News regarding the dangers of GMOs and biotech, and the advantages of organic sustainable agriculture.
Food Crisis as Kenya Opens its Doors to GMOs
by SlowFood.com
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The horn of Africa is undergoing the most severe food crisis over the last 60 years. To address the growing number of people suffering from hunger, Kenya has decided to officially authorize the importation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), becoming the fourth African country to open its doors to […]
Why is the State Department using our money to help force genetically modified crops on other countries?
Why Is the State Department Using Our Money to Pimp for Monsanto?
The State Department is using taxpayer money to help force genetically modified crops on other countries.
By Jill Richardson
AlterNet
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People in India are up in arms about eggplant. Not just any eggplant — the fight, which is also raging in the Philippines, is […]
Argentinian Doctors Identify Major Health Problems Associated With GMO Soy
Biosafety Information Centre
A report by Argentine physicians points to the major health problems arising from the increasing use of GM Roundup Ready (RR) soy in the country. It is the product of the 1st National Meeting Of Physicians In The Crop-Sprayed Towns organized by the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the National University of […]
Scientific studies conclude GMO feed causes organ disruption in animals
by Jeffrey M. Smith
NaturalNews
A new paper reviewing data from 19 animal studies shows that consuming genetically modified (GM) corn or soybeans leads to significant organ disruptions in rats and mice, particularly in livers and kidneys (http://www.enveurope.com/content/23…). “Other organs may be affected too, such as the heart and spleen, or blood […]
California May Require Labeling of GE Food Products!
by Alliance for Natural Health
An exciting new ballot initiative, if California voters approve, could turn the tide against genetically engineered foods in America.
In 1994, a Monsanto employee was quoted as saying, “If you put a label on genetically engineered food you might as well put a skull and crossbones on […]
Obama Promised to Label GMOs back in 2007
While on the campaign trail in 2007, Barack Obama promised to label GMO foods if elected. Now’s the time! Today, an estimated 80% of processed foods contain GMOs. Tell President Obama you agree that the U.S. needs GMO labeling “because Americans should know what they’re buying”.
For the past 20 […]
India Sues Monsanto for Bio Piracy
By Vikram Singh
For the first time ever, a country – India – is accusing a multinational company of “bio-piracy”. That means stealing indigenous plants, and then trying to develop genetically modified versions of them, without giving any compensation back to the local people or nation where the plant originally came […]
US Tries To Push Big Dairy Operations in Iraq
(Health Impact News) Food freedom is a hot topic here in the U.S., especially regarding the Raw Milk wars. The government is coming down hard on small-scale dairy farms that are selling raw milk to consumers eager to buy it. The battle has been well documented in the media and blogs throughout the U.S. […]
Urban Chicken Consultant Helps Start Backyard Flocks
Photo courtesy UrbanChickenConsultant.wordpress.com
by Emily Badger
The Atlantic Cities
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Jennifer Murtoff’s best marketing device is her rubber chicken purse. People always ask about the rubber chicken purse. That gives her an in to talk about chickens, about how she started raising them in the 4th grade in rural Pennsylvania, about how she has loved them […]
Analysis: Super weeds pose growing threat to U.S. crops
By Carey Gillam
Reuters
Farmer Mark Nelson bends down and yanks a four-foot-tall weed from his northeast Kansas soybean field. The “waterhemp” towers above his beans, sucking up the soil moisture and nutrients his beans need to grow well and reducing the ultimate yield. As he crumples the flowering end of the weed in his hand, […]
Seeds hold the key to a GMO-free food future
by Lisa Marshall
newhope360.com
A single food seed can be as tiny as a grain of sand. Yet many say the fate of the entire organic industry rests upon our efforts to protect the integrity of these small, but vital agricultural inputs.
“Seed is the first resource in our food production chain, so its integrity is vital to […]
Study suggests cities could produce most of their food
by Greg Henderson
cattlenetwork.com
Urban agriculture, the practice of growing food on rooftops, in backyards and in community gardens, has been an increasing source of food in developing countries for the last half century. In recent years the practice also has become popular in America, especially in many post-industrial cities that have experienced decline as manufacturing businesses […]
Wisconsin Fight over 5,000 Cow Factory Farm Moves to Court
By LISA BUCHMEIER
Courthouse News Service
MADISON, Wisc. (CN) – Family Farm Defenders sued Wisconsin to try to stop a commercial dairy whose planned 6,270 “animal units” would produce 55.3 million gallons of manure and wastewater a year.
Fifty-five million gallons of wastewater would cover 1 acre 169 feet deep.
Family Farm Defenders and three landowners sued the […]
Monsanto GMO Corn Plant Losing Bug Resistance
By SCOTT KILMAN
Wall Street Journal
Widely grown corn plants that Monsanto Co. genetically modified to thwart a voracious bug are falling prey to that very pest in a few Iowa fields, the first time a major Midwest scourge has developed resistance to a genetically modified crop.
The discovery raises concerns that the way some farmers are […]
Fears grow over GM corn fuel
by Suzanne Goldenberg, Washington
smh.com.au
US FARMERS are growing the first corn genetically modified specifically to put more ethanol in petrol tanks rather than producing more food.
Aid organisations warn that the corn could worsen a global food crisis – exposed by the Somalia famine – diverting more corn into energy production.
The food industry also opposes the corn […]
Why GMOs Won’t Feed the World (Despite What You Read in The New York Times)
By Anna Lappé
Civil Eats
With all due respect, Nina Federoff’s New York Times op-ed reads like it was written two decades ago when the jury was still out about the potential of the biotech industry to reduce hunger, increase nutritional quality in foods, and decrease agriculture’s reliance on toxic chemicals and other expensive inputs that […]
Slow Food USA voices support for organic farmers vs. Monsanto
slowfoodusa.org
In June we shared an interview with farmer (and Slow Food leader) Tom Willey (click here to read). Tom is one of many plaintiffs in a landmark case against Monsanto.
Monsanto has a history of taking farmers to court if they’re found to be in possession of patented plant material without permission, even if the […]
Genetic Engineering in Agriculture Does Not Solve Food Insecurity in the Philippines
by Gilbert Sape
Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific
A reaction to the article, “DENR exec pushes for genetically modified organisms in food production” posted last 20 July 2011. (Link: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/26543/denr-exec-pushes-for-genetically-modified-organisms-in-food-production) to the points raised by director Marcial Amaro, Jr. of Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau (DENR-ERDB) that “biotechnology, including […]
The Freedom to Eat Food: Going local in uncertain economic times
By Deborah Adams
Food Freedom
When I decided to live the locavore diet for a month, it hardly seemed worth the bother. I have a garden, my chickens provide eggs, my pantry is stocked with beans, peas, potatoes, apples, peaches, and other goodies that I preserved last year. A plethora of small farms […]
What the USDA Doesn’t Want You to Know About Antibiotics and Factory Farms
By Tom Philpott
MotherJones
Here is a document the USDA doesn’t want you to see. It’s what the agency calls a “technical review”—nothing more than a USDA-contracted researcher’s simple, blunt summary of recent academic findings on the growing problem of antibiotic-resistant infections and their link with factory animal farms. The topic is a serious one. […]