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"FAST TRACK* "(trade) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_track_%28trade%29
May 15, 2013 RTCCnewswire
>>>> UPDATE:March 21, 2013 NEW BIOTECH "MONSANTO PROTECTION ACT' PASSES CONGRESS IN ANONYMOUS RIDER - Gives Immunity From Federal Law, Minimum Regulation and Oversight to Biotech GMO Cartel http://sco.lt/5I0Oi9
>>>> UPDATE March 27, 2013 MONSANTO, BIOTECH AG BUYS OBAMA, THE SENATE AND THE GLOBAL FARM
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE : OBAMA LED NEW SECRETIVE TRADE PACTS WILL IMPACT US ALL AS SOVEREIGNITY RIGHTS ARE NEGOTIATED AWAY http://sco.lt/6P14JF
MEET MONSANTO'S NUMBER ONE LOBBYIST : BARACK OBAMA http://sco.lt/98RKFN
>>>> OBAMA'S BIOECONOMY BLUEPRINT PROMOTES A GENETICALLY-ENGINEERED, SYNTHETIC BIOTECH FUTURE - Through THE NATIONAL BIOECONOMY BLUEPRINT the Obama administration is seeking to support genetic engineering, synthetic biotech as a main component of “American innovation and economic growth”. .... http://occupycorporatism.com/obamas-bioeconomy-promotes-a-genetically-engineered-future/
>>>> THE GLOBAL BIOTECH CARTEL - AN UNPRECEDENTED POWER OVER WORLD FOOD SUPPLY http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/1716244040/the-global-chemical-biotech-cartel-an-unprecedented-power-over-world-agriculture-and-human-health
>>>> BIOTECH GIANTS ENSURE MINIMAL PUBLIC OVERSIGHT OF THEIR PRODUCTS | Mother Jones http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/08/biotech-gmo-deregulation
May 13, 2013 Moyers and Company - Full Show:
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29 March, 2013 - "MONSANTO PROTECTION ACT" SPURS USDA INTO PROMOTING GMO CROPS ONE WAY OR ANOTHER USDA Announces New Conservation Collaboration with DuPont to Promote "Sustainable" Harvesting of Bio-based Feedstocks for Cellulosic Ethanol http://usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2013/03/0058.xml&contentidonly=true
23 March, 2013 - Los Angeles Times GENETIC MODIFICATION STRAINS OLD FOOD AND DRUG LAWS - HOW A FISH BECOMES A DRUG AND CORN A PEST http://sco.lt/6vynBp
>>>>> USDA Blog » USDA’s BIOTECHNOLOGY FLIMSY DEREGULATION PROCESS http://blogs.usda.gov/2011/06/28/usda%E2%80%99s-biotechnology-deregulation-process/ NO Independent Peer Reviewed Studies, NO studies on impact on human or ecosystems or animals who eat this re-engineered food either, NO Regulations for crop contamination. WHO IS RUNNING THIS SHOW?
--------------------------------BACKGROUND----------------------------- June 11, 2012 >>>>> QUIETLY, BEHIND THE SCENES...OBAMA DEREGULATES GMO CROPS DESPITE SUPREME COURT INJUNCTION, http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/1400:obama-deregulates-gmo-crops-despite-supreme-court-injunction November 21, 2012 >>>> OBAMA & CONGRESS WILL CONTINUE DEREGULATION ON GENETIC & BIOTECH FOR FINANCIAL GAINS: Pharmaceutical, Agriculture and Chemical Industries Get a Free Pass. http://occupycorporatism.com/obama-congress-will-continue-genetic-biotech-relationship-for-financial-gains/ >>>> OBAMA URGED TO ELIMINATE CONTROL BIOTECH COMPANIES HAVE OVER USA REGULATORY PROCESS: http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/2256131066/obama-urged-to-eliminate-control-biotech-companies-have-over-us-regulatory-process December 15, 2012 >>>>> MONSANTO GETS IT WAY IN AG BILL Organic Consumers >>>>>2012 FARM BILL GIVES MONSANTO UNBELIEVABLE POWERS OVER US FOOD SUPPLY http://www.politicolnews.com/farm-bill-gives-monsanto-unbelievable-powers-over-us-food-supply/http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/news.cfm >>>>>>FARM BILL 2008 http://www.biopreferred.gov/files/FarmBill_2008.pdf >>>> OBAMA TO AGGRESSIVELY PROMOTE BIOTECHNOLOGY, REDUCING APPROVAL TIMES, WITHOUT INDEPENDENT PEER REVIEW, REGULATIONS, OVERSIGHT OR LABELING http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/2256091418/obama-seeks-to-aggressively-promote-biotechnology-reducing-approval-times-independent-peer-review >>>> NEW OBAMA DIRECTIVE – 2,300 untested BioTech Products Now Preferred purchasing for Federal Procurement, April 2012 >>>> OBAMA AG BILL GIVES "FOOD MAFIA" CARTE BLANCHE GO AHEAD TO FEED US BIOTECH ENGINEERED GMO FOODS - NO oversight NO Regulation NO Labeling http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3728095577/obama-ag-bill-gives-food-mafia-carte-blanche-go-ahead-to-feed-us-biotech-gmo-foods-no-oversight-no-regulation-no-public-input
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>>>>> AFRICA - SOLD: OBAMA PUTS BIG 6 CHEMICAL GMO GIANTS IN CHARGE OF AFRICAN BIOTECH TAKEOVER -- "ENDING HUNGER" -- IN AFRICA http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/1837261743/africa-sold-obama-puts-big-6-chemical-gmo-giants-in-charge-of-ending-hunger-in-africa >>>> OBAMA PUSHES GM FOODS INTO AFRICA - IS MONSANTO RUNNING THE US GOVT., USDA AND FDA? http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/1810977040/usa-and-obama-pushes-gm-foods-on-ghana-africa-is-monsanto-running-the-us-govt-usda-and-fdahttp://content.govdelivery.com/bulletins/gd/USDAOC-437595 >>>> UNITED NATIONS: PRIVATIZING FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL AID IS DANGEROUS; OBAMA'S AFRICA PLAN IS WRONG http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3690156835/un-privatizing-food-and-agricultural-aid-is-dangerous-obama-s-africa-plan-is-wrong >>>>>THE HUNGER GAMES - HOW UK AND USA GOVERNMENTS SUPORT FOR BIG AGRIBUSINESS IS FUELING POVERTY IN AFRICA http://sco.lt/6UGd17
>>>>>GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS NOT THE SOLUTION FOR "FEEDING THE WORLD" http://sco.lt/77BuML >>>> OBAMA & CONGRESS WILL CONTINUE DEREGULATION ON GENETIC & BIOTECH FOR FINANCIAL GAINS: Pharmaceutical, Agriculture and Chemical Industries Get a Free Pass. http://occupycorporatism.com/obama-congress-will-continue-genetic-biotech-relationship-for-financial-gains/ >>>>> OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WHOLESALE APPROVAL OF GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOODS (Snucked in same time last year during the holidays) http://www.nwrage.org/content/wholesale-approval-genetically-engineered-foods-%E2%80%94-obama-administration-disappointsangers-pub November 21, 2012
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>>>>> NEW EXECUTIVE ORDER TO USE INTERNATIONAL FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS TO PUSH BIOTECH GMO WORLDWIDE http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/1716931124/us-govt-in-collusion-with-biotech-industry-new-executive-order-to-use-international-free-trade-agreements-as-a-club
+++ NEW SECRETIVE CORPORATE TRANS PACIFIC TRADE DEAL WILL IMPACT US ALL AS OUR RIGHTS AND REGULATIONS ARE NEGOTIATED AWAY http://sco.lt/62UixN
January 2012 >>>> USA TO START 'TRADE WARS' WITH NATIONS OPPOSED TO MONSANTO, GMO CROPS http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/946621471/leaked-us-to-start-trade-wars-with-nations-opposed-to-monsanto-gmo-crops >>>> OBAMA HAS OPENED THE DOOR - THE HORSE IS OUT OF THE STABLE: Downing Street Says "Speed Up Roll-Out of GM Crops" | Seed Today, Dec. 23, 2012 http://www.seedtoday.com/articles/Downing_Street_Says__Speed_Up_Roll_Out_of_GM_Crops_-128827.html 18 February 2013 - Earth Open Source “If the new trade agreement goes through, it will be illegal under World Trade Organisation rules for the EU to have a stronger regulatory system for GMOs than the US system. It will be a race to the bottom in which public health will be the loser....http://earthopensource.org/index.php/news/140-eu-us-free-trade-deal-will-dismantle- Public Citizen: >>>>>GLOBALIZATION AND TRADE INITIATIVES http://ow.ly/kr4c6 - TransPacific Partnership - Learn more about the corporate power grab thru trade negotiations and agreements http://www.citizen.org/tradewatch
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>>>>>THE NEXT GMO BIOTECH WAVE: EXTREME SYNTHETIC GENETICS. THE IMPLICATIONS. THE ETHICS http://sco.lt/6TyUmv
>>>>>>BIOTECH IS RE-ENGINEERING, RE-PROGRAMMING AND PATENTING LIFE ITSELF. THE ETHICS AND LEGALITIES http://sco.lt/9Hu7Tl >>>> ALTERED GENES, TWISTED TRUTH http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/2781911364/altered-genes-twisted-truth >>>>>PATENT FOR A PIG: Scientists "improve" transgenic GMO 'Enviropigs' http://sco.lt/8QrUPJ >>>>>HOW GMO FOODS AFFECT HEALTH - GENE ALTERED FOODS NOW LARGE PART OF AMERICAN DIET http://sco.lt/7oVxQH
>>>>>>THE NEW BIOMASSTERS - SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY AND THE NEXT ASSAULT ON BIODIVERSITY AND LIVELIHOODS: ETC Group www.etcgroup.org/content/new-biomassters
>>>>>>GENE GIANTS SEEK 'PHILANTHROGOPOLY' - 6 MULTINATIONAL GENE GIANTS CONTROL THE DIRECTION OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD WORLDWIDE http://sco.lt/6h3lzt
>>>>>WHY THE MOST POWERFUL THING IN THE WORLD IS A SEED - THE GLOBAL CORORATE MONOPOLY IN SEED PATENTS http://sco.lt/5O0tFZ
>>>>>>HOW MONSANTO OUTFOXED THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION- OWNING THE SEEDS OF LIFE PATENTS http://sco.lt/8OMWHZ
>>>> THE GMO SEED PATENT GAME: How Seed Companies Control GM Crop Research? - Scientific American http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/946593435/the-seed-patent-game-do-seed-companies-control-gm-crop-research-scientific-american
January 12, 2013 Science News >>>> MONSANTO INSURANCE: USDA TELL FARMER TO PAY FOR AVOIDING TROUBLES WITH AGRO-GIANT http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3454208573/monsanto-insurance-usda-tells-farmers-to-pay-for-avoiding-troubles-with-agro-giant
>>>> GMOs IN THE PIPELINE. LOOKING TO THE NEXT FIVE YEARS IN the crop, forestry, livestock, aquaculture and agro-industry sectors in developing countries" UN FAO (FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION) http://www.fao.org/biotech/biotech-forum/en/
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+++ MONSANTO A DOCUMENTARY ON GMO A MUST WATCH YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omtYlsG1P5U
>WATCH: "GENETIC ROULETTE - THE GAMBLE OF OUR LIVES" - YouTube 1:24:59 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrWRzxMUfDE >THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONANTO (FULL LENGTH) THE LEADER OF THE GLOBAL BIOTECH CARTEL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6_DbVdVo-k >THE FUTURE OF FOOD PART 2 Vandana Shiva http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/951852556/the-future-of-food-part-2-vandana-shiva >"FOOD INC." (2008) The stranglehold on our food supply by corporate conglomerates ?http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3732889325/watch-again-food-inc-2008-and-obama-usda-promote-and-foster-this >"GENETIC ROULETTE" The Gamble of Our Lives http://youtu.be/wnlTYFKBg18 >UNITED NATIONS: WHY GM CROPS ARE NOT THE SOLUTION? http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/1228040300/united-nations-why-are-gm-crops-not-the-solution >A SYSTEM BASED ON PROFITS IS UNSUSTAINABLE ....Vandana Shiva on Industrial Agriculture http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/1614565249/a-system-based-on-profits-is-unsustainable-vandana-shiva-on-industrial-agriculture >"SEEDING DEEP DEMOCRACY" - Vandana Shiva http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/1054461972/seeding-deep-democracy-vandana-shiva >VIDEO REPORT - Real News Network
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>>>> TOP US HEALTHCARE GIANT, KAISER PERMANENTE, ISSUES WARNING ON GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3585794502/top-us-healthcare-giant-kaiser-permanente-issues-warning-on-genetically-engineered-food >>>> OBAMA ADMINISTRATION GIVES TENTATIVE APPROVAL TO FRANKENFISH Dec. 28, 2012 TruthOut http://truth-out.org/news/item/13594-obama-administration-gives-tentative-approval-to-frankenfish >>>>> “FATALLY FLAWED' FDA ASSESSMENT TO UNLEASH GENETICALLY ENGINEERED SALMON ONTO YOUR DINNER PLATE - NO Regulations NO Oversight NO Public Input Dec. 20 2012 http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3819809217/fatally-flawed-fda-assessment-to-unleash-genetically-engineered-salmon-onto-your-dinner-plate-no-regulation-no-oversight-no-labeling December 21, 2012 >>>>> BIO APPLAUDS FDA ACTION ON GE SALMON http://www.bio.org/media/press-release/bio-applauds-fda-action-ge-salmon
-----------------GMO's USE TONS AND TONS OF PESTICIDES--------------
April 27, 2013 Guardian Environment
>>>>>PESTICIDE OVERLOAD: 1.1 BILLION POUNDS USED PER YEAR...AND...NEW USA LEGISLATION BANS RETALIATION http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/986291397/pesticide-overload-1-1-billion-pounds-used-per-year-and-new-usa-legislation-bans-retaliation >>>> WHY IS OUR FOOD BEING MADE AND MODIFIED BY THE WORLD'S LARGEST PESTICIDE MANUFACTURERS? http://gmo-awareness.com/all-about-gmos/gmo-defined/ >>>>> HOW BIOTECH CORPORATIONS AND GMO CROPS ARE THREATENING THE ENVIRONMENT AND HUMANKIND ALIKE http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3583767396/how-biotech-corporations-and-gmo-crops-are-threatening-the-environment-and-humankind-alike >>>> WHY GENETIC MODIFICATION OF CROPS AND LIVESTOCK IS INHERENTLY UNCONTROLLABLE AND HAZARDOUS http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3075683244/why-genetic-modification-of-crops-and-livestock-is-inherently-uncontrollable-and-hazardous
>>>>> ORGANIC FARMERS ALARMED BY OBAMA USDA DEREGULATION OF MUTANT ALFAFA - ABC News, Jan 31, 2011 http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/organic-farmers-alarmed-obama-deregulation-mutant-alfalfa/story?id=12786580#.UNfgTbbZ03Y >>>> THE POWERFUL USDA ALLOWS MORE GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS TO MARKET DESPITE SERIOUS HEALTH CONCERNS http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3337601961/the-powerful-usda-allows-more-genetically-modified-foods-to-market-despite-serious-health-concerns
>CANCER OF CORRUPTION, SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION: THE MONSANTO GMO WHITEWASH http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3826752991/cancer-of-corruption-seeds-of-destruction-the-monsanto-gmo-whitewash
>>>> POOR COUNTRIES URGED TO GET READY FOR SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY ONSLAUGHT http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/1715762752/poor-countries-urged-to-get-ready-for-synthetic-biology-onslaught
AND THE BIOTECH IS REPEATING THIS IN INDIA APPAULING - IT SEEMS THE ONLY WAY THE GLOBAL BIOTECH CARTEL CAN GET ITS' HOOKS IN, IS BY UNDERHANDED, COLLUSIONARY TACTICS AND "SNEAKING" BILLS INTO FOREIGN GOVERNMENT BILLS - INDIAN GOVERNMENT SNEAKS IN DEEPLY FLAWED BIOTECH BILL GIVING FREE REIN TO INDUSTRY http://www.gmfreein.org/content/govt-betrays-nation-earth-day-tables-deeply-flawed-biotech-regulatory-authority-india-brai-0
AND NOW OBAMA HAS MOVED ONTO OUR FACTORY-FARM RAISED FOOD - THE DEREGULATION JUGGERNAUT IS ON: April 24, 2013 Mother Jones Tom Philpott +++ANTI-WHISTLE BLOWER AG-GAG BILLS AIMED AT KEEPING YOU IN THE DARK ABOUT PIGS, FACTORY FARMS -- AND YOUR FOOD http://sco.lt/7aFBUv 24 April 2013 Grist April 9, 2013 AlterNet
---------------------------AND FINALLY >>>>> NANO-PESTICIDES SNEAKED ONTO THE MARKET (AND CONSUMER PRODUCTS) WITHOUT INDEPENDENT PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH/TESTING OR REGULATION OR OVERSIGHT http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/2029721070/nano-pesticides-sneaked-onto-the-market-and-consumer-products-without-regulation-or-oversight
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Bill Gates, the heavy Monsanto investor who purchased 500,000 shares of the biotech giant in 2010, has been touting Monsanto’s genetically modified creations as a tool that is necessary to prevent starvation in poor nations. The same poor nations where thousands of farmers routinely commit suicide after being completely bankrupt by Monsanto’s overpriced and ineffective GM seeds.
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In this short documentary Michael Hart, a conventional livestock family farmer, discusses the reality of farming genetically modified crops in the USA ten years after their introduction. Delete the scoop?
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This BioScience piece documents not only the current state of glyphosate resistant weeds, but also ties the development of genetically engineered herbicide resistant crops, especially 2,4-D and dicamba resistant crops, to the decline of sustainable weed management, and to the decline of sustainable agriculture more generally. Delete the scoop?
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Michael Hart, a conventional livestock family farmer, has been farming in Cornwall for nearly thirty years and has actively campaigned on behalf of family farmers for over fifteen years, travelling extensively in Europe, India, Canada and the USA. In this short documentary he investigates the reality of farming genetically modified crops in the USA ten years after their introduction. He travels across the US interviewing farmers and other specialists about their experiences of growing GM. Delete the scoop?
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Washington DC (SPX) Jan 23, 2012 - While last month's climate negotiations in Durban made incremental progress toward helping farmers adapt to climate change and reduce agriculture's climate footprint, a group of international agricu... Delete the scoop?
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Bee-killing pesticides aren't just for big ag. They're in many popular home gardening products too. Delete the scoop?
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RT @ComingFamine "I think we need to move to an entirely new paradigm about feeding the world, and doing it at the global scale with global strategies," Foley said. "Instead of calling it agriculture, which we've had for 10,000 years, maybe it's time for something new, what I like to call terraculture, or farming for the whole planet." During the first morning of the GreenBiz Forums, Jon Foley, director of the University of Minnesota's Institute of the Environment, laid out a business plan for the Earth that aims to feed 9 billion people by 2050 while shrinking agriculture's... Delete the scoop?
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This week BASF announced that it is moving its GMOs out of Europe. Will the English-speaking media lose its nerve and write about it? Based on past experience, my wager goes to the habitual policy of silence, and I expect that the news will continue all but unrecorded in English. Most of us will not celebrate as we should...... Written by: Ignacio Chapela is Associate Professor of Microbial Ecology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a Senior Researcher at GenØk, the National Center for Biosafety, Norway. Delete the scoop?
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Today in the United States, by the simple act of feeding ourselves, we unwittingly participate in the largest experiment ever conducted on human beings. Massive agro-chemical companies like Monsanto (Agent Orange) and Dow (Napalm) are feeding us genetically-modified food, GMO's, that have never been fully tested and aren't labeled. This small handful of corporations are tightening their grip on the world's food supply—buying, modifying, and patenting seeds to ensure total control over everything we eat. Delete the scoop?
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The documentary film "Vanishing of the Bees" unveils the phenomenon called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) and the real causes of bee death all over the U.S." The danger of accumulated pesticides in the environment and the lack of USA federal agency oversight in favor of manufacturers's studies without independent review is a major cause for concern. 90% of food we eat is treated with pesticides, over a billion pounds of these toxic chemicals are used annually on the huge agricultural western monocrop farms. Before releasing these highly toxic chemicals into our environment, a responsible nation would ensure that independent interdisciplinary studies are carried out to determine affects on both our ecosystems AND human health.
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— Environmental Health News Throughout North Dakota, little yellow flowers dot thousands of miles of roadsides. These canola plants, found along most major trucking routes, look harmless. But they are fueling a controversy: They prove that large numbers of genetically modified plants have escaped from farm fields and are now growing wild. About 80 percent of canola growing along roadsides in North Dakota contains genes that have been modified to make the plants resistant to common weed-killers. Delete the scoop?
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A new, crowd-sourced website plans to document every angle of the food system. Given its stated aim of documenting "the entire food system", and given that ANYONE can upload photos and tell the story of their food, it seems like there is an opportunity for activists to tell the stories of the industrial food system through this platform too. Via pdjmoo Delete the scoop?
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Whether you’re worried about hunger, social crises, or climate change, the solution is the same: small-scale farming.
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Did a recent scientific study just change the way we should think about the safety of genetically modified foods? According to Ari Levaux at theAtlantic, the answer is a resounding yes.
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