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TOP US HEALTHCARE GIANT, Kaiser Permanente, Issues Warning on Genetically Engineered Food

 

Top US Healthcare Giant: GMOs Are Devastating Health http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3516558273/top-us-healthcare-giant-gmos-are-devastating-health

 

(Beyond Pesticides, November 30, 2012) A health care institution is weighing in to warn people about potential dangers of genetically engineered (GE) food. On the heels of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ warning on pesticides, the nation’s largest nonprofit health care plan, Kaiser Permanente, has published in its print newsletter, Partners in Health, tips on limiting exposure to genetically engineered food. In the Fall 2012, Kaiser Permanente has published an article, “What you need to know about GMO: Limit exposure to genetically engineered organisms with these tips.”... http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=8718

 

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: GMOs should be safety tested before they hit the market http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/2020394801/gmos-should-be-safety-tested-before-they-hit-the-market-says-american-medical-association

 

The Truth Is Out on Genetically Modified Foods - And It's Not Pretty http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/2738601387/the-truth-is-out-on-genetically-modified-foods-and-it-s-not-pretty

INDIA Government Report recommends restraint and further analysis on GM Technology and Biotech Collusion http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/2374880577/india-government-report-recommends-restraint-and-further-analysis-on-gm-technology-and-biotech-collusion

Alzheimer's, Diabetes, Obesity could be the most catastrophic impact of processed food http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/2693949514/alzheimer-s-diabetes-obesity-could-be-the-most-catastrophic-impact-of-processed-food

What’s In My Lunchbox :: Pesticides : A Searchable Database http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/2551189009/what-s-on-my-food-pesticides-a-public-problem

Agent Orange: A Deadly Legacy - Now In Your GMO Food as Herbicide 2,3-4 http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/2468394687/agent-orange-a-deadly-legacy-now-in-your-gmo-food-as-herbicide-2-3-4

Why is our food being made and modified by the world’s largest pesticide manufacturer? http://gmo-awareness.com/all-about-gmos/gmo-defined/

Fast Food, Slow Death : "Food Deserts" and the Corporate Food Monopoly http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3599063380/fast-food-slow-death-food-deserts-and-the-corporate-food-monopoly

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Watch Now: "Land Rush" - Why Poverty? The ugly rise of monoculture farming and globalized food

Watch Now: "Land Rush" - Why Poverty? The ugly rise of monoculture farming and globalized food | YOUR FOOD, YOUR HEALTH: Latest on BiotechFood, GMOs, Pesticides, Chemicals, CAFOs, Industrial Food | Scoop.it
Land Rush looks at how multinational agribusiness is threatening African farmers' ability to feed their communities.

 

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GLOBAL VOICES "LAND RUSH" VIDEO http://www.itvs.org/films/land-rush

 

How do you feed the world? 75% of Mali's population are farmers, but rich foreign corporations are leasing Mali's land in order to turn large areas into American-style agribusiness monoculture mechanized  farms for their own profit and export, destroying and changing ecosystems and the culture. Many Malian peasants do not welcome these efforts, seeing them as yet another manifestation of imperialism threatening their ability to feed themselves.  As Mali experiences a military coup, the developers are scared off but can Mali's farmers combat food shortages and escape poverty on their own terms?

Africa produces 10 percent less food than it did in 1960.  In Mali, an American plan for a vast genetically engineered sugar cane (biofuel) operation on the banks of the Niger River threatens small-scale native rice farmers who have fed their communities for generations.... http://video.pbs.org/video/2296680847

 

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LAND GRAB, SPECULATION, BIOFUELS = FOOD CRISIS - VIDEO REPORT http://sco.lt/5Wd0xV

 

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pdjmoo's curator insight, March 30, 11:33 PM

When profits overide local culture, destroy ecosystems and environment for the western ideal of monoculture agriculture, owned by multi-nationals, displacing local indigenous peoples, it is time to draw a line.

In this instance, in Mali, the sugar cane is for export, not for local food supply and the indigenous peoples will be doomed to working laborers in an environment of big agriculture for little money.  Creating dependency on foreign aid and hand-outs for food for survival while foreign entities profit greatly is NOT where we should be going for the future.

Money is not the currency for many cultures, it is producing food locally for themselves and their community and we have no right to impose our outside mega gmo agriculture on anyone, destroying their connection to their lands and livelihoods.

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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

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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AFRICA: Sowing Seeds Right Where They Are: Climate Change and Desertification

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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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