Opinions
Opinions
| Date | Opinions | Topic |
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| Mar 14, 2010 |
"Congress passed legislation last year intended to protect consumers from the credit card industry’s most deceptive and unfair practices. The main provisions finally went into effect last month. But the Federal Reserve still has to write new rules intended to stop companies from bleeding customers dry with exorbitant fees for late payments, with charges for exceeding the credit limit, or with “any other penalty fee or charge.” |
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| Mar 13, 2010 |
''Healthy livestock, sick people'' "Year after year, legislation intended to preserve the effectiveness of available antibiotics by limiting their use in livestock is shot down." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Mar 6, 2010 |
"Until three months ago, Thomas M. Dukes was a vigorous, healthy executive at a California plastics company." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jan 3, 2010 |
"One of the profound blessings in the age of modern medicine is that, when infection sets in, doctors can draw upon an array of antibiotics to knock the germs for a loop. Just imagine how it would have been for our ancestors, for whom a simple cut or bad tooth could mean "blood poisoning" and death." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Oct 22, 2009 |
"Congress blundered badly when it gave the credit card industry as long as 15 months to phase out the deceptive and predatory practices that were outlawed in a new law enacted in May." |
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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 |
| Mar 7, 2009 |
''The withdrawal of drug-company money'' "In recent years, the pharmaceutical industry has been repeatedly (and rightly) excoriated for its shameless efforts to promote its products: Freebies handed out to doctors as inducements to prescribe particular drugs." |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Feb 28, 2009 |
''Antibiotic Misuse in Animals Hurts Human Health'' "The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working to build public awareness regarding the dangers of people overusing antibiotics." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jan 8, 2009 |
"While your editorial ('Delmarva travel warning,' Tuesday) made light of the dangers of driving behind trucks transporting intensively raised chickens..." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Dec 28, 2008 |
''We need antibiotic ban in foods'' "For two years my colleagues at the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production and I poured over volumes of data on what the Food and Drug Administration calls on its Web site 'a growing threat,' ..." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Nov 3, 2008 |
''Let public see doctors’ ties to drug companies'' "What is the appropriate relationship between the medical profession and the drug industry? Last month, Dr. Charles Nemeroff stepped down as chair of Emory University’s psychiatry department after a Senate investigation exposed his failure to report hundreds of thousands of dollars in industry consulting and speaking fees, including payments from Glaxo-SmithKline, whose drug he was also studying using taxpayer dollars from the National Institutes of Health." |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Aug 10, 2008 |
''A Second Chance for Children'' Children can spend months or years in foster care waiting for a permanent home, particularly those who are older or have special needs. The federal Adoption Incentive Program helps by giving states money to promote adoptions of children in foster care. But the program will expire next month unless Congress acts. |
Health Topics |
| May 31, 2008 |
"In the past month, two new reports have examined how farm animals are raised in this country." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| May 13, 2008 |
''Foster Care Should Respect Heritage'' "According to a report by the National Indian Child Welfare Association and Kids Are Waiting, Washington has one of the nation's highest rates of American Indian foster children. While they make up only 2 percent of Washington's child population, American Indians represent 8.4 percent of children in foster care." |
Health Topics |
| May 9, 2008 |
''Big Farms Can Be Bad For Your Health'' "In 1950 the United States produced about the name number of hogs as it does today, on significantly more farms, smaller farms and with many more workers." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 26, 2008 |
''America's Foreclosure Crisis'' "CNN's Lou Dobbs reports on the foreclosure crisis, including commentary by Susan Urahn, Managing Director of the Pew Center on the States." |
