{"id":124634,"date":"2022-02-17T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/2022\/02\/17\/essential-reading-and-viewing-for-the-week-12\/"},"modified":"2022-02-17T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T18:21:00","slug":"essential-reading-and-viewing-for-the-week-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/essential-reading-and-viewing-for-the-week-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential Reading and Viewing for the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/news\/why-big-chains-thrived-while-small-restaurants-died\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why Big Chains Thrived and Small Restaurants Died<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/news\/how-giving-legal-rights-indigenous-food-could-stop-pipeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How Giving Legal Right to Indigenous Wild Rice Could Stop a Pipeline<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/news\/maine-congresswoman-chellie-pingree-introduces-hemp-advancement-act-2022-\u201cunburden-hemp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maine Congresswoman Introduces \u201cHemp Advancement Act\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/news\/gop-blocks-sanders-effort-force-vote-slashing-drug-prices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Idaho GOP Senator Blocks Sanders\u2019 Effort to Reduce Big Pharma Price-Gouging<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/news\/indigenous-farmworkers-are-unheard-overlooked-and-exposed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indigenous U.S. Farmworkers Unheard and Exploited<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/news\/milking-its-multiple-benefits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regenerative and Organic Practices in Dairy Farms<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/news\/fast-fashion-101-everything-you-need-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:16px\">Fast Fashion 101: Everything You Need to Know<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/news\/healing-lives-healing-earth-organic-farm-operation-supporting-risk-individuals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:16px\">Healing Lives by Healing the Earth, Organic Farm Operation Supporting At-Risk Individuals<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/news\/gmwatch-publishes-full-definitive-account-pusztai-affair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:16px\">GMWatch Publishes the Full Definitive Account of the Pusztai Affair<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/news\/there-are-%E2%80%98forever-chemicals%E2%80%99-beef-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:16px\">There Are \u2018Forever Chemicals\u2019 in Beef Now<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/news\/using-banana-peels-fertilizer-%E2%80%93-improve-your-plants%E2%80%99-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:16px\">Using Banana Peels as Fertilizer \u2013 To Improve Your Plants\u2019 Health<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/news\/spoiler-alert-plastic-wrap-great-way-kill-your-cheese\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:16px\">Spoiler Alert: Plastic Wrap Is a Great Way to Kill Your Cheese<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Big Chains Thrived and Small Restaurants Died How Giving Legal Right to Indigenous Wild Rice Could Stop a Pipeline Maine Congresswoman Introduces \u201cHemp Advancement Act\u201d Idaho GOP Senator Blocks Sanders\u2019 Effort to Reduce Big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":124635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032],"tags":[],"organicbytes":[977],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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