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Cattle, swine, chickens and other livestock receive an estimated 80 percent of the nation's antibiotics, according to the FDA. Whether used to treat our future food, prevent the spread of disease in cramped conditions or simply to promote growth, animal antibiotics are thought to affect human health via multiple pathways: direct or indirect contact with food, water, air or anywhere manure goes.
There's nothing they are leaving untouched: the mustard, the okra, the bringe oil, the rice, the cauliflower. Once they have established the norm: that seed ... 
The Ecologist - Despite intense media coverage and protests over the GM wheat trial at Rothamsted Jonathan Matthews asks whether we are being given the full facts...http://ow.ly/bai0m 
Here's a quick, simple primer on the relationship between corporate interests, farmers, and consumers. 
- EpochTimes, Vancouver, Canada A biotech company’s bid to market a genetically modified apple that doesn’t brown when sliced is prompting concern among conventional and organic fruit growers in B.C.’s Okanagan. 
All Powerful Corporations Form Global Cartel to push genetically engineered, biotech food onto the world. Full Listing of Participants http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=New_Alliance_for_Food_Security_and_Nutrition 
OUR POISONOUS, TOXIC LIVES: The health risks of toxic chemicals in our environment, as well as the politicization of the regulatory process that’s supposed to be in place..by Nick Kristof, New York Times http://grist.org/green-home/flame-retardants-and-farm-chemicals-could-affect-our-bodies-for-generations/
ALSO SEE: THE POWER OF THE CHEMICAL CARTEL 
The EU will halt France's ban on Monsanto's genetically modified strain of GMO maize started over environmental and health concerns. This should come as no surprise when considering the fact that the United States ambassador to France, a business partner to George W. Bush, stated back in 2007 that nations who did not accept Monsanto’s GMO crops will be ‘penalized’. In fact, ambassador Craig Stapleton went as far as to say that the nations should be threatened with military-styled trade wars. 
The 'Immokalee babies' were born with severe deformities after their mothers were each exposed to pesticides whilst harvesting tomatoes. 
-The Hindu The U.N. has adopted global guidelines to defend the land rights of poor farmers and recognise informal indigenous claims in a move hailed by aid groups as a step against exploitative “land grabbing”. The new voluntary rules are the result of three years of negotiations following an outcry from campaigners who accuse rich investors and developing world governments of setting up plantations that abuse human rights... http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article3412725.ece 
=Pambazuka - Africa To push genetically engineered crops into Africa, the promoters work hard to ensure lax biosafety laws, ignore the Africa Model Law on Biosafety and ensure lack of transparency while truncating participation...http://ow.ly/b6TID 
Vast swaths of Africa are being bought up by oligarchs, sheikhs and agribusiness corporations. But, as this extract from The Land Grabbers explains, centuries of history are being destroyed 
- SciDev.Net Developing countries should extend regulation on GM organisms to synthetic biology, say campaigners. They are concerned that synthetic biology products based on novel organisms could be developed, and commercialised, before there is regulation and understanding of their environmental and societal impacts. 
April 24, 2012: NEW CASE OF MAD COW DISEASE DISCOVERED IN CALIF The Washington Post http://ow.ly/auRq1 ; RIGHT Caring for Cows http://ow.ly/auOdJ
-UCSUSA Over the last 50 years, the way food animals are raised and fed has changed dramatically—to the detriment of both animals and humans.
FORCING OUR ANIMALS TO CANNIBALIZE THEIR OWN KIND: The advent of "mad cow" disease (also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE) raised international concern about the safety of FEEDING RENDERED CATTLE TO CATTLE. Animals in CAFOs are fed food unnatural to their digestive systems: Same Species Meat, Diseased Animals, and Feathers, Hair, Skin, and Blood Since the discovery of mad cow disease in the United States, the federal government has taken some action to restrict the parts of cattle that can be fed back to cattle. However, most animals are still allowed to eat meat from their own species. Pig carcasses can be rendered and fed back to pigs, chicken carcasses can be rendered and fed back to chickens, and turkey carcasses can be rendered and fed back to turkeys. Even cattle can still be fed cow blood and some other cow parts. Under current law, pigs, chickens, and turkeys that have been fed rendered cattle can be rendered and fed back to cattle—a loophole that may allow mad cow agents to infect healthy cattle. |
A highly illustrated definitive resource about one of the most important environmental and ethical issues of our time: factory farming. 
allAfrica: The Camp David summit of the G-8 countries, held on May 17-18, announced a "New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition," pitched as potentially raising 60 billion people out of poverty over the next 10 years. But the program as announced, featuring some $3 billion in investment pledges by 45 private agribusiness companies, was grotesquely out of sync with international commitments to respecting country-owned plans and prioritizing broad-based public investment to benefit smallholder farmers.African news and information for a global audience...http://allafrica.com/stories/201205250760.html 
The only way to stop the GMO takeover is to get informed, get mad, and stop buying them. 
- Prevention Magazine New York Times suggests a “Battle Brewing Over Labeling of Genetically Modified Foods.” At the heart of this “battle” is the question of whether or not these foods, recently introduced into our food supply have been “thoroughly tested.” Protected under patent law, due to their unique chemical traits and the fact that they have never before existed in nature, the industry selling these products has claimed...http://ow.ly/b9MAH
Dispute Over Labeling of Genetically Modified Food - NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/b9MfA
PUTTING THE FOX IN THE HEN HOUSE: At the Group of 8 (G8) meetings this past weekend, President Obama and the leaders of the rest of the world's richest nations abandoned their governments' previous commitments to donate $7.3 billion a year to end hunger in Africa, after disbursing only 58 percent of the total pledge of $22 billion and giving less than 6 percent in new money they pledged three years ago. Instead, rich nations will leave the problem in the hands of the "New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition" (Nice Title http://ow.ly/b8uIL) where private corporations will invest $3 billion over 10 years...http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_25508.cfm 
Six multinational companies dominate the agricultural input market, and they’re in cahoots. When a handful of corporations own the world’s seed, pesticide and biotech industries, they control the fate of food and farming. Between them, Monsanto, Dow, BASF, Bayer, Syngenta and DuPont control the global seed, pesticide and agricultural biotechnology markets. This kind of historically unprecedented power over world agriculture enables them to: http://www.panna.org/issues/pesticides-profit/chemical-cartel 
Endosulfan is the pesticide of choice for farmers in rural India trying to control insects threatening cashew nut and other crops - but the chemical can have devastating health impacts... – The Express Tribune PAKISTAN: Food sovereignty instead of food security should be a basic pillar of any agricultural development framework. The new trend of foreign corporate farming has displaced many peasants, and crops are sent abroad, which is dangerous as far as food security is concerned. “Land should be redistributed among farmers and peasants… corporate farming is the new face of feudalism”
GMWatch is an independent non-profit making organisation founded in 1998. We seek to counter the enormous corporate political power and propaganda of the biotech industry. 
FEEDING THE CORPORATE BOTTOM LINE: The G8 scheme does nothing to address the problems that are at the core of hunger and malnutrition but will serve only to further poverty and inequality....http://www.alternet.org/food/155559?page=entire Kenya is expected to formally begin the commercial plantation of GM crops in 2014, several years after the country’s premier research on crop modification kicked off, defying local and international concerns about the safety of the crops. 
President Obama wishes to introduce the Rockefeller and Gates supported Green Revolution to Africa. He appointed Michael R. Taylor, VP for Public Policy at Monsanto from 1998 to 2001, as Senior Advisor to the Commissioner of the FDA. Taylor, with Rockefeller Foundation funding, authored two papers which tied US agricultural aid to Africa to the implementation of biotechnology, including pesticides and GM seeds. 
(THE SPIN AND CO-OPTING OF TERMS LIKE "SUSTAINABLE" IS SICKENING...IN SIMPLE TERMS...THEY SEE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OUT OF AFRICA, IF DONE THEIR WAY!...POOR AFRICA...COLONIZED AGAIN..pdjmoo) “Africa has become one of our strategic growth regions and our aspiration is to "contribute" to the transformation of African agriculture. We will deploy our leading portfolio as part of a system-wide approach linking people, land and "technology", with the aim of increasing productivity "sustainably" and thereby reducing "poverty". This engagement has been catalyzed by the encouraging steps taken by "a number of African governments" (3) to stimulate "investment", and we intend to play a leading role in "public-private collaborations" which will be essential to making a planned "transformation" actually happen on the ground.” |
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