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PATH: BS | Business | Corporations Monsanto Wins Case To Stop Hormone-Free Milk Labels Posted by Pile (11880 views) [E-Mail link] A federal court in Ohio has ruled that dairies cannot legally label their milk "hormone free" "rBST-free" or otherwise clearly tell consumers that they aren't pumping up their cows with synthetic hormones. It's a blow to truth-in-labeling advocates, a blow to consumers and a blow to organic farmers. It's a win for Monsanto, the agrichemical giant that prompted the lawsuit, and a win for Eli Lilly, which bought Monsanto's synthetic recombinant bovine growth hormones (known as rBST or rBGH) business a couple months ago. The use of these hormones is banned throughout most other first world nations. The labeling issue is moot in the 27-nation European Union, along with Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, since they don't allow the use of synthetic hormones in the first place. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article Fox News Goes Nuts During Obama's First Day In Office Posted by Pile (12480 views) [E-Mail link] [News Media] John Stewart poignantly points out that the staff at Fox News have gone off the deep end in criticizing Obama's plan for America. It would be even more hilarious if it wasn't so sad.. let's watch.. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article American Pharmaceuticals Sell HIV-Infected Drugs Overseas Posted by Pile (14455 views) [E-Mail link] Just when you think you've heard it all, a shocking story surfaces that most of the mainstream media has not reported. Would an American drug company, upon finding that a supply of blood-based drugs was tainted with the HIV virus, offload these drugs overseas in an attempt to make a profit? Foreign regulators that have allowed this to happen are in prison. Nobody in the United States seems to even know this happened! So what happens when a drug company gets blood for its new hemophiliac medication from a prison in Arkansas? And who do they dump the tainted drugs off on? And who is accountable? READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article Black Friday Consumers Trample Wal-Mart Employee Posted by Pile (11736 views) [E-Mail link] A Wal-Mart worker died after being trampled when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island store Friday morning, police and witnesses said. The 34-year-old worker, employed as an overnight stock clerk, tried to hold back the unruly crowds just after the Valley Stream store opened at 5 a.m. Witnesses said the surging throngs of shoppers knocked the man down. He fell and was stepped on. As he gasped for air, shoppers ran over and around him. READ MORE | 3 comments since 2009-03-27 08:51:28 | Comment on this Article Supreme Court May Give Drug Companies Immunity Posted by Pile (10634 views) [E-Mail link] The Supreme Court may rule that pharmaceutical companies cannot be sued for dangerous or even deadly side effects from their drugs if those side effects arise from an FDA-approved use. Under a legal argument known as "pre-emption," the FDA's approval of a drug absolves companies of any responsibility if that drug later turns out to be dangerous, even if information was concealed from the FDA during the approval process. While courts have rejected this argument for decades, the winds appear to be shifting. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article Wal-Mart Tells Employees They'll Lose Their Job If Obama Wins Posted by Pile (13191 views) [E-Mail link] [Activists] Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Friday it has held meetings with U.S. store managers warning them of issues that could arise if Democrats win power and pass a law that would make it easier for workers to unionize, but stressed it was not telling workers how to vote. READ MORE | 1 comment since 2009-04-17 02:03:18 | Comment on this Article Los Angeles Sues Time-Warner Cable Company Posted by Pile (13393 views) [E-Mail link] For every person who had to wait forever for Time Warner Cable, Inc. to pick up the phone, for every customer who had to slog through an automated voice menu, then stew waiting to talk to a person, for every family that went days without TV or internet, Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo struck a blow Friday. On behalf of the city of Los Angeles, Delgadillo sued the top cable provider for southern California, saying its service was so bad it constituted fraud and deceptive advertising. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article Exxon Squeezes Every Penny Of Profit From Franchises Posted by Pile (14062 views) [E-Mail link] Every time Sohaila Rezazadeh rings up a sale at her Exxon station on Chain Bridge Road in Oakton, her cash register sends the information to Exxon Mobil's central computers. If she raises the price of gasoline a couple of pennies, chances are that Exxon will raise the wholesale price she pays by the same amount. Through a password-protected Web portal, Exxon notifies Rezazadeh of wholesale price changes daily. That way the oil giant, which is earning about $3.3 billion a month, fine-tunes the pump prices at the franchise Rezazadeh has owned for 12 years. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article Many Vegetables Americans Eat May Be Toxic Posted by Pile (14130 views) [E-Mail link] Much of Europe has banned genetically-modified foods, but not in the USA. This may have proven to be beneficial for Europeans and costly for Americans. A simple experiment by a Russian scientist to see if eating GM soya influenced the offspring of mice, could threaten the multi-billion dollar GM industry. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article The World According To Monsanto Posted by Pile (12774 views) [E-Mail link] On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television (ARTE – French-German cultural tv channel) by French journalist and filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin, The World According to Monsanto - A documentary that Americans won't ever see on their TVs. The gigantic biotech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years. 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