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Safe Food, Healthy Kids

Did you know, most fast food chains have safety standards 10 times stronger for beef than the USDA has set for school lunches?

For years, the meat industry and other food interests have lobbied against stronger food safety standards. We’re fighting back, because if it's not good enough for fast food, it's not good enough for school food.

 

 

 

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Toy Safety At Your Fingertips

Toys should bring kids joy, but sometimes they bring injury, serious harm, and even death.

This holiday season, when Georgia PIRG unveils its 24th annual Trouble in Toyland report, it will also launch a new interactive smart phone website to help shoppers avoid common hazards, as well as report potential dangers they find on toy store shelves, right from their mobile phones or home computers.

Learn More  -  Read the Report

Going Broke for Big Oil: Need Transit Options

Nothing illustrates the economic harm of poor transportation options than the fact that, since the tax rebates were approved in February, the average American has already spent it at the pump. On June 25, 2008, Georgia PIRG released a new report, "Squandering the Stimulus" to mark the milestone, and call for greater investment in public transportation. 

Fund transit in '08! • Read more
 

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