News regarding the dangers of GMOs and biotech, and the advantages of organic sustainable agriculture.
Anti-GMO Camp in Canada Breathes Sigh of Relief
by Joan Delaney
Epoch Times Staff
Canadian wheat farmers and opponents of genetically modified crops are breathing a sigh of relief due to an announcement by Canada’s National Research Council (NRC) that it does not plan to research genetically modified organisms (GMO) wheat.
The government agency said in a statement that developing GMO wheat is will not be […]
Food Shortages Loom as Farmers Switch from Wheat and Corn to More Profits from Cotton
Brian Shilhavy, Health Impact News
There is troubling news this spring as many US farmers are switching from traditional food crops such as wheat and corn to cotton, which is selling at all time highs. Cotton today is seen to be a very profitable crop in 2011. This is troubling for several reasons.
First, as we […]
Fishy fat from GM soy is headed for U.S. dinner tables
Health Impact News Editor Comments: Producers of GM crops have come up with even more new ways to get GM soy into your diet: change the fatty acid structure to include Omega 3 fatty acids to eliminate your need to get them from fish! It is called “SDA-enriched soy.” The new GM soy contains […]
U.S. diplomatic pressure being applied around the world to stop governments from opposing GM products
by GM WATCH
NOTE: Below is an article on how how Silvio Berlusconi derailed an anti-GM crop ban at the behest of the U.S. We only know about what happened thanks to Wikileaks.
Despite the repeated efforts of some in the mainstream media to downplay the significance of the Wikileaks’ cables, they have been revelatory in […]
U.S. subsidizes Brazilian cotton to protect Monsanto’s profits
by Emelie Peine
Think Forward
On February 18, Republicans in the House of Representatives defeated an obscure amendment to the House Appropriations bill by a 2-to-1 margin. The Kind Amendment would have eliminated $147 million dollars that the federal government pays every year directly to Brazilian cotton farmers. In an era of nationwide belt tightening, with […]
Honeybees ‘entomb’ hives to protect against pesticides, say scientists
‘Entombed’ pollen is identified as having sunken, wax-covered cells amid ‘normal’, uncapped cells. Photograph: Journal of Invertebrate Pathology
by Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent
guardian.co.uk
Honeybees are taking emergency measures to protect their hives from pesticides, in an extraordinary example of the natural world adapting swiftly to our depredations, according to a prominent bee expert.
Scientists […]
Iowa organic farmer says non-GMO corn outperforms GMO
By Ken Roseboro
The Organic & Non-GMO Report
Jason Wells, a farmer in Milton, Iowa, who grows both non-GMO and organic corn, says that the non-GMO corn variety he grows produces higher yields than genetically modified varieties.
Other farmers prefer non-GMO
Wells has grown a Pioneer Hi-Bred non-GMO corn variety called 34YO2. In 2009, Wells says the corn […]
The Dangers of Roundup Ready food
Graze
By Joel McNair, Belleville, Wisconsin —For a few years now — basically since his retirement from Purdue University — plant pathologist Don Huber has been telling people that there are serious problems with glyphosate (Roundup).
To date most of the discussion has taken place within the world of soybeans. Based on two decades of his […]
Is a Pesticide Harming All Those Bees?
By FELICITY BARRINGER
New York Times
For several years, Tom Theobald, a beekeeper in Boulder, Colo., has been trying to check out his suspicions that a relatively new class of pesticides has been interfering with the normal breeding and development of his stock. The pesticides, based on the chemistry of nicotine, are generically called neonicotinoids. They […]
GMOs Have Never Been Proven Safe, Nor Beneficial
by Dr. Mercola
Dr. Philip Bereano is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington and an actively engaged activist against genetically modified (GM) foods. His academic work is within Technology and Public Policy, and over the past 30 years,
Dr. Bereano’s work has focused on genetically engineered organisms (GMOs) in foods, crops and animals, as […]
International Seed Day advocates for patent-free seeds, organic food, and farmers’ rights
by Ethan A. Huff
NaturalNews
(NaturalNews) The fight to preserve food freedom is taking place all over the world as multinational biotechnology companies like Monsanto continue to push for total domination of the world’s food supply. Access to heirloom and organic seeds, contaminant-free organic food, and even one’s own farmland is threatened by various types […]
Colombia: Indigenous Communities Protect their Food Security
by Juliana Rincón Parra
English Global Voices
Indigenous communities in Colombia are taking steps to protect their food security. Not only are they educating their communities to eat what they grow on their vegetable gardens instead of buying expensive food brought from outside but they are also protesting new laws and regulations limiting their access to […]
Garden Provides Organic Produce to Low Income and Disabled People
by Angela Hart
Rohnert Park Patch
Rohnert Park mom Beverly Hammond delivers fresh, organic produce to her neighbor Deborah Creech, 53, once a week — well, sometimes more, depending on what’s growing.
Hammond is the garden coordinator for the community garden tucked back behind Cross and Crown Lutheran Church in Rohnert Park, a job she does for […]
Monsanto Uses Latest Food Crisis to Push Transgenic Corn in Mexico
by Alfredo Acedo
Upside Down World
Monsanto has turned the drop in international corn reserves and the havoc wreaked on Mexican corn production by an unexpected cold snap into an argument for speeding up commercial planting of its genetically modified (GM) corn in Mexico. The transnational is claiming that its modified seeds are the only solution […]
US Farmers Sue Monsanto Over GMO Patents, Demand Right To non-GMO Crops
by Catherine Saez
Intellectual Property Watch
The Public Patent Foundation filed suit yesterday against Monsanto’s patents on genetically modified seeds with farmers asking to be protected against the biotechnology giant’s potential lawsuits in case of accidental contamination from plants grown with its seeds.
On behalf of 22 agricultural organisations, 12 seed businesses and 26 farms and farmers, […]
Join the CFS Virtual Rally for the Right to Know and demand that Congress label GMOs
by Ethan A. Huff
NaturalNews
(NaturalNews) On Saturday, March 26, 2011, the Center for Food Safety (CFS), a human and environmental health advocacy group, held its “Virtual Rally for the Right to Know” campaign. Tens of thousands of Americans rallied together both online and at events nationwide, and sent letters to Congress demanding that it pass […]
Right to Know Rallies Against GMOs held Across the US
This past Saturday (March 26, 2011) people in Washington DC and across the country in many cities rallied to protest the lack of labeling in genetically modified foods. It didn’t exactly make headlines in the mainstream media. Here is one video from the rally in Los Angeles:
Right to Know Rally, Los Angeles 3.26.11 from […]
Turning backyards into Urban Farms – A Successful Model Feeding People in the City!
By Jared Page
ksl.com
Excerpts:
24-year-old Sharon Leopardi is the owner of Backyard Urban Garden (BUG) Farms, a community-supported agriculture (CSA) business that uses Salt Lake City residents’ backyards as places to grow, tend and harvest fresh produce to sell to consumers. Her goal in starting the business a little more than a year ago was to prove that […]
Sustainable Winter Agriculture in Colorado
Health Impact News Editor Comments:
Kudos to Frank Stonaker of Colorado State University for understanding how unsustainable our current agricultural system is with less than 1% of our population providing our food. Mr. Stonaker recognizes the importance of small-scale farming and local sustainable agriculture, and he is actually DOING SOMETHING about it with this great […]
The Real Cause of Revolution in the Middle East? Food Subsidies can no longer Provide Cheap Bread
Health Impact News Editor Comments: If you read the mainstream media covering events in the Middle East where regimes are quickly being toppled, you come away feeling that the people just all of a sudden developed a taste for democracy and wanted a better government. The real truth, however, is something more basic. Food. […]