News regarding the dangers of GMOs and biotech, and the advantages of organic sustainable agriculture.
STOP GMO Campaign – BILL C-474 in Canada
by CitizensForRealFood
About 30 people, comprised of a few families and friends from an elementary school in Toronto, gave their time and skills to this project with the goal of informing Canadians of the growing prevalence of GMO’s in Canada. Bill C-474 proposes to create a regulatory obstacle to any futher approval of GMO seeds […]
Seventeen Agrifood Giants and Bill Gates Want to End Poverty: What’s Their Motive?
Onward Corporate Food Crusaders!
by Eric Holt Gimenez
Huffington Post
Excerpt from this article:
Seventeen agrifood monopolies (ADM, BASF, Bunge, Cargill, The Coca-Cola Company, DuPont, General Mills, Kraft Foods, Metro, Monsanto Company, Nestlé, PepsiCo, SABMiller, Syngenta, Unilever, Wal-Mart Stores and Yara International) rolled out a new report financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation […]
Monsanto Linked Seed Companies to Avoid
by FarmerCathy
Mothering.com Forums
I was thinking we should make a list and have it as a sticky so we could make it easier to avoid these seed companies if you so desire.
To give a little background about Monsanto if you don’t already know. They develop and sell GMO (genetically modified organisms) seeds. Seeds that […]
Friends of Family Farmers Introduce Food Bill in Oregon
by Taylor Leake
As anyone who frequents this site knows, our food system is becoming increasingly industrialized, with factory farms quickly replacing family and small-scale farms at a frighteningly fast pace. Using cheap and environmentally harmful farming practices and friendly government policies, massive corporate farming operations are wiping thousands of small farmers off the map (just like Walmart […]
The USDA’s Organic Deception
by Barbara H. Peterson
Farm Wars
Organic is organic, or is it? It would seem that it is all a matter of perspective when one takes a stroll through the mountains of documents on the FDA and USDA websites.
The word “organic” is fast becoming a high-dollar money-maker for corporations smart enough to jump on the bandwagon […]
A Conversation with Dan Imhoff: An Introduction to the Farm Bill
by Cooking Up a Story
In part 1, Daniel Imhoff explains the historical roots of the federal Farm Bill, arguably the single, biggest piece of legislation that effects land use in the U.S., and as he himself notes, most average citizens know little about this important bill.
The current farm bill is […]
GMO mosquitoes may be a catastrophic mistake
by Humayun Kabir
Free Malaysia Today
SUNGAI SIPUT: The use of laboratory mosquitoes to fight dengue may turn out to be a catastrophic mistake, according to Sungai Siput MP Dr D Jeyakumar, who is a respiratory physician.
The biggest danger, he said, was that the release of large numbers of genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes into the environment […]
Tell Obama to say NO to GMOs
by Food Democracy Now
Over the past 12 days, the Obama administration has unbelievably chosen to approve two biotech crops, Roundup Ready genetically modified (GMO) alfalfa and Roundup Ready genetically modified (GMO) sugar beets. While the planting of both crops had been temporarily halted due to court decisions, Obama’s recent approval of them will allow […]
Couple turns swimming pool into aquaponics system to feed family of four: Now 100% self sufficient
We created GardenPool.org to document our journey of converting an old backyard swimming pool in to a way to feed our family and live more self-sufficiently. When we purchased our first home in Mesa, AZ on October of 2009, it came with a large, empty, and run-down pool. Rather than spending […]
The Last Thing our Hungry World Needs is More Food
Comment from Health Impact News editor: Fred Pearce of MailOnline in the UK has written an excellent piece today looking at the current food crisis. He makes a good claim that the last thing we need is more food. His article does a good job of pitting the biotech solution to world hunger against small-scale […]
USDA Approves Genetically Engineered Sugar Beets Without Ample Review
Without issuing an environmental impact study, the USDA is going to allow permitting that would allow some farmers to grow genetically engineered sugar beets this spring.
By Leah Zerbe and Emily Main
Rodale
RODALE NEWS, STATE COLLEGE, PA—In an unprecedented, and what some food safety groups call an illegal move, the United States Department […]
Mexico, Cradle of Corn, Finds its Noble Grain Under Assault from GM Contamination
By Tim Johnson | McClatchy Newspapers
GUELATAO, Mexico — Yank the husks off ears of corn grown in the mountains of southern Mexico, and you may find kernels that are red, yellow, white, blue, black or even variegated.
It’s only one measure of the diversity of the 60 or so native varieties of […]
Philippine Agencies, State Schools That Promote GMOs Are Violating the Law — Casiño
An anti-GMO poster from Bayan Muna
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Bulatlat.com
MANILA – Government agencies and institutions that are supposed to promote organic agriculture in the Philippines are violating the law because these, too, are proponents of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño said this week.
Casiño said Congress should […]
Farmers And Conservationists Challenge Latest Federal Approval Of Genetically Engineered Sugar Beets
by Paul Achitoff
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – February 4, 2011 – In defiance of earlier court ruling, USDA allows continued growing of controversial, illegally planted crop
Today the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) issued a new decision to allow the U.S. sugar beet industry to continue growing Monsanto’s “Roundup Ready,” genetically engineered (GE) sugar beets. The […]
U.S. Looks to Monsanto to Feed the World
by Marcia Ishii-Eiteman
At the annual World Economic Forum this past weekend in Davos, Switzerland, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Director Rajiv Shah stood beside CEOs from Monsanto and other infamous giant corporations, and announced U.S. support for a “New Vision for Agriculture.”
Yes, you should be worried.
Claiming that “large-scale private sector partnerships [can] achieve significant […]
Organic Food: USDA Asked To Decide If Organic Means Outdoor
by DAVID MERCER
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — When the doors to the hen house open, the 14,000 chickens on Edwin Blosser’s organic egg farm make a mad dash for the pasture outside, where they can scratch and peck in the dirt.
“It’s just like an ocean of birds going out the doors – zoom!” Blosser said.
Greg Herbruck […]
Queen of the Sun: What are the Bees Telling Us? Film Examines the Dire Global Bee Crisis
About the film
In 1923, Rudolf Steiner, a scientist, philosopher & social innovator, predicted that in 80 to 100 years honeybees would collapse. His prediction has come true with Colony Collapse Disorder, where bees are disappearing in mass numbers from their hives with no clear single explanation. In an alarming inquiry into the insights behind […]
Bulgaria Becomes 7th EU Country to Ban GMOs
Bulgaria’s Agriculture Minister Miroslav Naydenov. Photo by bgnes
by novinite.com
Bulgaria will explicitly oppose to the proposed import of GMO-containing food products and livestock fodder in the EU.
“I received a demarche rom Argentina, Brazil, Canada and the US asking us to support their demand that EU allows GMO-containing food products and livestock fodder on its territory,” Bulgaria’s Agriculture Minister Miroslav Naydenovrevealed […]
This Could Threaten the Future of Food – Destroying the Entire Food Chain…
by Dr. Mercola
Roundup, Monsanto’s glyphosate-based herbicide, is causing Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS), a serious plant disease, in many fields. Study after study shows that glyphosate is contributing not only to the huge increase in SDS, but also to the outbreak of numerous other diseases.
Glyphosate is the world’s bestselling weed killer; it was patented by […]
Michael Pollan and Others Sign Organic Unity Statement Against Monsanto’s GE Alfalfa
Image Credit: Creative Commons photo by tea_time
by eatdrinkbetter
Heavy hitters in the food movement signed a unity statement in favor of fighting the USDA’s recent approval of GE alfalfa.
Here is the statement, in full:
In response to the USDA’s full deregulation of genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa, the following statement was released by more than 20 groups and individuals […]