Portland Tribune - Parents ask McDonald’s to ban Ronald
By Angela Webber Feb 3, 2011 JUST SAY NO — Campaigners presented 500 signatures to McDonald’s representatives in Cedar Mill Wednesday morning asking the company to ‘retire’ Ronald McDonald. The...
View ArticleOregonian - National campaign against McDonald's mascot kicks off in Cedar Mill
By Emily E. Smith February 02, 2011 Priority Item
View ArticleFoster's Daily Democrat - Retire Ronald McDonald Local petition targets...
By Jennifer Keefe February 2, 2011 DOVER — Local activists are putting forth a petition this week requesting the retirement of longtime fast food icon Ronald McDonald. The Retire Ronald...
View ArticleNew Haven Register - New Haven alderman would ban bottled water
By Abbe Smith February 07, 2011 NEW HAVEN – The city has a $32,000-a-year bottle habit, water bottles that is. A new proposal by Alderman Justin Elicker seeks to ban the city from using public...
View ArticleStatements - Release of Corporate Accountability International Report...
For Immediate Release: February 8, 2011 By Kristin Urquiza, Think Outside the Bottle Campaign Director Priority Item
View ArticleChange.org - Progress! House Members Call for Bottled Water Spending Cuts
By Jess Leber February 8, 2011 On this site alone, almost 50,000 people have emailed Congress in seeking an end to wasteful taxpayer spending on bottled water purchases. Today, we made doubly sure that...
View ArticleThe Hill - Congress’s $860,000 tab on bottled water targeted as wasteful...
By Jordy Yager February 8, 2011 Lawmakers in the House spent more than $860,000 on bottled water last year, according to an advocacy group that is pushing members of Congress and the Obama...
View ArticleRoll Call - Heard on the Hill: All Bottled Out
By Elizabeth Brotherton and Alison McSherry Feb. 9, 2011 Congress spends about $860,000 a year on bottled water, and D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) thinks it’s time Members got off the bottle....
View ArticleKIRO TV - Congress Spends Big Bucks On Bottled Water
February 9, 2011 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A watchdog group said taxpayers shelled out $860,000 between April 2009 and March 2010 for bottled water for lawmakers. Corporate Accountability International...
View ArticleFox News - House Urged to Cut Back After Bottled-Water Tab Nears $1 Million
By Judson Berger February 09, 2011 If the Potomac River, which supplies water to the nation's capital, had run dry, Congress might be able to explain itself. But it hasn't. And that has left one...
View ArticleNew York Times - How to Make Oatmeal . . . Wrong
By Mark Bittman February 22, 2011 Priority Item
View ArticleThe Guardian - Tobacco firms accused of funding campaign to keep cigarettes...
National Federation of Retail Newsagents' campaign is being influenced by the tobacco industry, says trade body's ex-leader By Jamie Doward and Alex Ascherson 26 February 2011 Cigarettes...
View ArticleBloomberg - Ronald McDonald Sidelined as Chain Touts Lattes, Not Kids Meals
By Leslie Patton Mar 2, 2011 As McDonald’s Corp. morphs into a more upscale chain, there’s one person you won’t see munching salads, sipping a cappuccino and surfing the Web: Ronald McDonald, age...
View ArticleAgence France-Presse: Smoking bans on the rise but more needed: WHO
July 7, 2011 By Ana Ines Cibils MONTEVIDEO — Anti-smoking measures have become so widespread that they now affect some 3.8 billion people -- just over half the world's population, the World Health...
View ArticleThe Independent: Voters batter Berlusconi again in law referendums
June 14, 2011 By Michael Day 0
View ArticleNew America Media: Our food system is making people sick
Corporate America & Obesity: Why Americans Can't Live on Food Stamps July 16, 2011 By K. I. Hope America is gaining weight and the most vulnerable populations are those with low levels of education...
View ArticleChicago Tribune - Pressure from advocacy groups produces changes in Happy Meals
McDonald's to add fruit or veggies, downsize the fries By Emily Bryson York July 26, 2011 Priority Item
View ArticleCNN - McDonald's bows to advocates demands: Happy Meal gets a makeover
By Madison Park July 26, 2011 Priority Item
View ArticleTIME - McDonald's responds to health professionals
By Meredith Melnick July 26, 2011 Priority Item
View ArticleNew York Times - Can big food regulate itself? Fat chance
August 2, 2011 By Mark Bittman Priority Item
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