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Michael Pollan: Agri-Giants’ National Stranglehold - Approaching a "Two-Class" Food System

Michael Pollan: Agri-Giants’ National Stranglehold - Approaching a "Two-Class" Food System | YOUR FOOD, YOUR HEALTH: Latest on BiotechFood, GMOs, Pesticides, Chemicals, CAFOs, Industrial Food | Scoop.it
From www.nationofchange.org - October 26, 2012 2:14 AM

October 25, 2012: Democracy Now

From California’s Proposition 37 initiative to New York City’s soda ban, journalist and best-selling author Michael Pollan argues that local efforts hold the key to challenging the agricultural industry’s stranglehold over national food policy. With companies like Monsanto influencing Congress and state legislatures, Pollan warns the United States risks falling into a "two-class food system," where only those who can afford to live outside the industrial food system can access healthy ways to eat... http://www.nationofchange.org/michael-pollan-gmos-nyc-s-soda-ban-local-efforts-challenge-agri-giants-national-control-1351179347



WATCH (AGAIN) "Food Inc." (2008) And Obama, USDA promote and foster this? http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3732889325/watch-again-food-inc-2008-and-obama-usda-promote-and-foster-this
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AFRICA: Sowing Seeds Right Where They Are: Climate Change and Desertification

AFRICA: Sowing Seeds Right Where They Are: Climate Change and Desertification | YOUR FOOD, YOUR HEALTH: Latest on BiotechFood, GMOs, Pesticides, Chemicals, CAFOs, Industrial Food | Scoop.it
From www.onearth.org - January 24, 2012 6:36 PM

Confronting climate change and poverty, a new crop of city farmers comes of age in Africa

Some 15 million Africans abandon the countryside every year in pursuit of better lives in the city. Climate change and further desertification will only exacerbate that trend. How will these ballooning urban populations survive? The best strategy, they're finding, is to begin sowing seeds right where they are.

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How Can We Feed the Planet Without Destroying the Planet?

How Can We Feed the Planet Without Destroying the Planet? | YOUR FOOD, YOUR HEALTH: Latest on BiotechFood, GMOs, Pesticides, Chemicals, CAFOs, Industrial Food | Scoop.it
From www.greenbiz.com - January 20, 2012 8:11 PM

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...

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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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