Uncle Sam Food History Exhibit Promotes Food Control
By Rady Ananda Oh, gag me with a bowl of propaganda. The National Archives is hosting an historical exhibit on government say in what we eat and grow and how to cook it: “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam: The Government's Effect on the American Diet.” From the… more »
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GM crop saboteurs go free in France
By Rady Ananda On June 28, 2011, the court of Poitiers in central France acquitted eight defendant Volunteer Reapers (les Faucheurs Volontaires) of destroying a genetically modified field trial in 2008. (Image: Jose Bove) Among those acquitted were… more »
Controversial ag spending bill defunds local food systems, promotes meat monopoly
By Rady Ananda Plutocrats aimed another weapon at the nation’s poor and at small and midsized farmers, this time thru the 2012 agriculture appropriations bill, H.R. 2112, which the House passed on June 16. The 82-page bill returns some federal spending… more »
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GM foods cannot be linked to falling US birth rate
By Rady Ananda Current speculation that falling US birth rates are connected to genetically modified foods is debunked by a historical review of US birth rates. We cannot tie GM foods to falling US birth rates, yet anyway, since a look at the rate over… more »
More problems with glyphosate: Rice growers sound alarm
By Rady Ananda Adding to the natural rice industry’s woes after Bayer CropScience contaminated a third of the US rice supply with transgenic rice in 2006, the widespread application of Bayer’s glufosinate and Monsanto’s glyphosate is reducing crop… more »
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Home Rule takes a beating as Maine defeats food freedom bills
By Rady Ananda Food Freedom In the state that made international news this year when three towns passed a food sovereignty ordinance, two bills that would have bolstered them at the state level met with defeat in Maine’s legislative Agriculture,… more »
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Industry’s war on nature: ‘What are the bees telling us?’
By Rady Ananda While industries continue to pollute the planet with their toxic chemicals, toxic waste and toxic spills, Earth’s pollinators sing a swan song that leaves no doubt as to the folly of modern civilization. Our ability to hear and… more »
Tags: age of mammals, apiculture, apis mellfera, biotechnology, colony collapse disorder, evolution, factory farms, genetically engineered food, global bee colony disorders, gm crops, hfcs, high fructose corn syrup, keystone species, mass die-off, monoculture, north american bats, pesticides, pollution, queen of the sun, scientific studies, sustainable practices, taggart siegel, unep, white nose syndrome, wns
A Perfect Storm of GMOs, Chemicals and Cancer
By Rady Ananda Food Freedom Several books, including Seeds of Destruction and Corrupt to the Core, along with the film, The Idiot Cycle, lay out the framework for and evidence of a concerted effort to sicken and then treat humanity, while earning… more »
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After 20 years, nearly everyone still wants GM food to be labeled
By Rady Ananda At this MSNBC poll, over 40,000 people have voted strongly in favor of labeling genetically modified foods: 96% of all respondents. But, a review of several polls going back to 1994 reveals that the numbers have always been high -- the… more »
Canada defeats GMO hazard legislation
By Rady Ananda By a vote of 178 to 98, on February 9th, Canada's House of Commons defeated Bill C-474, an Act that would have required an analysis of potential harm to export markets before permitting the commercialization of any new genetically… more »
Tags: bayer, biotech, biotechnology, c-474, canada, dupont, environment, ge crops, genetically engineered food, gmo exports, monsanto, obama, organic, syngenta
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