USDA Extends Comment Period on GMO Apple Through December 16th

The USDA has extended the comment period through Monday, December 16th, on the controversial genetically engineered Arctic Apple?.? Availability problems on the federal website comment portal was cited as the reason for the extension. The Arctic Apple? is a GMO Golden and Granny Smith apple that is designed not to brown when sliced and exposed to the air.? Browning reflects an apple?s freshness ? something all consumers are interested in. The last thing we need is another GMO product poisoning our food system. Let the USDA know that you are against GMO apples. You can comment directly by clicking here.

Fight the Foodopoly!

Grocery stores appear to carry an endless supply of options when it comes to food, but is the plethora of choices really an illusion? As major food giants like Nestl?, Kraft, and PepsiCo keep buying up more and more of their competitors, these companies products are on nearly every shelf of the supermarket and dominate the market in many categories. What does that mean for us as consumers?? Grocery Goliaths: How Food Monopolies Impact Consumers, a new report by Food & Water Watch, examines 100 types of grocery products and found that as food companies and supermarket chains have consolidated over the last few years, the illusion of choice among brands has coincided with increasingly expensive grocery bills. Thanks to the Citizens United case, the Supreme Court gave corporations massive power over our democracy, treating them just like people… except that, in the case of corporations, protecting their supposed “freedom of speech” means allowing them to make unlimited political donations and effectively buy campaigns. These corporations shouldn’t control our food supply or our political process. Click here to sign a petition calling for Citizens United to be overturned!

President Obama and Secretary Kerry, Don’t Approve the Keystone XL

The White House continues to put off making the crucial decision on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, the rumors coming out of Washington suggest that the Obama administration could be moving toward approval in the early months of 2014. The situation is complicated and it?s also quite fluid. President Obama and Secretary Kerry have largely removed themselves from the State Department?s environmental review of Keystone XL under the guise of avoiding the appearance of exerting political influence over the process.What this means is that they are leaving one of the most closely watched decisions of the Obama presidency in the hands of the oil-industry contractor that produced the sham draft report and the State Department staffers who oversaw it. If the same contractor and State Department managers who generated the first flawed environmental impact statement are allowed to finalize a sham finding claiming there will be no net climate impact from the Keystone XL pipeline, it will be difficult for the president, by his own stated criteria, to refuse to issue the presidential permit to TransCanada. Click here to tell President Obama and Secretary Kerry that the fate of Keystone XL is in their hands, and this decision will determine their legacy.