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Every family has the right to know what’s in their food!

November 16, 2012
Stars like Emmy Award winner Michael J. Fox and moms like Julie Bowen and Ali Larter have joined the fight to label genetically engineered (GE) foods. The stars are featured in a new Just Label It (JLI) video calling for the FDA to require labeling of GE foods. Fox, Bowen and Larter are joined in...
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Robyn O'Brien

The Death of Twinkie

November 16, 2012
Today’s news about the demise of Twinkie and other Hostess snacks is a complicated story of big business versus labor. But it’s also about an unhealthy snack, whose shelf life is rumored to be nonexistent, refusing a makeover. Though most media outlets let CEO Gregory Rayburn write their headlines...
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Alice Waters Discusses Food, Community, and GMOs

November 16, 2012
Let me introduce (or reintroduce) you to Alice Waters , renowned chef, food activist, and author. As one of the most influential people in the food, we have her to thank for her activism to highlight the slow food movement and a public advocate for a return to access to fresh, sustainable food...
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Yoli Ouiya

What Obama should do now: Fix immigration

November 16, 2012
This blog originally appeared as an op-ed in the Washington Post . Congratulations, Mr. President. Your victory is a victory for fairness for all Americans. It is also a victory for Latinos, and one that Latinos can take a large measure of credit for making happen. They gave you 71 percent of their...
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Congressman Luis V. Gutierrez

LAST CHANCE: Turn the White House Purple for Preemie Families!

November 15, 2012
Time is running out to help the March of Dimes light the White House purple on January 3, 2013 as a symbol of hope for premature babies. The White House is special to the March of Dimes because our founder was President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who established our organization in 1938. To turn the...
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Beverly Robertson
Family Economic Security Health Care

Congress needs to hear about your personal fiscal cliffs!

November 15, 2012
"Is it an action scene in a James Bond movie?" No. "Is it something the road runner careens off of in a cartoon?" Nope. You can't watch the news these days without hearing about a looming "fiscal cliff" that Congress must address by the end of the year. One of the biggest items on the table: In a...
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Date with the Lunch Lady: New School Food Rules

November 15, 2012
This story originally appeared in the (ex)Expatriate's Kitchen blog . I pack my child's lunch every day. When it comes to food, yes, I am a helicopter mom. Not that I don't have good reason to worry . Even with the improved school meals, I am still concerned about the meat sourcing and continued...
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Beth Bader
Food!

Children grow up fast. We can't wait for healthy school lunches…

November 15, 2012
I got the new menu for my oldest daughters lunch and noticed something strangely new: there were carrot sticks, cucumbers, romaine lettuce and even...oh my goodness...hummus, on the menu! I am a mom who likes to cook but doesn't love to cook and like many have little time in the morning to prepare...
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Alison Crockett
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Girls Rule.

November 15, 2012
Ladies, we are having a very good year. This election, a record number of women—binders and binders full of them—ran for office, and…best of all… won . In the new Congress, we will have 20 female Senators, up from 17. We will have the first openly gay senator, Tammy Baldwin, in Wisconsin. We will...
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Federal Cuts to Education? We Say Kids, Not Cuts

November 15, 2012
My home state is California, and we just successfully survived our own state version of the "fiscal cliff" when it comes to education. Here, they were called the "trigger cuts." If Proposition 30 -- essentially part of the June 30, 2012 budget passed by the legislature that needed the people's...
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