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Stop the Senate Vote to Give Our Food Sovereignty to the WTO Banksters
Seeded on Wed Nov 18, 2009 2:05 AM EST (Preserve Organic Power)
There's never a bad time to know when Congress is putting one over on the public and the win for Monsanto getting WTO corporate buddy rules to trump National Standards is a wet dream come to life. More articulate details follow.
Monsanto and the Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS)
Seeded on Mon Nov 16, 2009 1:24 PM EST (Angry Mermaid)
Nominated for lobbying for RoundupReady (RR) soy to be considered a "climate-friendly" crop that is eligible for carbon credits and subsidies under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM); and for pushing for meaningless 'responsible' label for RoundupReady soy, which could be used …
Corporate investors lead the rush for control over overseas farmland
Seeded on Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:46 PM EDT (GRAIN)
With all the talk about "food security," and distorted media statements like "South Korea leases half of Madagascar's land,"1 it may not be evident to a lot of people that the lead actors in today's global land grab for overseas food production are not countries or governments …
Is Eli Lilly Milking Cancer by Promoting and Treating It?
Seeded on Fri Oct 9, 2009 11:28 AM EDT (The Huffington Post)
Years ago, an owner of a glass company was arrested for throwing bricks through store windows in his town.
Obama Caves to Agribusiness
Seeded on Thu Oct 8, 2009 12:34 PM EDT (CoOp America)
by Kathy Ozer and Marcia Ishii-Eiteman "Lobbyists won't find a job in my White House." President Obama assured us with this claim upon inauguration.
Obituary: The Borlaug I knew - Devinder Sharma
Seeded on Sat Oct 3, 2009 7:43 PM EDT (Ground Reality Blog)
Norman Borlaug passed away some 10 days back. Ever since he passed away, a number of newspapers globally have published obituries and explained his contribution to agriculture. I too was flooded with requests to write about him or to talk about his role in Indian agriculture.
New Film Seeks Answer to Mystery of Vanishing Bees
Seeded on Sat Oct 3, 2009 6:53 PM EDT (ABC News)
by Mike Collett-White LONDON - A new documentary seeks to unravel the mystery of why billions of honey bees have been disappearing from hives across the United States, and concludes that the chief suspect is pesticides. "Vanishing of the Bees," which has a limited theatrical re …
Will Heirloom Seeds Become A Thing Of The Past?
Seeded on Sat Oct 3, 2009 2:34 AM EDT (Veggie Gardener)
While it was written in the height of the summer it is even more timely as Nature sends much of our plant life to seed.
Gene mutation and food
Seeded on Fri Oct 2, 2009 12:47 AM EDT (The Asian Age)
Dr M.S. Swaminathan, considered the Father of the Green Revolution in India, finally stated his views on genetically-modified (GM) crops in an opinion piece published on August 26, 2009, in this newspaper.
Monsanto's GMO sugar beets 95% of America's 1.16 million total acres
Seeded on Tue Sep 29, 2009 12:19 AM EDT (Capital Press AgWeek)
Without human health studies or environmental impacts debated, Monsanto has taken America's sugar beet crop for it's own fee based seed and chemical portfolio.
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