May 27, 2012
(Photo: Clayton Brascoupe)Nayeli Guzman is a young Mexican woman who went to New Mexico to be part of the effort to restore traditional agriculture. Throughout the US, Native, Chicano, and other peoples are rejecting industrialized agriculture and are growing their own food instead, thereby reclaiming the health of their traditions, culture, bodies, and land. They [...]
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May 9, 2012
Making Chemical Giants Happy at Our Expense by Jim Hightower Thanks to the blessings of nature and good farmers, you and I can enjoy such scrumptious delights as fresh corn-on-the-cob, popcorn and many other variations of this truly great grain. And now, thanks to Dow Chemical and federal regulators, we can look forward to “Agent Orange [...]
Tags: Dow, Dow Chemical Company, Genetically modified organism, Herbicide, Jim Hightower, Monsanto, Mother Nature, Organic Consumers Association
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May 9, 2012
We Already Grow Enough Food for 10 Billion People… and Still Can’t End Hunger by Eric Holt-Giménez A new a study* from McGill University and the University of Minnesota published in the journal Nature compared organic and conventional yields from 66 studies and over 300 trials. Researchers found that on average, conventional systems out-yielded organic farms [...]
Tags: Agriculture, Eric Holt-Giménez, Hunger, Industrial agriculture, McGill University, Nature (journal), Organic farming, University of Minnesota
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April 15, 2012
Photo Credit: Shutterstock/Zvonimir Atletic LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. “If you put a label on genetically engineered food you might as well put a skull and crossbones on it.” – Norman Braksick, president of Asgrow Seed Co., a subsidiary of [...]
Tags: Alliance for Natural Health, Bovine somatotropin, California, Genetically modified organism, GMO, Kansas City Star, Monsanto, Organic Consumers Association, United States, Vermont
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March 27, 2012
Photo Credit: Shutterstock Outrageous Lies Monsanto and Friends Are Trying to Pass off to Kids as Science The claims made in a book from the biotechnology industry are laughable. But these blatant lies are passed off as ‘science’ for schoolchildren. March 20, 2012 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay [...]
Tags: Bayer, CBI, DuPont, Food, Grocery Manufacturers Association, Internal Revenue Service, Monsanto, Syngenta
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March 16, 2012
(SIPA/Durand Florence)The announcement comes from French Agricultural Minister Bruno Le Maire who said the decision was a “precautionary measure.” ‘Non!’: France Bans Monsanto‘s Genetically Modified Corn French PM said decision was “to protect the environment” – Common Dreams staff France has announced today that it is imposing a new temporary ban on Monsanto’s MON810 maize [...]
Tags: European commission, European Union, France, Genetically modified food, Genetically modified organism, GMO, Monsanto, Reuters
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March 3, 2012
Goodbye Overconsumption: Why the Commons Can Save Us From Drowning in Too Much Stuff Story of Stuff creator Annie Leonard talks about why the commons are so integral to our lives. February 23, 2012 | This and many other excellent articles can be found at http://www.alternet.org/ The site covers an extremely diverse range of topics from social, political and environmental matters ikners.com Annie [...]
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March 3, 2012
Big Food Must Go: Why We Need to Radically Change the Way We Eat This is not a problem we can solve by going vegetarian or vegan, or buying organic and fair trade. February 26, 2012 | Editor’s note: Find Christopher D. Cook’s book, Diet for a Dead Planet: Big Business and the Coming Food [...]
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March 3, 2012
What Are We Really Eating? Reporter Goes Undercover to Reveal the Real Story of Our Broken Food System Tracie McMillan talks about her new book and how she went undercover as a farmhand and worker at Walmart and Applebee’s. February 23, 2012 | Tracie McMillan’s The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm [...]
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February 23, 2012
Bill Gates: We Need Genetically Modified Seeds Gates’ yield-increasing claims widely refuted by studies – Common Dreams staff At a forum of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Rome today, Microsoft founder Bill Gates pressed the need for genetically modified seeds in the developing world, and the need for a “digital revolution” to [...]
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Bill Gates, Genetically modified organism, International Fund for Agricultural Development, Monsanto, Organic Consumers Association, United States, World Economic Forum
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January 17, 2012
Photo Credit: illuminating9_11 LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. Chinese researchers have found small pieces of rice ribonucleic acid (RNA) in the blood and organs of humans who eat rice. The Nanjing University-based team showed that this genetic material will [...]
Tags: Central Dogma, Central dogma of molecular biology, DNA, Genetically modified food, Genetically modified organism, MicroRNA, Monsanto, Nanjing University, RNA
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January 6, 2012
As a commodity, food is divorced from its sources - the seeds, the soil, the farmer [EPA] New Delhi, India - In November 2011, when the UPA government announced that it had cleared the entry of big retail chains such as Walmart and Tesco into India through 51 per cent Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail, it [...]
Tags: FDI, Foreign Direct Investment, India, Manmohan Singh, New Delhi, Retail, Tesco, Third World, Wal-Mart, Walmart
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December 30, 2011
The Delanceyplace.com end-of-year cuisine week! Encore excerpt favorites on food to fill the blissful week between Christmas and New Years In today’s encore excerpt – the Siege of Paris or L’Annee Terrible was the overthrow and humiliation of Paris in 1870 by Bismarck [...]
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October 16, 2011
Nude in Black and White Mr. Fish By Mr. Fish While visiting the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., at age 11, I found out that the transparent bubble on a warplane from which a gunner fires his machine gun is called a blister. This seemed somehow appropriately unsettling, as if any aircraft [...]
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September 13, 2011
Financial speculators responsible for rising global food prices, claims report Chickens are transported at a wholesale poultry market in New Delhi. In keeping with a global trend, India’s food price index is on the rise. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters Influence of financial players on agricultural commodity markets blamed for global food price inflation and hunger [...]
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August 23, 2011
JUAN GONZALEZ: The United Nations has called an emergency meeting to discuss the Horn of Africa drought, which it says has already claimed tens of thousands of lives. Famine was declared in two regions of Somalia on Wednesday, where 3.7 million people are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. Another eight million people need food assistance [...]
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August 21, 2011
LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. How Tofurky and Fake Bacon Actually Glorify Meat-Eating It’s not the meat industry advertising that makes it hard to raise a vegetarian kid–it’s the vegetarian products themselves. August 18, 2011 | As a new [...]
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August 21, 2011
A turtle caught on a Korean longline. LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. 4 Dirty Secrets Hiding In Your Tuna Can Tuna may be one of the most popular seafood products in the U.S. but there are four important things [...]
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July 26, 2011
World Food Bank Programme director Josette Sheeran says that many of the children arriving at refugee camps are already in Stage four malnutrition, meaning they have a less than 40 per cent chance of surviving [EPA] In Somalia, where civil war has ravaged the country, where conflict continues to claim victims, a new hardship is [...]
Tags: Africa, Barbara Stocking, Horn of Africa, Josette Sheeran, Somali people, Somalia, United Nation, World Food Programme
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July 26, 2011
For those interested in the cancer of the voodoo economic rhythm this editorial should be illuminating. But consider this. The US elite that wishes to rule the planet has been putting what it feels is necessary to achieve this goal for at least a century. What has always driven this march to hegemony is that the people [...]
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July 23, 2011
The Real Reason Big Macs Are Cheaper Than More Nutritious Alternatives No, we can’t blame this on Whole Foods. Healthy food is not inherently more expensive — it all comes down to government subsidies. LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. [...]
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July 13, 2011
Widespread crop failures in India have provoked over 200,000 farmers to commit suicide over the past decade [GALLO/GETTY] The proposed introduction of the Food Security Act by the UPA Government is a welcome and much needed step towards securing the right to food for all of India’s citizens. The right to food is the basis [...]
Tags: Agriculture, Food safety, Food security, India, United States, Vandana Shiva, World Bank, Yamuna Expressway
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July 6, 2011
This is yet another good article at the Gilad Atzmon site. That site can by reached at http://www.gilad.co.uk/. This article has an interview between Cattori and Plionis. I have has been mentioned on this page a few times that Israel has become like a new found friend for Greece. That raises a further interesting point. The [...]
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July 5, 2011
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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July 4, 2011
India‘s economy has been growing quickly, but activists say democracy is suffering because prosperity is being hoarded by a small group of corrupt elites [EPA] 2010 was the year of scams in India – the 2G telecom swindle, Commonwealth Games, Adarsh and plenty of others. 2011 has emerged as the year of the fight against corruption – [...]
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July 3, 2011
Asian markets search for a new model consumer after the American economy tanked, which has yet to recover [Getty] Asia needs a new model consumer. A post-crisis generation of “zombie consumers” in the United States is likely to hobble growth in global consumption for years to come. And that means that export-led developing Asia now [...]
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July 3, 2011
Time and bailouts do not cushion anemic post-crisis recoveries from the inevitable next shock [GALLO/GETTY] The global economy is in the midst of its second growth scare in less than two years. Get used to it. In a post-crisis world, these are the footprints of a failed recovery. The reason is simple. The typical business [...]
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June 30, 2011
Bio Jeff Madrick is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and a former economics columnist for The New York Times. He is editor of Challenge Magazine, visiting professor of humanities at The Cooper Union, and senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, The New [...]
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June 29, 2011
Fukushima Spews, Los Alamos Burns, Vermont Rages & We’ve Almost Lost Nebraska By Harvey Wasserman http://warisacrime.org/node/58321 Humankind is now threatened by the simultaneous implosion, explosion, incineration, courtroom contempt and drowning of its most lethal industry. We know only two things for certain: worse is yet to come, and those in charge are lying about [...]
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June 27, 2011
Arab activists say liberalisation of trade, investment and deregulation advocated by the US and the EU as part of their aid packages had contributed to the unrest in the first place. Photograph: KeystoneUSA-Zuma/Rex Features Arab activists warned on Monday that conditions attached to western aidthreatened to undercut the goals of economic and social justice at the [...]
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June 27, 2011
2010 Sydney Peace Prize to Dr. Vandana Shiva, Indian Scientist and Environmental Campaigner The distinguished Indian physicist and environmentalist Dr. Vandana Shiva is the recipient of the 2010 Sydney Peace Prize. The citation for Dr. Shiva’s selection reads, “For courageous leadership of movements for social justice – the empowerment of women in developing countries, advocacy [...]
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June 26, 2011
Diabetes epidemic affecting 350m – and western fast food is to blame Two employees stand behind the counter of the first McDonald’s fast-food restaurant in New Delhi, India. Photograph: Agence France Presse/Getty Images More than 350 million people in the world now have diabetes, an international study has revealed. The analysis, published online by the [...]
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June 26, 2011
“A Moment in the Sun”: An Extended Interview with Independent Filmmaker, Author John Sayles Share1172 We spend the hour with legendary independent filmmaker and author, John Sayles. Over the past three decades, he has directed 17 feature films, including Return of the Secaucus Seven, Matewan, Lone Star, and Eight Men Out. He has often used [...]
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June 26, 2011
An injured protester and his family at a hospital after clashing with police during protests in Juliaca [Reuters] Thousands of protesters opposed to mining and energy projects in southern Peru have taken over a commercial airport as the government struggled to restore calm a day after five died in a clash with police. Officials said [...]
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June 26, 2011
The number of adults who have been diagnosed with diabetes worldwide has more than doubled since 1980 to 347 million, a far larger number than previously thought, a new study has found. An international team of researchers working with the World Health Organisation has found that the rates of diabetes have either risen or, at [...]
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June 13, 2011
Lewis Lapham, Eating Money Posted by Lewis Lapham at 5:11pm, June 12, 2011. Could there have been a pickier eater in 1950s America than me? I doubt it. Among the many things I wouldn’t eat was spaghetti and meatballs. (Gross!) Or at least I refused until one summer on return from camp, I told my [...]
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Been waiting a long time for this. But not surprised. Are you? Think first a Monbiot point of view
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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