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Can Wee Little Businesses Save the Nation?
The Contrary Farmer - 5/1/2013.
By Gene Logsdon - Both political parties and both capitalism and socialism spout lots of support for “small business.” Maybe this is where we can bring the country back together again. But I put quotes around “small business” because the Census Bureau and the Small Business Administration have exceedingly murky notions about what “small” means.
Pesticide Regulation Overhaul Needed to Protect Wildlife from Pesticide
Earthjustice - 5/1/2013.
The National Research Council today issued a report finding that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must do more to ensure that pesticides do not harm threatened and endangered fish and wildlife. The report, Assessing Risks to Endangered and Threatened Species from Pesticides, outlines significant steps to improve EPA’s current methods for evaluating the risk that pesticides pose to imperiled Pacific salmon as well as other fish and wildlife.
That Is What People Are Eating: Charges Dropped in First Ag-Gag Case
Common Dreams - 5/1/2013.
By Abby Zimet - Utah prosecutors have abruptly dropped the case against Amy Meyer, the first person charged under the state's - and possibly the country's - so-called "ag gag" laws aimed at silencing critics of the often-horrific abuses at factory farms, after she filmed a slaughterhouse from the side of a road.
Study links insecticide use to invertebrate die-offs
The Guardian [UK] - 5/1/2013.
By Damian Carrington - The world's most widely used insecticide is devastating dragonflies, snails and other water-based species, a groundbreaking Dutch study has revealed.
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