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How Big Food Corporations Lobby and Market Obesity to Children

How Big Food Corporations Lobby and Market Obesity to Children | YOUR FOOD, YOUR HEALTH: Latest on BiotechFood, GMOs, Pesticides, Chemicals, CAFOs, Industrial Food | Scoop.it
From www.reuters.com - May 15, 2012 5:18 AM

HBO LAUNCHES AN UNPRECEDENTED CAMPAIGN ON CORPORATE FOOD AND THE OBESITY, DIABETES AND CANCER EPIDEMIC - WATCH: "The Weight of the Nation" - HBO TRAILER http://ow.ly/aUnfS

 

- Reuters, Washington DC

In the political arena, one side is winning the war on child obesity.The side with the fattest wallets.After aggressive lobbying, Congress declared pizza a vegetable to protect... http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/27/us-usa-foodlobby-idUSBRE83Q0ED20120427

 

LISTEN TO NPR INTERVIEW: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/14/152667325/pounding-away-at-americas-obesity-epidemic

READ: ‘Weight of the Nation’ takes a realistic look at a looming crisis | Grist http://ow.ly/aULXw

How Monsanto and their GMO agenda dominate our colleges and universities http://ow.ly/aWw5z Via Food and Water Watch

SEE ALSO: WHY REGULATIONS ARE IMPORTANT: More Empty Government Recommendations on Junk Food Marketing to Children http://ow.ly/aU99j

 

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A road map for food security as the climate changes - A gold mine for #GMO, Big Ag and LandGrabs

A road map for food security as the climate changes - A gold mine for #GMO, Big Ag and LandGrabs | YOUR FOOD, YOUR HEALTH: Latest on BiotechFood, GMOs, Pesticides, Chemicals, CAFOs, Industrial Food | Scoop.it
From www.seeddaily.com - January 22, 2012 11:31 PM
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...
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Biofuels Land Grab: Guatemala's Farmers Lose Plots and Prosperity to "Energy Independence" [Slide Show]

Biofuels Land Grab: Guatemala's Farmers Lose Plots and Prosperity to "Energy Independence" [Slide Show] | YOUR FOOD, YOUR HEALTH: Latest on BiotechFood, GMOs, Pesticides, Chemicals, CAFOs, Industrial Food | Scoop.it
From www.scientificamerican.com - January 14, 2012 7:06 PM
Across the globe, local farmers are being displaced to make way for energy crop plantations...

POLOCHIC VALLEY, GUATEMALA—Echoes from armed raids still seem to resound in this valley, eight hours north of the capital city. In early 2011 military and paramilitary forces forcibly evicted 13 communities of indigenous Mayan peasants—some 300 families were dispossessed of disputed land they had been living on for three years to secure the property rights of one powerful local family, the Widmanns, and its agribusiness company Chabil Utzaj.

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At the Nexus of Agrofuels, Land Grabs and Hunger – Part 1

At the Nexus of Agrofuels, Land Grabs and Hunger – Part 1 | YOUR FOOD, YOUR HEALTH: Latest on BiotechFood, GMOs, Pesticides, Chemicals, CAFOs, Industrial Food | Scoop.it
From ipsnews.net - January 22, 2012 4:55 AM

While the United Nations climate talks in Durban enter their ninth day of political feet-dragging, researchers and peasants around the world are busy connecting the dots between so- called "green climate solutions", industrialised agriculture and chronic hunger.

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