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WASHINGTON – President Obama signed a bill into law over the weekend that supporters are calling a GMO labeling bill but that opponents charge is exactly the opposite. In fact, the new law was supported by Monsanto. It passed the ...

Big Food and its allies in the US Senate have launched a sneaky new effort to kill GMO labeling. Senators are rushing to pass a bill designed to stop Vermont from requiring labels identifying genetically modified ingredients in food. Vermont’s ...

Vermont in recent months became the first state to require the labeling of GMO foods, and a county in Oregon went a step further by banning all genetically modified crops. But if the U.S. House of Representatives has its way, ...

Federal legislation that would stop states from regulating genetically engineered crops and GMO foods is one step closer to becoming law. The so-called Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015 (HR 1599) passed the US House of Representatives’ Agriculture ...

Congress is cracking down on homemade soap. Yep, Senators Dianne Feinstein and Susan Collins, in their infinite wisdom, are concerned that the health of Americans will be impacted by handmade soaps and cosmetics that are made from all-natural products. The ...

School districts around the country are losing money because kids are rejecting Michelle Obama’s healthy school lunches – and those that do buy the lunches are tossing full lunches into the trash can. One million kids have dropped out of ...

US Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and Attorney General Eric Holder went toe to toe in a verbal squabble Tuesday that had supporters for both sides cheering – and others calling it another example of a broken government. Both men seemed ...

Scrooge appears to be alive and well in Washington, DC, this Christmas season, with Congress again considering what is effectively a tax on Christmas trees. The most outrageous part of this tax is that it packaged as an effort to ...

A trio of Congressmen wants to repeal the 16th Amendment – an amendment that rarely makes headlines but deserves attention, particularly during the Thanksgiving season when we give thanks and look back at America’s history. The law pertains to the ...

Food stamps are making the poor unhealthy by financing a diet of junk food that generates huge profits for giant corporations. That’s the conclusion of a disturbing new series by Washington Post journalist Eli Saslow. One real cause of the ...