Organic Farming vs. Conventional Farming: Results of a 30 Year Study October 17th, 2011 Via: Rodale Institute: Organic yields match conventional yields. Organic outperforms conventional in years of drought. Organic farming systems build rather than deplete soil organic matter, making it a more sustainable system. Organic farming uses 45% less energy and is more efficient. [...]
‘No Food Rights’ Judge Quits to Work for Monsanto Law Firm October 13th, 2011 There ought to be a RICO investigation into that f*cker. Via: Food Freedom: The Wisconsin judge who recently ruled that we have no right to own a cow or drink its milk resigned to join one of Monsanto’s law firms. Former [...]
Millions of Bees Mysteriously Die in Florida October 2, 2011 Print Version Source: CBS Florida officials are abuzz as to how millions of honey bees were killed in Brevard County. Several beekeepers in the county have reported lost colonies this week. Charles Smith of Smith Family Honey Company told Stuart News Thursday he lost [...]
Nestle wants you to be scared of organic food September 2, 2011 Print Version Source: Grist Organic isn’t better for you? Give us a break, Nestlé.Photo: Howard LakeTom Laskawy In eye-opening comments to Fast Companythis weekend, Nestlé’s chairman and former CEO Peter Brabeck-Letmathe offers a lengthy disquisition on the “problems” associated with organic foods and [...]
Attack of the Monsanto Superinsects August 31, 2011 Print Version By Tom Philpott - Mother Jones Over the past decade and a half, as Monsanto built up its globe-spanning, multi-billion-dollar genetically modified seed empire, it made two major pitches to farmers. The first involved weeds. Leave the weed management to us, Monsanto insisted. We’ve engineered [...]
State Dept. Aggressively Pushed Genetically-Modified Crops to Help Agribusiness Giants August 28, 2011 Print Version Source: All Gov. The latest release of government files from WikiLeaks shows that the State Department has repeatedly pushed push foreign governments to approve genetically-engineered crops and promote the international business interests of corporations like Monsanto and DuPont. U.S. officials have used [...]
Choose Real Food August 13th, 2011 Via: Whole Health Source: Choose Real Food The people who design government dietary guidelines are gagged by the fact that politics and business are so tightly intertwined in this country. Their advice will never directly target the primary source of obesity and metabolic dysfunction– industrially processed food– because [...]
Truth advocates push for GMO labeling initiative to be placed on 2012 California ballot. (NaturalNews) Advocates for truth in food labeling will be working diligently this fall to gather enough signatures to get an initiative placed on the 2012 California electoral ballot that, if passed, will mandate that genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) be properly labeled within [...]
GMO’s: Invasive Species Council and USDA ignore environmental infection and contamination July 24, 2011 Print Version Marti Oakley, Contributing Writer – Activist Post The recent deregulation of genetically mutated bluegrass is the first domino to fall in the scheme to deregulate all GMO’s and to avoid having to label these disgusting creations so that consumers, [...]
Did the USDA Just Deregulate All New Genetically Modified Crops? July 18th, 2011 Via: Mother Jones: In a surprise move, the agency green-lights Roundup Ready lawn grass—and perhaps much, much more. It’s a hoary bureaucratic trick, making a controversial announcement on the Friday afternoon before a long weekend, when most people are daydreaming about [...]
Hungary destroys all GMO maize fields July 15, 2011 Print Version Source: All About Feed Some 400 hectares of maize found to have been grown with genetically modified seeds have been destroyed throughout Hungary deputy state secretary of the Ministry of Rural Development Lajos Bognar said. The GMO maize has been ploughed under, said [...]
Monsanto official Beaten by farmers in India over Failed GMO Bt Cotton Seeds July 13, 2011 Print Version Source: Salem News We have reported in the past an alarming suicide rate among farmers in India that is connected to the failure of American GMO (genetically modified organism) cotton seeds. Monsanto, the U.S. company responsible for [...]
Europe paves way for GM crop bans July 8, 2011 Source: Guardian The European Parliament on Tuesday backed plans to let member states choose whether to ban the cultivation of genetically-modified (GM) crops on their territory, giving a detailed list of grounds on which such bans could be imposed. The House voted to amend [...]
Diet Sodas Contribute to Obesity July 3rd, 2011 This has been common knowledge in alternative health circles for years, but anyway… Via: CBS News: Sorry, soda lovers – even diet drinks can make you fat. That’s the word from authors of two new studies, presented Sunday at a meeting of the American Diabetes Association in [...]
Wall Street, BP, bio-ethanol and the death of millions Global Research, July 3, 2011 by F. William Engdahl My late grandfather, a man of sturdy Norwegian-American farm stock, who later became a newspaper editor and political activist during the First World War, used to say, ‘A man can get used to pretty much anything with [...]
