News regarding the dangers of GMOs and biotech, and the advantages of organic sustainable agriculture.
“Food Sovereignty” law passed in small Maine town to allow sale of locally produced food without interference of regulators
Town Hall in Sedgwick Maine
Update March, 2013: Brooksville Becomes Ninth Maine Town to Pass Food Sovereignty Law
Here’s a Way to Eliminate the Regulators and Lawyers, and Build Community At the Same Time: Organize and Declare “Food Sovereignty,” Like Sedgwick, Maine
by David E. Gumpert
The Complete Patient
Maybe the citizens of tiny Sedgwick on the Maine coast were […]
In New Food Culture, a Young Generation of Farmers Emerges
photo by Leah Nash for The New York Times
By ISOLDE RAFTERY
New York Times
CORVALLIS, Ore. — For years, Tyler Jones, a livestock farmer here, avoided telling his grandfather how disillusioned he had become with industrial farming. After all, his grandfather had worked closely with Earl L. Butz, the former federal secretary of agriculture who was known […]
GMO industry lie #1: Developing countries want and need GM crops
From GM Watch
THE TRUTH ABOUT GMOs
From GMWatch www.gmwatch.org
The last 12 months have seen a number of biotech industry lies bite the dust. One of them is that developing countries are hot for GMOs with only affluent Westerners obstructing their acceptance. In fact, the opposite has been shown to be the case, with deeply rooted […]
Time to end the insane practice of lacing chicken feed with arsenic
by Tom Philpott
Grist.org
As a jaded observer of the meat industry, even I’m flummoxed by this fact: It’s standard practice on factory chicken farms to dose those unfortunate birds with arsenic. The idea is that it makes them grow faster — fast growth being the supreme goal of factory animal farming […]
Beyond sustainability: permaculture and polyculture
by Paul Wheaton
So this is me presenting in Missoula, Montana and taking questions from the audience.
I can’t remember what the question was, but I start off talking about sustainability. Sustainable is a word that means barely not dead.
I then attempt to compare permaculture to organic gardening. Talking mostly about […]
Why Farmers Must Move from Defense to Offense for Raw Milk Rights
The Ominous Warnings in Morningland Case–Why Farmers Must Move from Defense to Offense; VT Group Plans “Butter Appreciation Day” to Challenge Ban on Raw Dairy Teaching
by David E. Gumpert
The Complete Patient
In baseball, it’s three strikes and you’re out. The raw dairy/food rights movement has had three cases come up […]
Two Mexican states ban GM corn
The Mexican States of Tlaxcala and Michoacán each passed legislation banning the planting of genetically modified corn to protect natural plants from further contamination of transgenes. Together, both states produce about a third of all of Mexico’s corn. Below this story is a detailed timeline of genetic contamination and legislation in Mexico.
By Aleira Lara
It’s […]
Let the free market decide on GM food
by Deb Baumann
Lake County News
One argument used to resist genetically modified organism/genetically engineered (GMO/GE) labeling sounds an awful lot like nanny-state thinking: “We must not allow labeling of GMOs because, given a choice, people would make the wrong choice.”
Poor silly foolish misguided consumers!
How lucky we are to have giant corporations and the government making […]
Scientists under Attack – Genetic Engineering in the magnetic Field of Money
Árpád Pusztai and Ignacio Chapela have two things in common. They are distinguished scientists and their careers are in ruins. Both scientists choose to look at the phenomenon of genetic engineering. Both made important discoveries. Both of them are suffering the fate of those who criticise the powerful vested interests that now dominate big business and scientific research.
Statements […]
Family gets most of its food in the backyard
By: JAMIE STENGLE
The Washington Examiner
As the weather warms and the brown landscape turns green, Stephanie Weyenberg’s thoughts turn to planting for her family’s early spring garden.
Gardening is more than just a hobby: She and her husband, Matt, grow most of the fruit and vegetables […]
The Five Top Reasons We Need GMO’s
by Keith Line
Natural Food List
5. Because the world should eat more food that is less nutritious
Kicking off the countdown, we start with the biggest “duh” moment for the organic foodies out there. We need to eat food that is lower in vitamins and minerals. Now, there are plenty of reports […]
U.S. Study Links Pesticides to Parkinson’s Disease
by Dr. Mercola
U.S. researchers have found that people who used two types of pesticides were 2.5 times as likely to develop Parkinson’s disease. The pesticides in question are paraquat and rotenone, which are not approved for house and garden use. Research on animals had already linked paraquat to Parkinson’s.
According to Yahoo News: “Rotenone directly inhibits the […]
Methyl Iodide Pesticide Regulation to Have Negative Health Impact says DPR’s Own Scientist
Fuming: Bill Monning, center, with (from left) Paul Towers of Pesticide Watch, California State Grange President Bob McFarland and Dolores Huerta Foundation Vice President Sal Alvarez. Sara Rubin
By Sara Rubin
Monterey County Weekly
Science was “subverted” in the state Department of Pesticide Regulation’s approval of the strawberry fumigant methyl iodide, and its use is likely going […]
Researcher: Roundup or Roundup-Ready Crops May Be Causing Animal Miscarriages and Infertility
Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance
One of the nation’s senior scientists alerted the federal government to a newly discovered organism that may have the potential to cause infertility and spontaneous abortion in farm animals, raising significant concerns about human health. Dr. Don Huber, professor emeritus at Purdue University, believes the appearance […]
GM Crops Still a Tiny Part of World Agriculture – Declining in Europe and China
by GMWatch
*GM crops occupy just 3% of global agricultural land according to industry data released today.
The Annual ISAAA report on the status of GM crops around the world show a total area of 148 million hectares which represents just 3% of all the world’s agricultural land. Seventy percent of the increase in 2010 is […]
EPA Rejects Immediate Action On Pesticide Toxic To Bees
by Beyond Pesticides
(Beyond Pesticides, February 23, 2011) In response to a request by beekeepers and environmentalists to remove a pesticide linked to Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a letter, defended the pesticide clothianidin and the scientific study in question which was identified by beekeepers as a critically flawed study. […]
Pesticides on fruits and vegetables damage men’s fertility
by FIONA MACRAE
Daily Mail
Pesticides found on fruit and vegetables could be doing untold damage to male fertility, research suggests.
Thirty of 37 crop chemicals tested interfered with the action of testosterone, the sex hormone critical to a healthy male reproductive system.
Worryingly, 16 of the 30 had not previously been linked with hormone disruption.
Read the Full […]
Control over your Food: Why Monsanto GMO Seeds are Undemocratic
by Christopher D. Cook
The Christian Science Monitor
Question: Would you want a small handful of government officials controlling America’s entire food supply, all its seeds and harvests?
I suspect most would scream, “No way!”
Yet, while America seems allergic to public servants – with no profit motive in mind – controlling anything these days, a knee-jerk faith […]
Paraguay’s GM Soy Crop Destroying Farmer’s Lives Due to Poisoning by Agrochemicals
by Friends of the Earth
Paraguay’s soy harvests a new set of victims
22 February 2011
Paraguay’s soy harvest is in full swing, and with it comes disturbing news of poisoning by agrochemicals.
On Friday 7 January, 17 inhabitants of ‘Colonia Yeruti’ a small community near Canindeyu in Eastern Paraguay were taken to hospital.
They were suffering […]
Michael Pollan sheds light on approval of GMO foods and lack of labeling
Dish on GMOs
Michael Pollan, food activist and author, sheds light on the Dept. of Agriculture’s approval of GMO foods and lack of labeling on food themselves on the The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC.
Source: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/2011/feb/21/dish-gmos/