Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam
by Prof. Marjorie Cohn
Global Research, June 14, 2009
marjoriecohn.com
From 1961 to 1971, the U.S. military sprayed Vietnam with Agent Orange, which contained large quantities of Dioxin, in order to defoliate the trees for military objectives. Dioxin is one of the most dangerous chemicals known to man. It has been recognized [...]
By Barbara H. Peterson Published: FarmWars
Monsanto and its cohorts in crime promised us that they would not be using Terminator technology called GURT, or genetic use restricted technology. In fact, the United Nations actually issued a moratorium on the project. So we’re safe, right? Wrong.
As usual, the boys in the little white lab coats have [...]
The H5N1 strain of flu got its genetic start on U.S. hog farms in 1990s
by David Biello
May 3, 2009
Scientific American
Some have linked the new strain of H1N1 to an industrial hog farm in Mexico
[Below is the original script. Some changes may have been made during the recording of this audio podcast.]
Amidst the hubbub [...]
by Kamalakar Duvvuru / May 2nd, 2009
Over a period of several years Monsanto, a multi-billion dollar transnational corporation (TNC), has worked very hard to build its image as a champion of the poor. To legitimize this image it is engaged in a high profile effort through giving grants to some established NGOs such as the [...]
As They Are Growing…Even
Those Used In Baby Food
Truth In Labeling.org
4-20-9
In the 1970s, reluctant food processors “voluntarily” took processed free glutamic acid (MSG) out of baby food. Today it’s back, in fertilizers called “Omega Protein Refined/Hydrolyzed Fish Emulsion” and “Steam Hydrolyzed Feather Meal,” both of which contain hydrolyzed proteins; and in a product called AuxiGro WP [...]
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First UK supermarket chain – and Britain’s biggest farmer – to prohibit chemicals implicated in the death of over one-third of British bees
A bee collects nectar from a flower in a garden in Pontevedra. Photograph: Miguel Vidal/Reuters
The Co-op today became the first UK supermarket to ban the use of a group of pesticides implicated in [...]