Join supporters of Citizens for a Healthy Iowa in asking State Senator Jeff Danielson to vote NO on the MidAmerican Nuclear Tax! Learn more at our website at “NoNuclearTaxes.com”

There is 28,000 name being removed from the Iowa child abuse registry,These children need to come home to their family's. Not bad enough to be on a child abuse registry, then help bring them home.

RT Now To Show your Support for NCCRA and Encourage State Legislators To Require Coverage for Colon Cancer Screening and Save Lives!

If you are 50 or older, or have a high risk of colon cancer due to factors such as a family history, your health insurance may not cover the cost of colorectal cancer screening tests depending on which state you live in.

In fact, 20 states – including Alabama, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah and Wisconsin – received ‘D’ or ‘F’ grades on the 2012 National Colorectal Cancer Legislation Report Card for failing to ensure their citizens’ colon cancer screening tests are covered by insurance. (In contrast, all 50 states have laws that require comprehensive coverage for breast cancer screenings.)

Colon cancer, if detected early, is curable in 90% of cases and is often entirely preventable through screening. It is time for every state to pass legislation requiring insurance coverage for colon cancer screening exams for everyone who needs them.

Katherine Heigl loves Utah so much that she chose the state as the site of her 2007 wedding and later purchased a home there. But when Utah lawmakers proposed an "ag gag" bill that would make it a crime to shoot video on factory farms, Heigl wanted to let lawmakers know that kind citizens like her would not support it.

She penned a letter on PETA's behalf to Utah's state senators urging them to squelch House Bill (H.B.) 187 and allow people to continue to obtain video evidence of animal abuse so that authorities can prosecute the offenders.

Last year, PETA and other animal advocates successfully defeated "ag gag" bills in Florida, New York, Minnesota, and Iowa. Now, another "ag gag" bill that would make it illegal to shoot video on a factory farm has just passed in the House of Representatives in Utah. And once again, we're fighting back against this unconstitutional measure.

Photo of the Day

Fresh off a stint asking politicians to "cut the pork" out of the federal budget, PETA's plucky "pig" asked attendees of Iowa's Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival not to cut the pork off pigs' bodies.

When the "pig" implored, "I am not bacon," the fans of fried fat stopped to listen and take our leaflets. I guess all that bacon grease hasn't ruined their hearts yet.