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		<title>Just because it&#8217;s All Natural, doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s all natural</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whole Foods is among those companies marketing GMO foods as All Natural Consumers are still being taken in by alternative phrases used by industry to get around the USDA-certified Organic label. A favorite is All Natural, which implies that the product bearing the label contains wholesome and pure ingredients. Some products bearing that label are [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[While you are waiting to read our exposé on factory farming and swine flu (which should finish final editing in the next 24 hours) you can watch this video from the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production. As we hope to show in greater detail over coming weeks,  the trend in agriculture toward large farms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organic farmers plead for help from USDA Secretary Vilsap</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This posting from the Cornucopia Institute is a video that portrays an emergency meeting of organic dairy farmers in Wisconsin pleading with U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to level the playing field against factory farms so that small farmers can survive. One of the ironies of this piece occurs at the beginning, when [...]]]></description>
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