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WHEN FOOD BECOMES A COMMODITY FOR PROFITS, NOT HEALTH - VIDEO

WHEN FOOD BECOMES A COMMODITY FOR PROFITS, NOT HEALTH - VIDEO | YOUR FOOD, YOUR HEALTH: Latest on BiotechFood, GMOs, Pesticides, Chemicals, CAFOs, Industrial Food | Scoop.it

 

 

Midwest Farmland Offers Opportunity for Investors | Nov 27, 2012 - Nightly Business Report VIDEO http://www.nbr.com/videos/video/1993317102001/midwest-farmland-offers-opportunity-for-investors-nov-27-2012#.ULXGr4XZ03Z

 

Despite last summer’s drought, investors are seeing profit potential in farmland all across the Federal Reserve’s 7th District. A growing number of investors from pension funds to mutual funds are making farms a hot commodity, driving the "absent owner" corporate industrial agricultural USDA plan driving up food speculation on the commodity markets.

 

(A good deal when tax dollars almost guarantee no loss with government insurance for drought and floods...and putting further out of reach a return to sensible reduction of genetically modified food and all the attending pesticides, chemicals and ecosystem damage they create playing havoc on both the environmental and human health...And then there is the food speculation game... PDJMOO)

 

The Economics of Curbing Speculation In Food, Water and Vital Resources http://www.scoop.it/t/environmental-and-human-health/p/3535660587/the-economics-of-curbing-speculation-in-food-water-and-vital-resources

 

 

VIDEO A SYSTEM BASED ON PROFITS IS UNSUSTAINABLE ....Vandana Shiva http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/1614565249/a-system-based-on-profits-is-unsustainable-vandana-shiva

 

The Economic Cost of Food Monopolies | Food & Water Watch http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3502513832/the-economic-cost-of-food-monopolies-food-water-watch

 

 

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Are giant agriculture firms trying to monopolise and patent the world's food supply?

Are giant agriculture firms trying to monopolise and patent the world's food supply? | YOUR FOOD, YOUR HEALTH: Latest on BiotechFood, GMOs, Pesticides, Chemicals, CAFOs, Industrial Food | Scoop.it

Al Jazeera does an indepth investigation:  WATCH:Does 'biopiracy' endanger world food supplies?

Seed monopolies could affect livelihoods of farmers, biodiversity. Patenting crop-breeding techniques has economic, ecological and ethical implications. Currently, five biotech corporations account for 77 percent of patents on living organisms.

http://stream.aljazeera.com/

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