Opinions
Opinions
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| Oct 16, 2009 |
''Last Minute Credit Card Tricks'' "The Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act, signed into law in May, gave credit card companies a leisurely timetable — as long as 15 months — to phase out predatory practices used to bleed consumers. Not surprisingly, the companies have exploited this generosity by driving already outrageous interest rates still higher and imposing fees that are pushing struggling families further into debt. Congress can end this injustice by moving up the deadline, accelerating reform and helping consumers." |
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| Aug 15, 2009 |
"The American meat industry is addicted to antibiotics. This dates to the late 1940s, when farmers discovered that antibiotics could do more than just cure disease. Antibiotics regularly mixed into feed could help animals avoid common illnesses -- and thus grow faster as well as better withstand the crowded and sometimes unsanitary conditions on factory farms." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| May 24, 2009 |
''A welcome reform of credit card rules'' "Congress is throwing a rope to credit card users who have been trapped by an industry whose standard operating procedures include deceptive practices, arbitrary rules changes and crippling interest rates. The aid couldn't come at a better time." |
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| May 8, 2009 |
''Piggish Capitalism Endangers Us All'' "Even if you don't dig on swine, it has become impossible to avoid them." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| May 5, 2009 |
"If you are among the 80 percent of Americans who use credit cards, you probably have your own horror story of interest rates raised without notice or credit lines reduced. A study sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts puts numbers to the anecdotes: Analyzing the practices of more than 400 different credit cards offered by the 12 largest companies, it found that 100 percent of them, every single credit card, has policies that harm consumers." |
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| Apr 30, 2009 |
"A survey last month by the Pew Charitable Trusts found that 93 percent of the nation's 663 million cardholder agreements allow the company to raise any interest rate at any time for any reason." |
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| Apr 28, 2009 |
''Pew Featured on Nightline - ABC News'' "Washington, D.C. - Robert Martin, senior officer with the Pew Environment Group, discusses the two main findings from the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production's report Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Mar 15, 2009 |
"We don't add antibiotics to baby food and Cocoa Puffs so that children get fewer ear infections. That's because we understand that the overuse of antibiotics is already creating 'superbugs' resistant to medication." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Mar 11, 2009 |
''Our Pigs, Our Food, Our Health'' "The late Tom Anderson, the family doctor in this little farm town in northwestern Indiana, at first was puzzled, then frightened." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Mar 11, 2009 |
''You Can't Catch MRSA by Reading About It...'' "…as far as we know. But one of the journalistic challenges here is that we don’t know a lot about MRSA, and so the challenge in my Thursday column was how to raise public concern about a legitimate public health issue without becoming alarmist and exaggerating the danger." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
