food & Water Watch calls the “Filthy Chicken Rule.” Rep. Pingree has introduced an amendment to prevent passage of a rider to the spending bill that would weaken rules intended to protect contract farmers who raise animals for the four companies that control nearly all the meat eaten in the U.S. Don’t let Tyson Foods rule the roost when it comes to food safety or farmers’ rights. Please tell your U.S. Representative to VOTE YES on an amendment introduced by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) to stop the Filthy Chicken Rule, and an amendment introduced by Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) to stop the Tyson Foods Anti-Farmer Act. Click here to take action and stop the Filthy Chicken Rule & the Tyson Foods Anti-Farmer Act!