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Obama meets with tech executives, privacy groups over concerns about surveillance programs
2013-08-10 00:30:40| Telecom - Topix.net
President Barack Obama has met with executives from tech companies including Apple Inc. and AT&T Inc. about concerns stemming from the disclosure of sweeping government surveillance programs.
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Environmental Groups Sue Over Dairy Farm Animal Waste
2013-08-09 17:38:00| Waste Age
A coalition of environmental groups is suing the state of New York to regulate industrial dairy farms and their handling of animal waste. read more
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Walmart Casts a Shadow on Civil Rights Group's Convention
2013-08-09 10:59:43| Waste Management - Topix.net
Not only does Walmart set the wholesale market price for many of the products and food commodities sold in its stores, it also apparently commands the unswerving political loyalty of some of the nonprofit groups that the retail giant underwrites.
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Zhukovsky Heads Cherkizovo Group's Pork Division
2013-08-09 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
RUSSIA - Russia's top meat and feed producer Cherkizovo Group has reported the appointment of Alexander Zhukovsky to the position of Head of Pork Division.
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Groups Ask House Leaders to Enact Immigration Reform
2013-08-05 15:19:00| National Hog Farmer
Over 400 companies and organizations are asking the leadership in the House of Representatives to work toward passing meaningful immigration reform legislation. The groups said in a letter to Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), We deal with an immigration system that is now in its third decade and completely incapable of being responsive to an ever-changing national economy and hypercompetitive global marketplace. Today, the problems with our immigration system have grown and multiplied to become an emerging threat to the current and future productivity, ingenuity, and competitiveness of key sectors of our economy, including agriculture, housing, manufacturing, retail, hospitality, tourism, engineering, and technology. read more
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