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Michelle Obama, take spent hens off the menu!

Since 2007, kids have been served 13.6 million pounds of chicken in school lunches that's so low-quality it would otherwise have become compost or dog food. This is chicken KFC refuses to serve.

Known as "spent hen" meat, the poultry industry has been using their influence to peddle this meat to the national school lunch program.  

I think it's time we appealed to our country's most powerful advocate for child nutrition. As first lady Michelle Obama frequently points out: Our kids need, and deserve, better.

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Dear First Lady Michelle Obama,

I know you would agree that kids deserve safe, healthy food.

Since 2007, kids have been served 13.6 million pounds of chicken in school lunches that's so low-quality it would otherwise have become compost or dog food. This is chicken KFC refuses to serve.

Please use your influence as a champion on child health issues to take this chicken, known as spent hen chicken, off the menu, and tell the USDA that they should adopt science-based safety standards for all high-risk food served in schools. Our children deserve better.

Sincerely,

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No More Bailouts

The big banks on Wall Street caused the financial meltdown for their own profit, and are now doing everything they can to stop financial reform.

We came to the rescue of the banks because we had no other choice and how did they repay us? They took our money, made record profits, and celebrated with big bonuses.

Someone has to stop them from tanking the economy again. Sign our letter to Senator Claire McCaskill, calling for financial reform and the creation of a watchdog agency to keep this from happening again.

 

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Dear Sen. McCaskill,

Wall Street lobbyists are fighting hard to kill bank reforms that would protect Missourians and prevent future bailouts.

It's time to put Main Street first by passing strong bank reforms, including a strong, independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency.

Sincerely,
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They're raising your taxes by $495

Did you know that more than 80 percent of America's biggest banks and corporations, including some of those we bailed out, don't pay their taxes?

Instead, they park their money in offshore tax havens like the Cayman Islands. As a result, the average Missouri household, a.k.a. you and me, is paying $495 a year to cover for $100 billion they don't pay.

Why should we have to pick up the tab for tax dodgers? Sign our Tax Day Declaration and tell Congress to close the corporate tax loopholes.

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TAX DAY DECLARATION

Dear Member of Congress:

When large corporations skip out on their taxes by moving their “headquarters” to tax havens like the Cayman Islands or shifting profits overseas, we the taxpayers are the ones who pick up the tab.

Why should we have to cover the tax burden of tax-dodging banks and corporations?

Your colleagues, Sen. Carl Levin and Rep. Lloyd Doggett, have introduced the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act -- S. 506 and H.R. 1265 -- to crack down on corporations that use tax havens. We call upon you to support this measure. The time for reform is now!

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