Kraft Foods and H.J. Heinz recently announced a merger that will create the world’s fifth largest food company. While this may be great for their corporate profits, this is bad news for small food producers and anyone that shops at the grocery store. Take action to stop food mega-mergers and protect small farmers and food producers.The post-merger ( Read more... )

From the Organic Consumers Organization:

If you eat meat in any country in the European Union, or even in China or Russia, you don’t have to worry about getting a dash of ractopamine with your pork or beef. All these nations ban the use of the growth-promoting drug.

But if you eat meat in the United States, buyer beware. Ractopamine may be unsafe ( Read more... )

Republicans said Barack Obama’s policies would produce “trillion dollar deficits for as far as the eye can see.” (Speaker John Boehner 04-18-09; NH Sen. Judd Gregg 03-17-10)

People believed them ( Read more... )

If a new client you've never done business with before argues with you about filling out a credit application or cutting you an official purchase order for goods or services, DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THEM!

After years of seeing this kind of behavior, I've come to the determination that not all business is good business, and usually it is the jerks ( Read more... )

"If an individual has sex with their wife while she is unconscious ... a prosecutor could then charge that spouse with rape, theoretically...That makes sense in a first date scenario, but to me, not where people have a history of years of sexual activity."
- State Rep. Brian Green (R-UT)

"I'm going to need your help to find a way out of this ( Read more... )

An anti-choice Republican, Missouri House Representative Rick Brattan (R-MS) has just introduced legislation (H.B. 131) to force any woman seeking an abortion to get a signed permission slip from the man who impregnated her.

Here are the most disturbing parts of the bill:

(g) The physician who is to perform or induce the abortion or a ( Read more... )

From the League of Conservation Voters:

While the nation's attention was focused on the Senate's defeat of a Keystone XL Pipeline bill, the EPA came under heavy attack in the House of Representatives - and two blatantly anti-science bills actually passed. Here's what happened:

1. Tuesday: The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would ( Read more... )

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From Media Matters For America (copy-pasted below for you, too):

Conservative Media Argue Young Women Shouldn't Vote

Fox's Kimberly Guilfoyle: Young Women Shouldn't Exercise Civic Duties Because "They Don't Get It." During the October 21 edition of Fox News' The Five, the co-hosts discussed the impact of women voters in the upcoming midterm ( Read more... )

“What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex - what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception. She wants you ( Read more... )