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Keep Our Foods Organic: Demand Labeling Of New Artificial Sweetener

The US Food and Drug Administration has recently decided that a new artificial sweetener can be used in all processed foods, including those labeled as organic or kosher, without requiring a labeling of its use. Consumers are being deliberately poisoned, and the organic food supply is being deliberately tainted by this new synthetic sweetener chemical. People have the right to know what they are ingesting. The FDA must require the labeling of the unnatural sweetener on all ingredient lists.

Remove The Existing Strong4Life Insulting Ad Campaign

Strong4Life is a campaign to end childhood obesity in Georgia, yet their first round of ads are more hurtful than helpful. Their intentions are in the right place, but from now on their ads should not be as insulting to overweight children. Tell them to take down these ads before more kids are hurt.

Support University’s Plan-B Vending Machine

Shippensburg University’s contraception inclusive vending machine has recently made headlines after local media discovered it included the Plan-B pill. The regulations surrounding this are currently under investigation; show the FDA that we support easier access to contraception and stand behind the University’s decision to support women’s health.

Support Colorado Legislature’s Efforts to Improve School Food

The Colorado State Legislature is proposing a law to ban trans saturated fats from all food served in Colorado public schools–including lunches, breakfasts, snacks, and vending machine items in order to combat childhood obesity. Show your support for this law which would greatly improve children’s health.

A Death Sentence for Illegal Immigration?

UCSF’s medical center is condemning a man to death for being an illegal immigrant. Jesus Navarro, a husband and father with his own health insurance and willing donor, is being denied a transplant because he is an illegal immigrant. This is a shameful moment in the history of the UC system, and the Board of Regents must step in to correct it before it is too late.

Recipe for Disaster: Paula Deen Reveals Diabetes Diagnosis Years After Promoting Junk Food

Food Network star Paula Deen recently admitted she had been diagnosed with diabetes three years ago, yet still continued to promote her characteristically unhealthy dishes on her show. The announcement of her diagnosis came at the same time as the news of her partnership with Novo Nordisk, which manufactures diabetes drugs. Paula Deen must start promoting healthier foods and fully disclose the risks associated with eating the dishes she has promoted.

Ban Use of Poisonous Pesticide in California

Two years ago, methyl iodide, deemed ‘one of the most toxic chemicals on earth,’ was approved for pesticide use in California. However, solid evidence indicates the chemical is uncontrollable, highly toxic and carcinogenic. California Governor Jerry Brown must revoke the approval of methyl iodide immediately.

Ban the Exportation of Asbestos from Canada

Despite its ban in over 40 countries, asbestos is still exported from Canada into unprotected developing nations. The World Health Organization concluded that there are no safe levels of asbestos exposure, yet the Canadian government still contends it can be handled safely with proper precautions. Tell Canada to stop exporting this harmful substance that contributes to over 100,000 deaths annually.

Protect Beachgoers From Contaminated Ocean Water: Demand Tougher Beach Pollution Regulations

The US Environmental Protection Agency is currently using ocean pollution standards from 1986. As a result, 1 in 28 beachgoers get sick from contaminated water with symptoms ranging from a light skin rash to diarrhea and fever. In order to better protect the health and well-being of the general public the EPA must establish tougher water contamination regulations.

Help the Victims of the Water Contamination at Camp Lejeune

Over 500,000 people living at Camp Lejeune were exposed to water contaminated with toxic chemicals known to cause cancer and birth defects. A recent report investigating the water contamination was incomplete as parts of it had been redacted by the military. Help the victims of the Camp Lejeune water contamination by urging release of the full report.

Protect Mental Health Patients in New Zealand

New Zealand is making negative changes to their social welfare system. Under the new system, people with mental illnesses may be unable to collect benefits, despite being unfit to work. Tell Prime Minister John Key to reconsider his stance on this issue and protect the mentally disabled.

Don’t Defund Planned Parenthood’s Breast Cancer Prevention Work

Breast cancer foundation ‘Susan G. Komen for the Cure’ funded Planned Parenthood for several years, providing breast exams to thousands of women. However, due to pressure from pro-life groups, the foundation has announced that they will be halting their support. Sign this petition to urge them to continue funding Planned Parenthood’s important breast cancer prevention work.

Ignorance Among Scholars – Repeal the Electronic Cigarette Ban at University of California Campuses

The University of California’s recent announcement of a broad ban on tobacco products on UC campuses goes to far. It includes e-cigarettes, a product no more harmful than the permitted nicotine gums and patches. These devices can actually aid in smoking cessation, and the UC Board of Regents must remove this counterproductive part of the ban.

Medication Is Not The Long Term Solution For Children Affected By ADD/ADHD

Children affected by ADD and ADHD should not be blindly put on medication because parents assume that is the only option. Studies have proven that these drugs only have short term benefits. Further studies must be done to understand other options that are available to help improve a child’s attention span without relying on Ritalin and Adderall.

Protect our Water and our Health: Regulate Antibacterial Soaps And Detergents

Most households have some form of antibacterial soap or detergent, but these products are vastly overused. Antibacterial soap actually hinders the immune system, creates resistant ‘super bugs,’ effects endocrine functions, and stays in out water for long periods of time. Call on the FDA to reduce the harmful ingredients in antibacterial products that consumers use nearly every day.

Stop Doctors From Mutilating the Genitals of Intersex Children

Infants born with ambiguous genitals are being unnecessarily mutilated through invasive surgeries, creating trauma and shame about their bodies later in life. The doctors who insist on these surgeries are not properly taking into account the child’s wellbeing. These ‘corrective’ surgeries have to stop until the parents are better informed or when then children are old enough to make informed decisions about their own bodies.

Protect Access to Alternative Nutrition and Healthcare in Wisconsin

Alternative health care activists in Wisconsin are fighting to legalize holistic healing medicine. Under the current law, practitioners of alternative health care face prosecution for operating without a valid medical license and must rely on the goodwill of local authorities to stay in business. Instead, Wisconsin should permit professional holistic healers to engage in their healing practices openly and freely.

It’s Wrong To Favor Synthetic Vaccines Over Nutritiously Rich Breast Milk

A recent study recommends that women should stop breastfeeding because the nutritional value of breast milk was found to be detrimental to the effectiveness of the synthetic rotavirus vaccine. Breast milk is the lifeline for infants and provides them with protective antibodies and nutrients which help fight-off harmful infections and illnesses. The CDC must retract the released study that encourages the stopping of breast feeding.

Microchips Are Not Food! Say No To Invasive Drug Tracking “Smart Pills”

The UK health system will introduce a new ingestible ‘smart pill’ that will monitor patients’ drug intake as a means to enforce pharmaceutical schedules. When taken with prescribed medicines the edible microchips will transmit information directly to patients’ caretakers and doctors. However, in order to create a microscopic battery to transmit such information, the chips are coated with known and hazardous toxins like copper and silicon. The UK Department of Heath must protect patients’ well-being and prevent the distribution of edible microchips.

UK Must Do More to Help Women With Dangerous Breast Implants

The issue involving the faulty breast implants has had thousands of women (and even some men) fearing for their lives and safety. While the UK government has made it an urgent matter to find who is responsible for compensation, the real priority should be the patients with the implants in question and how to remove these ticking time bombs.

End Unsafe Abortions in Africa and Latin America

Unsafe abortions are occurring at alarming rates in Africa and Latin America. Complications from unsafe abortions are a major factor contributing to the death of one in eight women worldwide. Countries in these regions must provide access to family planning and safe abortions to effectively address this critical issue.

America is Fat Enough: Oppose Fast Food Restaurants Home Delivery

Don’t let Burger King implement a home delivery service. Americans don’t need more reasons to consume ridiculously fattening, artery-clogging food without even getting off the sofa. Fast food chains need to understand the disservice they are already providing by offering such unhealthy food. They don’t need to make it even easier for Americans to poison themselves with fast food.

Don’t Allow Foreign Pharmaceutical Facilities to Send us Tainted Drugs

Nearly 80 percent of drug ingredients and approximately 40 percent of all pharmaceuticals sold in the US are manufactured in foreign facilities that have never been inspected by the US Food and Drug Administration. The ramifications of such negligence have already resulted in death and severe allergic reactions due to tainted drugs. In order to better protect Americans, the FDA must inspect all foreign drug facilities that contribute to the US pharmaceutical industry.

Counterfeit Malaria Drugs Strengthen Disease and Cost Lives

Fake malarial drugs have been circulating throughout at-risk areas, threatening those with the disease as well as future generations posed with the possibility of the disease becoming resistant to currently effective treatments. Without intervention from public health organizations, criminals will continue to make money off of victims and the risks of malaria will amplify.

Tell the Virginia Governor to Stop Supporting Anti-Choice Laws

A woman’s right to choose is under attack in Virginia, home of the most restrictive abortion regulations in the nation. A personhood bill is on the table that would ban most effective forms of birth control and abortions even in the case of incest or rape, another bill would mandate that women view an ultrasound and impose a waiting period before an abortion, interfering with a woman’s timely access to care, and a bill already passed that will shut down abortion providers by singling them out from other doctor’s offices and unnecessarily regulating them like hospitals. Tell the governor of Virginia to stop attacking women’s health and freedom.

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