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Is it the 21st Century? In the wake of a case the Chief Assistant US Attorney called one of Southwest Florida’s biggest, ugliest slavery cases ever (and the seventh such case in the last ten years) the Coalition of Immokalee Workers is calling on Florida Gov. Charlie Crist to publicly denounce slavery. If you’d like to give the Governor a nudge, the CIW has a letter all ready for you to sign onto. 

Lincoln’s birthday Garden party Our much-bemoaned new Sec. of Ag, Tom Vilsack, spent the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth “breaking pavement” for a new People’s Garden at the USDA facility in Washington, and announcing a goal to create a garden at every USDA facility worldwide. 

Peanut Butter CEO pleads the 5th Obama Foodorama has been shadowing Bill Marler at this week’s peanut-butter hearings, where victims’ families testified, Stewart Parnell pleaded the fifth amendment (his emails spoke for themselves) and Rep John Dingell (MI) called the FDA’s Stephan Sundloff incompetent. Yesterday, the FDA expanded the recall to every product that ever came out of Peanut Corp.

Serve your country food — posters Those crafty Greenhorns, whose stickers we’ve always admired, are selling posters on etsy. 

Tilting toward wind turbines? A small but esteemed group of green advocacy groups including the Environmental Working Group (who beat us to our acronym) and the Network for New Energy Choices have joined forces to call for more responsible alternative energy policies, especially around biofuels. Tom Philpott breaks it down at Grist. 

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