Stephen Colbert, political satirist and coiner of the word “truthiness,” testified Friday at a House hearing on an agricultural jobs bill. Colbert partnered with the United Farm Workers Association and its president, Arturo Rodriguez, this summer as part of the group’s “Take Our Jobs” campaign. In an appearance on Comedy Central TV’s “The Colbert Report” that aired [...]
After two days of hearings, several members of an 11-member advisory panel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found that there are not yet sufficient data to determine that a genetic modification that enables salmon to grow twice as quickly is safe for the affected fish or for consumers. The panel, made up of [...]
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine this week began a city-by-city campaign with a letter to the mayor of Washington, D.C., urging a moratorium on new fast-food outlets as a contributor to heart disease-related deaths. On Thursday, the group also will air a TV advertisement that turns McDonald’s Corp.’s “I’m Lovin’ It” advertising line against the [...]
