By MADGE The whole world is facing challenges of an enormous scale, complexity and depth. Unfortunately, as Naomi Klein set out so clearly in “The Shock Doctrine,” disaster can be very profitable for those willing to take advantage.
By MADGE The whole world is facing challenges of an enormous scale, complexity and depth. Unfortunately, as Naomi Klein set out so clearly in “The Shock Doctrine,” disaster can be very profitable for those willing to take advantage.
Shopping for duck eggs, raw-milk cream and summer sausage on the foodie black market By Sarah Elton Macleans.ca The customers arrived one by one on a rainy Saturday morning at the secret meeting spot, a parking lot tucked behind a video store in a suburb of Toronto. There were 30 families in all: the...
Two free videos on Codex, which is set to go into effect Dec. 31, 2009. We Become Silent: The Last Days of Health Freedom (29 mins, 2005), a film by Kevin P. Miller, narrated by Judi Dench (pictured left), covering Codex Alimentarius, which seeks to criminalize nutrients and dietary supplements.
By Guy Montague-Jones Baker and Snacks Dean Foods is one of the largest dairy processing firms in the US, and according to Sanders, the Justice Department should investigate whether the company has a monopoly grip on the market.
CIFOR Releases Guidelines to Foodborne Outbreak Response; FSWG Issues Key Control Findings By Rady Ananda The Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response just released its Guidelines for Foodborne Outbreak Response. Earlier this month, Obama’s new Food Safety Working Group, headed by Monsanto executive Michael Taylor, released its Key Control Findings. Decentralizing the food supply would...
By The Writers Collective and Friends of Farmers Cherry growers face ten years in prison and/or $7.5 million in penalties for citing scientific studies. Why?
By Jenny Tomkins In These Times When Nestlé Waters North America, the world’s largest bottler of water, comes a-courting, promising jobs and increased tax revenues in exchange for local water rights, many small, rural towns get nervous.
PROGRAM ON HOLD: House bill cuts off spending for system By MARC HELLER, Watertown Daily Times WASHINGTON — Congress is on the verge of putting on hold a national system to track livestock, telling the Obama administration it will not fund the effort until the U.S. Department of Agriculture does a better job implementing it.
Appeals Court Rules Planting of Biotech Crop Can Cause Irreversible Harm to Organic and Conventional Crops, Farmers, and the Environment. Monsanto’s Petition to Rehear Denied in Full The Center for Food Safety In a decision handed down here today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has re-affirmed its previous decision...
By Rady Ananda Scrap NAIS; decentralize the food industry The hottest topic in agriculture is NAIS – the proposed National Animal Identification System. Using embedded microchips and mountains of paperwork, the federal government plans to create a database that tracks every animal in the nation. Independent producers and privacy advocates adamantly oppose the plan.
By Stephen Leahy IPS VIENNA, Jul 6 (Tierramérica) - Indigenous peoples risk losing control over their traditional knowledge if the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) insists on strict standards for managing access to information. Patents and other forms of restricting access to knowledge are very worrisome in a time of climate change, says a...
By The Writers’ Collective You sent this out: “Congress considers food safety legislation “A federal bill that would significantly reform oversight of food safety by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has passed out of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. “The Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 would give the FDA more authority...
By Union of Concerned Scientists For years the biotechnology industry has trumpeted that it will feed the world, promising that its genetically engineered crops will produce higher yields. That promise has proven to be empty, according to Failure to Yield, a report by UCS expert Doug Gurian-Sherman released in March 2009. Despite 20 years of research and...
SBS showed a programme called “Can GM food feed the world?” last Tuesday. It was presented as an organic farmer’s exploration into GM. Its claims that GM can feed the world, is safe and environmentally friendly are debunked here.
By Steve Lendman America is the truest example of what George Bernard Shaw meant when he said “Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.” Obama is upholding the tradition and then some.
By John Vidal Guardian UK The acquisition of farmland from the world’s poor by rich countries and international corporations is accelerating at an alarming rate, with an area half the size of Europe’s farmland targeted in the last six months, reports from UN officials and agriculture experts say.
By Rady Ananda What do urbanites know about farming? ana Sofia joanes’ Fresh shows us how a sustainable food system operates – by focusing on personal and community stories of change. Fresh is delightful, humorous and charming. What else can be said of a film that opens with, “Pig, pig, pig, pig”? But it...
By Rady Ananda Wanna avoid talking heads telling you about the ills of factory farming? Tired of the sweetness of organic growers and their lifestyle? Then watch Our Daily Bread, which takes a bizarre, potent, and artistically silent view of how the vast bulk of our food is produced.
By The Writers’ Collective and Friends of American Farmers The Fourth of July is rightly celebrated by picnics and parades and fireworks, all in their own way expressions of freedom. The freedom to eat what we wish, the freedom to gather publicly, the freedom to broadcast how we feel. We fought to be free...
By Josh Harkinson Mother Jones In March, Michelle Obama delighted locavores when she planted an “organic” vegetable gardenon the White House’s South Lawn.
By True Food Network (A project of the Center for Food Safety) The biotechnology firm ArborGen has asked the USDA for permission to conduct 29 field trials of genetically engineered “cold tolerant” eucalyptus trees in the U.S. For the first time in history, this massive experiment, which is on the verge of being green-lighted, will...
By Darol Dickinson, Farm Wars Let’s call him Mr. B. He was a very auspicious Texas businessman and Mr. B planned to stay that way. His success had come hard, taking the highest risks, and no half pint politician was going to pass some bleeding heart law to thwart his achievements. Mr. B volunteered...
By The PEN Here we have yet another phony food safety bill, which does NOTHING but grant the FDA massive new police powers without actual policy oversight. And it would do NOTHING to solve the actual problem, the stinking cesspools which call themselves “modern” factory farms, the SOLE source of whatever filth there is in our food supply....
By Rory Harrington Food Navigator EU chiefs have been criticised for approving a draft regulation on food from cloned animals that could “keep options open” for its eventual authorisation in the region, claimed opponents.
At the Platt family ranch in Horse Springs, N.M., cattle were rounded up to be branded and tagged. The family opposes a government plan to track cattle with computer chips. Photo by Eric Draper By Erik Erikholm New York Times HORSE SPRINGS, N.M. — Wranglers at the Platt ranch were marking calves the old-fashioned way...
Directed by court order obtained by Tyson, the U.S. Marshals Service on June 11, 2009, posted a No Trespassing sign and Warning on the front door of the home of South Dakota rancher and cattle feeder Herman Schumacher. Tyson obtained a judgment against Schumacher because he tried to protect his fellow cattle producers by...
More Evidence of a Tattered Food and Chemical Safety Net By Environment Working Group Animal Studies Link Chemical to Cancer, Brain and Reproductive Disorders WASHINGTON– Large plastic pallets used to ship, cool and store produce contain decabromodiphenyl ether (Deca), a flame retardant chemical and known neurotoxin that may leach onto the fruits and vegetables...
By Mary Wandia Pambazuka News cc Find Your FeetAfrican women play a critical role in ensuring the food security of the continent, writes Mary Wandia in the run-up to the 2009 African Union Summit (24 June-3 July), which has its official theme ‘Investing in agriculture for economic growth and development’. Highlighting that women contribute 60-80 per cent...
The Global Spread of GMO Crops By Peter Montague permaculture.org Felix Ballarin spent 15 years of his life developing a special organically-grown variety of red corn. It would bring a high price on the market because local chicken farmers said the red color lent a rosy hue to the meat and eggs from their...
2006 Video Report by Manfred Ladwig DW-TV (Deutsche Welle Television) www.DW-world.de 28 mins. How safe is genetic engineering really? Monsanto, the world’s largest genetic engineering corporation, insists it is safe. But numerous studies have shown that genetically modified plants can cause allergies and cancers. Nonetheless, commercial and political interests are determined to make genetic...
Ohio Voters – Please Care By Suzana Megles This week both HSUS and Farm Sanctuary warned Ohioans of Big Agribusiness lobbying to have legislation introduced which would amend the state constitution to give industry oversight over the well-being of farm animals.
By Rady Ananda June 21, 2009 Take a slo-mo aerial tour of Earth. Released on June 5th, over two and a half million people have already watched Home. The message is potent: it is too late for pessimism. We can redirect our use of energy, of farming, of transportation. We can and must live...
By Rory Harrington Food Production Daily A proposal to allow individual countries in the European Union to opt out of growing genetically modified (GM) crops is to be tabled this week at a top-level meeting at the European Commission. The bid for GM national self-determination comes as 11 nations plan to present a paper at the...
By Linn Cohen-Cole February 26, 2009 The “food safety” bills now being contemplated by Congress enslave farmers to an industrial system (having to do its bidding or face penalties and prison so severe they function as whips). The bills will demand purchase and application of petrochemicals and drugs, rendering the farmers not only slaves...
Not what the American people ordered – HR 2749, martial law and the enslavement of their farmers By The Writers’ Collective HR 2749 is a strange bill in many ways. While the other “food safety” bills have been around since winter, allowing for much public discussion on the internet, HR 2749 has only suddenly...
The seeds we see today are the result of many thousands of years of interaction between humanity and the environment, driven by our seasonal migration as hunter-gatherers and, later, our pattern of sowing and harvesting.
By privatizing the achievements of our ancestors, man is destroying the commons of being, replacing them with legal fictions, such as property and so-called intellectual property. Demeter defends the commons and gives the indignados of this world the power to fight against such arrogation of property.
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