News regarding the dangers of GMOs and biotech, and the advantages of organic sustainable agriculture.
Farmin’ in the HOOD: Featuring Aquaponics, Permaculture, Urban Farming and lots of fun taking back the neighborhood
by The Urban Farming Guys
Food hitting our plates with who knows what pumped into it and growing economic uncertainty. We took the seeds in our pockets and every square foot we owned and went about like mad scientists testing out innovative ideas from all around world and making them work […]
The Future of American Job Creation? Urban Agriculture in Milwaukee to Provide 150 Jobs to Low Income Residents
Photo by Carlos Ortiz/Flickr
by Will Allen
GrowingPower.org
Video Courtesy of Fresh The Movie
Dear Friends,
Growing Power is undertaking the most ambitious challenge in its 18-year history. In a partnership with the City of Milwaukee, we have been tasked to create up to 150 full-time jobs for low-income city residents. The plan is both a […]
Regulators Knew World’s Best-Selling Herbicide Causes Birth Defects
by Lucia Graves
Huffington Post
WASHINGTON — Industry regulators have known for years that Roundup, the world’s best-selling herbicide produced by U.S. company Monsanto, causes birth defects, according to a new report released Tuesday. The report, “Roundup and birth defects: Is the public being kept in the dark?” found regulators knew as long ago as […]
Amish Raw Milk Farmer Files Legal Docs in Pennsylvania District Court
by David Gumpert
The Complete Patient
Amish farmer Dan Allgyer has filed several documents in federal district court in Pennsylvania contesting the FDA-Justice Department effort to obtain a permanent injunction against him serving buying club members in Maryland. He makes three objections:
1. That the issuance of a, FDA warning letter prior to the […]
Collecting a Wild Honeybee Swarm Not Treated with Medication or Insecticides to Create a Stronger Gene Pool
Beekeeper, Matt Reed, surveying honeybee nest
by Cooking Up a Story
In this video, beekeeper Matt Reed demonstrates how to collect a wild honeybee swarm. Reed does not treat his bees with any chemicals, but relies instead upon natural selection (those bees that survive without any treatments) to confer their genetic resistance to disease and parasite infection. By maintaining […]
Genetically Engineered Food Alters Our Digestive Systems!
by Alliance for Natural Health
GE organisms actually become part of the bacteria in our digestive tracts and reproduce continuously inside us. But the USDA now wants to to remove all controls from GE corn and cotton! A new Action Alert.
There are no human clinical trials of genetically engineered foods. The only […]
Urban Agriculture in Ottawa Could be a Model for Food Security in Other Cities
Health Impact Editor Comments:
Watch this very informative video and see how Ottawa Canada is leading the way in modern urban agriculture. Urban areas have used up agricultural land to house more of the world’s population, and most food purchased has traveled an average distance of 1500 to 2500 miles to get to your grocery store. Watch how one […]
War Vets Turn to Organic Farming for Mental Health Instead of Drugs
by Health Impact News
On May 10, 2011 a federal judge ruled that the Veterans Administration’s mental health care system was “incompetent” and ordered a complete overhaul. It was revealed that 18 veterans a day were committing suicide. The number of soldiers and veterans committing suicide now far exceeds the number of deaths due to […]
A Nation Planted By Founding Fathers’ Green Thumbs
Health Impact News Editor Comment: As we celebrate the beginning of summer and the Memorial Day weekend, it is good to reflect back on how important gardening and small-scale family farming was to our founding fathers. When Thomas Jefferson was president of the United States, almost 90% of the population was involved in agriculture. […]
Raising Backyard Chickens
By Cooking Up a Story
Naomi Montacre, co-founder of Naomi’s Organic Farm Supply, a Portland organic feed and products store, shares some of her expert knowledge on raising backyard chickens.
In part 1, Montacre describes some of the basic considerations deciding whether to raise chickens in your own backyard. As she points out, […]
Family Facing $4 Million in Fines by USDA for Selling Bunnies
by Bob McCarty
Almost nine months after a Missouri dairy was ordered to stop selling cheese made from raw milk, I share details of another hare-raising story from the Show-Me State: John Dollarhite and his wife Judy of tiny Nixa, Mo., have been told by the USDA that, by Monday, they must pay […]
Court of Appeals Dismisses Monsanto’s Appeal of Biotech Beets Case, Preserves Victory for Farmers, Environment
The True Food Network
Upholds Lower Court’s Rulings Requiring New USDA Approval Decision And Rigorous Review of the Crop’s Impacts
Litigation Over USDA’s Interim Approval of Planting Continues
Today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a summary order concluding a long-standing lawsuit over the impacts of […]
The Chicken Underground: Raising fresh food against the law?
Infowars
Luke Rudkowski, founder of We Are Change and contributor to RT’s Adam Vs. The Man, travels to Georgia where he finds farmers-in-hiding who break the law and risk a $6000 fine for raising backyard chickens.
Reality has been turned on its head under the audacity of state power as the system rubber stamps little-studied genetically […]
Pasture-Raised Dairy – And Why It Makes Sense
Health Impact News Editor Comments: Watch this interview with Francis Thicke explaining why pasture-raised dairy is more productive than confinement dairy farms. 25% of dairy farms in Wisconsin are now pastured dairy farms. It makes sense economically, it produces better milk, and it is better for the soil and the environment.
by Daniel Klein
Huffington Post
Earlier this […]
Big Ag doesn’t want you to care about pesticides
by Tom Laskawy
Grist
Power to the people pesticide industry! Photo from Grist
The produce lobby is livid that consumers might be concerned about pesticides. They are taking their fury out on the USDA for its annual report on pesticide use (via The Washington Post):
In a recent letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, 18 produce […]
US Rice Production Threatened by GM Pesticide Drift
by Rady Ananda
globalresearch.ca
Adding to the natural rice industry’s woes after Bayer CropScience contaminated a third of the US rice supply with transgenic rice in 2006, the widespread application of Bayer’s glufosinate and Monsanto’s glyphosate is reducing crop yields, and burning and deforming rice plants that survive. […]
Toxin from GM crops found in human blood: Study
Bt toxin is widely used in genetically modified crops.
by Dinesh C. Sharma
IndiaToday
Fresh doubts have arisen about the safety of genetically modified crops, with a new study reporting presence of Bt toxin, used widely in GM crops, in human blood for the first time.
Genetically modified crops include genes extracted from bacteria to make them resistant […]
No Scientific Consensus that Factory Farms can Feed the World
by Tom Philpott
GRIST
Excerpts:
The latest evidence against any consensus around Big Ag as world savior: In a paper [PDF] just published in Science, a team of researchers led by the eminent Washington State University soil scientist John P. Reganold urges a fundamental rethinking of the U.S. ag-research system, which is […]
Disappearing bees a result of excessive cell phone useage?
by Daniel Favre
Abstract – The worldwide maintenance of the honeybee has major ecological, economic, and political implications. In the present study, electromagnetic waves originating from mobile phones were tested for potential effects on honeybee behavior. Mobile phone handsets were placed in the close vicinity of honeybees. The sound made by the bees was recorded […]
Drought tolerant GM corn will not feed the world
by GeneWatch
GeneWatch UK today responded to reports that Monsanto’s new drought tolerant genetically modified (GM) corn (maize) does not perform better than conventional varieties (1). The GM industry has made repeated claims that its crops will be needed to feed a growing population as the climate changes, in order to […]