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Citizen Action Kit: How a Bill Becomes a Law
How a Bill Becomes a Law A bill must pass through several steps before it becomes a law. Typically tax-related and budget bills are initiated in the House of Representatives, as the process below describes, but this is just one of many ways a bill may become a law. |
Agriculture and Health Policies in Conflict: How Subsidies Tax our Health: The Toll of Chronic Diseases
The Toll of Chronic Diseases Cardiovascular Disease About 81.1 million people in the United States have at least one form of cardiovascular disease. Approximately 2,300 Americans die every day from cardiovascular disease.2 Cancer More than 1.5 million new cancer cases are diagnosed annually. Cancer k |
The 2008 Farm Bill: A Disappointment in the Fight Against Childhood Obesity
The 2008 Farm Bill recently enacted into law by Congress is a dramatic disappointment. The number one cause of death in this country is chronic disease related to the over-consumption of fat and cholesterol—yet the new Farm Bill continues to support, in the main, the production of foods high in fat, sugar |
Metro Swine Flu Ad Urges Government to Shut Down “Flu Farms”
WASHINGTON—A new digital Metro ad points out that "1 in 3 pigs harbors flu viruses" and urges Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to shut down intensive hog farms to reduce swine flu risk. The ad, created by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), made its debut Tuesday, May 12, in t |
Pig ‘Flu Farms’ Threaten Global Health
After dominating the news for weeks, swine flu has started to take a backseat to other concerns. But health officials have not forgotten that the 1918 flu pandemic first appeared as a mild outbreak in the spring and then mutated to the form that infected a third of the world’s population and killed millions o |
PCRM Online | September 2005
September 2005 Physicians Committee for Respo |
Swine Flu Ad Urges Government to Shut Down 'Flu Farms'
In May, the World Health Organization announced that it will be several months before a swine flu vaccine is produced. Yet as the swine flu alert hovers at phase 5, just below pandemic level, the likely source of the epidemic—pig farms—continues to put people’s lives in danger. So PCRM is asking t |
National Conference to End Factory Farming: for Health, Environment, and Farm Animals
PCRM’s new “Antibiotic Resistance from Animal Agriculture” report uncovers some of the health-related consequences of factory farming. This month, you can learn more about the dangers of factory farming at the National Conference to End Factory Farming. Elizabeth Kucinich, PCRM’s director of pu |
Congress Updates America’s Farm Bill
This year, Congress will be renewing the Farm Bill, a massive piece of federal legislation that provides financial assistance to farmers and helps determine what foods are available in schools and nutrition programs. For the past several months, PCRM has been working with members of Congress to make sure that the F |
Citizen Action Kit: Appropriations Process
Appropriations Process Each year, Congress must pass 12 spending bills, called appropriations bills, which fund all federal agencies and programs for an entire year. The federal fiscal year runs from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30. Congress appropriates money for existing programs and government operations, but also for imp |
Medical Professionals, Senators Call for Major Changes to Farm Bill
With the Farm Bill being debated on the Senate floor this week and next, more than 700 oncologists, pediatricians, and other health professionals have signed petitions circulated by PCRM and The Cancer Project calling on lawmakers to reform farm subsidies and food assistance programs to put good nutrition at the f |
Cutting Costs and Improving Health: Cost Savings
Cutting Costs and Improving Health: Federal Food Policy Reforms Could Save Billions A Report from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine July 28, 2011 Cost Savings Short-Term Savings As noted above, the above changes will lead to major financial savings over the short and long term. Over the next ten |
As Swine Flu Declared a Pandemic, Doctors Offer Vegetarian Starter Kit
WASHINGTON—The World Health Organization’s announcement that swine influenza is now officially a pandemic is prompting the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine to offer a free 16-page Vegetarian Starter Kit to worried consumers. WHO’s pandemic designation comes after swine flu has reached |
New Chemical-Testing Bills Are First Step for Consumer and Animal Protection
This Mother’s Day, Congress could give mothers the gift of a safer future for their children. Bills introduced last month to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act could do that by requiring the adoption of crucial reforms that protect human health and the environment and develop more nonanimal chemical test |
PCRM Online | June 2006
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