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Center for Food Safety to lead coalition to protect public, farmers and environment from GE crop hazards
The Center for Food Safety today announced that it will lead a coalition of concerned farmers, consumers and environmentalists to hold USDA accountable in its responsibility to protect all farmers and consumers. The move comes in response to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) release of a draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that sets forth its plans to once again allow unlimited, nation-wide commercial planting of genetically-engineered (GE) Roundup Ready alfalfa. USDA plans to move ahead despite increasing evidence that GE alfalfa will threaten the rights of farmers and consumers, as well as damage the environment.
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Groups Urge Government Ban of Common Additives Used in Feed for Chicken, Turkeys and Hogs
Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), filed a petition with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) calling for the immediate withdrawal of approvals for all animal drug applications for arsenic-containing compounds used in animal feed. These additives are commonly used in poultry production to induce faster weight gain and create the appearance of a healthy color in meat from chickens, turkeys and hogs. The petition was supported by a coalition of food and farm groups around the country.
“The fact that arsenic – a known and powerful carcinogen – in these feed additives leads to arsenic residue in chicken is now well known,” said the Center for Food Safety’s Executive Director Andrew Kimbrell. “FDA’s failure to investigate the mounting evidence that these compounds are unsafe is a breach of the public trust, and the use of arsenic-containing compounds in food animal production is a needless and dangerous risk to human health.”
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CFS staff are on their way to Copenhagen as part of our Cool Foods Campaign strategy to promote sustainable agriculture as a key solution to climate change. CFS will be co-hosting 2 events in Copenhagen: a panel discussion at Klimaforum09, “Say No to GMOs – Why Genetically Modified Crops Are Not a Climate or Food Security Solution,” featuring Dr. Vandana Shiva and CFS’s International Director Debbie Barker. CFS will also be part of The International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture, sponsored by the regional government of Tuscany, Italy, event on climate change and food security. CFS is working to promote a new vision of sustainable, ecological food systems as a major climate mitigation strategy and also an adaptation approach to help ensure food security in times of climate chaos. For more information about our Cool Foods Campaign, please visit: http://coolfoodscountdown.org.
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