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Court Throws Out AG UVA Suit

Monday, 30 August 2010 | ACLU Virginia

article thumbnail ACLU of Virginia filed amicus, urged UVA to fight AG's demands Charlottesville, VA- An Albemarle County Circuit Court judge today ruled that the University of Virginia  is...
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Rights Groups Ask Court to Reject AG's Demand for Records of University of Virginia Climate Science...

Tuesday, 17 August 2010 | ACLU Virginia

article thumbnail Amicus brief supports university's efforts to protect academic freedom Oral arguments in case to take place in Charlottesville on Friday Charlottesville, VA--Four...
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Jeff Barnett Seeks PDA VA Endorsement

Monday, 16 August 2010 | Andrea Miller

article thumbnail   Jeff Barnett is running for U.S. House of Representatives in the Virginia 10th District; Jeff is currently the Democratic nominee and he is seeking a PDA Virginia State...
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Rick Waugh Seeks PDA National Endorsement

Thursday, 05 August 2010 | Rick Waugh for Congress

article thumbnail Candidate Rick Waugh has requested National endorsement for his U.S. House of Representatives race against Republican incumbent Eric Cantor. On Sunday, August 2, 2010 Rick received the...
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Obama Administration Applies Stupak Amendment to High Risk Pools

Friday, 16 July 2010 | Jessica Arons

article thumbnail PCIPs are temporary health insurance pools that states or the federal government must establish or expand in every state to cover people who do not currently qualify for individual health insurance...
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Virginia pilot program adds Amtrak train to link Richmond and the District

Friday, 09 July 2010 | Jennifer Buske | Washington Post

article thumbnail Operated by Amtrak and funded by the commonwealth, the train will start July 20, leaving Richmond at 7 a.m. and stopping at Ashland, Fredericksburg, Quantico, Woodbridge and Alexandria before...
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IN DEFENSE OF HELEN THOMAS - on apologizing to apologists

Tuesday, 08 June 2010 | Paul Jay

article thumbnail Helen Thomas is the dean of the White House Press corp.  She has a fifty-year history of tough-minded journalism and is one of the very, very few journalists in the mainstream press who has had...
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ACLU Threatens Legal Challenge to Anti-Solicitation Ordinance Proposed by Herndon Town Council

Tuesday, 08 June 2010 | ACLU

article image Herndon, VA -- The ACLU of Virginia today informed members of Herndon's Town Council that the organization is prepared to mount a court challenge if the town passes a proposed anti-solicitation...
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New York Times Hails Webb Criminal Justice Commission

Tuesday, 11 May 2010 | Sen. James Webb (VA)

article thumbnail Introduced by Senator Webb in March 2009, the National Criminal Justice Commission Act creates a blue-ribbon bipartisan commission charged with undertaking an 18-month comprehensive review of...
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Agribusiness, Profits, Mutant Germs...and Us PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jim Hightower   
Thursday, 11 February 2010 08:44
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America is under assault. From coast to coast, we are being invaded by horrific, body-consuming mutants that are already destroying 65,000 American lives a year. As a Duke University scientist puts it, "This is a living, breathing problem. It's here. It's arrived."

These are not invaders from mars, but from within our own countryside. Ironically, these are mutants of our own creation, leaving America face to face with a spreading plague of drug-resistant germs.

For decades, we have benefited enormously from the healing wonders of antibiotics. These drugs save millions of lives that would otherwise be lost to microbial infections. But more and more of the antibiotics in America's medical kit are proving to be ineffective against the plethora of germs that endanger us. Why? Too much of a good thing.

America has overdosed on antibiotics, using about 35 million pounds a year – so much that germs, which are savvy survivors, have rapidly been mutating to develop resistance to the drugs. Thus, drug-resistant microbes now kill more Americans than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined.

Why have we overdosed so badly? Because the bulk of the drugs used in our country do not go to protect humans, but to protect the profits of agribusiness corporations! Seventy percent of antibiotics go to chickens, cows, and pigs – either as stimulants to force the animals to grow faster or to fight rampant infections largely caused by unsanitary, factory-farm practices.

This senseless profiteering at the expense of our health is insane, and there's a push in Congress to stop it. But lobbyists for Dow, Eli Lilly, Monsanto, Pfizer, and others are out to kill any reform... and to let the germs keep killing us. To support common sense, visit www.saveantibiotics.org.

"Fears over antibiotics use in livestock grow amid new warnings," Austin American Statesman, December 29, 2009.

first published on http://www.jimhightower.com/

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