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Vox, April 23, 2014 ▶ BIG FOOD: WALL STREET HAS WAY TOO MUCH INFLUENCE OVER WHAT WE EAT. Michael Pollan explains what studying the food system taught him about capitalism, and more.. http://www.vox.com/2014/4/23/5627992/big-food-michael-pollan-thinks-wall-street-has-way-too-much-influence WATCH May 6, 2013 Democracy Now
INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL POLLAN ON RECLAIMING OUR FOOD SYSTEM, MAKE OURSELVES HEALTHY AND GROW DEMOCRACY http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/6/michael_pollan_on_how_reclaiming_cooking The Guardian, February 21, 2015
- ▶INSIDE THE FOOD INDUSTRY: THE SURPRISING TRUTH ABOUT WHAT YOU EAT
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/feb/21/a-feast-of-engineering-whats-really-in-your-food FastCoCreate ▶ THESE TOP FOOD COMPANIES CONTROL ALMOST EVERYTHING WE EAT: There are more than 38,000 products in the average American supermarket. That means tons of choice, right? In fact, the vast majority of these products are owned by just 10 companies. Those friendly looking Green Giant pees? That's General Mills. And Odwalla juice? That's Coca Cola. This matters, of course, because we deserve to know where our food comes from--and how it's made. http://www.fastcocreate.com/3032899/see-who-actually-owns-the-food-you-eat-and-how-theyre-behaving VIDEO REPORT March 12, 2013 - NPR Marketplace PROCESSED FOODS MAKE UP 70% OF THE US DIET - WITH ABOUT 5,000 DIFFERENT CHEMICAL ADDITIVES. Author Melanie Warner discusses the complexities of the processed foods that line the shelves at the supermarket... http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/big-book/processed-foods-make-70-percent-us-diet Activist Post, July 15, 2014
▶ BIG CORPORATIONS HAVE AN OVERWHELMING AMOUNT OF POWER OVER OUR FOOD SUPPLY http://www.activistpost.com/2014/07/big-corporations-have-overwhelming.html Wakeup World, September 04, 2014
▶ SCIENTISTS OFFICIALLY LINK PROCESSED FOODS TO AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE. The modern diet of processed foods, takeaways and microwave meals could be to blame for a sharp increase in autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, alopecia, asthma and eczema. A team of scientists from Yale University in the U.S and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, in Germany, say junk food diets could be partly to blame. “This study is the first to indicate that excess refined and processed salt may be one of the environmental factors driving the increased incidence of autoimmune diseases”, they said. http://wakeup-world.com/2014/09/04/scientists-officially-link-processed-foods-to-autoimmune-disease/ ====================== FOOD REPLACEMENT ======================= The New Yorker, May 12, 2014 - ▶ THE END OF FOOD: COULD "SOYLENT" - FOOD IN A BOTTLE - REPLACE THE FOOD CRISIS? http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/05/12/140512fa_fact_widdicombe?currentPage=all SmartPlanet, May 29, 2014
- ▶ WHY YOU SHOULD BE SKEPTICAL OF SOYLENT, THE FOOD REPLACEMENT PRODUCT http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/soylent-the-food-replacement-product-could-have-an-unhealthy-downside/ Appeal-Democrat, December 21, 2014
▶ AG-TECH COULD CHANGE HOW WORLD EATS: —Silicon Valley is pushing its way into every stage of the food-growing process, from tech tycoons buying up farmland to startups selling robots that work the fields to hackathons dedicated to building the next farming app. Investors and entrepreneurs behind some of the world's newest industries have started to put their money and tech talents into farming — the world's oldest industry http://www.appeal-democrat.com/business/ag-tech-could-change-how-world-eats/article_af7d8ab2-88b3-11e4-a88c-53786b1de7d9.html Feb 26, 2013 - TruthOut
▶ OUR FOOD SYSTEM IS IN CRISIS DUE TO TECHNOLOGY RUN AMOK AND MONOPOLIZING CORPORATIONS ▶ AMERICANS EAT THE CHEAPEST FOOD IN THE WORLD BUT WHAT IS IT REALLY COSTING US? http://www.treehugger.com/health/americans-eat-the-cheapest-food-in-the-world-but-what-is-it-really-costing-us.html?campaign=daily_nl INVITRO BURGERS ANYONE? INSIDE THE COMING MEAT LAB: THE FUTURE OF FOOD http://sco.lt/6EY7hR =============================== WATCH "THE FOODS THAT MAKE BILLIONS" ALL ABOUT MEGA-PROFITS, NOTHING MORE OR LESS (3-part series) "The Foods that Make Billions" is a 3-part series looking at how big business feeds us. By employing clever tactics and smart marketing, big business seduces the appetite of the consumer and entices people to spend and spend and spend. This is how global food and beverage empires are built. Part 1: Liquid Gold - Bottled Water: Liquid Gold looks at the competitive dynamics between two of the global leaders in the bottled water marketplace: Nestle and Danone and unpacks the brand philosophy and big business strategy behind these big hitters in the industry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11sCumtYIn8 Part 2: The Age of Plenty Episode two tells the story of a modern marketing miracle: the story of the breakfast cereal. The Age of Plenty investigates the processing, marketing and advertising behind a breakfast that has singularly impacted the way we live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11sCumtYIn8 Part 3: Pots of Gold: Big business has managed to increase the profit margins of simple products, like yogurt by monumental proportions, resulting in multi-billion dollar industry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CNuXZ9N__Q Sustainable Food Trust, September 19, 2014
▶ GHOSTS IN THE SUPERMARKET MACHINE. How do supermarkets decide which products make it onto the shelves? http://sustainablefoodtrust.org/articles/the-ghost-in-the-supermarket-machine/ Mother Jones, May 07, 2014 -▶ OUR ALARMING FOOD FUTURE, EXPLAINED IN 7 CHARTS http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/05/6-alarming-facts-food-and-global-warming TripleCrisis, January 14, 2014
▶ THE DANGER OF TRUSTING CORPORATIONS TO LEAD THE FIGHT AGAINST WORLD HUNGER http://triplecrisis.com/the-danger-of-entrusting-corporations-to-lead-the-fight-against-world-hunger/ New York Times, May 30, 2014 ▶ CORPORATIONS QUIETLY INSERTING UNTESTED SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY INTO HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS. The processes using synthetic biology involve techniques that more extensively alter genetic code. Those include “artificial gene synthesis,” in which DNA is created on computers and inserted into organisms, and other methods for changing DNA sequences and genes within organisms to alter their function. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/31/business/biofuel-tools-applied-to-household-soaps.html Seattle Organic Restaurants
-▶ THE SECRET TAKEOVER OF OUR FOOD SUPPLY BY A FEW GIANT AMERICAN CORPORATIONS AND CORPORATIONS LIKE TYSON ARE PIONEERS OF MEAT RACKET http://www.seattleorganicrestaurants.com/vegan-whole-food/takeover-of-our-food-by-giant-agribusinesses-Tyson-foods-meat-racket.php Truthout, August 20, 2014 APOCALYPSE OF THE "HAPPY MEAL" WORSHIPING THE GOLDEN CALF What we set on our tables, and chow down on at fast-food restaurants, may be contributing more to the acceleration of climate change and human extinction than some of the usual carbon-emitting culprits. Throughout the world, native grasslands, forests and wild species have been burned, butchered and brutalized for cattle ranches. Our farming system of grain-fed livestock consumes resources far out of proportion to the useful dietary yield. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/25562-apocalypse-of-the-happy-meal-worshipping-the-golden-calf Guardian Sustainable Business, May 01, 2014 ▶ 10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEM http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/food-blog/10-things-need-to-know-global-food-system WATCH "FAT HEAD" http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/food-speculator/ MICHAEL POLLAN: AGRIGIANTS' NATIONAL STRANGLEHOLD: APPROACHING A "TWO-CLASS" FOOD SYSTEM http://sco.lt/7nBVkP ===================== TOO MUCH POWER IN TOO FEW HANDS : FOOD GIANTS TAKE OVER THE INDUSTRY http://sco.lt/7d5xkP ▶ WORLD'S LARGEST FOOD COMPANIES CREATING LEGACY OF DESTRUCTION http://sco.lt/7lyDg1 VIDEO THE SHARE OF YOUR STOMACH Big Food, Science and Marketing http://sco.lt/69L4oz ▶ HOW THE BIG FOOD INDUSTRY HAS ENCOURAGED US TO EAT OURSELVES TO DEATH http://sco.lt/5YISkT -▶ SALT, SUGAR, FAT : HOW THE FOOD GIANTS HOOKED US http://sco.lt/8LqY65 ▶ FROM GROWING PROFIT TO GROWING FOOD: CHALLENGING CORPORATE MONOPOLY http://sco.lt/4qFuUb A VIP READ ▶ THE ECONOMICS OF CURBING SPECULATION IN FOOD, WATER AND VITAL RESOURCES http://sco.lt/6znBab ======================================= Vox, June 09, 2014 40 MAPS THAT EXPLAIN FOOD IN AMERICA http://www.vox.com/a/explain-food-america WATCH
THE VIDEO THAT COCA-COLA AND McDONALD'S HOPE YOU NEVER SEE http://www.upworthy.com/watch-the-video-that-coca-cola-and-mcdonalds-hope-you-never-see?c=tkp1 Oliver De Schutter, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right To Food, May 19, 2014 ▶ UNHEALTHY DIETS GREATER THREAT TO HEALTH THAN TOBACCO: UN EXPERT CALLS FOR GLOBAL REGULATION http://www.srfood.org/en/unhealthy-diets-greater-threat-to-health-than-tobacco-un-expert-calls-for-global-regulation WHITEWASHED HOW INDUSTRY AND GOVERNMENT PROMOTE DAIRY JUNK FOODS http://ecowatch.com/2014/06/11/dairy-industry-government-promote-junk-foods/ =============== POISONED FOOD =============== OutsideOnline, May 12, 2014
▶ YOUR FOOD IS POISONING YOU http://www.outsideonline.com/fitness/bodywork/performance-plate/Your-Food-Is-Poisoning-You.html WATCH Michael Pollan: "DON'T MISS THIS VIDEO POISONED FOODS - PESTICIDES, HERBICIDES #GMO DANGERS OF DICAMBA Roundup's Next Generation. The next wave of herbicide-tolerant crops from Monsanto-- will make Round-Up look benign" http://www.fixfood.org/features/276/dangers-of-dicamba LiveScience, February 05, 2015
▶ NEW STUDY: EATING ORGANIC PRODUCE CAN LIMIT PESTICIDE EXPOSURE http://www.livescience.com/49703-organic-produce-diet-pesticides.html Scientific American, May 12, 2014
▶ DRUGS, CHEMICALS SEEP DEEP INTO SOIL FROM SEWAGE SLUDGE FERTILIZER, ABSORBED BY OUR FOOD The widespread use of biosolids could contaminate groundwater near farms with a variety of chemicals, including anti-depressants such as Prozac and hormone-disrupting compounds in antibacterial soaps http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/drugs-chemicals-seep-deep-into-soil-from-sewage-sludge/ ▶ THINK THOSE 80,000 CHEMICALS AND PESTICIDES HAVE BEEN TESTED? http://sco.lt/7QxMob ▶ ARE YOU EATING 'PESTICIDE GENE-ALTERED PLANTS'? http://sco.lt/7v6Y2T =================================
WATCH 'FOOD CHAINS, A NEW DOCUMENTARY BY 'FOOD, INC." BillMoyers.com, November 21, 2014 Food Chains, a new hard-hitting documentary about the battle between Florida farmworkers and the giant supermarket and fast food conglomerates. The New York Times calls Food Chains an “emphatic and empathetic documentary” that presents farm laborers as modern-day slaves http://billmoyers.com/2014/11/21/food-chains/ Washington Post, November 07, 2014
▶ HOW A NATIONAL FOOD POLICY COULD SAVE MILLIONS OF AMERICAN LIVES http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-a-national-food-policy-could-save-millions-of-american-lives/2014/11/07/89c55e16-637f-11e4-836c-83bc4f26eb67_story.html Real News One, June 10, 2014
-▶ PUTTING THE ECONOMY BEFORE THE ENVIRONMENT IS ENVIRONMENTAL VANDALISM AND SUICIDAL http://realnewsone.com/2014/06/10/putting-the-economy-before-the-environment-is-environmental-vandalism/ =============================== OUR CORPORATE INDUSTRIAL FARMING =====================================
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Vandana Shiva
THE FUTURE OF FOOD AND SEED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYwOTLopWIw
Guardian Environment, May 22, 2014
▶ THE FOOD SYSTEM WE CHOOSE AFFECTS BIODIVERSITY: DO WE WANT MONOCULTURES? http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/food-system-monocultures-gm-un-diversity-day Common Dreams, April 29, 2014 ▶ FOOD DEFENDERS PROTEST CORPORATE AND BIG AG TAKEOVER OF 'ORGANIC' FOOD STANDARDS (IF THEY CAN'T OWN IT, THEY'LL KILL IT) http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/29-2 S.O.S.; DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN Businessweek, January 09, 2014
-▶ INDUSTRIAL FARMING: STATE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS MAY GIVE LEGAL SHIELD TO CORPORATIONS http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-09/industrial-farming-state-constitutional-amendments-may-give-legal-shield - ETC Group ▶ WHO OWNS NATURE? Corporate Power and the Final Frontier in the Commodification of Life Three decades ago, humanity had a problem; science had a fascination; and industry had an opportunity. Our problem was injustice. The ranks of the hungry were expanding while the ranks of farmers were thinning. Meanwhile, science was fascinated by biotechnology – the idea that we could genetically engineer crops and livestock (and people) with traits that could overcome all our problems. Agribusiness saw an opportunity to extract the enormous surplus value that was laced throughout the food chain. The hugely decentralized food system held pockets of profit just crying out to be centralized. All the biotechnology industry had to do is chase away the competition and coerce governments into surrendering control. ....http://www.etcgroup.org/content/who-owns-nature Pambazuka -Voices for Freedom and Justice in Africa ▶ AFRICA: HOW COMPANIES FRAME ISSUES OF FOOD AND GLOBAL HUNGER FOR THEIR OWN SELF-INTEREST AND BOTTOMLINE PROFITS There is a new, but deceptive, foreign drive to end hunger in Africa through large-scale agribusiness. Yet helping poor households in rural Africa feed themselves in an affordable manner means introducing low-cost, sustainable enhancements to farming. History is riddled with examples of the poor dying of hunger when food was plentiful. ...The rise of philanthrocapitalism in the US, where former and current business leaders, through the strength of their foundations, have increasingly come to influence the shape and direction of US international development programmes. Central to the philanthrocapitalist worldview is a belief that private enterprise is the fundamental agent of progressive change and that business acumen trumps other forms of expertise... http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/85291 National Geographic, "Future of Food" May 02, 2014
▶ FEED THE WORLD: FAMILY FARMERS HOLD KEYS TO AGRICULTURE IN A WARMING WORLD. Faced with global warming and a population that will swell to nine billion by 2050, a growing number of experts say that the way to feed the masses as climate change makes growing our food more difficult is to focus on family farmers, who often can barely feed themselves. ... When policymakers in the developed world talk about feeding billions of extra mouths in the decades to come, it's multinational agribusinesses—which operate industrial-size farms—that usually get most of the attention. But in the long run, it's small-scale farmers in the developing world, using low-tech but sustainable agricultural techniques, who may be best poised to lead the way in adapting to a warmer world and ensuring the security of the global food supply. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/05/140502-climate-change-agriculture-family-farm-science/ GRAIN, May 28, 214
▶ AFRICA: HUNGRY FOR LAND: CORPORATIONS ACCELERATE AFRICA LAND GRABS - Bt Cotton in South Africa This article summarises the results of five years of research undertaken by Biowatch South Africa on the socio-economic impact of Bt cotton on small-scale farmers in South Africa. It forms part of a comprehensive research paper on the topic that will be published later this year. http://www.grain.org/article/entries/492 ▶ THE SCIENCE OF MARKETING FOOD ADDICTION TO KIDS http://sco.lt/8oqaEj ▶ FOOD, SLAVE LABOR AND THE WALMARTIZATION OF AMERICA AND AGRICULTURE http://sco.lt/8v8qtl ======================= FACTORY FARMS - CAFOs ======================= Organic Lifestyle Magazine, July 08, 2014
- ▶ FACTORY FARMED CHICKENS: THE HIDDEN COST OF CHEAP CHICKEN http://www.organiclifestylemagazine.com/factory-farmed-chickens-the-hidden-cost-of-cheap-chicken/ ▶ 65 BILLION ANIMALS RAISED IN CORPORATE CONCENTRATION PENS: DRUGS, GMO FEED AND AG-GAG LAWS TO IMPACT BEYOND USA http://sco.lt/6jKf2H - ▶ WHAT EVERY PARENT SHOULD KNOW ABOUT BLIND, FOOTLESS CHICKENS, FACTORY FARMS AND THE AG-GAG BILL http://sco.lt/71PvtJ ▶ OUR INDUSTRIAL, WESTERN AGRICULTURAL FOOD SYSTEM IS DESTROYING THE EARTH AND OUR HEALTH http://sco.lt/63qRl3 FARM-AGEDDON NO BIRDS. NO BEES. OUR COUNTRYSIDE LAID WASTE. AND BILLIONS OF ANIMALS THAT NEVER SEE A BLADE OF GRASS http://sco.lt/7ztQbB =============================== GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD - GMOs =============================== RT News, November 26, 2013
▶ GMOs LINKED TO GLUTEN DISORDERS PLAGUING 18 MILLION AMERICANS http://rt.com/usa/gmo-gluten-sensitivity-trigger-343/ Pambazuka, July 24. 2014
WHICH WAY AFRICA? GMOs AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY:
African governments are under intense pressure from within but also from big agribusiness and Western governments to embrace GMOs. Governments must resist all forms of arm-twisting and food colonialism and make their biotechnology choices based on the facts http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/92594 THE WAR AGAINST ORGANICS: WHAT'S AN 'ORGANIC' LABEL REALLY WORTH? http://sco.lt/6Qny1R GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS NOT THE SOLUTION FOR "FEEDING THE WORLD" http://sco.lt/77BuML BAN GMOs NOW - A Special Institute of Science in Society Report http://sco.lt/5CPilt =========================== FIXING THE BROKEN BIG FOOD SYSTEM http://sco.lt/8YOYJV OBESITY PLUS HUGE INCREASE IN DIABETES, STROKES, HEART ATTACKS ON A GLOBAL SCALE -- THE AMERICAN DIET AND CONTEMPORARY FOOD PRODUCTION http://sco.lt/80rmld WALL STREET, CORPORATIONS GOBBLING UP AMERICAN & FOREIGN FARMLAND THREATENING FUTURE OF U.S. AND WORLD FOOD SECURITY, AGRICULTURE & FOOD http://sco.lt/8mcmbR ARE YOU EATING CLONED PORK? CHINA ENTERS USA FOOD MARKET - UNLABELED, UNREGULATED - USDA, FDA http://sco.lt/57VNh3 MEATONOMICS: The Dirty Truth About Cheap Meat http://sco.lt/5MiErp WATCH "LAND RUSH - WHY POVERTY?: THE UGLY RISE OF MONOCULTURE FARMING AND GLOBALIZED FOOD http://sco.lt/5z3gzB CONTEMPORARY CORPORATE AGRICULTURE IS BURNING UP OUR PLANET http://sco.lt/6xupV3 FOOD FOR THOUGHT...AND PEACE http://sco.lt/7G59pB FOOD AID FOR THE 21st CENTURY: MEETING THE OBJECTIVE OR FEEDING THE CORPORATE COFFERS? http://sco.lt/6jtrlJ AN URGENT MEMO TO THE WORLD: ONE ENVIRONMENT, ONE HUMANITY, ONE PLANET http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/an-urgent-memo-to-the-world/
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April 29, 2013 RSN Gidot - ▶ HOW YOU BECAME A GUINEA PIG FOR THE CHEMICAL CORPORATIONS 'A hidden epidemic is poisoning America. The toxins are in the air we breathe and the water we drink, in the walls of our homes and the furniture within them. We can't escape it in our cars. It's in cities and suburbs. It afflicts rich and poor, young and old. And there's a reason why you've never read about it in the newspaper or seen a report on the nightly news: it has no name - and no antidote.... http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/271-38/17182-focus-how-you-became-a-guinea-pig-for-the-chemical-corporations
Center for Public Integrity, April 14, 2015 THE DISINFORMATION INDUSTRY
WHY THE FDA DOESN'T REALLY KNOW WHAT'S IN YOUR FOOD. 'Hired guns' tasked with overseeing approval of additives. Massive legal loophole means companies can add new ingredients to foods with no government safety review http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/04/13/17112/why-fda-doesnt-really-know-whats-your-food VIDEO (3:19)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvvvPTksIJ4 Center for Public Integrity April, 15, 2015
FDA FOOD SAFETY SCIENTISTS HAVE TIES TO BIG TOBACCO - 'Hired guns' tasked with overseeing approval of additives http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/04/15/17144/food-safety-scientists-have-ties-big-tobacco - ▶ PROCESSED FOODS MAKE UP 70 PERCENT OF THE US DIET- WITH ABOUT 5,000 DIFFERENT CHEMICAL ADDITIVES http://sco.lt/7FPtxZ Environmental Working Group, November 12, 2014
- ▶ EWG’s DIRTY DOZEN GUIDE TO FOOD ADDITIVES http://www.ewg.org/research/ewg-s-dirty-dozen-guide-food-additives WATCH April 29, 2013 Bill Moyers --- VIDEO REPORT YOUR BODY IS A CORPORATE TEST TUBE http://billmoyers.com/2013/04/29/your-body-is-a-corporate-test-tube/ The Guardian April, 20, 2015
- ▶ REVEALED: GOVERNMENT KNEW OF FARM POISONING RISK BUT FAILED TO ACT http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/20/revealed-government-knew-of-farm-poisoning-risk-but-failed-to-act The Hill, April 14, 2015
- ▶ EPA: HOUSE BILL COULD DELAY REVIEW OF TOXIC CHEMICALS 'INDEFINITELY' http://thehill.com/regulation/238748-epa-addresses-concerns-with-the-house-chemical-reform-bill The Guardian, February 13, 2015
- ▶ UNTESTED CHEMICALS ARE EVERYWHERE, THANKS TO A 39-YEAR OLD U.S. LAW: WILL THE SENATE FINALLY ACT? http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/feb/13/us-senate-toxic-chemicals-law-health-safety Al Jazeera America, June 27, 2014 ▶ WHY 28 YEARS HAVE PASSED SINCE THE EPA'S LAST CHEMICAL RISK REVIEW. Tens of thousands of chemicals have not been reviewed by the EPA, and people are starting to ask questions http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/6/27/epa-chemical-regulation.html The Washington Post, March 19, 2015
▶ THE BIZARRE WAY THE U.S. REGULATES CHEMICALS — LETTING THEM ON THE MARKET FIRST, THEN MAYBE STUDY THEM http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/03/19/our-broken-congresss-latest-effort-to-fix-our-broken-toxic-chemicals-law/ The Guardian, February 21, 2015
- ▶ INSIDE THE FOOD INDUSTRY: THE SURPRISING TRUTH ABOUT WHAT YOU EAT
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/feb/21/a-feast-of-engineering-whats-really-in-your-food Huffington Post, March 7, 2013 - ▶ CHEMICAL CREEP : HOW TOXIC CHEMICALS ARE SNEAKING INTO YOUR FOOD AND YOUR BODY http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/07/toxic-chemicals-food-body_n_2829270.html Ensia, February 16, 2015
▶ WHAT ARE WE DOING TO OUR CHILDREN'S BRAINS http://ensia.com/features/what-are-we-doing-to-our-childrens-brains/ RT USA, March 31, 2015
- ▶ PESTICIDES ON FRUITS AND VEGETABLES COULD ACCOUNT FOR 49 PERCENT LOSS IN SPERM COUNT: HARVARD STUDY http://rt.com/usa/245453-pesticides-fruit-vegetables-sperm/ Medical News Today, April 01, 2015
- ▶ EATING FRUITS AND VEGETABLES WITH HIGH PESTICIDE RESIDUE MAY AFFECT SPERM QUALITY http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/291828.php
April 23, 2013 Science Daily
- ▶ SCIENTISTS URGE UN TO TAKE ACTION ON CHEMICALS IN CONSUMER PRODUCT AND PESTICIDES http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130423090809.htm
- ▶ EXPOSURE TO CHEMICALS IN FOOD AND PESTICIDES: BREAST CANCER, PARKINSON'S DISEASE, CANCER http://www.breastcancer.org/risk/factors/food_chem Inhabitat, May 24, 2014
▶ STUDY FINDS 102 COMMON CHEMICALS ARE LINKED TO BREAST CANCER http://www.inhabitots.com/study-finds-102-common-chemicals-are-linked-to-breast-cancer/ Independent Science News, March 24, 2014
▶ HOW "EXTREME LEVELS" OF ROUNDUP PESTICIDE IN FOOD BECAME THE INDUSTRY NORM Roundup Contamination of GMO Soybeans http://www.independentsciencenews.org/news/how-extreme-levels-of-roundup-in-food-became-the-industry-norm/ Mother Jones, March 26, 2015
▶ THE REAL REASON TO WORRY ABOUT GMOs : PESTICIDE CHEMICALS GALORE IN YOUR FOOD AND YOUR BODY http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2015/03/bittman-right-its-not-gmos-its-how-theyre-used SAD WHEN OUR OWN GOVERNMENT TAX-PAID SCIENTISTS NEED PROTECTING FROM THE BIG CORPORATE CHEMICAL CARTEL Reuters, March 27, 2015
▶ ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP SEEKS GREATER PROTECTION FOR USDA SCIENTISTS WHOSE RESEARCH QUESTIONS BIG AGRIBUSINESS CHEMICALS. The petition to the USDA presses the agency to adopt policies to prevent "political suppression or alteration of studies and to lay out clear procedures for investigating allegations of scientific misconduct." According to the petition, some scientists working for the federal government are finding their research restricted or censored when it conflicts with agribusiness industry interests. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/28/usda-petition-idUSL2N0WU02J20150328 28 March 2013 USA Today - ▶ STUDY: TWO-THIRDS OF PESTICIDES IN CONSUMER PRODUCTS AND IN ENVIRONMENT GOT EPA LOOPHOLE APPROVAL WITH MINIMUM OR NO TESTING http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/27/pesticides-get-flawed-epa-approval/2024991/ Washington Post, April 07, 2014
▶ ARE SECRET, DANGEROUS INGREDIENTS IN YOUR FOOD? THE "LEGAL LOOPHOLE" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2014/04/07/are-secret-possibly-dangerous-ingredients-in-your-food/ Huffington Post Green, January 22, 2014
-▶ THE FINANCIAL BURDEN OF TOXIC CHEMICALS: BPA AMONG TOXIC CHEMICALS DRIVING UP HEALTH CARE COSTS http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/22/bpa-health-care-costs_n_4644372.html National Geographic, March 05, 2015
- ▶ CHEMICAL EXPOSURE LINKED TO BILLIONS IN HEALTH CARE COSTS. Researchers conclude they are 99 percent certain that hormone-altering chemicals are linked to attention problems, diabetes, other health problems http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/03/150305-chemicals-endocrine-disruptors-diabetes-toxic-environment-ngfood/ Truthout, November 30, 2014
- ▶ OUR DAILY POISON: HOW CHEMICALS HAVE CONTAMINATED THE FOOD CHAIN AND ARE MAKING US SICK http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/27667-our-daily-poison-how-chemicals-have-contaminated-the-food-chain VIDEO Ecowatch, October 31, 2013
▶ 'THE HUMAN EXPERIMENT' REVEALS THE TOLL OF TOXIC CHEMICALS IN OUR FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT http://ecowatch.com/2013/10/31/sean-penns-human-experiment-toll-toxic-chemicals/ Mail Online, February 15, 2014 -▶ NUMBER OF CHEMICALS LINKED TO PROBLEMS SUCH AS AUTISM DOUBLES IN JUST SEVEN YEARS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2560068/Young-risk-silent-epidemic-brain-disorders-Study-finds-growing-number-chemicals-linked-problems-like-autism.html - ▶ CANCER, OBESITY AND DIABETES NOW A GLOBAL EPIDEMIC http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides?q=OBESITY - ▶ UN REPORT: URGENT ACTION NEEDED: GROWING HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS FROM SPREAD OF CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY: UNEP. Chemicals have become so important to daily life in today's world that the value of their output has grown to $4.12 TRILLION, compared to $171 billion in 1970. http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/2862196581/un-report-urgent-action-needed-growing-health-and-environmental-hazards-from-spread-of-chemical-dependency April 29, 2013 Reuters
- ▶ U.S.-BORN KIDS HAVE MORE ALLERGIES, ASTHMA DUE TO ENVIRONMENTAL AND CHEMICAL FACTORS http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/29/us-born-kids-allergies-idUSBRE93S0VP20130429 Smithsonian Magazine, December 13, 2013
- ▶ THE TOXINS THAT AFFECTED YOUR GREAT-GRANDPARENTS COULD BE IN YOUR GENES http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ideas-innovations/The-Toxins-That-Affected-Your-Great-Grandparents-Could-Be-In-Your-Genes-231152741.html#Skinner-ingenuity-birds-main-473.jpg Treehugger, March 06, 2014
▶ A SILENT EPIDEMIC OF NEUROTOXINS IS THREATENING OUR CHILDREN'S BRAINS http://www.treehugger.com/health/silent-epidemic-neurotoxins-threatening-our-childrens-brains.html ▶ GOTTA SEE THIS MAP: IS YOUR KID'S SCHOOL LOCATED NEAR A CHEMICAL FACILITY? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/16/texas-chemical-explosion-_n_5161669.html - ▶ LEAD POISONING IN OUR KIDS THE SILENT EPIDEMIC THAT DOESN'T DISCRIMINATE https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lead-poisoning-children-middle-class_n_2880619?ref=topbar HuffPostGreen, March 24, 2015
▶ A MENACING MIX IN ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE: HERBICIDES, HEAVY METALS AND FACTORY FARMS http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/24/antibiotic-resistance-herbicides-heavy-metals_n_6935626.html?m=true - ▶ THINK THOSE 80,000 CHEMICALS/PESTICIDES HAVE BEEN TESTED? http://sco.lt/7QxMob NPR, December 13, 2013
▶ HOW PLASTIC IN THE OCEAN IS CONTAMINATING YOUR SEAFOOD http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/12/250438904/how-plastic-in-the-ocean-is-contaminating-your-seafood Living on Earth, March 14, 2014
▶ THE SCARY NEW EVIDENCE ON BPA PLASTIC: AN ABSOLUTELY MIND-BOGGLING INVESTIGATION INTO THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY TACTICS TO KEEP YOU IN THE DARK ABOUT TOXIC PRODUCTS & EXPOSURE http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=14-P13-00011&segmentID=4 THE MALE INFERTILITY TIME BOMB: MEN'S SPERM COUNT FALLING CHEMICALS/PESTICIDES IN FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT http://sco.lt/5d4xvt ===================== "EXTREME" TOXIC HERBICIDE 'ROUNDUP' GLYPHOSATE HORMONE INHIBITOR IN OUR FOOD CHAIN http://sco.lt/7Ic9AH DID YOU KNOW? GENE ALTERED FOODS NOW LARGE PART OF AMERICAN DIET http://sco.lt/7oVxQH GMO TOXINS ARE IN NEARLY ALL PREGNANT WOMEN & FETUSES http://sco.lt/6IHi8P ===================== Natural News, February 27, 2015
- ▶ TRICLOSAN: WHY WE NEED TO AVOID THIS ANTIBACTERIAL CHEMICAL While initially considered safe, later animal studies revealed several concerns including endocrine disruption, poor liver function and tumors, and disrupted thyroid function. Possibly the greatest concern is the belief that these products and their use are contributing to the emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria strains. http://www.naturalnews.com/048784_Triclosan_antibacterial_chemical_antifungal_soap.html Guardian, February 10, 2015
- ▶ WHAT'S IN YOUR SHAMPOO? http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2015/feb/10/shampoo-ingredients-label-chemicals-interactive Phys.org, February 27,2014
- ▶ PERSONAL CARE PRODUCT CHEMICALS FOUND IN ANTARCTICA http://phys.org/news/2015-02-personal-product-chemicals-antarctica.html Common Dreams, November 6, 2013
- ▶ REPORT: FEMININE CARE PRODUCTS AWASH IN HARMFUL CHEMICALS http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/06-7 Sustainable Business, March 13, 2014
- ▶ DANGER IN THE DRUGSTORE: WHAT WOMEN NEED TO KNOW ABOUT COSMETICS. US law gives regulators little power to prevent companies using harmful chemicals in everyday products http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/danger-drugstore-womens-cosmetics Alternet, February 18, 2014 - ▶ DIAPERS: TOXINS IN HUGGIES AND PAMPERS AREN'T WHAT YOU WANT TO PUT NEAR BABY http://www.alternet.org/comments/personal-health/toxic-diapers-your-childs-disposable-diapers-contain-endocrine-disruptors ======================== Guardian Sustainable Business, September 16, 2014 ▶ WHY BANNING DANGEROUS CHEMICALS IN OUR FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT IS NOT ENOUGH. The growth in chemical production in the past 40 years has been nothing short of explosive, with global output of $171bn in 1970 (pdf) burgeoning to more than $4tn in 2010 (an increase of more than 2,000%). By 2050, the market is expected to expand further to more than $14tn (an increase of more than 250% from 2010), with the BRICS countries dominating and accounting for more than $6tn together ($4tn for China alone). http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/sep/16/banning-dangerous-chemicals-business RT News, March 17, 2015
▶ SAN DIEGO SUES MONSANTO FOR BAY POLLUTION & PERSISTENT CONTAMINATION http://rt.com/usa/241581-san-diego-monsanto-lawsuit/ ARE YOU EATING 'PESTICIDE PLANTS? http://sco.lt/7wAJ7J ====================== August 30, 2013 Treehugger
▶ EPA SUED FOR FAILURE TO PROTECT SCHOOL CHILDREN FROM PESTICIDES http://www.treehugger.com/environmental-policy/epa-sued-failure-protect-school-children-pesticides.html PESTICIDES ON MY PLATE FOOD ALLERGIES, CANCER, ILL HEALTH LINKED TO PESTICIDES http://sco.lt/4megAz - ARE WE EATING STRESS? - INDUSTRIAL FOOD PRODUCTION PUTS EXTREME STRESS ON PLANTS AND ANIMALS WE EAT http://sco.lt/5aqLTd
- ▶ BILLIONS OF POUNDS OF OIL-BASED PLASTIC IN OUR OCEANS: IMPACT ON SEA LIFE, YOUR SEAFOOD AND YOUR HEALTH http://sco.lt/60XRsP
- ▶ CHEMICAL 'SOUP" CONNECTION BETWEEN TOXINS AND POOR HEALTH: Scientific American http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3456963803/chemical-soup-connection-between-toxins-and-poor-health-scientific-american - ▶ WATCH - ▶ Video Report, PBS Newhour TOXIC CHEMICALS IN YOUR DRINKING WATER http://www.pbs.org/newshour/multimedia/epa-corporate/ NPR, January 24, 2014
-▶ DRINKING WATER NOT TESTED FOR TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CHEMICALS http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/01/24/265520673/drinking-water-not-tested-for-tens-of-thousands-of-chemicals WHAT ARE WE EATING? http://sco.lt/7RN917 ▶ WHAT EVERY PARENT SHOULD KNOW ABOUT OUR BIG FOOD CHEMICAL INDUSTRY http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/448-farm-and-food-policy/16881-what-every-parent-should-know-about-monsanto - ▶ FOUR-FIFTHS OF ALL BIG PHARMA ANTIBIOTICS CONSUMED BY MEAT AND POULTRY INDUSTRY http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3996846188/four-fifths-of-all-big-pharma-antibiotics-consumed-by-meat-and-poultry-industry-what-are-you-eating ========================= INVESTIGATIVE REPORT Beyond Pesticides, October 22, 2013 SOARING PESTICIDE USE AND POISONING LINKED TO GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROP PRODUCTION http://sco.lt/8iunRp - ▶ POISONOUS CHEMICAL TOXINS IN YOUR DRINKING WATER: THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY, THE EPA AND CONFLICT OF INTERESTS http://sco.lt/57ufr7 ▶ PHARMACEUTICAL, PESTICIDE, CHEMICAL POLLUTION IN OUR STREAMS, RIVERS AND DRINKING (BOTTLED) WATER http://sco.lt/6cpIbx ----WATCH--- March 13, 2013 | PBS Newshour
Video Report: THE ENDLESS IMPACT OF CORPORATE POLLUTION CANCER IN AMERICANS, DANGER IN THE DRINKING WATER Erin Brockovitch speaks out http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/jan-june13/taintedwater_03-13.html Buzz About Bees, April 29, 2014
-▶ 80,000 BEE COLONIES POISONED IN CALIFORNIA DURING ALMOND POLLINATION - THE DEVASTATING BEE DIE-OFF
http://www.buzzaboutbees.net/Bee-Colonies-Poisoned-in-California.html - ▶ PESTICIDES, CHEMICALS NOW SO WIDESPREAD IN ENVIRONMENT DISRUPTING BRAIN FUNCTION IN BEES AND HUMANS http://sco.lt/7PcIeP - ▶ -PESTICIDE/CHEMICAL REGULATION OVERHAUL NEEDED TO PROTECT WILDLIFE, ECOSYSTEMS AND FOOD CHAIN http://sco.lt/813dw1 August 1, 2013 Huffington Post Green
▶ THE KILLING FIELDS: INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE, DEAD ZONE AND GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CORN http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-kucinich/the-killing-fields-indust_b_3678515.html ▶ OUR GMO CORNFIELDS ARE TOO QUIET - ALL LIFE CHEMICALLY EXTERMINATED - EXCEPT THE GENE-ALTERED CORN http://sco.lt/6przzF ▶ THOUSANDS OF SRI LANKA FARMERS DYING: STUDY LINKS KIDNEY DISEASE TO AGROCHEMICALS, PESTICIDES http://sco.lt/7vsgzp April 29, 2013 Mother Jones - ▶ THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY IS THE BIG TOBACCO OF THE 21st CENTURY http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/04/lead-household-toxins-home?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+motherjones/main+%28MotherJones.com+Main+Article+Feed%29 September 6, 2013 Huffington Post Green
- ▶ EPA QUIETLY WITHDRAWS TWO KEY PROPOSED CHEMICAL SAFETY RULES http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/06/epa-chemical- August 12, 2013 Environmental Leader
- ▶ TOXIC 100 NAMES TOP U.S. CORPORATE AIR POLLUTERS http://www.environmentalleader.com/2013/08/23/toxic-100-names-top-corporate-air-polluters/ WATCH --- May 13, 2013 Moyers and Company - Full Show:
VIDEO REPORT THE WAR ON SCIENCE AND TOXIC DIS- INFORMATION http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-the-toxic-politics-of-science/ May 18, 2013 Moyers and Company
- ▶ "BLINDING US FROM SCIENCE" | Q&A http://billmoyers.com/2013/05/18/blinding-us-from-science/ - ▶ GMO DEFINED http://gmo-awareness.com/all-about-gmos/gmo-defined/ - ▶ THE GLOBAL CHEMICAL 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 ---------------------------------------- February 20, 2012 - The Center for Media and Democracy's PR Watch: - ▶ SYNGENTA PAID THIRD PARTY PUNDITS TO SPIN THE NEWS ON ENDROCINE DISRUPTOR "ATRAZINE" http://sco.lt/5WHGhF GMO AND INDUSTRIAL CORPORATE FARMING REQUIRE TONS AND TONS OF PESTICIDES AND CHEMICALS SPRAYED ON BOTH OUR FOOD CROPS AND ECOSYSTEMS http://sco.lt/8MndvV --- WATCH --- A Must see VIDEO for all. Dr. David Suzuki WHAT IS GENETIC ENGINEERING "WHAT ARE ROUNDUP READY & Bt PESTICIDE GMO CROPS?" https://youtu.be/9hjy-CJlzbM
THE ULTIMATE KILLING MACHINE NEW CHARGES AGAINST MONSANTO'S PESTICIDE "ROUNDUP (NEEDED FOR GMO CROPS) http://sco.lt/5bdPhx Michael Pollan: "Don't miss this VIDEO, about the next wave of herbicide-tolerant crops from Monsanto-- will make Round-Up look benign" VIDEO THE NEXT "ROUNDUP" GENERATION: DANGERS OF "DICAMBA" http://www.fixfood.org/features/276/dangers-of-dicamba BENBROOK STUDY ON GM CROP AND PESTICIDES http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/2664441577/benbrook-study-on-gm-crops-and-pesticides - ▶ DO WE NEED A GENETIC BILL OF RIGHTS? Beyond GMOs. The Rise of Synthetic Biology. Synthetic biology in our food http://sco.lt/99sJJh SILENCING THE SCIENTIST TARGETED BY HERBICIDE FIRM SYNGENTA - ALTRAZINE http://sco.lt/8VIcAz WATCH THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO (FULL LENGTH) https://youtu.be/V-addwKFrsA THE LEADER OF THE CHEMICAL BIOTECH CARTEL http://sco.lt/7FFsXZ - ▶ MONSANTO: A CORPORATE PROFILE From Saccharin to GE Seed - Chemicals for Food, Agriculture, War http://sco.lt/5TGVDl ---------------------------------------------------------------------- May 3, 2013 - ▶ ORGANIC AGRICULTURE COULD BE RAVAGED BY CHEMTRAILS - MONSANTO SEIZED THE OPPORTUNITY, PROFITS AND DOMINATES SEED PATENT MARKET http://steveblankjrcpt.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/organic-agriculture-ravaged-by-chemtrails-monsanto-seizes-the-opportunity-profits-and-dominates/ WATER IN THE ANTHROPOCENE The Water Crisis http://sco.lt/53HMPJ - ▶ ENDING DRUG MONOPOLIES, MEGA PROFITS AND STRANGLEHOLD ON PATENTS - PEOPLE ARE DYING http://sco.lt/7nnyL3 -▶ UNBELIEVABLE, UNACCEPTABLE, OUTRAGEOUS: PUBLIC OFFICIALS DON'T KNOW POTENTIAL RISKS OF WEST VIRGINIA MASSIVE CHEMICAL SPILL http://sco.lt/5RrPaT
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New York Times, February 11, 2014 ▶ RIVAL INDUSTRIES SWEET-TALK THE PUBLIC Court documents show that the corn refinery and sugar industries spent millions to enlist academics and lobbying groups to support a secret public relations war over the market for sweeteners... http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/12/business/rival-industries-sweet-talk-the-public.html?ref=ericlipton&_r=0 WASHINGTON — The corn refinery and sugar industries, bitter rivals in the manufacture of billions of dollars’ worth of sweeteners for sodas and other high-calorie foods, covertly funded dueling nonprofit groups in Washington in a multiyear effort to grab market share, while also stoking fears among consumers about possible health risks, court records made public in a federal lawsuit between the two parties show. The lawsuit, which has brought hundreds of pages of secret corporate emails and strategy documents into the public domain, demonstrates how Washington-based groups and academic experts frequently become extensions of corporate lobbying campaigns as rival industries use them to try to inflict damage on their competitors or defend their reputations against such assaults...
HuffPost Living, April 01, 2015
▶ WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SUGAR AND HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/01/high-fructose-corn-syrup-vs-sugar_n_6986322.html
Newsweek, June 27, 2014
▶ REPORT: THE SUGAR LOBBY THREATENS ORGANIZATIONS, BURIES SCIENCE ON HEALTH EFFECTS http://www.newsweek.com/report-sugar-lobby-threatens-organizations-buries-science-health-effects-256529
Nation of Change, May 08, 2014
▶ SUGAR-COATED SCIENCE: FOOD INDUSTRY USES DECEPTIVE MARKETING TO HIDE ADDED SUGAR http://www.nationofchange.org/sugar-coated-science-food-industry-uses-deceptive-marketing-hide-added-sugar-1399562309
Union of Concerned Scientists
▶ 2014 REPORT: ADDED SUGAR, SUBTRACTED SCIENCE: HOW INDUSTRY OBSCURES SCIENCE AND UNDERMINES PUBLIC HEALTH http://www.ucsusa.org/center-for-science-and-democracy/sugar-industry-undermines-public-health-policy.html
Guardian, February 12, 2013 - ▶ FOOD AND DRINK COMPANIES UNDERMINING PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY, SAY SCIENTISTS http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/feb/12/food-drink-alcohol-health-regulation
Mother Nature Network, April 11, 2015
▶ 12 TIPS FOR KICKING THE REFINED SUGAR HABIT http://www.mnn.com/food/healthy-eating/blogs/12-tips-for-kicking-the-refined-sugar-habit
HuffPost, March 13, 2015
▶ DOCUMENTS REVEAL SUGAR INDUSTRY INFLUENCED NATIONAL HEALTH POLICY IN EFFORTS TO DIRECT MEDICAL RESEARCH http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/13/sugar-industry-tobacco-industry_n_6855786.html
ISIS, UK ▶ INDUSTRIAL FRUCTOSE AND OVEREATING - FUELING THE OBESITY EPIDEMIC http://www.i-sis.org.uk
TakePart, March 12, 2015
▶ KIDS' 'FRUIT' DRINKS MAY HAVE MORE SUGAR THAN SODA AND PARENT'S DON'T REALIZE IT. Marketing is tricking consumers into thinking non-carbonated beverages are healthy http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/03/12/sugar-kids-favorite-fruit-drinks
The Mind Unleashed, June 20, 2014
-▶ HARVARD SCIENTIST URGES PEOPLE TO STOP DRINKING SUGAR-LADEN "LOW-FAT" MILK http://themindunleashed.org/2014/06/harvard-scientist-urges-people-stop-drinking-low-fat-milk.html VIDEO REPORT March 8, 2013 CBC News SUGAR INDUSTRY'S SECRET DOCUMENTS ECHO TOBACCO TACTICS http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2013/03/08/f-vp-crowe-big-sugar.html
Mother Jones, November/December 2012
- ▶ BIG SUGAR'S SWEET LITTLE LIES. How the industry kept scientists from asking: Does sugar kill? http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/10/sugar-industry-lies-campaign
VIDEO REPORT PBS Newshour
IN EL SALVADOR, TOOTH DECAY EPIDEMIC BLAMED ON SODAS AND JUNK FOOD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afal3cINl1U
New York Times, December 22, 2014
- ▶ SUGAR SEASON. IT'S EVERYWHERE, AND ADDICTIVE http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/12/23/opinion/sugar-season-its-everywhere-and-addictive.html?referrer=&_r=2
HuffPost Green, January 05, 2015
- ▶ YOUR SUGAR MIGHT BE MADE WITH ANIMAL BONES. SORRY, VEGANS http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/29/sugar-vegan-bone-char-yikes_n_6391496.html
BBC, September 18, 2014
- ▶ THIS IS HOW THE SUGAR AND SODA INDUSTRY RESPOND TO OVERWHWHELMING FACTS THAT THEY ARE DESTROYING OUR HEALTH http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-29252001
May 14, 2013 Center for Food Safety ▶ BEST PUBLIC RELATIONS MONEY CAN BUY - A GUIDE TO FOOD INDUSTRY FRONT GROUPS http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/blog/2212/best-public-relations-money-can-buy--a-guide-to-food-industry-front-groups?utm_content=buffer70f8f
The Guardian, November 21, 2014
-▶ LARGEST AMERICAN INDIAN RESERVATION APPROVE JUNK-FOOD, SODA TAX TO FIGHT RAMPANT OBESITY AND DIABETES. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/21/navajo-nation-indian-reservation-junk-food-tax
Grist, November 21, 2014
- ▶ HEY BIG SODA, STOP TARGETING BLACK AND LATINO KIDS http://grist.org/list/hey-big-soda-stop-targeting-black-and-latino-kids/
Food Marketing Workgroup ▶ THE MOST HEAVILY ADVERTISED FOODS TO KIDS ARE SUGARY CEREALS, FAST FOODS, AND SUGARY DRINKS http://www.foodmarketing.org/category/wall-of-shame/
TakePart, January 07, 2015
▶ HERE'S WHY JUNK FOOD MARKETING TO KIDS IS ABOUT TO BE ON A SUGAR HIGH http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/01/07/heres-why-junk-food-marketing-kids-about-be-sugar-high
TreeHugger, February 17, 2014
-▶ ORANGE JUICE? THAT'S LIKE DRINKING SODA FOR BREAKFAST - NOT WHAT YOU THINK http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/if-you-think-orange-juice-healthy-its-time-reconsider.html
Guardian, November 06, 2014
-▶ USA - COULD BERKELEY'S SODA TAX BE A MODEL FOR TACKLING OBESITY ACROSS AMERICA? http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/06/could-berkeleys-soda-tax-be-a-model-for-tackling-obesity-across-america
Nation of Change, February 17, 2014 ▶ CALIFORNIA LAWMAKERS PROPOSE SOFT DRINK WARNING LABELS, INDUSTRY PUSHES BACK http://www.nationofchange.org/california-lawmakers-propose-soft-drink-warning-labels-industry-pushes-back-1392650963
University of California, San Francisco October 16, 2014
▶ STUDY: REGULAR CONSUMPTION OF SUGAR-SWEETENED SODA ACCELERATES CELLULAR AGING http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2014/10/119431/sugared-soda-consumption-cell-aging-associated-new-study
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LIKE COKE OR PEPSI? WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR WHAT THEY'RE DOING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIjHQglXC7Y
July 5, 2013 Grist
- ▶ PEPSI: CANCER FOR A NEW GENERATION http://grist.org/news/pepsi-cancer-for-a-new-generation/ /Fructose_and_Overeating.php
CBS News, July 10, 2013
▶ NO, ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS ARE NOT SAFE EITHER : DON'T BUY THE HYPE http://www.cbsnews.com/news/artificial-sweeteners-could-lead-to-obesity-diabetes/
56 NAMES FOR SUGAR: Robert Lustig: http://celebrityweightlosstips.com/robert-lustig-56-names-for-sugar/
Waking Times, November 10, 2014
▶ RUMSFELD & MONSANTO TEAM UP TO BRING YOU NEURO-TOXIC ASPARTAME & SPLENDA http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/11/10/rumsfeld-monsanto-team-bring-neuro-toxic-splenda/
Alpha Minds
▶ TOP CHILDREN'S VITAMINS FULL OF ASPARTAME, GMOs & HARMFUL CHEMICALS http://www.minds.com/blog/view/167632/top-children% Treehugger, January 29, 2014 ▶ THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER BAKE WITH 'SPLENDA' http://www.treehugger.com/health/baking-and-cooking-splenda-releases-carcinogens-food.html
September 5, 2013 Scientific American
▶ TRICKING TASTE BUDS BUT NOT THE BRAIN: ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS CHANGE BRAIN'S PLEASURE RESPONSE TO SWEETS http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/2013/09/05/tricking-taste-buds-but-not-the-brain-artificial-sweeteners-changes-brains-pleasure-response-to-sweet/ VIDEO PREVIEW:
EXPOSING THE BITTER TRUTH ABOUT SUGAR AND AMERICA'S OBESITY & DIABETES EPIDEMIC http://www.takepart.com/video/2014/04/15/fed-up-trailer
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▶ WHAT IS HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP? http://www.seattleorganicrestaurants.com/vegan-whole-foods/high-fructose-corn-syrup/
June 8, 2013 Digital Journal -▶ STUDY: HIGH-FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP IS AS ADDICTIVE AS COCAINE http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/351810
August 2, 2013 Take Part -▶ YOPLAIT YOGURT DROPS GMO HI-FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, BUT STILL NOT HEALTHY http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/08/02/yoplait-even-without-corn-syrup-still-not-healthy ▶ HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP: THE OBESITY, DIABETES EPIDEMIC http://www.seattleorganicrestaurants.com/vegan-whole-foods/high-fructose-corn-syrup/
May 2, 2013 - Beekeeperic ▶ FEEDING BEES GMO PESTICIDE-LADEN CORN SYRUP WEAKENS IMMUNE SYSTEM AND HONEY BEE HEALTH - SO WHAT'S IT DOING TO YOU? http://www.beekeepereric.com/?p=307 VIDEO (7:13)
"BIG FOOD" And Addiction
Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/news.aspx?id=403 INFOGRAPH PDF DOWNLOAD
BIG FOOD MARKETING: HOW COMPANIES REACH KIDS & TEENS
http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/resources/upload/docs/news/Big-Food/Big-Food_Marketing.pdfBig-Food_Marketing.pdf
May 6, 2013 Wall Street journal
- ▶ "MONSTER" CAFFEINATED ENERGY DRINK SUED BY SAN FRANCISCO FOR MARKETING TO CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS SIX YEARS OLD http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323826804578466780766004340.html?mod=e2tw June 28, 2013 AlterNet
- ▶ ENERGY DRINKS ARE SENDING TEENS TO ERs AND MAY BE KILLING THEM, TOO http://www.alternet.org/food/energy-drinks-sending-americas-teens-emergency-room?akid=10642.237541.CxTmug&rd=1&src=newsletter862731&t=5 WATCH: PBS Video Report ▶ IN EL SALVADOR, AMERICAN SUGARY JUNK FOOD CREATING CHAOS WITH HEALTH, CHILDREN AND CULTURAL NORMS REPORT http://sco.lt/5qSxOL
GM EDUCATION ▶ GMO POLLEN TO BE ALLOWED IN EU HONEY http://www.gmeducation.org/latest-news/p213378-gmo-pollen-to-be-allowed-in-eu-honey.html
RSN, August 22, 2012
- ▶ A LIST OF FOOD COMPANIES THAT HIDE GMO SWEETENERS
Big Ag companies have a vested interest in GMO seeds, and the pesticides and herbicides they use in tandem. GMO cotton, soy, sugar beets and corn, which are manipulated to make sweeteners and fats along with other additives like high-fructose corn syrup and soy lecithin, are in ready-made food, snacks, condiments, juice, soda and cereal. Many companies pushing these products into the marketplace prefer to hold profits high and keep consumers in the dark. Labeling these products would affect close to 80% of processed, non-organic food in the US. http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/13062-a-list-of-food-companies-that-hide-gmos March 12, 2013 - Tree Hugger
- ▶ HONEY LAUNDERING EXPOSED AS INDUSTRY GIANT ADMITS TO MISLABELING CHINESE HONEY http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/honey-laundering-exposed-industry-giant-admits-mislabeling-chinese-honey.html
WATCH:
MICHAEL POLLAN October 24, 2012 Democracy Now FROM GMOs to NYC's SODA BAN, LOCAL EFFORTS CHALLENGE AGRI-GIANTS NATIONAL CONTROL http://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/24/michael_pollan_from_gmos_to_nycs
OBESITY PLUS THE GREAT AMERICAN EXPORT HUGE INCREASE IN DIABETES, STROKES, HEART ATTACKS ON A GLOBAL SCALE http://sco.lt/4hekXh - ▶ THE EXTRAORDINARY SCIENCE OF ADDICTIVE JUNK FOOD: A MEETING WITH 11 MEN WHO CONTROL AMERICA'S LARGEST FOOD COMPANIES http://www.streamorganic.com/index.php/home-mainmenu-1/news-mainmenu-2/1-latest/4887-news-usa-the-extraordinary-science-of-addictive-junk-food.html
VIDEO
IN EL SALVADOR, TOOTH DECAY EPIDEMIC BLAMES ON SODAS AND JUNK FOOD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afal3cINl1U
SPECIAL REPORT: EurActive, April 24, 2013
-▶ POORER NATIONS FACE AN UNWANTED EUROPEAN IMPORT: OBESITY http://www.euractiv.com/specialreport-nutrition-child-su/poorer-nations-face-unwanted-eur-news-519309
WHY SUGAR? WHY NOW? SugarScience.org
Americans are consuming unprecedented amounts of dietary sugars in the form of sugary drinks and packaged/processed foods – far more than we did just a few decades ago. A growing body of new science suggests that all this sugar isn’t just making us fat; it may also be making us sick. http://www.sugarscience.org/why-sugar-why-now.html THE SOURCE TO GO TO FOR SUGARSCIENCE.ORG
The authoritative source for evidence-based, scientific information about sugar and its impact on health http://www.sugarscience.org/
HEY, ADVERTISERS, LEAVE OUR DEFENSELESS KIDS ALONE. THE SCIENCE OF MARKETING FOOD AND DRINK ADDICTION http://sco.lt/5E3G4X
Bay Area Bites, August 06, 2014
-▶ SWEET REVENGE: TURNING THE TABLES ON PROCESSED FOOD http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/08/06/sweet-revenge-dr-robert-lustig-explains-how-to-cut-sugar-lose-weight-and-turn-the-tables-on-processed-foods/
Dr. Mark Hyman ▶ FOOD ADDICTION: COULD IT EXPLAIN WHY 70 PERCENT OF AMERICA IS FAT? http://drhyman.com/blog/2011/02/04/food-addiction-could-it-explain-why-70-percent-of-america-is-fat/ ▶ PROCESSED FOODS MAKE UP 70 PERCENT OF THE U.S. DIET: WITH ABOUT 5,000 DIFFERENT CHEMICAL ADDITIVES - AND THE FDA IS CLUELESS http://sco.lt/5cj2cT
Prevent Disease, March 7, 2013 - ▶ STUDY: SCIENTISTS OFFICIALLY LINK PROCESSED FOODS TO AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE http://preventdisease.com/news/13/030713_Scientists-Officially-Link-Processed-Foods-To-Autoimmune-Disease.shtm
Oliver De Schutter, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right To Food, May 19, 2014
▶ UNHEALTHY DIETS GREATER THREAT TO HEALTH THAN TOBACCO: UN EXPERT CALLS FOR GLOBAL REGULATION http://www.srfood.org/en/unhealthy-diets-greater-threat-to-health-than-tobacco-un-expert-calls-for-global-regulation
- ▶ HOW BIG FOOD CORPORATIONS LOBBY AND MARKET OBESITY TO CHILDREN http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/1779948476/how-big-food-corporations-lobby-and-market-obesity-to-children SALT, SUGAR FAT: HOW THE FOOD GIANTS HOOKED US http://sco.lt/96TUeH
Global Research ▶ GIANT FOOD CORPORATIONS WORK HAND-IN-GLOVE WITH GOVERNMENT AGENCIES TO DISH UP CHEAP, UNHEALTHY FOOD | http://www.globalresearch.ca/giant-food-corporations-work-hand-in-glove-with-corrupt-government-agencies-to-dish-up-cheap-unhealthy-food/5324525 ▶ "FOODOPOLY" - EXPOSING THE HANDFUL OF CORPORATIONS THAT CONTROL OUR FOOD SYSTEM FROM SEED TO DINNER PLATE http://sco.lt/7YSrYX ▶ FROM GROWING PROFIT TO GROWING FOOD: CHALLENGING CORPORATE MONOPOLY http://sco.lt/4qFuUb
Huffington Post Food, November 15, 2013 ▶ THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON JUNK FOOD: WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR BRAIN WHEN YOU EAT JUNK FOOD (AND WHY WE CRAVE IT) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-clear/why-we-crave-junk-food_b_4261415.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular WATCH - DOCUMENTARY FAST FOOD, FAT PROFITS, OBESITY IN AMERICA http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/fast-food-fat-profits-obesity-america/
- ▶ WORLD'S LARGEST FOOD COMPANIES CREATING LEGACY OF DESTRUCTION http://sco.lt/8UBscT SPECIAL REPORT: EurActive, April 24, 2013
-▶ POORER NATIONS FACE AN UNWANTED EUROPEAN IMPORT: OBESITY http://www.euractiv.com/specialreport-nutrition-child-su/poorer-nations-face-unwanted-eur-news-519309 THE GREAT AMERICAN EXPORT - JUNK FOOD Processed GMO Food Consumption Rampant http://sco.lt/6sIjzN
- ▶ CORN ETHANOL: BAD FOR FARMERS, CONSUMERS AND THE ENVIRONMENT - FARM SUBSIDIES http://sco.lt/7CNFgX ▶ WHAT DOES BIOFUEL HAVE TO DO WITH THE PRICE OF TORTILLAS IN GUATEMALA? http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/3995595515/what-does-biofuel-have-to-do-with-the-price-of-tortillas-in-guatemala
THRU THE BACK DOOR: MEGA BIOTECH GIANTS USE NEW USA-EU TRADE DEAL TO DESTROY GMO FOOD SAFETY SAFEGUARDS http://sco.lt/91wUwD
EcoWatch, September 08, 2015 ▶ CALIFORNIA BECOMES FIRST STATE TO LABEL MONSANTO'S ROUNDUP AS A CARCINOGEN http://ecowatch.com/2015/09/08/california-becomes-first-state-to-label-monsantos-roundup-as-a-carcinogen/
▶ FRENCH COURT FINDS MONSANTO GUILTY OF CHEMICAL POISONING WITH PESTICIDE http://ecowatch.com/2015/09/11/monsanto-guilty-chemical-poisoning/
The Ecologist, August 24, 2015 ▶ NAKED CORRUPTION: THE SCANDAL OF GLYPHOSATE RE-ASSESSMENT IN EUROPE. The EU's 'rapporteur state' on glyphosate, Germany, has recommended re-approval of the herbicide with its daily intake increased by 67%, write Drs Nancy Swanson and Mae Wan Ho. The verdict is based on a re-assessment carried out by Monsanto and a consortium of chemical companies, based on unpublished industry studies. It should be rejected outright. http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2985077/naked_corruption_the_scandal_of_glyphosate_reassessment_in_europe
Environmental working Group, April 18, 2014
▶ "EXTREME LEVELS" OF MONSANTO HERBICIDE ROUNDUP FOUND IN FOOD http://www.ewg.org/agmag/2014/04/extreme-levels-herbicide-roundup-found-food
Sustainable Pulse, June 03, 2015 -▶ SWISS SUPERMARKETS STOP SALES OF GLYPHOSATE OVER HEALTH CONCERNS. Swiss supermarket giants Coop and Migros have announced that they will no longer sell products that contain glyphosate, following the World Health Organization’s report stating that glyphosate is a probable human carcinogen. http://sustainablepulse.com/2015/06/03/swiss-supermarkets-stop-sales-of-glyphosate-over-health-concerns/#.VYcvMKbD-vU
-▶ POPE FRANCIS SLAMS GMOs and PESTICIDES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL, HUMAN HEALTH AND SOCIAL DAMAGE http://sustainablepulse.com/2015/06/16/pope-francis-slams-gmos-and-pesticides-for-environmental-and-social-damage/#.VYcw9KbD-vU
Sputnik International, April 18, 2015
-▶ U.S. MAY START TESTING FOOD FOR 'PROBABLY CARCINOGENIC' GLYPHOSATE FOLLOWING PUBLIC PRESSURE http://sputniknews.com/us/20150418/1021050402.html
Ecowatch
-▶ ADVOCACY GROUP DEMANDS MONSANTO RETRACT RIDICULOUS COMMENTS ON UN WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION GLYPHOSATE REPORT http://ecowatch.com/2015/04/06/monsanto-who-glyphosate/
TreeHugger, April 03, 2015
-▶ EPA APPROVES HERBICIDE 'PROBABLY CARCINOGENIC TO HUMANS' IN 9 MORE STATES http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-agriculture/epa-approves-herbicide-probably-carcinogenic-humans-9-more-states.html
Michael Pollan: "Don't miss this VIDEO, about the next wave of herbicide-tolerant crops from Monsanto-- will make Round-Up look benign"
-▶ VIDEO: -▶ ***********DANGERS OF DICAMBA http://www.fixfood.org/features/276/dangers-of-dicamba
Sustainable Pulse, February 14, 2014
▶ "ROUNDUP" PESTICIDE LINKED TO GLOBAL BOOM IN CELIAC DISEASE AND GLUTEN INTOLERANCE http://sustainablepulse.com/2014/02/19/roundup-linked-global-boom-celiac-disease-gluten-intolerance/#.VI3luydQW6A
ARE YOU EATING 'PESTICIDE PLANTS'? THE CONNECTION BETWEEN GMO AND TOXIC PESTICIDES http://sco.lt/9JFS65
Digital Journal, January 27, 2013
▶ IS GLYPHOSATE PSYCHOACTIVE? HORMONE INHIBITOR IN THE FOOD CHAIN http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/342259
Global Research, January 2, 2014
▶ MONSANTO ROUNDUP: THE IMPACTS OF GLYPHOSATE HERBICIDE ON HUMAN HEALTH The foodstuffs of the Western diet, primarily grown by industrial agriculture, are increasingly being produced using a two-part system of engineered plant seeds and toxic chemical application. Consequences are most of the diseases and conditions associated with a Western diet, which include gastrointestinal disorders, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, depression, autism, infertility, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. http://www.globalresearch.ca/monsanto-roundup-the-impacts-of-glyphosate-herbicide-on-human-health-pathways-to-modern-diseases/5342520
NewsSum, August 20, 2014
-▶ MAIN INGREDIENT "GLYPHOSATE" IN MONSANTO'S ROUNDUP PESTICIDE, PATENTED AS AN "ANTIBIOTIC" DESTROYING GI TRACT http://www.newssum.com/main-ingredient-monsantos-roundup-patented-antibiotic-destroying-gi-tract-3542
Guardian, March 24 ,2015
-▶ COMMON PESTICIDES LINKED TO ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/mar/24/pesticides-antibiotic-resistance-study
Salon.com, March 25, 2015 ▶ IT LOOKS LIKE PESTICIDES MIGHT ACTUALLY BE KILLING US AFTER ALL - SCIENTISTS IDENTIFY A NEW CULPRIT IN THE RISE OF ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT SUPER BUGS. Research reveals a new way in which industrial agriculture may be contributing to the superbug crisis http://www.salon.com/2015/03/25/scientists_id_a_new_culprit_in_the_rise_of_antibiotic_resistant_superbugs_pesticides/
Guardian Sustainable Business, April 06 2015
-▶ FROM ANTIBIOTICS TO INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE TO FOSSIL FUELS: THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY. Humanity has spent the last century creating life-changing luxuries. Here’s why our next move should be learning how to wean ourselves off these wonders http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/apr/06/sustainability-antibiotics-farming-industrial-agriculture-fossil-fuels
Independent Science News, March 24, 2014 ▶ HOW "EXTREME LEVELS" OF ROUNDUP IN FOOD BECAME THE INDUSTRY NORM Roundup Contamination of GMO Soybeans http://www.independentsciencenews.org/news/how-extreme-levels-of-roundup-in-food-became-the-industry-norm/
Institute of Science in Society, September 17, 2014 - ▶ ROUNDUP, GLYPHOSATE EVERYWHERE... IN YOUR FOOD, IN OUR WATER, IN OUR SOIL. Glyphosate’s suppression of Cytochrome P450 enzymes and amino acid biosynthesis by beneficial gut microbes has led to a variety of human diseases that globally reach epidemic proportions in populations on a Western diet, including gastrointestinal disorders, obesity, depression, autism, infertility, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease [5]. Glyphosate and other pesticide residues had been contaminating our staple foods since before 2002, according to UK Defra (Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs) Expert Committee on Pesticide Residues in Food (PRiF) [6] and neither had our friends in Wales and in Denmark. Following the recommendations by Monsanto, farmers had been using glyphosate as herbicide throughout the crop growth cycle; and at the end they were also desiccating (drying) or ripening crops with glyphosate sprayed about 7-10 days before harvest [7]. So, some of us in Europe are receiving glyphosate residues in all our non-organic staple foods, such as bread, cereals, potatoes, pasta, pulses, rice, sugar, beer, whisky, etc.[6] and many foods from the US made from corn or soya (mostly GM). http://www.i-sis.org.uk/How_Roundup_Poisoned_My_Nature_Reserve.php
-▶ NEW MIT STUDY QUESTIONS MONSANTO SAFETY CLAIMS FOR PESTICIDE ROUNDUP “GLYPHOSATE" IN OUR FOOD AND WATER
This effect, according to the researchers, can contribute to causing or worsening “the diseases and conditions associated with a Western diet which include gastrointestinal disorders, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, depression, autism, infertility, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.”... http://organicconnectmag.com/wp/mit-study-questions-monsantos-safety-claims-for-roundup/#.Uc_BGevpiRQ
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, -▶ FORTY YEARS WITH GLYPHOSATE http://www.intechopen.com/books/herbicides-properties-synthesis-and-control-of-weeds/forty-years-with-glyphosate
Feb 19, 2013 - Science Daily
-▶ EFFECTS OF HUMAN EXPOSURE TO HORMONE-DISRUPTING CHEMICALS EXAMINED IN LANDMARK UNITED NATION REPORT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130219115501.htm
SAD WHEN OUR OWN GOVERNMENT TAX-PAID SCIENTISTS NEED PROTECTING FROM THE BIG CORPORATE CHEMICAL CARTEL Reuters, March 27, 2015
▶ ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP SEEKS GREATER PROTECTION FOR USDA SCIENTISTS WHOSE RESEARCH QUESTIONS BIG AGRIBUSINESS CHEMICALS. The petition to the USDA presses the agency to adopt policies to prevent "political suppression or alteration of studies and to lay out clear procedures for investigating allegations of scientific misconduct." According to the petition, some scientists working for the federal government are finding their research restricted or censored when it conflicts with agribusiness industry interests. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/28/usda-petition-idUSL2N0WU02J20150328
July 1, 2013 Beyond Pesticides
▶ TWENTY THREE GROUPS TELL EPA TO REJECT MORE ROUNDUP GLYPHOSATE IN OUR ECOSYSTEMS AND FOOD SUPPLY http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=11038
National Geographic, March 05, 2015
▶ CHEMICAL EXPOSURE LINKED TO BILLIONS IN HEALTH CARE COSTS. Researchers conclude they are 99 percent certain that hormone-altering chemicals are linked to attention problems, diabetes, other health problems http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/03/150305-chemicals-endocrine-disruptors-diabetes-toxic-environment-ngfood/
-▶ UN, WHO REPORT: MAN-MADE CHEMICALS CITED IN HEALTH SCOURGES - A GLOBAL THREAT THAT MUST BE ADDRESSED - - Cancers, Obesity and... http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3997219112/man-made-chemicals-cited-in-health-scourges-a-global-threat-that-must-be-addressed-un-who-cancers-obesity-and-brain-development
Global Research, February 24, 2015
-▶ MONSANTO GLYPHOSATE "ROUNDUP" HERBICIDE TRIGGER AUTISM IN CHILDREN. MIT SCIENTIST http://www.globalresearch.ca/monsanto-glyphosate-roundup-herbicide-triggers-autism-in-children-mit-scientist/5433023
June 23, 2009 Scientific America
▶ WEED-WHACKING HERBICIDE PROVES DEADLY TO HUMAN CELLS http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=weed-whacking-herbicide-p
Summit County Citizens Voice, April 05, 2015
▶ STUDY TRACKS HUGE SURGE IN USE OF BEE-KILLING PESTICIDES http://summitcountyvoice.com/2015/04/05/study-tracks-huge-surge-in-use-of-bee-killing-pesticides/
February 8, 2012 Food Integrity Campaign -▶ DROWNING IN HERBICIDE: MONSANTO IGNORES HEALTH CONCERNS http://www.foodwhistleblower.org/blog/23-2012/286-drowning-in-herbicide-monsanto-ignores-health-concerns
DailyKoz, March 27,2015
▶ MONSANTO'S "DISCREDIT BUREAU" REALLY DOES EXIST http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/27/1373484/-Monsanto-s-Discredit-Bureau-Swings-into-Action#
EcoWatch, March 26, 2015
▶ MONSANTO DEMANDS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION RETRACT REPORT THAT SAYS "ROUNDUP" IS LINKED TO CANCER http://ecowatch.com/2015/03/26/monsanto-demands-who-retract-report/
The Washington Post, March 19, 2015
▶ THE BIZARRE WAY THE U.S. REGULATES CHEMICALS — LETTING THEM ON THE MARKET FIRST, THEN MAYBE STUDY THEM http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/03/19/our-broken-congresss-latest-effort-to-fix-our-broken-toxic-chemicals-law/
March 29, 2013 EWG Environmental Working Group ▶ A LOOPHOLE FOR PESTICIDES PUTS PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AT RISK - the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved roughly 11,000 pesticides intended for use in agriculture, inside homes, on lawns, in hand soaps, on clothing and other consumer goods with little or no safety tests, according to a multi-year investigation by the Natural Resources Defense Council. http://www.ewg.org/enviroblog/2013/03/loophole-pesticides-risks-public-health
Mother Jones, March 17, 2015
▶ THE EUROPEAN UNION HAS STRICT RULES AROUND HORMONE DISRUPTOR PESTICIDES. BUT IF THE UNITED STATES HAS ITS WAY, THAT COULD SOON CHANGE http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/03/europe-pesticides-endocrine-disruptors
About Health, March 11, 2015
▶ EXPOSURE TO HORMONE-DISRUPTING CHEMICALS RESULTS IN HUGE COSTS FOR EU http://foodpolicy.about.com/od/In_the_News/fl/Exposure-to-Hormone-Disrupting-Chemicals-Results-in-Huge-Cost-for-EU.htm
June 30, 2013 Nation of Change
▶ EXTENSIVE RESEARCH SHOWS MONSANTO'S #1 SELLING HERBICIDE, ROUNDUP IS KILLING YOU http://www.nationofchange.org/extensive-research-shows-monsanto-s-1-selling-herbicide-roundup-killing-you-1372601505
Institute of Science In Society, December 10, 2014
▶ MARKED DETERIORATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH PARALLELS INCREASE IN GM CROPS AND GLYPHOSATE USE, US GOVERNMENT DATA SHOWS http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Deterioration_of_Public_Health.php
-▶ DID YOU KNOW? GENE ALTERED FOODS NOW LARGE PART OF AMERICAN DIET - AS AMERICANS GET SICKER AND SICKER http://sco.lt/7oVxQH
Mother Jones, March 26, 2015
▶ THE REAL REASON TO WORRY ABOUT GMOs : PESTICIDE CHEMICALS GALORE IN YOUR FOOD AND YOUR BODY http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2015/03/bittman-right-its-not-gmos-its-how-theyre-used
Ensia, February 16, 2015
▶ WHAT ARE WE DOING TO OUR CHILDREN'S BRAINS http://ensia.com/features/what-are-we-doing-to-our-childrens-brains/
Institute of Science in Society, March 26, 2014 ▶ GLYPHOSATE AND CANCER http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Glyphosate_and_Cancer.php
GMWatch
▶ NOW GLYPHOSATE FOUND IN PEOPLE'S URINE http://gmwatch.eu/latest-listing/1-news-items/13631-now-glyphosate-found-in-peoples-urine
Biosafety Information Centre, April 15, 2014
▶ MONSANTO GMO 'ROUNDUP' GLYPHOSATE-RESISTANT HERBICIDE DETECTED IN BREAST MILK OF AMERICAN MOTHERS http://www.biosafety-info.net/article.php?aid=1061
Daily Mail, MAY 20, 2014
▶ GENETICALLY MODIFIED Bt FOOD TOXIN FOUND IN THE BLOOD OF 95% OF UNBORN BABIES - NEW STUDY. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1388888/GM-food-toxins-blood-93-unborn-babies.html
February 1, 2011 GM Watch -▶ PUBLIC KEPT IN THE DARK ON "ROUNDUP" LINK WITH BIRTH DEFECTS - NEW REPORT http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/13228-public-kept-in-the-dark-on-roundup-link-with-birth-defects-new-report
WATCH THE CHILD VICTIMS OF AGRICULTURAL PESTICIDE POISONING - PESTICIDE INDUSTRY DISMISSIVE http://sco.lt/8KO8GH
▶ STRONG REPORT FROM PEDIATRICIANS: PESTICIDES HARM CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT http://sco.lt/8g7Daz
GreenMediaInfo, November 25th 2013 ▶ GMO, ROUNDUP PESTICIDE LINKED TO EXPLODING GLUTEN SENSITIVITY EPIDEMIC http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/news-release-gmos-linked-exploding-gluten-sensitivity-epidemic-free-pdf1
RT News, November 26, 2013
▶ GMOs LINKED TO GLUTEN DISORDERS PLAGUING 18 MILLION AMERICANS http://rt.com/usa/gmo-gluten-sensitivity-trigger-343/
Seattle Organic Restaurants ▶ BREAD AND CEREAL BARS CONTAMINATED WITH TOXIC ROUNDUP 'GLYPHOSATE' http://seattleorganicrestaurants.com/vegan-whole-food/is-your-bread-cereal-bars-water-contaminated-with-toxic-glyphosate.php
Sustainable Pulse February 12, 2015
▶ PENNSYLVANIA RESEARCHERS DISCOVER TOXIC GLYPHOSATE HERBICIDE IN HONEY AND SOY SAUCE http://sustainablepulse.com/2015/02/12/pennsylvania-researchers-discover-glyphosate-herbicide-honey-soy-sauce/
The Western Producer, December 21, 2012
▶ SCIENTIST RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT GM CROPS AND GLYPHOSATE. Plant pathologist Don Huber says glyphosate changes soil ecology, making plants susceptible to diseases that could eventually cause diseases in humans http://www.producer.com/2012/12/scientist-raises-concerns-about-gm-crops-and-glyphosate/
The Ecologist, February 25, 2015
▶ ROUNDUP - A CONVERGING PATTERN OF TOXICITY FROM FARM TO CLINIC TO LABORATORY http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2769439/roundup_a_converging_pattern_of_toxicity_from_farm_to_clinic_to_laboratory.html ======================
ABOUT "ROUNDUP" THE ULTIMATE KILLING MACHINE
“GLYPHOSATE" LINKED TO PARKINSON'S, INFERTILITY AND CANCERS http://sco.lt/4pt9tJ
MONSANTO: A CORPORATE PROFILE
From War Chemicals for Food, Pesticides for Agriculture, Now A War Against Natural Systems http://sco.lt/5TGVDl
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January 10, 2012 Mother Jones ▶ BAYER RAKES IN $1 BILLION IN 2010 WITH BEE-KILLING PESTICIDES http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/01/purdue-study-implicates-bayer-pesticide-bee-die-offs The Nation, March 11, 2014
▶ THE PESTICIDE INDUSTRY vs CONSUMERS: NOT A FAIR FIGHT. By pouring money into politics, pesticide companies have beat back attempts to protect the public. http://www.thenation.com/article/178802/pesticide-industry-vs-consumers-not-fair-fight#
GMOs INVADE FRUIT INDUSTRY APPLES, PEARS, CHERRIES AND PEACHES ALL UNLABELED GMO http://sco.lt/5TMFCT
RT News, March 17, 2015
▶ SAN DIEGO SUES MONSANTO FOR BAY POLLUTION & PERSISTENT CONTAMINATION http://rt.com/usa/241581-san-diego-monsanto-lawsuit/
100Reporters, January 16, 2015
▶ INVESTIGATION SPARKS DOCUMENTARY COVERAGE OF PESTICIDE http://100r.org/2015/01/100reporters-investigation-sparks-documentary-coverage-of-pesticide/
DOW AND MONSANTO 2,4-D "AGENT ORANGE" WEED KILLER ON YOUR FOOD, IN THE ENVIRONMENT AND IN YOUR BODY http://sco.lt/8oQRGL
June 13, 2013 Green Media
▶ GLYPHOSATE ROUNDUP CARCINOGENIC IN THE PARTS PER TRILLION. An alarming new study finds that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup weedkiller, is estrogenic and drives breast cancer cell proliferation in the parts-per-trillion range. http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/breaking-glyphosate-roundup-carcinogenic-parts-trillion-range
July 8, 2013 American For America -▶ EPA AND MONSANTO - RAISE 'ROUNDUP' GLYPHOSATE LIMITS... Toxic herbicide linked to serious health impacts – EPA puts Monsanto’s profits over public health http://www.americansforamerica.com/index.php/recent-posts/entry/epa-and-monsanto-raise-glyphosate-limits-really
EcoWatch, February 27, 2014
-▶ MONSANTO'S ROUNDUP FOUND IN 75% OF AIR AND RAIN SAMPLES http://ecowatch.com/2014/02/27/monsantos-roundup-found-in-75-of-air-and-rain-samples/
Science News, February 25, 2015
▶ AGRICULTURAL INSECTICIDES POSE A GLOBAL RISK TO SURFACE WATER BODIES http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-02/hcfe-aip022515.php
August 30, 2013 Sustainable Pulse: ▶ THE NEVER-ENDING TREADMILL OF MORE AND STRONGER PESTICIDES:-----BIOTECH AG INDUSTRY STARTS NEW ERA OF PESTICIDE-PROMOTING AGRICULTURE http://sustainablepulse.com/2013/08/30/biotech-industry-starts-new-era-of-pesticide-promoting-agriculture/#.UigyP7zc-RQ
- ▶ FOUR-FIFTHS OF ALL BIG PHARMA ANTIBIOTICS CONSUMED BY MEAT AND POULTRY INDUSTRY http://sco.lt/5u5Gyn
Truthout, February 23, 2015
▶ WILL RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA REJECT MONSANTO'S "ROUNDUP"? THE CASE FOR BANNING GLYPHOSATE http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/29244-will-richmond-reject-roundup-the-case-for-banning-glyphosate#
Environmental Working Group, November 25, 2013
▶ THE HIDDEN TRUTH ABOUT PEANUTS: FROM FOOD ALLERGIES TO FARM PRACTICES http://www.ewg.org/enviroblog/2013/11/hidden-truth-about-peanuts-food-allergies-farm-practices Robyn O'Brien's Website http://www.robynobrien.com/ @foodawakenings
WHAT PESTICIDE EXPOSURE IS DOING TO YOUR BODY? http://sco.lt/7IKHmD
THE INFERTILITY TIME BOMB MEN'S SPERM COUNT FALLING ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL / PESTICIDE EXPOSURES http://sco.lt/5Mzvn7
HuffingtonPost Green, September 15, 2014
-▶ HERBICIDE AND INSECTICIDE USE ON GMO CROPS SKYROCKETING, WHILE PRO-GMO MEDIA RUN INTERFERENCE. Former EPA Senior Scientist's New Article Sets Record Straight http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-bronner/herbicide-insecticide-use_b_5791304.html
OUR GMO CORNFIELDS ARE TOO QUIET ALL LIFE CHEMICALLY EXTERMINATED - EXCEPT THE GENE-ALTERED CORN http://sco.lt/6przzF
▶ NEW RESEARCH: GMO FOOD FAR WORSE THAT WE THINK - THEIR TOXIC CHEMICAL COCKTAILS http://www.activistpost.com/2012/02/new-research-gmo-food-far-worse-than-we.html
TruthOut, February 25, 2015
▶ EAT AT YOUR OWN RISK: FLAWED FDA RISK ASSESSMENTS STRENGTHEN ARGUMENTS FOR LABELING GMOs http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/29287-eat-at-your-own-risk-flawed-fda-risk-assessments-strengthen-arguments-for-labeling-gmos#
Digital Journal, February 22, 2015
▶ WHY THE GMO DEBATE IS FAR FROM OVER http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/environment/op-ed-the-gmo-debate-is-far-from-over/article/426669
Institute of Science in Society, February 18, 2015
▶ DEVASTATING IMPACTS OF GLYPHOSATE USE WITH GMO SEEDS IN ARGENTINA http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Devastating_Impacts_of_Glyphosate_Argentina.php
Goldman Prize -▶ ARGENTINA: CHILDREN DYING FROM GMO AGRO-CHEMICAL SPRAYING - A MOTHER TURNS ACTIVIST http://sco.lt/7AxIgr
Calgary Herald, October 20, 2013
▶ ARGENTINA'S CALL FOR LIMITS ON AGROCHEMICAL SPRAYING CITING HEALTH PROBLEMS
One area's birth defects quadrupled in decade after genetically modified crops approved http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/Argentines+call+limits+agrochemical+spraying+citing+health+problems/9058815/story.html
PHOTO ESSAY
Over Grow The System, December 29, 2014
ARGENTINA: THE COUNTRY THAT MONSANTO POISONED http://overgrowthesystem.com/argentina-the-country-that-monsanto-poisoned-photo-essay/
RT USA, February 10, 2015
▶ MONSANTO MONARCH MASSACRE: 970 MILLION BUTTERFLIES KILLED SINCE 1990: ROUNDUP http://rt.com/usa/230823-monarch-butterflies-monsanto-massacre/
RT USA, February 05, 2015
▶ MONSANTO'S ROUNDUP PESTICIDE SYSTEM THREATENS EXTINCTION OF MONARCH BUTTERFLIES: http://rt.com/usa/229667-monsanto-monarch-butterflies-extinct/
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▶ OUR INDUSTRIAL, WESTERN CORPORATE AGRICULTURAL FOOD SYSTEM IS DESTROYING THE EARTH AND OUR HEALTH http://sco.lt/63qRl3 ===========================
NaturalNews, July 05, 2014
-▶ CANCER DEATH RATES ARE TWICE AS HIGH WHERE GM (Genetically Modified) CROPS AND THEIR AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS ARE USED http://www.naturalnews.com/045874_cancer_rates_Argentina_agrochemicals.html
Food Democracy Now, May 16, 2013
▶ NEW STUDY LINKS GMO FOOD TO LEUKEMIA: GMO BT CRY-TOXINS MAY CONTRIBUTE TO BLOOD ABNORMALITIES. http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/blog/2013/may/16/new_study_links_GMO_food_to_leukemia/
YOUR BODY IS A CORPORATE TEST TUBE: How You Became a Guinea Pig For the Chemical and BioTech Corporations http://sco.lt/8fk9ZJ
WATCH
Link TV (27:17)
UNSAFE: THE TRUTH BEHIND EVERYDAY CHEMICALS
They contribute to disease and are linked to conditions such as asthma, autism, ADHD, diabetes, cancers, infertility, cognitive disorders, obesity, reproductive disorders and birth defects. Earth Focus looks at endocrine disruptors, ubiquitous chemicals that affect development, metabolism, fertility and intelligence at extremely low doses and at what measures could be taken to better ensure public safety.
http://www.linktv.org/video/9214/unsafe-the-truth-behind-everyday-chemicals
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The Ecologist, July 02, 2014
-▶ NEONICOTINOIDS ARE POISONING NOT JUST BEES BUT ENTIRE FARMLAND ECOSYSTEMS The world's most widely used insecticides have contaminated the environment across the planet so pervasively that global food production is at risk, according to a comprehensive scientific assessment of the chemicals' impacts. http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2459001/neonicotoids_are_poisoning_entire_farmland_ecosystems.html
TreeHugger, April 10, 2015
-▶ RETAILER LOWE'S AND THE CITY OF PORTLAND BAN BEE-KILLING PESTICIDES http://www.treehugger.com/environmental-policy/retailer-lowes-and-city-portland-ban-bee-killing-pesticides.html
SYNGENTA SILENCING THE SCIENTIST - "ALTRAZINE" DEADLY NEONICOTINOID PESTICIDES POISONING OUR PLANET AND YOUR HEALTH http://sco.lt/9AkvK5
Common Dreams, April 28, 2014 -▶ FOLLOW THE HONEY: 7 WAYS PESTICIDE COMPANIES ARE SPINNING THE BEE CRISIS http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/28-3
SustainAbility, December 24, 2013
- ▶ TOXIC TIME BOMB - NEONICOTINOIDS, CHEMICALS, PESTICIDES IN YOUR FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT http://www.sustainability.com/blog/ten-trends-from-2013-toxics-timebomb#.Urns-vZQ1K4
-▶ BATTLE FOR THE BEES: Dying Bees Raise Alarm For Humans - Europe Bans Pesticide http://sco.lt/8QOFgv
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-▶ THE POWERFUL USDA ALLOW MORE GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS WITH Bt TOXIC PESTICIDES TO MARKET, DESPITE SERIOUS HEALTH CONCERNS http://sco.lt/7VOZZx
The Guardian, September 5, 2013 ▶ FSA 'ENDANGERING PUBLIC HEALTH' BY IGNORING CONCERNS OVER GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD AND PESTICIDES The GM allows more pesticide to be contained in the plant. Nearly 80% of GMOs are designed to absorb ROUNDUP. The other 20% are designed to produce their own pesticide. We found that pesticides are not really tested." http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/05/gm-food-cancers-fsa?view=mobile
US National Institute of Health
-▶ CHEMICAL TOXINS: A RESEARCH PAPER TO EXPLAIN THE GLOBAL OBESITY EPIDEMIC http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12006126
TakePart, November 15, 2013
-▶ HOW BIG CORN IS KILLING THE EARTH http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/11/15/how-big-corn-killing-earth
INVESTIGATIVE REPORT SOARING PESTICIDE USE AND POISONING LINKED TO GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROP PRODUCTION http://sco.lt/8iunRp
BEYOND PESTICIDES
PESTICIDE-INDUCED DISEASES DATA BASE -- CANCER
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/health/cancer.php
-▶ PESTICIDE LOBBY SPENDS MILLI0NS TO DEFEND CHEMICALS TIED TO HUMAN HEALTH AND BEE DEATHS http://sco.lt/5Fiin3
BAN GMOs NOW A Special ISIS Report http://sco.lt/5CPilt
The Institute of Science in Society, May 29, 2013 -▶ 800 SCIENTISTS DEMAND GLOBAL GMO "EXPERIMENT" END http://wewillblowyourmind.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/800-scientists-demand-global-gmo.html?m=1
European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility, October 21, 2013 ▶ THERE IS NO CONSENSUS ON GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD SAFETY http://www.ensser.org/increasing-public-information/no-scientific-consensus-on-gmo-safety/
-▶ GENETIC MODIFICATION STRAINS OLD FOOD AND DRUG LAWS - HOW A FISH BECOMES A DRUG AND CORN A PEST http://sco.lt/6vynBp
September 2, 2013 Institute of Science in Society ▶ BEWARE, THE CHANGING FACE OF GENETIC MODIFICATION: MISLEADING CONSUMERS AND GOVERNMENTS TO AVOID REGULATION http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Beware_the_Changing_Face_of_Genetic_Modification.php
WATCH
"WHAT ARE ROUNDUP READY & Bt PESTICIDE GMO CROPS?"
A Must see VIDEO for all. Dr. David Suzuki
http://sco.lt/5n6cuP
-▶ NEW RESEARCH: GMO FOOD FAR WORSE THAT WE THINK - THEIR TOXIC CHEMICAL COCKTAILS http://www.activistpost.com/2012/02/new-research-gmo-food-far-worse-than-we.html
-▶ PLACING PROFITS AHEAD OF WELL BEING: CHALLENGING THE DESTRUCTIVE POWER OF AGRO-CHEMICAL INDUSTRY http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3070968001/placing-profits-ahead-of-wellbeing-challenging-the-destructive-power-of-agro-chemical-industry
The Guardian Environment, December 21, 2012- Tom Philpott -▶ FALSE PROMISES: MEET THE WEEDS THAT MONSANTO'S POISONS CAN'T BEAT - - -Instead of the supposed revolution in agriculture that Monsato's GM seeds were meant to bring, the opposite effect has occurred – a gigantic rise in herbicide/pesticide use
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/dec/21/weeds-monsato-cant-beat
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- ▶ HOW YOU BECAME A GUINEA PIG FOR THE CHEMICAL AND BIOTECH CORPORATIONS http://sco.lt/5dp0wz
-▶ PROCESSED AND GMO FOODS MAKE UP 70 PERCENT OF THE US DIET- WITH ABOUT 5,000 DIFFERENT CHEMICAL ADDITIVES http://sco.lt/7FPtxZ
-▶ WHY MANY MILLIONS OF ANIMALS, LIKE PEOPLE, ARE NOW OVERWEIGHT - CHEMICALS, PESTICIDES IN YOUR FOOD http://sco.lt/5MB0TJ
▶ WHY IS THERE SO LITTLE INDEPENDENT PEER REVIEWED GMO RESEARCH? http://sco.lt/5FIWcD
-▶ PESTICIDE/CHEMICAL REGULATION OVERHAUL NEEDED TO PROTECT WILDLIFE, ECOSYSTEMS AND FOOD CHAIN http://sco.lt/6VkkXB WATCH FROGS: THE THIN GREEN LINE A WORLD WITHOUT AMPHIBIANS http://sco.lt/5U62ML
-▶ THE GLOBAL CHEMICAL 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
-▶ MONSANTO GMO TREES COULD DEVASTATE FOREST ECO SYSTEMS LEAVING BIOLOGICAL DESERTS http://sco.lt/51ekyH
WATCH THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO (FULL LENGTH) The Leader of the Global Biotech Chemical Cartel http://sco.lt/7wFWFN
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April 23, 2012 Biosafety Information Center ▶ GMO CROPS WILL NOT FEED THE WORLD. A review article in the Agronomy for Sustainable Development journal concludes that GM crops will not only not feed the world, they are hampering efforts to sustainably feed the world by jeopardizing existing biological and genetic diversity. http://www.biosafety-info.net/article.php?aid=965 We reproduce the abstract here. The full article is available at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13593-013-0138-9
-▶ POPE FRANCIS SLAMS GMOs and PESTICIDES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL, HUMAN HEALTH AND SOCIAL DAMAGE http://sustainablepulse.com/2015/06/16/pope-francis-slams-gmos-and-pesticides-for-environmental-and-social-damage/#.VYcw9KbD-vU
EWG, March 31, 2015
▶ CLAIMS THAT GMOs WILL "FEED THE WORLD" DON'T HOLD UP http://www.ewg.org/release/claims-gmos-will-feed-world-don-t-hold
Genetic Literacy Project May 4, 2015
▶ GMOs=MONOCULURE=BIO-DISASTER TIME TO REVISE SIMPLISTIC IDEOLOGICAL NARRATIVE http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2015/05/04/gmosmonoculturebio-disaster-time-to-revise-simplistic-ideological-narrative/
The Ecologist, March 26, 2015
- ▶ 'ALTERED GENES, TWISTED TRUTH' : JANE GOODALL ON THE GREAT GMO DECEPTION http://www.theecologist.org/reviews/2782286/altered_genes_twisted_truth.html
The Ecologist, April 21, 2015
THE EXISTENTIAL CRISIS FACING GMOs - THEY DON'T WORK AND WE DON'T WANT THEM http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2837368/the_existential_crisis_facing_gmos_they_dont_work_and_we_dont_want_them.html
The Independent , March 29, 2015
▶ 'FEEDING THE WORLD' DOES NOT JUST MEAN HIGHER YIELDS : THE CASE AGAINST GM CROPS http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/feeding-the-world-does-not-just-means-higher-yields-the-case-against-gm-crops-10142238.html
WATCH BBC VIDEO REPORT
A BILLION GO HUNGRY BECAUSE OF GMO FARMING Vandana Shiva http://www.sott.net/article/260505-A-billion-go-hungry-because-of-GMO-farming-Vandana-Shiva
Natural Society, Novermber 04, 2012
-▶ GMO CROPS PROVEN TO BE INEFFECTIVE AT FIGHTING WORLD HUNGER. DEVOID OF NUTRITION Funded by the World Bank and United Nations, an organization was created known as the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD). Consisting of 900 scientists and researchers, they set out to examine the complex issue of world hunger. While the issue of world hunger may be quite complex, their results were not. Quite plainly, the group found that genetically modified crops were not a meaningful solution to the problem. In other words, the expert team showed through rigorous analysis and repeated study that the claims made by Bill Gates are completely inaccurate... http://naturalsociety.com/gmo-crops-proven-to-be-ineffective-at-fighting-world-hunger/
Radio New Zealand, April 16, 2015
▶ VANUATU BAN GM SEED IMPORTS FROM THE RELIEF EFFORT Vanuatu ban GM seed imports from the relief effort http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/programmes/datelinepacific/audio/20174984/vanuatu-ban-gm-seed-imports-from-the-relief-effort
The Ecologist, February 12, 2015
▶ LAND AND SEED LAWS UNDER ATTACK AS AFRICA IS GROOMED FOR CORPORATE RECOLONIZATION. A battle is raging for control of resources in Africa - land, water, seeds, minerals, ores, forests, oil, renewable energy sources... http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2752051/land_and_seed_laws_under_attack_as_africa_is_groomed_for_corporate_recolonization.html
Pambazuka -Voices for Freedom and Justice in Africa ▶ HOW COMPANIES FRAME ISSUES OF FOOD AND GLOBAL HUNGER FOR THEIR OWN SELF-INTEREST AND BOTTOMLINE PROFITS There is a new, but deceptive, foreign drive to end hunger in Africa through large-scale agribusiness. Yet helping poor households in rural Africa feed themselves in an affordable manner means introducing low-cost, sustainable enhancements to farming. ...The rise of philanthrocapitalism in the US, where former and current business leaders, through the strength of their foundations, have increasingly come to influence the shape and direction of US international development programmes. Central to the philanthrocapitalist worldview is a belief that private enterprise is the fundamental agent of progressive change and that business acumen trumps other forms of expertise... http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/85291
GHANA AND GMOs Pambazuka, February 19, 2015 Genetic engineering is about private corporate control of the food system. ▶ THE RABID TACTICS OF THE BIOTECH INDUSTRY TO GAIN CONTROL OF GHANA'S FOOD SYSTEM Whose interests does Prof. Alhassan represent? Prof. Alhassan was been quoted as dismissing anti-GMO groups because, according to him, they allegedly do not have any scientific proof or knowledge to offer when it comes GMO technology. But he is wrong. Ghanaian farmers need to abhor and reject scientists laden with conflicts of interest. Monsanto and Syngenta are particularly greedy to get their hands on Ghana’s agriculture and control the seed market here.Professor Alhassan is attempting to control the information farmers and the public see and hear just like the industry he represents.... “Today, large numbers of scientists are in the employ of Big Pharma, Big Ag, and all kinds of corporations with anti-environmental and anti-social justice agendas.”(2)... Professor Alhassan is a key employee of Big Ag, and has been for his entire career.... http://www.pambazuka.net/en/category/comment/94029
WATCH (6:29)
ANNA LAPPE AND FOOD MYTHBUSTERS
DO WE NEED INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE TO FEED THE WORLD?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uem2ceZMxYk
VIDEO REPORT March 12, 2013 - NPR MarketPlace PROCESSED (GMO) FOODS MAKE UP 70 PERCENT OF THE U.S. DIET: WITH ABOUT 5,000 DIFFERENT CHEMICAL ADDITIVES -- AND THE FDA IS CLUELESS: Author Melanie Warner discusses the complexities of the processed foods that line the shelves at the supermarket... http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/big-book/processed-foods-make-70-percent-us-diet
Truthout, December 04, 2014
▶ SEEDS OF THE FUTURE DIMINISHING AS MONO INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE DOMINATES THE WORLD. A third of the world's land area is dedicated to agriculture. Farmers' fields and pastures comprise (after the oceans) the second largest ecosystem on the planet. This vast tract has been largely transformed into sterile monoculture deserts in which all other organisms are suppressed with agrochemicals, and only the cash crop is allowed to thrive. Whether it is soy in the Brazilian Amazon, wheat on the Ukrainian steppes or corn in Iowa, a single high-yield variety typically dominates the landscape for as far as the eye can see. http://truth-out.org/news/item/27760-seeds-of-the-future
OWNING THE SEEDS OF LIFE SEED PATENT AND CONTROL OF YOUR FOOD THE GLOBAL CORPORATE MONOPOLY http://sco.lt/6FiLkv
inter Press Service, March 23, 2015
▶ GATES FOUNDATION SLAMMED FOR PLAN TO PRIVATISE AFRICAN SEED MARKETS http://www.ipsnews.net/2015/03/gates-foundation-slammed-for-plan-to-privatise-african-seed-markets/
HOW NOT TO "FEED THE WORLD" http://sco.lt/8vwnk9
June 19, 2013 Biosafety Info
-▶ GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS AND HUNGER - ANOTHER LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE http://www.biosafety-info.net/article.php?aid=981
The Daily Sheeple, June 25, 2014
▶ MONSANTO, SYNGENTA, BAYER: BIG AGRI PEDDLES "GMO GRUEL" TO THE IMPOVERISHED. Perhaps the most racists, disgusting public relations stunt yet to sell genetically modified poison to the masses and monopolize the world’s food supply. http://www.thedailysheeple.com/monsanto-syngenta-bayer-big-agri-peddles-gmo-gruel-to-the-impoverished_062014
The Ecologist, February 23, 2015
▶ THERE IS NO SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS ON GMO SAFETY http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2766504/there_is_no_scientific_consensus_on_gmo_safety.html
Sustainable Pulse, February 01, 2015
-▶ OVER 300 SCIENTISTS AND LEGAL EXPERTS AGREE: THERE IS NO CONSENSUS" ON SAFETY OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED (GM) CROPS AND FOOD http://sustainablepulse.com/2015/02/01/scientific-consensus-gmo-safety-statement-published-peer-reviewed-journal/
Institute of Science In Society, December 10, 2014
▶ MARKED DETERIORATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH PARALLELS INCREASE IN GM CROPS AND GLYPHOSATE USE, US GOVERNMENT DATA SHOWS http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Deterioration_of_Public_Health.php
Sustainable Pulse, February 14, 2014
▶ "ROUNDUP" PESTICIDE LINKED TO GLOBAL BOOM IN CELIAC DISEASE AND GLUTEN INTOLERANCE http://sustainablepulse.com/2014/02/19/roundup-linked-global-boom-celiac-disease-gluten-intolerance/#.VI3luydQW6A
NEW CHARGES AGAINST MONSANTO'S "PESTICIDE" ROUNDUP (NEEDED FOR GMO CROPS) THE ULTIMATE KILLING MACHINE http://sco.lt/5bdPhx Michael Pollan: "Don't miss this VIDEO, about the next wave of herbicide-tolerant crops from Monsanto-- will make Round-Up look benign"
VIDEO: DANGERS OF DICAMBA http://www.fixfood.org/features
-▶ PESTICIDES USE RAMPING UP AS GMO CROP TECHNOLOGY BACKFIRES: STUDY http://ow.ly/eb2NH
Guardian Sustainable Business, November 20, 2014
▶ CHINA BOYCOTT'S U.S. GMO CORN: As China closes its markets to many types of US corn, questions arise about the costs and benefits of genetically modified food http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/nov/20/china-gmo-corn-boycott-markets
Reuters, December 04, 2014
▶ EU DEAL GIVES COUNTRIES OPT-OUT ON GROWING APPROVED GM CROPS http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/04/us-eu-gmos-idUSKCN0JI16P20141204
WATCH; POISONING PARADISE: ISLANDS AT RISK THE GENETIC ENGINEERING FOOD WAR IN HAWAII
http://sco.lt/8hNxzd
FACT-CHECKING ABOUT GMO FOODS
In the last few decades many Americans have been suffering from different chronic diseases. Many factors could be contributing in the increase in chronic diseases but the most important one is indeed our diet, even more so than our lifestyle.... http://www.seattleorganicrestaurants.com/vegan-whole-foods/fact-checking-gmo-foods/#FDA
Feb 2, 2013 - John Vidal, The Guardian - -▶ IT'S HARD TO TRUST GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD WHEN IT IS IN THE GRIP OF A FEW GLOBAL GIANTS http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/03/gm-food-grip-global-giants
▶ HOW MONOCULTURE THREATENS THE FUTURE OF FOOD - GROWING FOOD IN DEAD SOIL http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/01/01/bees-dying-from-chemical-agriculture.aspx?e_cid=20130101_DNL_art_2#_edn1
Truthout, November 26, 2014
▶ UNITED NATIONS CALLS FOR AN END TO INDUSTRIALIZED FARMING http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/27636-united-nations-calls-for-an-end-to-industrialized-farming
Common Dreams, March 21, 2014
-▶ RADICAL UN REPORT PROMOTES DEMOCRATIC CONTROL OF FOOD AND AN END TO CORPORATE DOMINATION http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/21-0
Worldwatch Institute, March 24, 2015
▶ GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROP INDUSTRY CONTINUES TO EXPAND http://www.worldwatch.org/genetically-modified-crop-industry-continues-expand-0
-▶ “STUNNING: DIFFERENCE OF GM FROM NON-GM CORN http://sco.lt/5X53bt
May 6, 2013 Food Safety News -▶ GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROP RISK ASSESSMENT CHALLENGES: AN OVERVIEW http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2013/05/ge-crop-risk-assessment-challenges-an-overview/#.UYsK74Lyeic
▶ HOW BIOTECH CORPORATIONS AND GMO CROPS ARE THREATENING THE ENVIRONMENT AND HUMANKIND ALIKE http://sco.lt/7OmezB
OUR GMO CORNFIELDS ARE TOO QUIET ALL LIFE CHEMICALLY EXTERMINATED - EXCEPT THE GENE-ALTERED CORN http://sco.lt/6przzF
June 19, 2013 Xinhua News
-▶ NORTH AMERICAN CROPS FAILING WITH RELIANCE ON GM BIOTECHNOLOGIES - STUDY http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/sci/2013-06/19/c_132467575.htm
-▶ GMO BIOSAFETY INFORMATION CENTER http://www.biosafety-info.net/
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HOW GMO FOODS AFFECT HEALTH GENE ALTERED FOODS NOW LARGE PART OF AMERICAN DIET UNREGULATED, UNLABELED, NO OVERSIGHT http://dailyhealthpost.com/how-gmo-foods-affect-health/#axzz2NCebcdtc
Project Syndicate April 02, 2015
▶ THE GLOBAL OBESITY THREAT
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/global-obesity-threat-by-richard-dobbs-and-boyd-swinburn-2015-04
April 24, 2013 EurActive
▶ SPECIAL REPORT: POORER NATIONS FACE AN UNWANTED EUROPEAN IMPORT: OBESITY http://www.euractiv.com/specialreport-nutrition-child-su/poorer-nations-face-unwanted-eur-news-519309
OBESITY PLUS THE GREAT AMERICAN EXPORT. HUGE INCREASE IN DIABETES, STROKES, HEART ATTACKS ON A GLOBAL SCALE http://sco.lt/4hekXh
▶ GIANT FOOD CORPORATIONS WORK HAND-IN-GLOVE WITH GOVERNMENT AGENCIES TO DISH UP CHEAP, UNHEALTHY FOOD |Global Research http://www.globalresearch.ca/giant-food-corporations-work-hand-in-glove-with-corrupt-government-agencies-to-dish-up-cheap-unhealthy-food/5324525
FAST FOOD, SLOW DEATH Most Fast Food contains GMOs "Food Deserts" and the $500 Billion Corporate Food Monopoly http://sco.lt/6YRaUr +++WATCH +++ IN EL SALVADOR, AMERICAN JUNK FOOD CREATING CHAOS WITH HEALTH, CHILDREN AND CULTURAL NORMS - PBS NEWSHOUR VIDEO REPORT http://sco.lt/5qSxOL
BAN GMOs NOW A Special Institute of Science in Society http://sco.lt/5CPilt
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Common Dreams, February 23, 2015
▶ MANIPULATE AND MISLEAD: HOW GMOs ARE INFILTRATING AFRICA The most persistent myth about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is that they are necessary to feed a growing global population. Highly effective marketing campaigns have drilled it into our heads that GMOs will produce more food on less land in an environmentally friendly manner. The mantra has been repeated so often that it is considered to be truth. Now this mantra has come to Africa, sung by the United States government and multinational corporations like Monsanto, seeking to open new markets for a product that has been rejected by so many others around the globe. http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/02/23/manipulate-and-mislead-how-gmos-are-infiltrating-africa
THE CORPORATE 'PHILANTHROCAPITLISTS' TAKEOVER OF AFRICAN AND GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY http://sco.lt/6CHP3R
Farmlandgrab, January 03, 2015
▶ BARBARIANS AT THE FARM GATE http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/24381
Common Dreams, February 06, 2015
▶ THE RE-COLONIZATION OF AFRICA http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/02/06/re-colonization-africa
March 14, 2013 Al Jazeera VIDEO REPORT
ARGENTINA'S BAD SEEDS: THE HUMAN COSTS OF GMO SOY http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/peopleandpower/2013/03
THE HUNGER GAMES: HOW UK, USA SUPPORT FOR BIG AGRIBUSINESS IS FUELING POVERTY http://sco.lt/8ked9N
-▶ GENETIC ENGINEERING AND THE GMO INDUSTRY: CORPORATE HIJACKING OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3994750421/corporate-hijacking-of-food-and-agriculture-genetic-engineering-and-the-gmo-industry
PR Watch, May 25, 2012 ▶ HOW THE U.S. SOLD AFRICA TO MULTINATIONALS LIKE MONSANTO, CARGILL, DUPONT, PEPSICO AND OTHERS http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/05/11530/how-us-sold-africa-multinationals-monsanto-cargill-dupont-pepsico-and-others
▶ BEWARE OF A CALL FOR A "GREENER REVOLUTION' CORPORATE TAKEOVER OF GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY http://sco.lt/7sYm1Z
VIDEO THE MYTH OF THE GREEN REVOLUTION http://sco.lt/79ngWX
AFRICA G8 - FOOD SECURITY FOR WHOM? CORPORATE PROFITS vs SMALLHOLDER FARMER INTERESTS http://sco.lt/8JKbIn
WHEN WALL STREET WENT TO AFRICA http://sco.lt/7znTf7
Minds, September 25, 2014
▶ UN REPORT SAYS SMALL-SCALE ORGANIC FARMING ONLY WAY TO FEED THE WORLD https://www.minds.com/blog/view/361933126227726336/un-report-says-small-scale-organic-farming-only-way-to-feed-the-world
▶ CULTIVATING SANITY : BANGLADESH FARMERS TURN BACK THE CLOCK TO COMBAT CLIMATE STRESSED CROPS - Cultivation of the old varieties is expanding in part because they need almost no chemical fertiliser or pesticides - which makes them cheaper and easier to grow - and because their yields are good in tough conditions. http://www.trust.org/item/20141126125124-0i6go
Newsweek, December 13, 2014
▶ SOLVING HUNGER IN ETHIOPIA BY TURNING TO NATIVE CROPS http://www.newsweek.com/solving-hunger-ethiopia-turning-native-crops-291558
Natural News, March 02, 2015
▶ PARAGUAYAN SMALL FARMERS FIGHT BACK AGAINST MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS DESTROYING THEIR LIVES http://www.naturalnews.com/048828_GMO_corporations_small_farmers_Paraguay.html#
Reuters, July 29, 2014
- ▶ U.S. GMO CROP COMPANIES DOUBLE DOWN ON ANTI-LABELING EFFORTS SPENDING TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/29/us-usa-gmo-labeling-idUSKBN0FY1J720140729
WATCH ***** DAVID SUZUKI: "BIOTECHNOLOGY GENETICS IS OUT OF CONTROL" http://sco.lt/4lxOIj
Feb 25, 2013 Guardian Sustainable Business ▶ OUR GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEM IS DANGEROUSLY OUT OF CONTROL, WHAT ARE THE SOLUTIONS? http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/fairtrade-report-treatment-smallholder-farmers
Grist, February 22, 2013
-▶ MIRACLE GROW: INDIAN FARMERS SMASH CROP YIELD RECORDS WITHOUT GMOs http://grist.org/food/miracle-grow-indian-farmers-smash-crop-yield-records-without-gmos/
-▶ THE WAR AGAINST ORGANICS -- WHAT'S AN 'ORGANIC' LABEL REALLY WORTH? http://sco.lt/718cfh
Gaia Foundation, December 16, 2011
▶ FARMING CARBON CREDITS A CON FOR AFRICA: THE MANY FACES OF CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE http://www.gaiafoundation.org/blog/farming-carbon-credits-a-con-for-africa-the-many-faces-of-climate-smart-agriculture
-▶ 30 YEARS OF GENETICALLY ENGINEERED PLANTS - 20 YEARS OF COMMERCIAL CULTIVATION IN THE U.S. - A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT http://sco.lt/5PYIM5
June 10, 2013 Phys Org
-▶ BIOTECH GMO CROPS vs PESTS: SUCCESSES AND FAILURES FROM THE FIRST BILLION ACRES http://phys.org/news/2013-06-pests-resistant-gm-crops.html June 19, 2013 Xinhua News ▶ NORTH AMERICAN CROPS FAILING WITH RELIANCE ON GM BIOTECHNOLOGIES - STUDY http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/sci/2013-06/19/c_132467575.htm June 21, 2013 Living on Earth:
-▶ ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS FOR PIGS FED GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD (So What's It Doing To You?) http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=13-P13-00025&segmentID=1 -▶ GENETICALLY MONETIZED FOOD - PATENTING LIFE - FOLLOW THE MONEY http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3834880026/genetically-monetized-food-patenting-life-follow-the-money
June 21, 2013 Inspired Bites -▶ GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD WAS A 'BRILLIANT' BUSINESS MODEL, BUT WILL BE BECOME OBSOLETE? http://blogs.prevention.com/inspired-bites/2013/06/21/why-genetically-modified-food-was-a-brilliant-business-model/
---IMPORTANT WATCH --- TYING PESTICIDES TO GMO CROPS (A Double Billion Dollar Bonanza)
-▶ WHAT ARE MONSANTO'S "ROUNDUP READY" AND Bt PESTICIDE GMO CROPS? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9hjy-CJlzbM
▶ THINK THOSE CHEMICALS AND PESTICIDES IN YOUR FOOD & ENVIRONMENT HAVE BEEN TESTED? http://sco.lt/72z4g
The Analyst Report, July 03, 2014
-▶ MONSANTO'S : INSIDIOUS' GMO FOOD AND ITS DARK CONNECTIONS TO THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX http://www.theanalystreport.net/2014/07/03/monsantos-insidious-gm0-food-and-its-dark-connections-to-the-military-industrial-complex/
-▶ HOW MONSANTO CONTROLS OUR FOOD, POISONS OUR LAND AND INFLUENCES ALL THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/15856-how-monsanto-went-from-selling-aspirin-to-controlling-our-food-supply ▶ MONSANTO: A CORPORATE PROFILE ▶ From Agent Orange to Saccharin To GMO Seed & Pesticides http://sco.lt/5TGVDl
-▶ OBAMA QUIETLY DE-REGULATES GMO/ GENETIC BIOTECH INDUSTRY : Fast-tracking approvals, waiving regulations ... http://sco.lt/5uCx8b
>> WHY IS OUR FOOD BEING MADE AND MODIFIED BY THE WORLD'S LARGEST PESTICIDE MANUFACTURERS? http://gmo-awareness.com/all-about-gmos/gmo-defined/ April 25, 2013 Earth In Transition
-▶ SOY - THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE POISONOUS - A SCORECARD ON SOME OF BEST KNOWN SOY PRODUCTS http://www.earthintransition.org/2013/04/soy-the-good-the-bad-and-the-poisonous/
-▶ THE GLOBAL CONTROL OF FOOD, COUNTRIES AND POPULATIONS http://sco.lt/4kuXlB
GATES AND AFRICA A TROJAN HORSE FOR GMO BIOTECH CARTEL IN SUB-SAHARA AFRICA http://sco.lt/5ZNnsX -▶ THE GLOBAL CHEMICAL BIOTECH CARTEL - AN UNPRECEDENTED POWER OVER AGRICULTURE AND 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 WATCH: "MONSANTO FOOD WARS: GMO SEEDS AND ANIMALS" http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3997411054/watch-monsanto-food-wars-gmo-seeds-and-animals
SHORT VIDEO:
THE SEVEN MYTHS OF INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE http://sco.lt/8adA9p
▶ OUR INDUSTRIAL, WESTERN AGRICULTURAL FOOD SYSTEM IS DESTROYING THE EARTH AND OUR HEALTH http://sco.lt/686Qi1
VIDEO HARVESTING JUSTICE TRANSFORMING THE FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN IN THE USA http://sco.lt/668m5x
============= PESTICIDES ============= INVESTIGATIVE REPORT SOARING PESTICIDE USE AND POISONING LINKED TO GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROP PRODUCTION http://sco.lt/8iunRp
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 17, 2013 ▶ AGRICULTURAL PESTICIDES SPARK BROAD BIODIVERSITY LOSS http://www.nature.com/news/pesticides-spark-broad-biodiversity-loss-1.13214 October 3, 2012: ▶ HOW GMOs UNLEASHED A PESTICIDE GUSHER http://www.carighttoknow.org/gmos_unleashed_a_pesticide_gusher ▶ PESTICIDE LOBBY SPENDS MILLIONS TO DEFEND CHEMICALS TIED TO BEE DEATHS AND HUMAN HEALTH http://sco.lt/8nhcsT April 12, 2013 - Honey Colony - Mark Bittman
▶ PESTICIDES: NOW MORE THAN EVER THE THREAT IS MORE ACUTE THAN EVER http://www.honeycolony.com/article/pesticides-now-more-than-ever/
▶ CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE IS CORPORATE GREEN-WASHING - AGRA http://sco.lt/8Ry4Wn
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AlterNet, October 9, 2013
▶ MEET THE OPPOSITE OF MONSANTO -- THESE ARE THE FOLKS THAT REALLY FEED THE WORLD http://www.alternet.org/food/meet-opposite-monsanto-these-are-folks-really-feed-world?paging=off¤t_page=1#bookmark - ▶ THE GLOBAL CHEMICAL BIOTECH CARTEL - AN UNPRECEDENTED POWER OVER WORLD AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN HEALTH http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/1716244040/the-global-chemical-biotech-cartel-an-unprecedented-power-over-world-agriculture-and-human-health 8 WAYS CORPORATIONS ARE POISONING OUR FOOD, WATER AND THE EARTH http://sco.lt/5bh1g9 Future Food, November 18, 2014
-▶ SUSTAINABLE FARMING GOES BACK TO THE FUTURE http://futurefood2050.com/sustainable-farming-goes-back-to-the-future/ Common Dreams, May 23, 2014
▶ PERMACULTURE POISED TO CONQUER THE CARIBBEAN. No fertilisers, herbicides, or pesticides but a bold vision to save a region from climate change and resource scarcity http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/23 The Ideas Arcade, March 02, 2014
▶ GROWING FRESH VEGETABLES AND FISH TOGETHER - WITHOUT SOIL: FEEDING THE WORLD WITH AQUAPONICS http://www.theideasarcade.com/growing-food-without-soil-feeding-world-aquaponics/ DW.DE English, October 28, 2013
▶ FIGHTING HUNGER THROUGH SUSTAINABLE FARMING Until now, many have believed that intensive farming is the answer to famine and malnutrition around the world. But now experts are challenging this idea, propagating quality and variety over quantity. http://www.dw.de/fighting-hunger-through-sustainable-farming/a-17186491
▶ THE CURSE OF PETROLEUM-BASED FERTILIZERS http://sco.lt/7oRwsT
WATCH THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO (FULL LENGTH) The Leader of the Global Biotech Chemical Cartel http://sco.lt/7wFWFN
July 12, 2013 Ethical Corporation ▶ WHAT'S AN ORGANIC LABEL REALLY WORTH:
Supermarkets in North America and Europe are overflowing with organic-labelled fruit, vegetables, eggs and meats. More than 80 countries have organic standards and products carry one or more of 200 seals, logos and certification claims. But are consumers able to make informed choices? What’s the real ethical impact of “buying organic”? The answers are murkier than you might think.... http://www.ethicalcorp.com/supply-chains/organic-food-%E2%80%93-what-%E2%80%98organic%E2%80%99-label-really-worth
Grist, March 05,2015
▶ WALMART'S NEW "GREEN" "SUSTAINABLE" PRODUCT LABEL IS THE MOST MISLEADING YET http://grist.org/business-technology/walmarts-new-green-product-label-is-the-most-misleading-yet/
INFOGRAPH
FIND OUT WHICH COMPANIES YOU SUPPORT WHEN BUYING ORGANIC http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/03/17/big-businesses-behind-organic-brands
May 23, 2013 Cornucopia Institute ▶ HAS YOUR FAVORITE ORGANIC BRAND BEEN HIJACKED BY CORPORATE AGRIBUSINESS - WHO OWNS ORGANICS? http://app.streamsend.com/private/9pOA/GCz/A7Ks2Iz/browse/18693657
Alternet, July 21, 2014
▶ THE CORPORATE TAKEOVER OF 'ALL NATURAL' FOOD http://www.alternet.org/food/corporate-assault-all-natural-food Cornucopia News, March 28, 2014 ▶ WHAT ARE THE LEGAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ORGANIC AND NATURAL LABELS? http://www.cornucopia.org/2014/03/legal-differences-organic-natural-labels/
LiveScience, February 05, 2015
▶ NEW STUDY: EATING ORGANIC PRODUCE CAN LIMIT PESTICIDE EXPOSURE http://www.livescience.com/49703-organic-produce-diet-pesticides.html
HuffPost Green, April 02, 2014
▶ USDA: SELLING OUT ORGANIC TO PROTECT FIVE FACTORY FARMS http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-friedrich/usda-selling-out-organic-_b_5072263.html
Organic Consumers Association, April 02, 2014 ▶ CORPORATE CLOUT CHIPS AWAY AT USDA ORGANIC STANDARDS. Without any input from the public, the USDA changed the way the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) decides which non-organic materials are allowed in certified organic. The change all but guarantees that when the NOSB meets every six months, the list of non-organic and synthetic materials allowed in organic will get longer and longer. http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_29653.cfm
Common Dreams, April 29, 2014 ▶ USDA COLLUDES WITH CORPORATE AND BIG AG TAKEOVER OF 'ORGANIC' FOOD STANDARDS http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/29-2
▶ BUYING UP THE OPPOSITION: GIANT AGRI-FOOD CORPORATIONS GOBBLING UP NATION'S $63 BILLION YEARLY ORGANIC FOOD BUSINESS http://sco.lt/4oTOEr
San Jose Mercury News, November 08, 2014
▶ SHOWDOWN LOOMS AS CALIFORNIA EYES COMPULSORY SPRAYING OR ORGANIC CROPS : THE POWER OF THE GMO PESTICIDE LOBBY http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_26898172/showdown-looms-california-eyes-pesticides
NaturalNews, October 03, 2014
▶ USDA CONTINUES SECRET PROCESS OF APPOINTING CORPORATE FACTORY FARM EXECUTIVES TO ORGANIC STANDARDS BOARD http://www.naturalnews.com/047114_Organic_Standards_USDA_farm_bill.html#
Politico, May 02, 2014 ▶ THE ORGANIC CIVIL WAR: What's allowed under the green and white “USDA Organic” seal on packages in the grocery store? There’s a civil war raging in the industry over how much longer exceptions should be permitted and how to best to get rid of them.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/organic-food-industry-civil-war-agriculture-usda-106295.html?hp=f1
The Independent, December 12, 2014
▶ ORGANIC FARMING CAN FEED THE WORLD IF DONE RIGHT, SCIENTISTS CLAIM : PESTICIDE-FREE CROPS http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/organic-farming-can-feed-the-world-if-done-right-scientists-claim-9913651.html
Guardian Environment, July 11, 2014
▶ CLEAR DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ORGANIC AND NON-ORGANIC FOOD, STUDY FINDS Research is first to find wide-ranging differences between organic and conventional fruits, vegetables and cereals http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/11/organic-food-more-antioxidants-study Washington State University Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, July 11, 2014
-▶ NUTRITIONAL QUALITY AND SAFETY OF ORGANIC AND NON-ORGANIC FOOD differences in nutritional quality and safety between organically and non-organically grown crops http://csanr.wsu.edu/significant-benefits-organic-plant-based-foods/ 29 November 2012 -▶ TOP U.S. HEALTH GIANT, KAISER PERMANENTE, SAYS BUY ORGANIC FOR PROPER HEALTH: AVOID GMOs http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/14767-focus-top-us-healthcare-giant-gmos-are-devastating-health
Guardian Sustainable Business, October 20, 2014
▶ INVESTING IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE BY CONVERTING FARMS TO "BEYOND ORGANIC'. How do you profitably invest in sustainable agriculture - farms producing diverse, fairly-priced healthy food without harming the environment, but which also restore soil fertility and provide farmers with a fair living? http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/oct/20/investing-sustainable-agriculture-farms-beyond-organic
Treehugger, October 14, 2014 ▶ FARMERS' MARKET FRAUD: DO YOU REALLY KNOW WHERE YOUR FARMERS' MARKET PRODUCE COMES FROM? CALIFORNIA TAKES ACTION http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/do-you-really-know-where-your-farmers-market-produce-comes.html
Technologywater,December 14, 2013
▶ UN REPORT SAYS SMALL-SCALE ORGANIC FARMING ONLY WAY TO FEED THE WORLD. Even as the United States government continues to push for the use of more chemically-intensive and corporate-dominated farming methods such as GMOs and monoculture-based crops, the United Nations is once against sounding the alarm about the urgent need to return to (and develop) a more sustainable, natural and organic system. http://www.technologywater.com/post/69995394390/un-report-says-small-scale-organic-farming-only-way-to
Truthdig, March 20, 2014 - ▶ RADICAL U.N. REPORT PROMOTES DEMOCRATIC CONTROL OF FOOD AND AN END TO CORPORATE DOMINATION http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/radical_un_report_promotes_democratic_control_of_food_2014032
====================== USDA/FDA COLLUDES WITH CORPORATE BUSINESS TO TAKEOVER ORGANICS =======================
STOP THE USDA CORPORATE COUP OF ORGANICS !
Seed Freedom, June 17, 2014
▶ CITIZEN GROUPS CHALLENGE USDA's POWER GRAB "THREATENING" ORGANIC INTEGRITY http://seedfreedom.in/citizen-groups-challenge-usdas-power-grab-threatening-organic-integrity-2/
Cornucopia Institute, May 18th 2012 ▶ THE ORGANIC WATERGATE: Advocates Condemn Corruption and USDA's Cozy Relationship with Corporate Agribusinesses in Organics http://www.cornucopia.org/2012/05/the-organic-watergate-advocates-condemn-corruption-and-usdas-cozy-relationship-with-corporate-agribusinesses-in-organics-2/
A Call for Action to Protect Organic - Beyond Pesticides ▶ USDA ORGANIC PROPOSAL BLURS LINES BETWEEN ORGANIC AND CONVENTIONAL (GMO) FOOD PRODUCTION - PDF http://www.beyondpesticides.org/infoservices/pesticidesandyou/Winter%2097-98%20vol.%2017%20no.%204.pdf
PR Watch, May 21, 2014 -▶ ARE ORGANIC STANDARDS IN JEOPARDY? WATCHDOG SAY 'YES' http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/05/12480/organic-standards-jeopardy
TakePart, September 03, 2014
INFOGRAPH: THE "USDA ORGANIC' SEAL: WHAT DOES 'HUMANE' MEAN ANYWAY? THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO MEAT LABELS http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/09/03/consumer-reports-infographic
Treehugger, MAY 02, 2014
▶ WHAT USDA 'ORGANIC' FOOD IS...AND WHAT IT ISN'T - Critics like Cornucopia Institute says the USDA is attempting a 'power grab' in the interest of big business and in order to expand the exemptions list.http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/what-organic-food-is-and-what-it-isnt.html
Cornucopia Institute, June 19, 2014
▶ DON'T BE FOOLED BY THE NAME :"THE ORGANIC TRADE ASSOCIATION" (OTA) IS A BIG INDUSTRY LOBBY GROUP MISREPRESENTING ORGANIC FARMERS....the USDA will not allow any promotional or information program, project, or activity that can be viewed as disparaging to conventionally produced products... http://www.cornucopia.or g/2014/06/robo-calls-bother-organic-farmers-during-spring-planting/
Cornucopia Institute, May 07, 2014 ▶ IT'S TIME TO TAKE BACK THE ORGANIC COMMUNITY Big Ag and their USDA cohorts have attempted to stack The National Organic Standards Board with their ilk, wresting power from true organic proponents, but four seats are now open. If you or someone you know would like to help take back organics, nominations are due May 15, 2014 http://www.cornucopia.org/2014/05/time-take-back-organic-community/
DON'T LET THE #USDA DESTROY ORGANICS PETITION: Food Democracy Now An outrageous power grab to destroy organics must be stopped! Right now one of the biggest assaults on the integrity of organic foods is taking place at the USDA that has ever been conceived, with high-level political appointees working behind the scenes with giant industrial corporations that sell organic product lines to gut 20 years of precedent in the congressionally-mandated National Organic Standards Board (NOSB). At stake here is the neutering of an independent NOSB decision making process and the deliberate destruction of organic integrity by allowing synthetic ingredients to be permanently allowed in organic foods due to pressure from giant corporate organic interests. http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/take_stand_for_organic_integrity/
May 22, 2013 Cornucopia Institute ▶ WHO OWNS ORGANICS? = UPDATED http://www.cornucopia.org/2013/05/who-owns-organics-updated/
Alternet, July 01, 2014
-▶ FOOD LABELLED 'ORGANIC' IS NO GUARANTEE OF SAFETY -- SHOCKING LEVELS OF HEAVY METALS IN "IMPORTED" FOOD HIGHLIGHT THE DANGER http://www.alternet.org/environment/why-food-labelled-organic-no-guarantee-safety-shocking-levels-heavy-metals-found Nation of Change, February 25, 2014 - ▶ USDA POLICY FAILS TO ADDRESS GMO CONTAMINATION OF ORGANIC CROPS http://www.nationofchange.org/usda-policy-fails-address-gmo-contamination-organic-crops-1393343848 Los Angeles Times, ▶ PLANNED FDA FOOD SAFETY RULES RILE ORGANIC FARMERS . "They are going to drive organic farms out of business," said Dave Runsten, policy director for Community Alliance with Family Farmers in Davis, Calif.http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-food-safety-20140223,0,6831660.story#axzz2uBOccbZY Modern Farmer, September 19, 2014
▶ WHY IS THE USDA BUYING SUBMACHINE GUNS? http://modernfarmer.com/2014/09/usda-buying-submachine-guns/
▶ 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
Nation of Change, September 21, 2013 ▶ PROPOSED FDA FOOD SAFETY RULES SUPPORT FACTORY FARMING, THREATEN FAMILY FARMS http://www.nationofchange.org/proposed-fda-food-safety-rules-support-factory-farming-threaten-family-farms-1379774141
Mother Jones, January 145, 2014
-▶ WAIT, WE INJECT ANTIBIOTICS INTO EGGS FOR ORGANIC CHICKEN??? http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/01/organic-chicken-and-egg-antibiotics-edition WATCH SO YOU WANT TO EAT INDUSTRIAL FACTORY FARMED EGGS? - CALIFORNIA EGG FARM INVESTIGATION http://ow.ly/kXbz1
Cornucopia Institute, December 11, 2014
▶ INVESTIGATION: INDUSTRIAL FACTORY FARMS PRODUCING MASSIVE QUANTITIES OF "ORGANIC" MILK AND EGGS. In what has been called one of the largest fraud investigations in the history of the organic industry, The Cornucopia Institute, a Wisconsin-based farm policy research group, announced filing formal legal complaints against 14 industrial livestock operations producing milk, meat and eggs being marketed, allegedly illegally, as organic. http://www.cornucopia.org/2014/12/investigation-factory-farms-producing-massive-quantities-organic-milk-eggs/
Cornucopia Institute July 23, 2013 Cornucopia Institute ▶ FDA AND USDA COLLUDE TO ELIMINATE TRUE ORGANIC EGG PRODUCTION, FAVORING INDUSTRIAL FACTORY FARMS. http://www.cornucopia.org/2013/07/fdausda-collude-to-eliminate-true-organic-egg-production/
=========================== "NATURAL" vs "ORGANIC" LABELING ===========================
Treehugger, November 21, 2014
▶ GENERAL MILLS AGREES TO DROP "100% NATURAL" LABELING IN FACE OF LAWSUIT - FOODS LABELED "NATURAL" AT NOT GMO FREE In the fight for a better food system, it’s broadly known that labels like “all natural” mean next to nothing. There’s no legal definition of what constitutes natural food in the U.S., and manufacturers have used the word widely and liberally... http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/general-mills-agrees-drop-natural-labeling-face-lawsuit.html
VIDEO
TreeHugger, February 10, 2014
HERE'S WHY "NATURAL" IS NOT "ORGANIC" http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/heres-why-natural-not-organic-video.html New York Times, December 19, 2013 ▶ BIG FOOD TRADE GROUP SEEKS "NATURAL" LABEL FOR FOOD CONTAINING GMO FOOD http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/20/business/trade-group-seeks-natural-label-on-modified-food.html?emc=edit_tnt_20131219&tntemail0=y&_r=0 The Washington Post, June 24, 2014
▶ THE WORD "NATURAL" HELPS SELL $40 BILLION WORTH OF FOOD IN THE U.S. EVERY YEAR - AND THE LABEL MEANS NOTHING http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/06/24/the-word-natural-helps-sell-40-billion-worth-of-food-in-the-u-s-every-year-and-the-label-means-nothing/
Treehugger, June 18, 2014 ▶ "NATURAL" LABELING MISLEADS MORE THAN HALF OF AMERICANS http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/natural-labeling-misleads-more-half-americans.html Natural News, June 18, 2014
▶ WHOLE FOODS SUED OVER FALSE "ALL NATURAL" CLAIM ON BAKED GOODS http://www.naturalnews.com/045617_all_natural_Whole_Foods_lawsuit.html
The Grio, November 27, 2013
▶ 'FRESH FOOD' - WHAT ARE YOU REALLY EATING http://thegrio.com/2013/11/27/fresh-food-what-are-you-really-eating/ PR Watch, January 15, 2014 ▶ BIOSOLIDS: UNDER PRESSURE, WHOLE FOODS AGREES TO STOP SELLING PRODUCE GROWN IN SEWAGE SLUDGE... Industrial and hospital waste and human excrement http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/01/12359/whole-foods-agrees-stop-selling-produce-grown-sewage-sludge
▶ ARE YOU EATING 'PESTICIDE GENE-ALTERED PLANTS'? http://sco.lt/7v6Y2T
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Deutche Welles, March 25, 2014 ▶ EU TO IMPOSE STRICTER RULES ON ORGANIC PRODUCTS, MAKING IT MORE EXPENSIVE FOR FARMERS GIVING LEVERAGE TO BIG AG http://www.dw.de/eu-to-impose-stricter-rules-on-organic-products/a-17519757 EurActive, April 02, 2014 ▶ PRO-BUSINESS EU COMMISSION "REFORMS" ORGANIC FARMING REGULATIONS: SKEPTICS SAY EXCESSIVE REGULATION DESIGNED BY BIG AGRICULTURE FEARING GROWING COMPETITION http://www.euractiv.com/sections/agriculture-food/eu-reforms-organic-farming-301321
HuffingtonPost Politics, August 02, 2014 ▶ WE CAN REVERSE CLIMATE CHANGE BY THE WAY WE GROW FOOD http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-kucinich/the-way-we-grow-food_b_5634675.html0 The Cornucopia Institute July 16, 2014
WHITE HOUSE PETITION: Ask President Obama to Reverse USDA Coup Undermining Organic Governing Board and Shifting Power to Agribusiness Lobbyists. Stop allowing corporations to add gimmicky and risky synthetic chemicals to organics http://www.cornucopia.org/2014/07/white-house-petition-president-obama-please-reverse-usda-coup-undermining-organics/ WATCH
Vandana Shiva
THE FUTURE OF FOOD AND SEED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYwOTLopWIw INVESTIGATIVE REPORT SOARING PESTICIDE USE AND POISONING LINKED TO GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROP PRODUCTION http://sco.lt/8iunRp
========================= WHY ORGANIC? ======================== Organic Gardening,
▶ WENDELL BERRY ON WHY IT IS VITAL THAT WE UNDERSTAND WHERE AND HOW OUR FOOD IS PRODUCED http://www.organicgardening.com/living/wendell-berry-pleasure-eating EcoWatch, April 22, 2014 ▶ HOW ORGANIC FARMING CAN REVERSE CLIMATE CHANGE. The soil’s ability to reverse climate change, but only when the health of the soil is maintained through organic regenerative agriculture http://ecowatch.com/2014/04/22/organic-farming-reverse-climate-change/ Common Dream, February 27, 2014
▶ ORGANIC AGRICULTURE: THE WAY FORWARD IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE. Cling to a food system that contributes to climate change and jeopardizes food security, or adopt a regenerative system that strengthens food security and helps mitigate the climate crisis—"The choice is ours to make," a new report states. http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/27-6 Third World Network
▶ ORGANIC AGRICULTURE CAN ADDRESS FOOD SECURITY, FAO SAYS http://www.twn.my/title2/susagri/susagri003.htm ▶ ORGANIC GROWING HEALS THE EARTH. HERE'S WHY http://sco.lt/8lMQ4H Seattle Organic Restaurants
▶ 10 REASON WHY ORGANIC FOOD ARE CHEAPER THAN CONVENTIONAL AND GMO BASED FOODS http://www.seattleorganicrestaurants.com/vegan-whole-foods/10-reasons-organic-foods-cheaper-conventional-gmo-based-foods/ ▶ DOES FOOD SECURITY'S FUTURE LIE IN ORGANIC SEEDS? http://sco.lt/8I0UGP Cornucopia Institute, November 25, 2013 ▶ WISCONSIN HAS GROWN INTO A HOTBED OF ORGANIC FARMING http://www.cornucopia.org/2013/11/wisconsin-grown-hotbed-organic-farming/ Common Dream, February 27, 2014
- ▶ ORGANIC AGRICULTURE: THE WAY FORWARD IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE. Cling to a food system that contributes to climate change and jeopardizes food security, or adopt a regenerative system that strengthens food security and helps mitigate the climate crisis—"The choice is ours to make," a new report states. http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/27-6
Grist, March 05, 2014 - ▶ ORGANIC FARMERS JUST CAN'T GET ALONG WITH GMO-GROWING NEIGHBORS http://grist.org/news/get-off-my-lawn-organic-farmers-just-cant-get-along-with-gmo-growing-neighbors/ Food & Water Watch, February 28, 2014
- ▶ ORGANIC FARMERS PAY THE PRICE FOR CONTAMINATION: PDF DOWNLOAD http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/briefs/organic-farmers-pay-the-price-for-contamination/ ▶ KEEP MONSANTO OUT OF YOUR VEGGIE PATCH - GROWING CONCERNS AS GMO SEEDS CREEP INTO CONSUMER MARKET - UNLABELLED http://sco.lt/8EPLjl August 5, 2013 Natural News
▶ MONSANTO NOW OVERRIDING NATURAL LAW BY PATENTING MULTIPLE COMMON VEGETABLES http://www.naturalnews.com/041485_Monsanto_patents_GMOs.html Treehugger, March 11, 2014
▶ WHO KNEW VEGETABLE GARDENS COULD BE SO REVOLUTIONARY? http://www.treehugger.com/lawn-garden/who-knew-vegetable-gardens-could-be-so-revolutionary.html September 13, 2013 Triple Pundit
▶ WHEN "PERFECT" IS WASTEFUL: IS THERE A BUSINESS CASE FOR SELLING NATURAL "UGLY" FRUIT AND VEGETABLES http://www.triplepundit.com/2013/09/business-case-selling-ugly-fruit-vegetables/ Organic Gardening,
▶ YES, FARM-FRESH PRODUCE TASTES BETTER, BUT THERE ARE DOZENS MORE REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD SUPPORT LOCAL FOOD http://www.organicgardening.com/living/8-best-foods-to-buy-at-the-farmers-market?cm_mmc=OGGazette-_-939796-_-06072012-_-the_8_best_foods_to_buy_at_farmers_markets_title Alternet, May 11, 2014
-▶ INSIDE THE NATION'S FIRST VEGETARIAN PUBLIC SCHOOL http://www.alternet.org/education/inside-nations-first-vegetarian-public-school Foods4Better Health, January 28th, 2014
▶ ORGANIC PRODUCE STILL EXPOSED TO PESTICIDES AND TOXINS http://www.foods4betterhealth.com/organic-produce-still-contains-pesticides-study-7392 TIME, June 23, 2014
▶ WHY ORGANIC IS THE RIGHT CHOICE FOR PARENTS http://time.com/2914155/organic-food-children-health/ BIG FOOD Vox, April 23, 2014
MICHAEL POLLAN THINKS WALL STREET HAS WAY TOO MUCH INFLUENCE OVER WHAT WE EAT http://www.vox.com/2014/4/23/5627992/big-food-michael-pollan-thinks-wall-street-has-way-too-much-influence May 30, 2013 Nation of Change
▶ THE RUSSIANS PROVE SMALL ORGANIC CAN FEED THE WORLD http://www.nationofchange.org/russians-prove-small-scale-organic-can-feed-world-1369923601
Los Angeles, October 3, 2013
▶ NEW CALIFORNIA LAW AIMS TO CULTIVATE URBAN AGRICULTURE http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-urban-agriculture-law-20131003,0,3253879.story The Ideas Arcade, March 02, 2014
▶ AQUAPONICS: GROWING FRESH VEGETABLES AND FISH TOGETHER - WITHOUT SOIL: FEEDING THE WORLD WITH AQUAPONICS http://www.theideasarcade.com/growing-food-without-soil-feeding-world-aquaponics/ ▶ PERMACULTURE IS THE SILVER-GREEN BULLET FOR THE MIDDLE EAST http://sco.lt/5Tql9d ▶ IT CAN BE DONE: BHUTAN SET TO BECOME WORLD'S FIRST WHOLLY ORGANIC COUNTRY. NO PESTICIDES. NO CHEMICALS. NO GMO http://sco.lt/7bEFHt ======================= GMOs, INDUSTRIAL FOOD INDUSTRY AND PESTICIDES =======================
BAN GMOs NOW A Special Institute of Science In Society http://sco.lt/5CPilt
WATTAgNet, April 08, 2014 ▶ GLOBAL ANIMAL FEEDLOT ADDITIVES MARKET TO REACH $20 BILLION BY 2020 http://www.wattagnet.com/Global_animal_feed_additives_market_to_reach_$20_billion_by_2020.html Washington Post, January 27, 2014 -▶ FDA HAS ALLOWED ANTIBIOTICS IN ANIMAL FEED DESPITE RISK TO HUMAN HEALTH - REPORT http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/fda-allows-antibiotics-in-animal-feed-despite-potential-risk-to-human-health-report-claims/2014/01/27/63a73a88-869e-11e3-916e-e01534b1e132_story.html - ▶ FOUR-FIFTHS OF ALL BIG PHARMA ANTIBIOTICS CONSUMED BY MEAT AND POULTRY INDUSTRY http://sco.lt/5qIZnN -▶ SO YOU WANT TO EAT MEAT? FEEDLOTS vs PASTURES http://sco.lt/4qkbib Seattle Organic Restaurants ▶ BREAD AND CEREAL BARS CONTAMINATED WITH TOXIC ROUNDUP 'GLYPHOSATE' http://seattleorganicrestaurants.com/vegan-whole-food/is-your-bread-cereal-bars-water-contaminated-with-toxic-glyphosate.php
▶ OUR INDUSTRIAL, WESTERN AGRICULTURAL FOOD SYSTEM IS DESTROYING THE EARTH AND OUR HEALTH http://sco.lt/63qRl3 ▶ CORPORATE HIJACKING OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE: GENETIC ENGINEERING AND THE GLOBAL GMO INDUSTRY http://sco.lt/73IdQ9
Pambazuka, July 24. 2014
-▶ GMOs AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY: WHICH WAY AFRICA?
African governments are under intense pressure from within but also from big agribusiness and Western governments to embrace GMOs. Governments must resist all forms of arm-twisting and food colonialism and make their biotechnology choices based on the facts http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/92594
Wall Street Journal, August 07, 2014
- ▶THE GMO FIGHT RIPPLES DOWN THE FOOD CHAIN. Facing Consumer Pressure, More Firms Are Jettisoning GMOs From Their Foods http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-gmo-fight-ripples-down-the-food-chain-1407465378
WATCH (6:29)
ANNA LAPPE AND FOOD MYTHBUSTERS
DO WE NEED INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE TO FEED THE WORLD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uem2ceZMxYk
▶ WHAT EVERY PARENT SHOULD KNOW ABOUT BLIND, FOOTLESS CHICKENS, FACTORY FARMS AND THE AG-GAG BILL http://sco.lt/71PvtJ
Alternet, July 30, 2014
-▶ PESTICIDES IN YOUR COFFEE? WHY YOU SHOULD CHECK YOUR COFFEE LABEL -- TWICE http://www.alternet.org/food/coffee-pesticides BEYOND PESTICIDES
PESTICIDE-INDUCED DISEASES DATA BASE -- CANCER
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/health/cancer.php The Ecologist, July 02, 2014
-▶ NEONICOTINOIDS ARE POISONING NOT JUST HUMANS AND BEES BUT ENTIRE FARMLAND ECOSYSTEMS The world's most widely used insecticides have contaminated the environment across the planet so pervasively that global food production is at risk, according to a comprehensive scientific assessment of the chemicals' impacts. http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2459001/neonicotoids_are_poisoning_entire_farmland_ecosystems.html RT News, November 26, 2013
▶ GMOs LINKED TO GLUTEN DISORDERS PLAGUING 18 MILLION AMERICANS http://rt.com/usa/gmo-gluten-sensitivity-trigger-343/ WATCH
Katie Couric's New Documentary 'FED UP'" Takes on Junk Food and the Obesity Crisis 40 PERCENT OF FOOD POISONOUS: FAO-GOVT TESTS FIND BANNED PESTICIDES IN ALL ITEMS http://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/40pc-food-poisonous-21921 ▶ DO THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF A DIET RICH IN FRUITS AND VEGETABLE OUTWEIGH THE RISKS OF PESTICIDE EXPOSURE? http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/955861738/do-the-health-benefits-of-a-diet-rich-in-fruits-and-vegetables-outweigh-the-risks-of-pesticide-exposure ▶ THE CHILD VICTIMS OF AGRICULTURAL PESTICIDE POISONING - PESTICIDE INDUSTRY DISMISSIVE http://sco.lt/8KO8GH Motley Fool, March 05, 2014
-▶ GMOs AND ECOCIDE: RENOWNED EXPERT SAYS GMOs POSE MORE RISK THAN WE THINK. Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have the ability to cause "an irreversible termination of life at some scale, which could be the planet." says Nassim Taleb, distinguished professor of risk engineering at New York University http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/03/05/renowned-expert-gmos-pose-more-risk-than-we-think.aspx
WATCH; POISONING PARADISE: ISLANDS AT RISK The Genetic Engineering War in Hawai'i http://sco.lt/8hNxzd Reuters, July 29, 2013
▶ GMO COMPANIES LAUNCH WEBSITE TO FIGHT ANTI-BiOTECH MOVEMENT http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/29/us-gmo-campaign-idUSBRE96S0QX20130729 OWNING THE SEEDS OF LIFE SEED PATENT AND CONTROL OF YOUR FOOD THE GLOBAL CORPORATE MONOPOLY http://sco.lt/6FiLkv WATCH: "A RIVER OF WASTE" The Massive Pollution and History of Corporate Factory Farms - CAFOs (Confined Animal Feed Lots) http://sco.lt/6PQUk5 ▶ PESTICIDE LOBBY SPENDS MILLIONS TO DEFEND CHEMICALS TIED TO BEE DEATHS AND HUMAN HEALTH http://sco.lt/5Fiin3 May 15, 2013 Natural News
▶ ORANGES AND LEMONS BEING TREATED WITH CHEMICAL FUNGICIDES AND PESTICIDES THAT CAUSE CANCER AND THYROID PROBLEMS http://www.naturalnews.com/040339_imazalil_pesticides_oranges.html ▶ MICHAEL POLLAN: AGRIGIANTS' NATIONAL STRANGLEHOLD: APPROACHING A "TWO-CLASS" FOOD SYSTEM http://sco.lt/7nBVkP ▶ WALL STREET BANKS EYE AMERICAN FARMLAND, THREATEN FUTURE OF US AND WORLD AGRICULTURE http://sco.lt/4nG6Ur -- WATCH -- "FOOD, INC" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkL2Q_kCRms
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In These Times, June 23, 2014
▶ HOW WAL-MART THREATENS ORGANIC FOOD http://inthesetimes.com/article/16785/how_walmart_threatens_organic_food Grist, April 12, 2014
▶ WHY YOU SHOULD BE SKEPTICAL OF WALMART'S CHEAP ORGANIC FOOD http://grist.org/news/why-you-should-be-skeptical-of-walmarts-cheap-organic-food/ Food For Thought, April 16, 2014 ▶ "WALMARTING OF ORGANICS" SPARKS THOUGHTS http://oldfarmerlady.wordpress.com/2014/04/16/walmarting-of-organics-sparks-thoughts/ Jan 10, 2013 AlertNet
-▶ ARE WALMART AND BIG FOOD LOBBYING FOR A GMO LABELING LAW IN PREPARATION FOR WEAKENING ORGANIC CERTIFICATION? http://www.alternet.org/food/are-wal-mart-and-big-food-lobbying-fda-gmo-labeling-law Walmart Corporate, April 10, 2014
▶ WALMART AND WILD OATS LAUNCH EFFORT TO DRIVE DOWN ORGANIC FOOD PRICES (WHICH COULD WEAKEN "ORGANIC" LABEL REQUIREMENTS BY USDA) http://news.walmart.com/news-archive/2014/04/10/walmart-and-wild-oats-launch-effort-to-drive-down-organic-food-prices
▶ GIANT FOOD CORPORATIONS ARE CONTROLLING OUR FOOD SUPPLY AND WALMART POLICIES TO CONTROL MONOPOLY http://seattleorganicrestaurants.com/vegan-whole-food/giant-food-corporations-Monsanto-DuPont-Wal-Mart-are-controlling-our-food-supply.php ▶ FOOD, SLAVE LABOR AND THE WALMARTIZATION OF AMERICA AND AGRICULTURE http://sco.lt/8v8qtl The Des Moines Register, July 11, 2014 ▶ AG INTERESTS IN SOME STATES SEEK TO MAKE INDUSTRIAL FARMING A "CONSTITUTIONAL" RIGHT. Powerful industrial corporate ag interests in some states want to declare farming a right to fight back against animal-welfare activists and opponents of genetically modified crops. http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2014/07/11/agriculture-interests-farming-right-amendment/12511223/ Nation of Change, July 27, 2014
-▶ TOP AGRIBUSINESS FOOD COMPANIES DUMPING WASTE IN OUR WATERS. Companies like Tyson Foods, Cargill, Inc., and Perdue Farms Inc. dump their garbage—more than 206 million pounds of it—into our water almost every year and leave others to worry about the clean-up. Now, as the Environmental Protection Agency considers a rule to restore the Clean Water Act, these companies are pulling out all the stops to maintain their freedom to dump and pollute, regardless of the toxic outcomes. http://www.nationofchange.org/top-agribusiness-food-companies-dumping-waste-our-waters-1406476247 ▶ WORLD'S LARGEST FOOD CORPORATIONS CREATING LEGACY OF DESTRUCTION http://sco.lt/6sSzK5 ▶ FARM TO FORK: THE STORY OF OUR TOXIC FOOD SYSTEM - INFOGRAPHIC (What Are We Feeding Our Kids?) http://sco.lt/66Od05 ▶ MOMS ACROSS AMERICA SAY 'LABEL GMOs...NOW" http://sco.lt/5zVRab ▶ GENE-SPLICED GMO SALMON COMING SOON TO A PLATE NEAR YOU http://sco.lt/7vtLDF
▶ THE CURSE OF INDUSTRIAL FARM FERTILIZERS AND RUNOFF http://sco.lt/5ZDrZh ----------- ▶▶ IDENTIFYING GMO'S IN YOUR FOOD ▶▶ ----------- ▶ GMO DEFINED http://gmo-awareness.com/all-about-gmos/gmo-defined/ http://gmo-awareness.com/all-about-gmos/gmo-defined/ May 29, 2014 RealFarmacy ▶ PRINTABLE LIST OF MONSANTO "FOOD" PRODUCERS USING GMO PRODUCTS http://www.realfarmacy.com/printable-list-of-monsanto-owned-food-producers/ **** "BUYCOTT" APP May 15, 2013 Nation Of Change ▶ MONSANTO, GMOs IN YOUR FOOD? Monsanto, GMOs in your food : The guessing game is over. No longer will consumers wonder what companies are behind the millions of products that fill supermarket shelves because there’s an app for that. http://www.nationofchange.org/buycott-koch-brothers-monsanto-and-other-industries-products-lining-supermarket-shelves-1368628289 July 17, 2013 NxtNutrio A Food App ▶ IDENTIFIES NON-GMO FOODS BY SCANNING THE BAR CODES OF FOOD PRODUCTS http://www.nextnutrio.com/?p=924 WHY THE "LABEL GMOs" UPRISING: Global Marches Challenge Monsanto and The Global Corporate Biotech Cartel's Dominance http://sco.lt/73oibx
THE HIDDEN WORLD OF SOIL UNDER OUR FEET SOIL AS A LIFELINE - CLIMATE CHANGE http://sco.lt/4nJvdp
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The Ecologist, September 17, 2013 ▶ ARE YOU EATING 'PESTICIDE PLANTS'? It’s easy to see why biotech companies are anxious to separate the pesticide issue from the GM debate... http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/Blogs/2078435/are_you_eating_pesticide_plants.html
Summit Voice, June 28, 2015 ▶ EPA FINALLY AGREES TO STUDY IMPACTS OF HIGHLY TOXIC COMMON PESTICIDES ON 1,500 ENDANGERED SPECIES http://summitcountyvoice.com/2015/06/28/environment-epa-finally-agrees-to-study-impacts-of-common-pesticides-on-1500-endangered-species/
▶ 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
Huffington Post Green May 04 2015T ▶ THEY ARE BIOCIDES, NO PESTICIDES AND THEY ARE CREATING AN ECOCIDE http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-kimbrell/they-are-biocides-not-pesticides-_b_7205586.html
Living on Earth, October 31, 2014
▶ AGENT ORANGE-RELATED HERBICIDE APPROVED FOR GMO CROPS: EPA SUED http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=14-P13-00044&segmentID=3
Sustainable Pulse, December 19, 2014
-▶ FOOD SAFETY EXPERTS SLAM USDA OVER 'DICAMBA' GM CROPS http://sustainablepulse.com/2014/12/15/food-safety-experts-slam-usda-dicamba-gm-crops/#.VJcfAkChkII
WATCH 1:46
DANGERS OF DICAMBA- Roundup's Next Generation. The next wave of herbicide-tolerant crops from Monsanto-- will make Round-Up look benign" http://www.fixfood.org/features/276/dangers-of-dicamba
▶ 2,4-D "AGENT ORANGE" WEED KILLER ON YOUR FOOD, IN THE ENVIRONMENT AND IN YOUR BODY? http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/2664869733/2-4-d-agent-orange-weed-killer-on-your-food-in-the-environment-and-in-your-body
Mail Online, March 09, 2012
▶ HOW THOSE PESTICIDES PERSIST EVEN WHEN YOU WASH YOUR FRUIT AND VEG http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2112767/How-pesticides-persist-wash-fruit-veg.html
▶ PESTICIDES ON MY PLATE: FOOD ALLERGIES, CANCER, ILL HEALTH LINKED TO PESTICIDES http://sco.lt/4megAz
▶ PESTICIDES ARE NOT HEART HEALTHY - THE GROWING GLOBAL HEALTH CRISIS http://www.panna.org/blog/pesticides-are-not-heart-healthy WATCH THE CHILD VICTIMS OF AGRICULTURAL PESTICIDE POISONING PESTICIDE INDUSTRY DISMISSIVE http://sco.lt/8KO8GH
Earth Justice, December 8, 2012
▶ WARNING TO PARENTS ABOUT KIDS' EXPOSURE TO PESTICIDES http://earthjustice.org/blog/2012-december/warning-to-parents-about-kids-exposure-to-pesticides
New York Times, October 23, 2013 ▶ SCIENTISTS' ADVISING ON FOOD SAFETY REGULATION HAVE TIES TO FOOD, AG INDUSTRY http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/23/business/international/scientists-ties-to-industry-raise-questions-in-europe.html?_r=0
Sustainable Food Trust
▶ *** AGRI-CHEMICAL PR STRATEGIES http://sustainablefoodtrust.org/articles/pr-strategies-of-the-agri-chemical-companies/
July 23, 2013 RT News
▶ FDA RAISES ALLOWABLE LEVELS OF PESTICIDE IN CROPS AND FOOD http://rt.com/usa/monsanto-glyphosate-roundup-epa-483/
Reuters, December 19, 2014
-▶ USDA REPORT SAYS PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN FOOD NOTHING TO FEAR - REALLY??!! http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/19/usda-pesticides-report-idUSL1N0U325I20141219
April 25, 2013 - Sun Journal ▶ A FREE RIDE? U.S. SENATORS INTRODUCE BILL TO EASE REGULATIONS ON PESTICIDES http://www.newbernsj.com/news/business/hagan-co-sponsors-bill-to-reduce-regulations-on-pesticides-1.132767in-the-air ========================
▶ MONSANTO'S TOXIC HERBICIDE "ROUNDUP" GLYPHOSATE HORMONE INHIBITOR IN OUR FOOD CHAIN http://sco.lt/5IGifZ
▶ GMOs INVADE FRUIT INDUSTRY: APPLES, PEARS, CHERRIES AND PEACHES ALL UNLABELED : GMO, Pesticides, Antibiotics http://sco.lt/5TMFCT
▶ THINK THOSE 80,000 CHEMICALS AND PESTICIDES IN YOUR FOOD HAVE BEEN TESTED? http://sco.lt/7QxMob
▶ PHARMACEUTICAL, PESTICIDE, CHEMICAL POLLUTION IN OUR STREAMS, RIVERS AND DRINKING (BOTTLED) WATER http://sco.lt/6cpIbx
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▶ WHAT PESTICIDES ARE ON WHAT FOOD Website:: Pesticides on Carrots http://www.whatsonmyfood.org/food.jsp?food=CR
Alternet, July 30, 2014
-▶ PESTICIDES IN YOUR COFFEE? WHY YOU SHOULD CHECK YOUR COFFEE LABEL -- TWICE http://www.alternet.org/food/coffee-pesticides
Guardian Environment, July 17, 2014
▶ OVER 60% OF BREADS SOLD IN THE UK CONTAIN PESTICIDE RESIDUES, TESTS SHOW Traces found in two in every three loaves as experts call for more research into impact on health http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/17/pesticide-residue-breads-uk-crops
August 19, 2013 Natural Society ▶ 800 MILLION POUNDS OF PESTICIDES CAN'T BE WASHED OFF http://naturalsociety.com/800-million-pounds-pesticides-unwashable-bred-food-gmo/
▶ DO THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF A DIET RICH IN FRUITS AND VEGETABLE OUTWEIGH THE RISKS OF PESTICIDE EXPOSURE? http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/955861738/do-the-health-benefits-of-a-diet-rich-in-fruits-and-vegetables-outweigh-the-risks-of-pesticide-exposure
The Grio, November 27, 2013 ▶ 'FRESH FOOD' - WHAT ARE YOU REALLY EATING http://thegrio.com/2013/11/27/fresh-food-what-are-you-really-eating/
OutsideOnline, May 12, 2014 ▶ YOUR FOOD IS POISONING YOU http://www.outsideonline.com/fitness/bodywork/performance-plate/Your-Food-Is-Poisoning-You.html
THE DARK SIDE OF THE STRAWBERRY The Center For Investigative Reporting November 10, 2014
CALIFORNIA'S STRAWBERRY INDUSTRY IS HOOKED ON DANGEROUS PESTICIDES https://beta.cironline.org/reports/californias-strawberry-industry-is-hooked-on-dangerous-pesticides/
TruthOut, February 25, 2015
▶ EAT AT YOUR OWN RISK: FLAWED FDA RISK ASSESSMENTS STRENGTHEN ARGUMENTS FOR LABELING GMOs http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/29287-eat-at-your-own-risk-flawed-fda-risk-assessments-strengthen-arguments-for-labeling-gmos#
PROFITS BEFORE HEALTH Guardian Environment, February 03 2015
▶ 'SUPPRESSED' EU REPORT COULD HAVE BANNED 31 HARMFUL HORMONE-DISRUPTING CHEMICALS/PESTICIDES WORTH BILLIONS -- UNDER PRESSURE FROM BIG CHEMICAL FIRMS http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/feb/02/suppressed-eu-report-could-have-banned-pesticides-worth-billions
Al Jazeera, January 09, 2015
-▶ ON THE 'CANCER TRAIN' OF INDIA'S PESTICIDES. Rural cancer patients cram train for city medical treatment of illnesses linked to the use of pesticides in farming. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/01/cancer-train-india-pesticides-20151411811508148.html
Wake Up World, November 16, 2014
-▶ REPORT FINDS CANCER DEATHS HAVE DOUBLED IN ARGENTINA'S GMO GROWING REGIONS http://wakeup-world.com/2014/11/16/report-finds-cancer-deaths-have-doubled-in-argentinas-gmo-growing-regions/
THOUSANDS OF SRI LANKA FARMERS DYING STUDY LINKS KIDNEY DISEASE TO AGROCHEMICALS, PESTICIDES http://sco.lt/7vsgzp
Inter Press Service, January 12, 2014
▶ EL SALVADOR: PESTICIDES FILL GRAVEYARDS IN RURAL VILLAGES http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/01/el-salvador-pesticides-fill-graveyards-in-rural-villages/
Environmental Health News, October 06, 2014
▶ PESTICIDE USE BY FARMERS LINKED TO HIGH RATES OF DEPRESSION, SUICIDES http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2014/oct/pesticides-depression/
PHOTO ESSAY
Over Grow The System, December 29, 2014
ARGENTINA: THE COUNTRY THAT MONSANTO POISONED http://overgrowthesystem.com/argentina-the-country-that-monsanto-poisoned-photo-essay/
RT USA, February 05, 2015
▶ MONSANTO'S ROUNDUP PESTICIDE SYSTEM THREATENS EXTINCTION OF MONARCH BUTTERFLIES: http://rt.com/usa/229667-monsanto-monarch-butterflies-extinct/
▶ BEE-KILLING CHEMICALS LURK INSIDE YOUR FOOD: AGROCHEMICALS THREAT TO WILD BEES, FOOD SECURITY AND BIODIVERSITY http://sco.lt/8mGvg1
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▶ The Guardian, September 5, 2013
FDA 'ENDANGERING PUBLIC HEALTH' BY IGNORING CONCERNS OVER GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD AND PESTICIDES GMO allow more pesticides to be contained in the plant. Nearly 80% of GMOs are designed to absorb ROUNDUP. The other 20% are designed to produce their own pesticide. We found that pesticides are not really tested." http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/05/gm-food-cancers-fsa?view=mobile
July 14, 2013 Wake Up World -▶ WARNING: GENETICALLY MODIFIED 'AGENT ORANGE CORN' COMING SOON TO A PLATE NEAR YOU http://wakeup-world.com/2013/07/14/warning-genetically-modified-agent-orange-corn-coming-soon-to-a-plate-near-you/
February 8, 2012 Food Integrity Campaign
▶ DROWNING IN HERBICIDE: MONSANTO IGNORES HEALTH CONCERNS http://www.foodwhistleblower.org/blog/23-2012/286-drowning-in-herbicide-monsanto-ignores-health-concerns
AP INVESTIGATION, October 20, 2013
▶ ARGENTINES CALL FOR LIMITS ON AGROCHEMICAL SPRAYING CITING BIRTH DEFECTS, CANCER: Birth defects quadrupled in decade after genetically modified crops approved http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/birth-defects-cancer-in-argentina-linked-to-agrochemicals-ap-investigation-1.1505096
November 10, 2013
▶ MONSANTO PESTICIDES TO BLAME FOR BIRTH DEFECTS IN ARGENTINA - http://www.exposingthetruth.co/monsanto-pesticides-blame-birth-defects-argentina/#axzz2lha417sa BBC News, May 14, 2014
▶ ARE GMO PESTICIDES LINKED TO HEALTH PROBLEMS IN ARGENTINA? http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27373134
▶ EXPOSURE TO CHEMICALS IN FOOD AND PESTICIDES - BREAST CANCER, PARKINSON'S DISEASE http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3869561061/exposure-to-chemicals-in-food-and-pesticides-breast-cancer-parkinson-s-disease
Philly.com, May 25, 2014
▶ CHEMICAL EXPOSURE AND BREAST CANCER http://www.philly.com/philly/health/20140525_GreenSpace__Study_backs_lower_chemical_exposure.html Daily Mail, May 20, 2014
-▶ GENETICALLY MODIFIED Bt FOOD TOXIN FOUND IN THE BLOOD OF 95% OF UNBORN BABIES - NEW STUDY. The new study was carried out by independent doctors at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, at the University of Sherbrooke Hospital Centre in Quebec, Canada. Traces of Bt toxin were found in the blood of 93 per cent of the pregnant mothers – 28 out of 30. It was also found in 80 per cent of the umbilical cords – 24 out of 30.
In the non-pregnant group, traces were found in the blood of 69 per cent – 27 out of 39. It is thought the toxin is getting into the human body as a result of eating meat, milk and eggs from farm livestock fed GM corn.
The Canadian team told the scientific journal Reproductive Toxicology: ‘This is the first study to highlight the presence of pesticides associated with genetically modified foods in maternal, foetal and non-pregnant women’s blood.’.. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1388888/GM-food-toxins-blood-93-unborn-babies.html
June 2, 2013 Nation Of Change -▶ MONSANTO AND GMOs CONTINUE TO MAKE US STERILE WHILE INFERTILITY BUSINESS BOOMS http://www.nationofchange.org/monsanto-and-gmos-continue-make-us-sterile-while-infertility-business-booms-1370181154 Beyond Pesticides, November 30, 2012
▶ KAISER PERMANENTE ISSUES WARNING ON GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD, PESTICIDES http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=8718
August 21, 2013 Pesticide Action Group
▶ THIS BRAIN-HARMING PESTICIDE HAS GOT TO GO http://www.panna.org/blog/harming-kids-brains
Los Angeles Times, October 23, 2013
▶ ANCESTORS' EXPOSURE TO DDT MAY CONTRIBUTE TO OBESITY - THREE GENERATIONS LATER http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-obesity-ddt-ancestors-pesticides-20131023,0,6712051.story#axzz2icQGw2IX
US National Institute of Health
▶ CHEMICAL TOXINS: A RESEARCH PAPER TO EXPLAIN THE GLOBAL OBESITY EPIDEMIC http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12006126 May 15, 2013 Natural News
▶ ORANGES AND LEMONS BEING TREATED WITH CHEMICAL FUNGICIDES AND PESTICIDES THAT CAUSE CANCER AND THYROID PROBLEMS http://www.naturalnews.com/040339_imazalil_pesticides_oranges.html
WATCH
Katie Couric's New Documentary 'FED UP'" Takes on Junk Food and the Obesity Crisis 40 PERCENT OF FOOD POISONOUS: FAO-GOVT TESTS FIND BANNED PESTICIDES IN ALL ITEMS http://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/40pc-food-poisonous-21921
GM WATCH
▶ NOW GLYPHOSATE FOUND IN PEOPLE'S URINE http://gmwatch.eu/latest-listing/1-news-items/13631-now-glyphosate-found-in-peoples-urine
July 18, 2013 National Geographic
▶ ORGANOPHOPHATES: A COMMON BUT DEADLY PESTICIDE IN LUNCH THAT KILLED 23 CHILDREN IN INDIA. The pesticides blamed for killing at least 25 children in India are widely used around the world, including in the United States, and health experts have raised safety concerns about this class of chemicals in the past.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/07/130718-organophosphates-pesticides-indian-food-poisoning/
Pesticide Action Network, December 18, 2013
▶ BAYER CROPSCIENCES FINED FOR ENDANGERING PUERTO RICAN FARMWORKERS WITH PESTICIDES http://www.panna.org/blog/bayer-fined-endangering-farmworkers
Earth Justice, July 16, 2013 ▶ PESTICIDES TAKING HEALTH TOLL ON FARM WORKERS. If the apples in your local store are bug-free because of pesticides, then you might ask who the pesticides hurt before the apples left the farm. That’s because many pesticides are toxic enough to seriously harm the humans who work in the orchards http://earthjustice.org/blog/2013-july/pesticides-taking-toll-on-farmworkers Grist, October 16, 2013
▶ CATCH THE DRIFT: FARMERS GO ROGUE TO FIGHT AIRBORNE PESTICIDE POLLUTION. Use and exposure to agricultural sprays have been associated with various types of cancer and neurological disorders, with farmworkers being most susceptible due to their time in the fields during and after applications. The drift is also responsible for diminishing number of bees. http://grist.org/food/drift-catchers-use-citizen-science-to-fight-pesticide-pollution/
March 3, 2013 - ▶ 8 WAYS CORPORATIONS ARE POISONING OUR FOOD, WATER AND THE EARTH http://www.nationofchange.org/8-ways-corporations-are-poisoning-our-food-water-earth-1362318238
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-- WATCH -- ROUNDUP -- THE ULTIMATE KILLING MACHINE GLYPHOSATES
New Charges Against Monsanto's Pesticide 'Roundup' http://sco.lt/5bdPhx
▶ GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS NOT THE SOLUTION FOR "FEEDING THE WORLD" http://sco.lt/77BuML
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INVESTIGATIVE REPORT SOARING PESTICIDE USE AND POISONING LINKED TO GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROP PRODUCTION http://sco.lt/8iunRp BEYOND PESTICIDES
PESTICIDE-INDUCED DISEASES DATA BASE -- CANCER
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/health/cancer.php
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▶ HOW YOU BECAME A GUINEA PIG FOR THE CHEMICAL AND BIOTECH CORPORATIONS http://sco.lt/76tCpl
Organic Authority, April 11, 2012
▶ FROM LAWN TO FISHING LINE: PESTICIDES POISONING WEST COAST SALMON http://www.organicauthority.com/blog/organic/from-lawn-to-line-home-pesticides-poisoning-west-coast-salmon/
Earth Justice ▶ SALMON MUST BE PROTECTED FROM PESTICIDES http://earthjustice.org/features/salmon-must-be-protected-from-pesticides
Summit County Citizens Voice, November 24, 2014
▶ MORE THAN 100 SCIENTISTS CALL ON PRESIDENT OBAMA TO PROTECT BEES FROM PESTICIDE THREATS http://summitcountyvoice.com/2014/11/24/environment-more-than-100-scientists-call-on-president-obama-to-protect-bees-from-pesticide-threats/
May 15, 2013 Lifewise
▶ *** BIOTECH'S NEXT BIG DISASTER: SEEDS THAT EMIT MULTIPLE PESTICIDES http://southweb.org/lifewise/biotechs-next-big-disaster-seeds-that-emit-multiple-pesticides/
GreenMediaInfo, June 23, 2013
▶ EXTREME TOXICITY OF "ROUNDUP" DESTROYS GM/NON-GM 'SUBSTANTIAL EQUIVALENCE' ARGUMENT http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/monsantos-game-over-extreme-toxicity-roundup-destroys-justification-gm
The Ecologist, January 30, 2014
-▶ THE CHEMICAL BLITZ OF PESTICIDES IN OUR FIELDS: An ordinary arable field in Sussex is sprayed with pesticides 22 times over a single growing season. Dave Goulson wonders how the bees can survive this toxic onslaught - and exactly who benefits. http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2258103/revealed_the_chemical_blitz_of_pesticides_in_our_fields.html
▶ ARE YOU WEARING GMO TOXIC PESTICIDE-LADEN AND DEFORESTATION COTTON? http://sco.lt/8fIRUX
▶ POISONOUS CHEMICAL TOXINS IN YOUR DRINKING WATER : THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY, THE EPA AND CONFLICT OF INTERESTS http://sco.lt/57ufr7
▶ PLACING PROFITS AHEAD OF WELL BEING: CHALLENGING THE DESTRUCTIVE POWER OF AGRO-CHEMICAL INDUSTRY http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3070968001/placing-profits-ahead-of-wellbeing-challenging-the-destructive-power-of-agro-chemical-industry
--- WATCH --- A Must see VIDEO for all. Dr. David Suzuki "WHAT ARE ROUNDUP READY & Bt PESTICIDE GMO CROPS?" http://sco.lt/5n6cuP
▶ PESTICIDES ARE KILLING OUR PLANET: DECIMATING POLLINATORS, DRAGONFLIES AND OTHER AQUATIC INSECTS -- AND YOU http://sco.lt/5XzNlx Times-Standard Online, November 30, 2013 ▶ PESTICIDE-LADEN POT: THE DANGERS OF LURKING CONTAMINANTS AND PESTICIDES WITH COMPROMISED IMMUNE SYSTEMS. Humboldt State University, Jeffrey Raber said a recent study he conducted found that up to 70 percent of the pesticides found on a marijuana bud can transfer to the smoke being inhaled.."It's much like injecting it directly into your blood stream.”... ...especially in the medical patient context,” Raber said. “These are people that are immunocompromised, they're undergoing chemotherapy, they're very sick with antibacterial loads. We can't be subjecting them to more of these types of potentially harmful contaminants when they're looking to this as a medicine source.” http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_24628828/what-are-you-smoking-study-finds-pesticides-transfer
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OUR GMO CORNFIELDS ARE TOO QUIET - ALL LIFE CHEMICALLY EXTERMINATED EXCEPT THE GENE-ALTERED CORN http://sco.lt/6przzF REPORT PESTICIDE USE ON GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROPS
Ramon J. Seidler, Ph.D.Former Senior Scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development, Western Ecology Division in Corvallis OR
http://static.ewg.org/agmag/pdfs/pesticide_use_on_genetically_engineered_crops.pdf
VIDEO: ISLANDS AT RISK The Genetic Engineering (GMO), Pesticide War in Hawai'i http://sco.lt/89RTVZ
HuffingtonPost Green, September 15, 2014 -▶ HERBICIDE AND INSECTICIDE USE ON GMO CROPS SKYROCKETING, WHILE PRO-GMO MEDIA RUN INTERFERENCE. Former EPA Senior Scientist's New Article Sets Record Straight http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-bronner/herbicide-insecticide-use_b_5791304.html
▶ NEW RESEARCH: GMO FOOD FAR WORSE THAT WE THINK - THEIR TOXIC CHEMICAL COCKTAILS http://www.activistpost.com/2012/02/new-research-gmo-food-far-worse-than-we.html
▶ GMO PESTICIDES INVADE FRUIT INDUSTRY: APPLES, PEARS, CHERRIES AND PEACHES ALL UNLABELED http://sco.lt/7FBXY9 ▶ 8 REASONS NEVER TO BUY ANOTHER WINTER TOMATO http://sco.lt/8lfNIn
Food Democracy Now, October 30, 2013 -▶ THE FOUNDING FABLES OF INDUSTRIALIZED AGRICULTURE http://fooddemocracynow.org/blog/2013/oct/30/the_founding_fables_of_industrialized_agriculture/
RT News, February 24, 2014
▶ FINALLY, SOME ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: GMO CROPS MAY CAUSE MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL (AND HUMAN HEALTH) RISKS, USDA ADMITS http://rt.com/usa/usda-gmo-risk-report-537/ FRANCE24 , January 13, 2014 ▶ U.S. 'SUPERWEEDS' EPIDEMIC SHINES SPOTLIGHT ON GMOs http://www.france24.com/en/20140113-us-superweeds-epidemic-shines-spotlight-gmos/
The Week, October 8, 2013
▶ PEAK SOIL: WHY NUTRITION IS DISAPPEARING FROM OUR FOOD http://theweek.com/article/index/250753/peak-soil-why-nutrition-is-disappearing-from-our-food
RT USA, December 3, 2013 ▶ ABSOLUTE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS WANT #GMO FOOD LABELED http://rt.com/usa/gmo-labeled-majority-americans-601/#.Up5DPW6-Pr8.twitter PAN - August 16, 2013 ▶ WHY GE LABELING IS MONSANTO'S WORST NIGHTMARE -- -PESTICIDES http://www.panna.org/blog/why-ge-labeling-monsantos-worst-nightmare The Economic Times, November 25, 2013
-▶ AS OPPOSITION TO GM CROPS GROWS, COMPANIES ARE TURNING TO MUTANT BREEDING http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/agriculture/as-opposition-to-gm-grows-companies-are-turning-to-mutant-breeding/articleshow/26334154.cms Reuter, February 25, 2014 ▶ IS THE USDA FINALLY ADMITTING THE PROBLEMS WITH GMO CROPS? - USDA REPORT http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/24/usda-gmo-report-idUSL1N0LT16M20140224 Sustainable Brands, December 09, 2013 ▶ COMPANIES NEED A NEW GAME PLAN FOR CHEMICAL MANAGEMENT http://www.sustainablebrands.com/news_and_views/green_chemistry/tim-greiner/companies-need-new-game-plan-chemical-management
PR Watch, January 15, 2014
▶ BIOSOLIDS: UNDER PRESSURE, WHOLE FOODS AGREES TO STOP SELLING PRODUCE GROWN IN SEWAGE SLUDGE... Industrial and hospital waste and human excrement http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/01/12359/whole-foods-agrees-stop-selling-produce-grown-sewage-sludge
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Reader Supported Network, October 9, 2012
▶ WHY IS OUR FOOD BEING MADE AND MODIFIED BY THE CHEMICAL AND PESTICIDE INDUSTRY? http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/271-38/13874-genetically-modified-food-industrys-dirty-little-secret
▶ EPA OVERSIGHT?: THE 'BAIT AND SWITCH' SALES TACTIC OF THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/1245995194/epa-oversight-the-bait-and-switch-sales-tactics-of-the-chemical-industry
Environmental Health News, September 23, 2013
▶ SPECIAL REPORT: SCIENTISTS CRITICAL OF NEW EU CHEMICAL POLICY HAVE INDUSTRY TIES, CONFLICTS OF INTEREST http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2013/eu-conflict
WHY IS THERE SO LITTLE INDEPENDENT PEER REVIEWED GMO RESEARCH? http://sco.lt/5FIWcD
WATCH Democracy Now, February 22, 2014 SILENCING THE SCIENTIST: TARGETED BY PESTICIDE FIRM SYNGENTA - ALTRAZINE http://sco.lt/8VIcAz
Ag Professional, August 01, 2014
-▶ CHINA ADOPTS STRICTER PESTICIDE RESIDUE STANDARD. The new standard includes 3,650 indices detailing the maximum allowable residue for 387 pesticides on 284 types of food, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and the National Health and Family Planning Commission, which jointly issued the standard. Compared with the current standard that took effect in 2012, the new standard contains 1,357 new indices covering 65 new pesticides and 43 new types of food.
The standard covers vegetables, fruits, grain, edible oil, sugar, soft drinks, nuts, eggs and meat. It includes juice and preserved fruits for the first time. http://www.agprofessional.com/news/China-adopts-stricter-pesticide-residue-standard-269591991.html
- ▶ U.S. FEDS TO BAN GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROPS, NEONICOTINOID PESTICIDES IN WILDLIFE REFUGES (WHAT WERE THEY DOING THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE?) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service thus becomes the first federal agency to restrict the use of GE crops and neonicotinoids in farming in the U.S. http://summitcountyvoice.com/2014/07/31/environment-feds-to-ban-genetically-engineered-crops-neonicotinoid-pesticides-in-wildlife-refuges/
September 4, 2013 Grist ▶ WHY ARE THERE PESTICIDES AND GMOs IN OUR NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGES? http://grist.org/news/why-are-there-pesticides-and-gmos-in-our-national-wildlife-refuges/
▶ THE GREAT AMERICAN CORPORATE GIVEAWAY - OUR PRISTINE NATIONAL PARKS: PESTICIDES, CHEMICALS, GMO CROPS AND OIL, GAS DRILLING http://sco.lt/7N3249
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Guardian Environment, May 09, 2014
-▶ HONEYBEES ABANDONING HIVES AND DYING DUE TO INSECTICIDE USE, RESEARCH STUDY FINDS Harvard study shows neonicotionoids are devastating colonies by triggerring colony collapse disorder http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/09/honeybees-dying-insecticide-harvard-study
▶ Telegraph, June 14, 2013 BEE-KILLING NEONICOTINOIDS HARM BIRDS, SOIL AND LEACHES INTO GROUNDWATER, WHERE IT PERSISTS FOR YEARS http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/10119237/Neonicotinoids-harm-birds-and-soil.html
▶ DEADLY PESTICIDE 'BEE FRIENDLY' PRETREATED PLANTS SOLD INTO CONSUMER MARKET -- UNLABELED http://sco.lt/7ydzKD
▶ THE PESTICIDE PESTILENCE: NEONICOTINOID-COATED WILD BIRD SEEDS DEADLY TO SONG BIRDS, INSECTS AND WILDLIFE http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/conservation-group-seeks-assurance-that-wild-bird-seed-products-are-pesticide-free/
Washington Post, Decembere 22, 2013
▶ EPA's SYSTEM OF TRACKING PESTICIDES ARE KILLING OUR HONEYBEES - BIG TIME http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/epas-system-of-tracking-pesticides-harmful-to-honeybees-critics-say/2013/12/22/7346a80c-6835-11e3-8b5b-a77187b716a3_story.html
▶ 37 MILLION BEES FOUND DEAD IN ONTARIO, CANADA AFTER PLANTING LARGE GMO CORN FIELD TREATED WITH NEONICOTINOID CLASS PESTICIDES http://seattleorganicrestaurants.com/vegan-whole-food/neonicotinoids-pesticides-colony-collapse-of-honeybees-suppressing-immune-system.php#biotech ▶ MILLIONS OF BEES DIE BECAUSE OF NEONICOTINOID PESTICIDES MANUFACTURED BY BAYER AND SYNGENTA AND 94% OF GMO CORN IF TREATED WITH EITHER IMIDACLOPRID OR CLOTHIANIDIN PESTICIDES http://seattleorganicrestaurants.com/vegan-whole-food/gmo-corn-treated-with-neonicotinoids-pesticides-manufactured-by-Bayer-Syngenta-kill-honeybees.php WATCH "FROGS: THE THIN GREEN LINE" A WORLD WITHOUT AMPHIBIANS http://sco.lt/5U62ML ▶ PESTICIDE/CHEMICAL REGULATION OVERHAUL NEEDED TO PROTECT ECOSYSTEMS, FOOD CHAIN AND HUMAN HEALTH http://sco.lt/813dw1
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AlterNet, October 9, 2013 ▶ MEET THE OPPOSITE OF MONSANTO - THESE ARE THE FOLKS THAT REALLY FEED THE WORLD http://www.alternet.org/food/meet-opposite-monsanto-these-are-folks-really-feed-world
THE WAR AGAINST ORGANICS WHAT'S AN 'ORGANIC' LABEL REALLY WORTH? http://sco.lt/718cfh
Guardian Sustainable Business October 16, 2013 ▶ THE SEARCH FOR SUSTAINABLE CROPS: RETURNING TO NATURE'S WILD INTELLIGENCE http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/world-food-day-sustainable-crops
The Independent, December 12, 2014
▶ ORGANIC FARMING CAN FEED THE WORLD IF DONE RIGHT, SCIENTISTS CLAIM : PESTICIDE-FREE CROPS http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/organic-farming-can-feed-the-world-if-done-right-scientists-claim-9913651.html
YourIs, September 16, 2014
▶ SCIENTISTS ARE EXPERIMENTING WITH SOUND VIBRATIONS TO REPLACE PESTICIDE, BOOST HARVESTS. Scientists in Italy are experimenting with sound vibrations to replace pesticides. Adapting different eco-friendly methods they are able to boost harvests and open up a new chapter in sustainable farming http://www.youris.com/Bioeconomy/BIOECONOMY-TV/Reducing-Pesticides-And-Boosting-Harvests.kl
June 18, 2013 GM Watch ▶ SECRET COMPOSITION OF PESTICIDES IS A SCIENTIFIC SHAME http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/52-2013/14928-secret-composition-of-pesticides-is-a-scientific-shame -- WATCH -- ▶ THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO - The Leader Of The Biotech Ag Chemical Cartel (Full Length) http://sco.lt/7FFsXZ The Top Information Post, May 28, 2013
RUSSIA WARNS OBAMA: MONSANTO http://topinfopost.com/2013/05/28/russia-warns-obama-monsanto THE GLOBAL CHEMICAL BIOTECH CARTEL: AN UNPRECEDENTED POWER OVER WORLD AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN HEALTH http://sco.lt/6NaAqn
-▶ UNDER SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY LIFE WILL NOT BE A PRODUCT OF NATURE BUT OF A LAB AND IT WILL BE PATENTED AND PRIVATIZED http://sco.lt/7pchOL
-▶ OUR INDUSTRIAL, WESTERN AGRICULTURAL FOOD SYSTEM IS DESTROYING THE EARTH AND OUR HEALTH http://sco.lt/63qRl3
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CGIAR May 5, 2015
▶ HOW CAN CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE ENHANCE FOOD SECURITY AND COMMUNITY BASED ADAPTION? How can climate-smart agriculture enhance food security and community-based adaptation? Recognising and make use of indigenous knowledge from local communities and use this as a basis for building resilience. http://ccafs.cgiar.org/blog/how-can-climate-smart-agriculture-enhance-food-security-and-community-based-adaptation#.VUqfEmZQW6A
One World News, December 9, 2013
-▶ INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE VITAL FOR BIODIVERSITY, SAY EXPERTS. With species disappearing up to 1,000 times faster than the natural extinction rate, biodiversity experts say knowledge co-production with indigenous peoples has growing importance.
http://oneworld.org/2013/12/05/indigenous-knowledge-vital-for-biodiversity-say-experts/
African Agriculture: AGRA - ‘Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa' is a major assault on seed sovereignty’
Inter Press Service, September 24, 2014
▶ CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE IS CORPORATE GREEN-WASHING, NGOs WARN http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/09/climate-smart-agriculture-is-corporate-green-washing-warn-ngos
La Via Campesina, September 23, 2014 ▶ UNMASKING BIG CORPORATE "CLIMATE SMART" AGRICULTURE http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/actions-and-events-mainmenu-26/1670-un-masking-climate-smart-agriculture
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy October 08, 2014
"CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE' ISN'T http://www.iatp.org/blog/201410/climate-smart-agriculture-isn%E2%80%99t-agroecology-is
Inter Press Service, October 13, 2014
▶ FAMILY FARMERS DON'T NEED CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/10/family-farmers-dont-need-climate-smart-agriculture/
The Ecologist, September 30, 2014
▶ CORPORATE-SMART GREENWASH: THE GLOBAL ALLIANCE ON CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE. By endorsing the activities of the planet's worst climate offenders in agribusiness and industrial agriculture, the Alliance will undermine the very objectives that it claims to aim for. http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2575701/corporatesmart_greenwash_the_global_alliance_on_climatesmart_agriculture.html
Gaia Foundation, December 16, 2011
▶ FARMING CARBON CREDITS A CON FOR AFRICA: THE MANY FACES OF CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE http://www.gaiafoundation.org/blog/farming-carbon-credits-a-con-for-africa-the-many-faces-of-climate-smart-agriculture
Food First, March 23,2015
GATES FOUNDATION AND USAID PLOTS WAYS OF PROFITING FROM AFRICA'S SEED SYSTEM http://foodfirst.org/press-releases/gates-foundation-plots-ways-of-profiting-from-africas-seed-systems/
▶ GMO GENE GIANTS STOCKPILING PATENTS ON LIFE Nagoya, Japan -- Under the guise of developing “climate-ready” crops, the world’s largest seed and agrochemical corporations are filing hundreds of sweeping, multi-genome patents in a bid to control the world’s plant biomass, according to a report released by ETC Group http://www.etcgroup.org/fr/node/5220
WATCH THE MYTH OF THE AFRICAN 'GREEN REVOLUTION' http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/1562042292/the-myth-of-the-african-green-revolution-video-vandana-shiva
▶ BEWARE OF A CALL FOR A "GREENER REVOLUTION' CORPORATE TAKEOVER OF GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY http://sco.lt/7sYm1Z
Natural News, March 02, 2015
▶ PARAGUAYAN SMALL FARMERS FIGHT BACK AGAINST MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS DESTROYING THEIR LIVES http://www.naturalnews.com/048828_GMO_corporations_small_farmers_Paraguay.html#
Biocultural Heritage,
▶ SMALLHOLDER INDIGENOUS INNOVATION FOR RESILIENCE. Much of the world's agrobiodiversity has been lost in the last century due to the spread of modern agriculture. Only about 30 crops now provide 95% of all human diet (FAO). The pockets of crop diversity that remain, which are often sustained by indigenous people and small-scale farmers, are vital for food security because they provide options for adaptation, now and in the future. These local varieties (or landraces), are adapted to the natural and cultural environment, are often more resilient than modern crops, and are continuing to co-evolve with farmers to adapt to change. But this diversity is in steady decline and innovation by small-scale farmers is weakening as a result of top down research and development in agriculture, which undermines their capacity to adapt. http://biocultural.iied.org/smallholder-innovation-resilience-sifor
Animal Ecology In Focus, January 16, 2015
▶ BIODIVERSITY v INTENSIVE FARMING : HAS FARMING LOST ITS WAY? Modern intensive farming produces plentiful, cheap food but is reliant on heavy use of agrochemicals and is a major driver of the ongoing collapse of wildlife populations. Taxpayers pay billions each year to support this system, with the bulk of this money going to the biggest, richest farming operations.... https://journalofanimalecology.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/biodiversity-v-intensive-farming-has-farming-lost-its-way/
Guardian Environment, March 25, 2014 ▶ FUTURISTIC FARMS: RETHINKING MONOCULTURE FARMING AND HOW WE GROW OUR FOOD. It’s a vicious cycle that has been the curse of destructive agriculture for thousands of years: remove native vegetation, continuously grow crops, don’t rest the land or return nutrients. Erode and exhaust soils. Move on. Repeat.. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/25/california-drought-silicon-valley-moment
Genetic Literacy Project May 4, 2015
GMOs=MONOCULURE=BIO-DISASTER TIME TO REVISE SIMPLISTIC IDEOLOGICAL NARRATIVE http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2015/05/04/gmosmonoculturebio-disaster-time-to-revise-simplistic-ideological-narrative/
Friends of the earth international, February 23, 2015
▶ U.S. FORCE FEEDS GM CROPS TO AFRICAN NATIONS, SAYS NEW REPORT http://www.foei.org/press/archive-by-subject/food-sovereignty-press/us-force-feeds-gm-crops-african-nations-says-new-report/
The Ecologist, February 23, 2015
▶ THERE IS NO SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS ON GMO SAFETY http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2766504/there_is_no_scientific_consensus_on_gmo_safety.html
Intercontinental Cry Magazine, July 17, 2014
▶ INDIGENOUS MOUNTAIN FARMERS UNITE ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND RIGHT TO THEIR OWN SEED http://intercontinentalcry.org/indigenous-mountain-farmers-unite-climate-change-24793/
The Good Food, September 02, 2014 ▶ SEED IS LIFE. SOIL IS LIFE. WATER IS LIFE
To increase profitability – and productivity – industrial agriculture has mechanized production processes and reduced options to a few highly controlled varieties. In the beginning of factory farming, one size was supposed to fit all and the landscape everywhere (including water and micro-climates) was to be engineered to accommodate only the selected commercial variety of plant or animal.... Of course, such defiance of nature caused serious problems and local ecosystems were thrown out of balance. The soil dried up and blew away. Insects and weeds invaded crops and destroyed yields. And so the arch controllers of nature invented pesticides and herbicides – and a highly profitable chemical industry was born to rule over the land.
Capitalism and the accompanying industrial revolution promised to free us from the bonds of nature, limit the quality and variety of products, and greatly increase the quantity of sales necessary to consolidate power and wealth. Over the relative short time the industrial system has been in place, it has separated us entirely from our organic roots – physically and spiritually. And everything has become artificially fabricated outside of nature: our society, our religions, and certainly most of our food... http://www.goodfoodworld.com/2014/09/seed-is-life-soil-is-life-water-is-life/
Ecocentric, March 17,2015
▶ THE DANGER OF MONOCROPS: LESSONS FROM THE IRISH POTATO FAMINE http://www.gracelinks.org/blog/1150/the-danger-of-monocrops-lessons-from-the-irish-potato-famin
Truthout, December 04, 2014
▶ SEEDS OF THE FUTURE DIMINISHING AS MONO INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE DOMINATES THE WORLD. A third of the world's land area is dedicated to agriculture. Farmers' fields and pastures comprise (after the oceans) the second largest ecosystem on the planet. This vast tract has been largely transformed into sterile monoculture deserts in which all other organisms are suppressed with agrochemicals, and only the cash crop is allowed to thrive. Whether it is soy in the Brazilian Amazon, wheat on the Ukrainian steppes or corn in Iowa, a single high-yield variety typically dominates the landscape for as far as the eye can see. http://truth-out.org/news/item/27760-seeds-of-the-future
Common Dreams, February 23, 2015
▶ MANIPULATE AND MISLEAD: HOW GMOs ARE INFILTRATING AFRICA The most persistent myth about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is that they are necessary to feed a growing global population. Highly effective marketing campaigns have drilled it into our heads that GMOs will produce more food on less land in an environmentally friendly manner. The mantra has been repeated so often that it is considered to be truth. Now this mantra has come to Africa, sung by the United States government and multinational corporations like Monsanto, seeking to open new markets for a product that has been rejected by so many others around the globe. http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/02/23/manipulate-and-mislead-how-gmos-are-infiltrating-africa
Farmlandgrab, January 03, 2015
▶ BARBARIANS AT THE FARM GATE http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/24381
The Ecologist, February 12, 2015
▶ LAND AND SEED LAWS UNDER ATTACK AS AFRICA IS GROOMED FOR CORPORATE RECOLONIZATION. A battle is raging for control of resources in Africa - land, water, seeds, minerals, ores, forests, oil, renewable energy sources... http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2752051/land_and_seed_laws_under_attack_as_africa_is_groomed_for_corporate_recolonization.html
Common Dreams, February 06, 2015
▶ THE RE-COLONIZATION OF AFRICA http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/02/06/re-colonization-africa
African Centre for Biosafety, November 18, 2013
▶ A CRITICAL LOOK AT THE ALLIANCE FOR A GREEN REVOLUTION IN AFRICA (AGRA) - 2013 REPORT GIVING WITH ONE HAND, TAKING WITH TWO http://www.acbio.org.za/
▶ AFRICAN AGRICULTURE: AGRA "ALLIANCE FOR A GREEN REVOLUTION IN AFRICA" IS A MAJOR ASSAULT ON SEED SOVEREIGNTY http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/02/201224152439941847.html
African Center For Biosafety, November 18, 2014 ▶ AGRA's SCANDALOUS SUBSIDIZATION OF BIG PETROLEUM-BASED FERTILISER: FINANCIAL AND AGRIBUSINESS CORPORATIONS IN AFRICA. http://www.acbio.org.za/index.php/media/64-media-releases/471-agras-scandalous-subsidisation-of-big-fertiliser-financial-and-agribusiness-corporations-in-africa
September 6, 2013 Greenpeace International
▶ AGRA: HELPING BIG AGRIBUSINESS "CONQUER" AFRICAN AGRICULTURE Finally, we have confirmation of what we have long suspected: AGRA, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, has been created to facilitate the corporate takeover of African agriculture, not support African smallholder farmers with real solutions... http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/agra-agribusiness-africa-agriculture/blog/46511/
BILL GATES AND AFRICA A TROJAN HORSE FOR GMO BIOTECH CARTEL IN SUB-SAHARA AFRICA http://sco.lt/5ZNnsX FULL REPORT GRAIN, November 04, 2014
HOW DOES THE GATES FOUNDATION SPEND ITS MONEY TO "FEED THE WORLD" > http://www.grain.org/article/entries/5064-how-does-the-gates-foundation-spend-its-money-to-feed-the-world
▶ BILL GATES, MONSANTO AND EUGENICS: HOW ONE OF THE WORLD'S WEALTHIEST MEN IS ACTIVELY PROMOTING A CORPORATE TAKEOVER OF GLOBAL HEALTH, AGRICULTURE (FOOD) AND EDUCATION http://sco.lt/51EymH
-▶ THE FUTURE OF FOOD by Bill Gates, the greatest single, private investor for genetically engineered biotech food in the world. http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-agriculture/bill-gates-thinks-fake-meat-future.html
GHANA AND GMOs Pambazuka, February 19, 2015 Genetic engineering is about private corporate control of the food system. ▶ THE RABID TACTICS OF THE BIOTECH INDUSTRY TO GAIN CONTROL OF GHANA'S FOOD SYSTEM Whose interests does Prof. Alhassan represent? Prof. Alhassan was been quoted as dismissing anti-GMO groups because, according to him, they allegedly do not have any scientific proof or knowledge to offer when it comes GMO technology. But he is wrong. Ghanaian farmers need to abhor and reject scientists laden with conflicts of interest. Monsanto and Syngenta are particularly greedy to get their hands on Ghana’s agriculture and control the seed market here.Professor Alhassan is attempting to control the information farmers and the public see and hear just like the industry he represents.... “Today, large numbers of scientists are in the employ of Big Pharma, Big Ag, and all kinds of corporations with anti-environmental and anti-social justice agendas.”(2)... Professor Alhassan is a key employee of Big Ag, and has been for his entire career.... http://www.pambazuka.net/en/category/comment/94029
PR Watch, May 25, 2012 ▶ HOW THE U.S. SOLD AFRICA TO MULTINATIONALS LIKE MONSANTO, CARGILL, DUPONT, PEPSICO AND OTHERS http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/05/11530/how-us-sold-africa-multinationals-monsanto-cargill-dupont-pepsico-and-others
AFRICA G8 - FOOD SECURITY FOR WHOM? CORPORATE PROFITS vs SMALLHOLDER FARMER INTERESTS http://sco.lt/8JKbIn
WHEN WALL STREET WENT TO AFRICA http://sco.lt/7znTf7
REPORT Part 2 of 4
Environmental Justice and Climate Change, November 08, 2014
Environmental and Food Justice
THE PANACEA OF GMOs
INDIGENOUS RIGHT LIVELIHOODS and CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
http://ejfood.blogspot.com/2014/11/environmental-justice-and-climate.html
HOW NOT TO "FEED THE WORLD" http://sco.lt/8vwnk9
Pambazuka -Voices for Freedom and Justice in Africa ▶ HOW COMPANIES FRAME ISSUES OF FOOD AND GLOBAL HUNGER FOR THEIR OWN SELF-INTEREST AND BOTTOMLINE PROFITS There is a new, but deceptive, foreign drive to end hunger in Africa through large-scale agribusiness. Yet helping poor households in rural Africa feed themselves in an affordable manner means introducing low-cost, sustainable enhancements to farming. History is riddled with examples of the poor dying of hunger when food was plentiful. Classic amongst these is the famine which wracked the West African Sahel during the early 1970s. While people were dying of hunger in Senegal, Mali and Niger, peanuts — a key sauce ingredient and source of protein across the region — were being exported to Europe.... ...The rise of philanthrocapitalism in the US, where former and current business leaders, through the strength of their foundations, have increasingly come to influence the shape and direction of US international development programmes. Central to the philanthrocapitalist worldview is a belief that private enterprise is the fundamental agent of progressive change and that business acumen trumps other forms of expertise... http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/85291
-▶ FROM GROWING PROFIT TO GROWING FOOD: CHALLENGING CORPORATE RULE http://sco.lt/7Dg37p
-▶ THE HUNGER GAMES: -▶ HOW UK AND USA GOVERNMENTS SUPPORT FOR BIG AGRIBUSINESS IS FUELING POVERTY IN AFRICA AND AROUND THE WORLD http://sco.lt/6UGd17
The Ecologist, September 22, 2014
▶ COCA-COLA IS NOT THE SOLUTION TO HUNGER IN AFRICA http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2563446/cocacola_is_not_the_solution_to_hunger_in_africa.html
African Center for BioSafety, October 08, 2014 ▶ ACQUISITION OF AFRICA'S SEEDCO BY MONSANTO FURTHERS GLOBAL SEED CARTEL GRIP: NEO-COLONIAL OCCUPATION OF AFRICA'S SEED SYSTEM. The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) is deeply concerned about the recent acquisitions by multi-national seed companies of large parts of SeedCo, one of Africa’s largest home-grown seed companies. Attracting foreign investment from the world’s largest seed companies, most of who got to their current dominant positions by devouring national seed companies and their competitors through mergers and acquisitions, is an inevitable consequence of the fierce drive to commercialise agriculture in Africa. http://www.acbio.org.za/
▶ SEED PATENTS & CONTROL OF GLOBAL FOOD & AGRICULTURE: THE BIOTECH, GMO, CHEMICAL CORPORATE CARTEL http://sco.lt/5LcjVR
GRAIN, October 23, 2014
▶ HARVEST OF HARDSHIP: YALA SWAMP LAND GRAB DESTROYS KENYAN FARMERS' LIVELIHOOD. Dominion Farms arrived in Kenya's Yala Swamp basin in 2004 with big promises. The company claimed it would turn a defunct state demonstration farm into a modern rice plantation, provide locals with good jobs, and build hospitals and schools. The American owner of the company, Calvin Burgess, presented himself as a 'man of God', on a mission to bring US-style progress to Africa. The locals, sold on this grand vision, decided – with some hesitation and dissent – to allow Dominion to farm on 3,700 ha of their lands... http://www.grain.org/article/entries/5061-harvest-of-hardship-yala-swamp-land-grab-destroys-kenyan-farmers-livelihoods
ENOUGHNESS: WESTERN THOUGHT vs INDIGENOUS PHILOSOPHY http://sco.lt/4kcNH7
-▶ TURNING AFRICA INTO A GMO BONANZA FOR GIANT CORPORATIONS: FOREIGN TAKEOVER OF THE FUTURE OF FARMING IN AFRICA http://sco.lt/6qmM1R
▶ OUR GMO CORNFIELDS ARE TOO QUIET - ALL LIFE CHEMICALLY EXTERMINATED - EXCEPT THE GENE-ALTERED CORN http://sco.lt/6przzF
▶ GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS NOT THE SOLUTION FOR "FEEDING THE WORLD" http://sco.lt/9Gdbxh
RT USA, February 05, 2015
▶ MONSANTO'S ROUNDUP PESTICIDE SYSTEM THREATENS EXTINCTION OF MONARCH BUTTERFLIES: http://rt.com/usa/229667-monsanto-monarch-butterflies-extinct/
WATCH BBC VIDEO REPORT
A BILLION GO HUNGRY BECAUSE OF GMO FARMING Vandana Shiva http://www.sott.net/article/260505-A-billion-go-hungry-because-of-GMO-farming-Vandana-Shiva
LIVING WITH GMOs AN OPEN LETTER TO UK AND EU November 12, 2014 Representing 57 Million Americans, NGOs, scientists, anti-GM groups, celebrities, food manufacturers, and others today publish an Open Letter to the UK and the entire EU warning of the serious and manifold hazards of GMO crops http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2632105/living_with_gmos_a_letter_from_america.html
BAN GMOs NOW A Special Institute of Science in Society http://sco.lt/5CPilt
GRAIN, May 26, 2014
2,4-D SOY: WAGING WAR ON PEASANTS Global attempts by Dow AgroSciences to gain approval for new genetically-modified soybean varieties resistant to the herbicide 2,4-D have become particularly aggressive in recent months. Simultaneous applications have been filed in several of the countries where genetically engineered crops (GE or transgenic crops or GMOs) were introduced in the 1990s.
The push for approval of new transgenics is part of a broader strategy by agribusiness to make the world’s farms increasingly dependent on its toxic herbicides, thus increasing the profits it derives from selling these chemicals. The current situation is a rerun of the 1990s’ introduction of Roundup Ready (glyphosate-resistant) crops, only this time the herbicides in question are much more toxic. These weed-killers have been around for a longer time and the case for their hazardousness to human health and the environment has been well documented. http://www.grain.org/article/entries/4945-2-4-d-soy-waging-war-on-peasants
Common Dreams, September 18, 2014
-▶ USDA's GREENLIGHTING OF 'AGENT ORANGE' CORN AND SOYBEANS SPARKS CONDEMNATION http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/18/usdas-greenlighting-agent-orange-crops-sparks-condemnation
FastCoCreate ▶ THESE TOP FOOD COMPANIES CONTROL ALMOST EVERYTHING WE EAT: There are more than 38,000 products in the average American supermarket. That means tons of choice, right? In fact, the vast majority of these products are owned by just 10 companies. Those friendly looking Green Giant pees? That's General Mills. And Odwalla juice? That's Coca Cola. This matters, of course, because we deserve to know where our food comes from--and how it's made. http://www.fastcocreate.com/3032899/see-who-actually-owns-the-food-you-eat-and-how-theyre-behaving
Guardian Sustainable Business, May 01, 2014 ▶ 10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEM http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/food-blog/10-things-need-to-know-global-food-system
Guardian Development, March 10, 2014
▶ FOOD SYSTEM THAT FAILS POOR COUNTRIES NEEDS URGENT REFORM, SAYS UN EXPERT http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/mar/10/food-system-poor-countries-reform-olivier-de-schutter
Pambazuka, September 25, 2014
▶ MAYAN PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT DEFEATS MONSANTO LAW IN GUATEMALA. There was a great risk that the Monsanto Law would have made criminals of already repressed small farmers who are just trying to make ends meet and doing what they have done for generations – cultivating corn and black beans for their own consumption. The Monsanto Law meant that they would not have been able to grow and harvest anything that originates from natural seeds. Farmers would be breaking the laws if these natural seeds had been mixed with patented seeds from other crops as a result of pollination or wind, unless they had had a license for the patented seed from a transnational corporation like Monsanto. .. The Monsanto Law would have given exclusivity on patented seeds to a handful of transnational companies....the Mayan people – or actually most people – in Guatemala do not agree with a policy of treating nature like a commodity to be sold off piece by piece, ...http://pambazuka.net/en/category/features/92994
Grist, February 22, 2013
-▶ MIRACLE GROW: INDIAN FARMERS SMASH CROP YIELD RECORDS WITHOUT GMOs http://grist.org/food/miracle-grow-indian-farmers-smash-crop-yield-records-without-gmos/
▶ CULTIVATING SANITY : BANGLADESH FARMERS TURN BACK THE CLOCK TO COMBAT CLIMATE STRESSED CROPS - Cultivation of the old varieties is expanding in part because they need almost no chemical fertiliser or pesticides - which makes them cheaper and easier to grow - and because their yields are good in tough conditions. http://www.trust.org/item/20141126125124-0i6go
Wall Street Journal, December 15, 2014
-▶ CHINA'S HARD LINE ON BIOTECH BURNS U.S. HAY : Traces of GMO Alfalfa, Unapproved by Beijing, Wreak Havoc With a Formerly Booming U.S. Crop http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-hay-exports-to-china-shrivel-up-1418598477
HOW MONSANTO IS TERRIFYING THE FARMING WORLD The Devil in The Seeds Of Life http://sco.lt/6wRNsv =====================
Newsweek, December 13, 2014
▶ SOLVING HUNGER IN ETHIOPIA BY TURNING TO NATIVE CROPS http://www.newsweek.com/solving-hunger-ethiopia-turning-native-crops-291558
African Center For Biosafety, October 06, 2014 ▶ RUNNING TO STAND STILL: SMALL SCALE FARMER AND THE GREEN REVOLUTION IN MALAWI - PDF REPORT http://www.acbio.org.za/index.php/publications/seedfood-sovereignty/467-running-to-stand-still-small-scale-farmers-and-the-green-revolution-in-malawi
Mother Jones, December 03, 2014
▶ HOW MONSANTO'S BIG DATA, BIG PROFITS DATA PUSH HURTS SMALL FARMS http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/12/monsanto-big-data-means-bigger-and-less-diverse-farms
The Conversation, September 11, 2014
▶ IN A WARMING WORLD WE CAN'T KEEP DEPENDING ON THE SAME FEW CROPS http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/26404-in-a-warming-world-we-cant-keep-depending-on-the-same-few-crops
Oliver De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food March 10, 2014
-▶ DEMOCRACY AND DIVERSITY CAN MEND BROKEN FOOD SYSTEMS http://www.srfood.org/en/democracy-and-diversity-can-mend-broken-food-systems-final-diagnosis-from-un-right-to-food-expert -▶ FULL FINAL REPORT http://www.srfood.org/images/stories/pdf/officialreports/20140310_finalreport_en.pdf
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OUR INDUSTRIAL, WESTERN AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM IS DESTROYING THE EARTH AND OUR HEALTH http://sco.lt/63qRl3
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EcoWatch, March 31, 2014
▶ HOW ECOLOGICAL FARMING BUILDS RESILIENCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE http://ecowatch.com/2014/03/31/ecological-farming-resilience-climate-change/
VIDEO
Linking Population, Environment and Health: The Green Belt Movement (GBM) https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLFCA5BD7B2D8A8787?wmode=opaque&v=BSOauSpM_ew#t=100
ReliefWeb, December 19, 2014
▶ MAIZE, RICE, WHEAT FARMING MUST BECOME MORE SUSTAINABLE: FAO. The FAO meeting agreed that agriculture can no longer rely on input-intensive agriculture to increase crop production. Improved varieties of maize, rice and wheat must go hand-in-hand with what FAO calls "Save and Grow" farming systems that keep soil healthy, integrate crop, tree and animal production, use water far more efficiently, and protect crops with integrated pest management..Experts at the meeting said that that challenge could only be met with eco-friendly agriculture that achieves higher productivity while conserving natural resources, adapting to climate change, and delivering economic benefits to the world's 500 million small-scale family farms. http://reliefweb.int/report/world/maize-rice-wheat-farming-must-become-more-sustainable
Appeal-Democrat, December 21, 2014
▶ AG-TECH COULD CHANGE HOW WORLD EATS: Investors and entrepreneurs behind some of the world's newest industries have started to put their money and tech talents into farming — the world's oldest industry —Silicon Valley is pushing its way into every stage of the food-growing process, from tech tycoons buying up farmland to startups selling robots that work the fields to hackathons dedicated to building the next farming app. http://www.appeal-democrat.com/business/ag-tech-could-change-how-world-eats/article_af7d8ab2-88b3-11e4-a88c-53786b1de7d9.html
▶ WEB-OF-LIFE UNRAVELLING - HEALTHY ECOSYSTEMS VITAL FOR ALL PLANETARY LIFE http://sco.lt/8idD7J
▶ BIODIVERSITY IS VITAL TO MAINTAINING ECOSYSTEMS AND HUMAN HEALTH http://sco.lt/4u4JhR
▶ THE HIDDEN WORLD OF SOIL UNDER OUR FEET : SOIL AS A LIFELINE http://sco.lt/6kqJaT
▶ WATER IN THE ANTHROPOCENE: THE GLOBAL WATER CRISIS http://sco.lt/5odgG1
June 2, 2013 The Guardian
▶ HOW INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ARE TURNED OFF THEIR LANDS - HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS SAID TO HAVE BEEN DISPLACED http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/02/indigenous-people-turned-off-land
▶ LAND GRABBING: HOW FOREIGN "INVESTMENTS" ARE REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH, LAND AND WATER ACROSS THE GLOBE http://sco.lt/7rqpG5
-▶ THE NEW CORPORATE COLONIALISM. DESTRUCTION OF PLANETARY LIFE, INDIGENOUS LAND AND LIVELIHOODS IN THE NAME OF "GROWTH" http://sco.lt/5nT3OT
VIDEO -▶ FOREIGN CORPORATIONS DESTROYING ECOSYSTEMS, INDIGENOUS LIVELIHOODS, NULLIFYING LAND RIGHTS, CREATING DEPENDENCY AND POVERTY ON A GLOBAL SCALE http://sco.lt/4l725B
▶ WHY CHOOSING NATURE WILL ONLY ADVANCE HUMAN SOCIETIES http://sco.lt/6odAoL
FARM-AGEDDON GOES HAND IN HAND WITH BIG CORPORATE AGRICULTURE
CORPORATE "PRODUCTION" OF OUR FOOD ANIMALS
No birds. No bees. Our countryside laid waste. And billions of animals that never see a blade of grass http://sco.lt/7ztQbB
WATCH THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO (FULL LENGTH) The Leader of the Global Biotech Chemical Cartel http://sco.lt/7wFWFN
A REALLY GOOD RESOURCE:
AgriCultures Network (@agriculturesnet) | Twitter http://ow.ly/JscXx http://www.agriculturesnetwork.org/
A Picture Says A Thousand Words BATTERY FACTORY FARMED HENS http://ow.ly/mCAJf
The Dodo - 05 May 2015
- ▶ NEW UNDERCOVER FOOTAGE REVEALS VICIOUS CHICKEN ABUSE AT A SLAUGHTER HOUSE https://www.thedodo.com/undercover-footage-mountaire-farms-chickens-1127155255.html
The Dodo, March 31, 2015
- ▶ EVERY YEAR, BILLIONS OF NEWBORN CHICKS AROUND THE GLOBE ARE KILLED WHEN THEY'RE JUST MINUTES OLD https://www.thedodo.com/germany-stop-culling-male-chicks-1068701850.html
Animals Australia, April 01, 2015
SHORT VIDEO
The disturbing ‘waste product’ of the worldwide egg industry
GERMANY SAYS 'NO MORE CHICK SHREDDING' Germany has become the FIRST country in the world to decide it no longer wants to grind up millions of live baby chicks —.
http://www.animalsaustralia.org/features/germany-stops-shredding-chicks.php
TakePart, July 01, 2014 - ▶ WERE BABY CHICKS KILLED TO MAKE YOUR MAYO? http://www.takepart.com/video/2014/07/01/mayo-chickens
The Dodo, March 18, 2015
- ▶ SCALDING LIVE CHICKENS IS AN ACCEPTED BRUTAL BUSINESS MODEL https://www.thedodo.com/community/MarcBekoff/new-york-times-chicken-slaughter-scalding-1048137798.html
VIDEO
The Dodo, March 16, 2015
- ▶ THE WAY CHICKENS ARE KILLED IS HELL ON EARTH...AND LEGAL https://www.thedodo.com/chickens-video-legal-slaughter-gordon-1043872702.html
VIDEO (18:57) Huffington Post Green, March 09, 2014
THE CHICKENS YOU EAT ARE PROBABLY PRETTY DARN DIRTY
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/09/dirty-birds-factory-farming_n_6833256.html
- ▶ BLIND, FOOTLESS CHICKENS FOR FUTURE CAFO FACTORY FARMS http://farmwars.info/?p=789
One Green Planet, April, 23, 2015
- ▶ 10 STUNNING CHICKENS WHO PROVE THEY ARE ARE TOO DYNAMIC TO BE CONSIDERED 'NUGGETS' http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/chickens-too-dynamic-to-be-nuggets/
Alternet, December 10, 2013
- ▶ HOW BIG AGRIBUSINESS IS TRYING TO MUZZLE THE TRUTH BEHIND CORPORATE FACTORY FARMS http://www.alternet.org/food/big-agribusiness-trying-muzzle-animal-rights-activists-who-infiltrate-their-factory-farms
Reuters, April 23, 2015
- ▶ MINNESOTA DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY OVER BIRD FLU OUTBREAK IN POULTRY http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/23/us-health-birdflu-usa-idUSKBN0NE2F720150423
CNBC, April 20, 2015
- ▶ US POULTRY EXPORTS PLUNGE WITH AVIAN FLU SCARE - MILLIONS OF BIRDS TO BE DESTROYED. The avian flu outbreak that has spread in 12 states is taking its toll on more than just the millions of birds that will be destroyed. http://www.cnbc.com/id/102606828
Web MD
- ▶BIRD FLU (AVIAN FLU): SYMPTOMS, HOW YOU CATCH IT, TREATMENTS, AND MORE http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/what-know-about-bird-flu
VIDEO (4:59)
CHICKEN FACTORY FARMER SPEAKS OUT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE9l94b3x9U
TreeHugger, March 05, 2015 - ▶ BATTLE CONTINUES TO RAGE BETWEEN CHICKEN FARMER AND BIG CHICKEN PRODUCER/EMPLOYER PERDUE http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/battle-continues-between-chicken-farmer-and-employer-perdue.html VICE, February 23, 2015
- ▶ WHY A NORTH CAROLINA CHICKEN FARMER EXPOSED THE DEPRESSING CONDITIONS ON HIS OWN FARM http://www.vice.com/read/the-whistle-blower-crows-at-dawn-0000570-v22n2 WIRED, February 23, 2015
- ▶ THE POULTRY INDUSTRY RESPONDS TO AN ACTIVIST FARMER http://www.wired.com/2015/02/watts-response/
June 27, 2013
▶ THE FUTURE OF BIG CHICKEN
More than a BILLION chickens are raised and slaughtered each year IN GEORGIA ALONE, the poultry capital of the world... http://clatl.com/atlanta/the-future-of-big-chicken/Content?oid=8528249
One Green Planet March 24, 2014
- ▶ IS THERE REALLY SUCH A THING AS AN ETHICAL EGG? THE HIDDEN CRUELTY INVOLVED IN ALL EGG PRODUCTION http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/is-there-really-such-a-thing-as-an-ethical-egg/
VIDEO (8:00)
SO YOU WANT TO EAT INDUSTRIAL FACTORY FARMED EGGS? CALIFORNIA EGG FARM INVESTIGATION https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hY0syP5haE
WATCH 6 April 2013 - New York Times
VIDEO TAPING OF FARM CRUELTY IS NOW A CRIME http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/us/taping-of-farm-cruelty-is-becoming-the-crime.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
VIDEO
New Scientist, January 19, 2015
SEE CHICKEN DEVELOP ON DRUGS THROUGH A CRACKED EGGSHELL http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26817-see-chicken-develop-on-drugs-through-a-cracked-eggshell.html ▶ YOUR CHICKENS ARE RAISED ON A STEADY DIET OF PRESCRIPTION, OVER-THE-COUNTER, AND EVEN BANNED DRUGS: CAFOs http://www.rodalenews.com/healthy-chicken
George Monbiot, December 17, 2014
- ▶ OVERGROWTH: What can you say about a society whose food production must be hidden from public view? In which the factory farms and slaughterhouses supplying much of our diet must be guarded like arsenals to prevent us from seeing what happens there?
The growth rate of broiler chickens has quadrupled in 50 years: they are now killed at seven weeks(2). By then they are often crippled by their weight. Animals selected for obesity cause obesity. Bred to bulge, scarcely able to move, overfed, factory farmed chickens now contain almost three times as much fat as chickens did in 1970, and just two thirds of the protein(3). Stalled pigs and feedlot cattle have undergone a similar transformation. Meat production? No, this is fat production. http://www.monbiot.com/2014/12/16/overgrowth/ INVESTIGATIVE REPORT WATCH 53:41)
Frontline PBS, October 14, 2014
THE TROUBLE WITH ANTIBIOTICS REDUCING GROWTH HORMONES USE IN FOOD ANIMALS
Up to 70 percent of all antibiotics sold in the U.S. are used in food animals. For years, farmers and ranchers have used antibiotics to help food animals grow faster on less feed. This practice, known as “growth promotion,” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/trouble-with-antibiotics/
April 17, 2013 Seed Daily - ▶ CHICKEN WITH BIGGER GIZZARDS ARE MORE "EFFICIENT" - MORE, BIGGER, FASTER FOR PROFITS THAT IS http://www.seeddaily.com/reports/Chickens_with_bigger_gizzards_are_more_efficient_999.html
GreenBiz, March 04, 2015
- ▶ McDONALD'S TO CUT "ANTIBIOTICS" FOR CHICKEN SOLD IN U.S. http://www.greenbiz.com/article/exclusive-mcdonalds-cuts-chicken-antibiotics-mcnuggets
The Atlantic Wire, October 4, 2013
- ▶ THE AUTOPSY OF CHICKEN NUGGETS READS "CHICKEN LITTLE" http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2013/10/three-grossest-sentences-youll-read-about-chicken-nuggets-today/70195/ -- American Journal Of Medicine Abstract http://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343%2813%2900396-3/abstract
George Monbiot, December 16, 2014
- ▶ IF YOU MUST EAT MEAT, SAVE IT FOR CHRISTMAS : We are in perputual denial about our food : From chickens pumped with antibiotics to the environmental devastation caused by production, we need to realise we are not fed with happy farm animals http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/16/perpetual-denial-food-meat-production-environmental-devastation VIDEO
Global Possibilities, June 27, 2014
SHOCKING UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION EXPOSES BURIED-ALIVE CHICKENS AT NATION'S SECOND-LARGEST PRODUCER (We "produce" chickens now, not "raise" them) http://www.globalpossibilities.org/video-shocking-undercover-investigation-exposes-buried-alive-chickens-at-nations-second-largest-producer/
Modern Farmer, February 24, 2014
- ▶ CHICKEN FACTORY FARMING AND ITS DISCONTENTS http://modernfarmer.com/2014/02/chicken-farming-discontents/
Al Jazeera America, April 18, 2014 - ▶ HOW BIG CHICKEN TOOK OVER AMERICA http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/4/industrialized-chickenfarmingmeatracketfoodsafetyantitrust.html
September 2, 2013 Mother Jones - ▶ HAS THE WORLD REACHED PEAK CHICKEN? You won't believe how many chickens live on this planet. .. http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/08/peak-chicken Organic Lifestyle Magazine, July 08, 2014
- ▶ FACTORY FARMED CHICKENS: THE HIDDEN COST OF CHEAP CHICKEN http://www.organiclifestylemagazine.com/factory-farmed-chickens-the-hidden-cost-of-cheap-chicken/ Huffington Post, March 17, 2014
-▶ 9 FACTS ABOUT FACTORY FARMING THAT WILL BREAK YOUR HEART (GRAPHIC PHOTOS) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/17/factory-farming-facts_n_4063892.html
The Dodo, March 06, 2014
- ▶ NO ONE WANTS TO DO THIS JOB THAT KILLS 6,000 CHICKS PER DAY. Within the world of poultry farming, both in the U.S. and abroad, large-scale laying operations have no need for male chicks in egg production, so the males — often just minutes old — are immediately killed. Some in a gas chamber. Others are killed in a macerator, a blender-like machine that grinds them up alive. https://www.thedodo.com/chicks-factory-farming-culling-1027688867.htm OpEd News, August 02, 2014 - ▶ HOW IS THIS LEGAL? 65,000 HENS BURNED TO DEATH IN CAFO FACTORY FARM IN INDIANA http://www.opednews.com/articles/How-is-this-legal-Cage-fr-by-Merritt-Clifton-Animals_Chickens_Chickens_Eggs-140802-428.html NPR, February 19, 2014 - ▶ IS TYSON FOODS CHICKEN EMPIRE A MEAT RACKET? http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/19/276981085/is-tyson-foods-chicken-empire-a-meat-racket - ▶ 80,000 CHICKENS PER FACTORY FARM (CAFO) PROJECT HAS ORGANIC FARMER WORRIED http://www.eveningsun.com/news/ci_21451945/chicken-farm-project-has-organic-farmer-worried VIDEO (4:53)
FOOD INC: CHICKEN FARM PART 11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Tda7MqhNs VIDEO (7:58)
LIVE FAST DIE YOUNG : THE LIFE OF A MEAT CHICKEN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpbtBgLfl90
Truthout, December 23, 2013 - ▶ IT DOESN'T TASTE LIKE CHICKEN: "The cheap chicken will have minimal flavor, thanks to its short life span, lack of sunlight and a monotonous diet of corn and soy http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20713-it-doesnt-taste-like-chicken VIDEO (12:00)
45 DAYS: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A BROILER CHICKEN
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xubyea_45-days-the-life-and-death-of-a-broiler-chicken_animals
Reuters, July 09, 2014 - ▶ ROOSTERS FERTILITY PROBLEM HITS U.S. CHICKEN SUPPLY, LIFTS PRICES: GMO Corn Feed and Inbreeding http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/09/us-chicken-supply-genetics-exclusive-idUSKBN0FE0C820140709
UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION The Dodo, January 05, 2015 HORROR AT BUTTERFIELD HEN SLAUGHTERHOUSE The life of an egg-laying chicken in the U.S., or one of 301 million others like her, normally lasts 12 to 18 months, during which she produces up to 450 eggs. But what happens after that, when she's no longer considered profitable by the egg industry? According to a new investigation, the life of a "spent" bird — the industry's term for a hen who's no longer used for her eggs — is short and not so sweet. Warning: Disturbing Content VIDEO https://www.thedodo.com/egg-laying-hen-slaughter-914943443.html
June 17, 2013 Treehugger - ▶ AG GAG LAWS ARE GROWING THREAT TO FREE SPEECH AND FOOD SAFETY http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/ag-gag-laws-are-growing-threat-free-speech-and-food-safety.html Green Is The New Red: FEBRUARY 28, 2014 -▶ IDAHO GOVERNOR SIGNS AG-GAG LAW MAKING IT ILLEGAL TO EXPOSE ANIMAL CRUELTY ON FACTORY FARMS - FURTHER PROTECTING CORPORATE FARMING http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/breaking-idaho-governor-signs-ag-gag-law-making-it-illegal-to-expose-animal-cruelty/7658/ Mother Jones July/August Issue - ▶ GAGGED BY BIG AG http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/06/ag-gag-laws-mowmar-farms CNN, June 26, 2014 - ▶ AG-GAG LAWS: EXPOSING ANIMAL CRUELTY IS "NOT" A CRIME http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/26/opinion/potter-ag-gag-laws-animals/index.html
▶ THE RAW TRUTH OF FACTORY FARMING http://www.raw.info/
VIDEO CLIP FROM FOOD, INC: INDUSTRIAL CHICKEN FARMERS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enwU5jIXSlU
INVESTIGATION The Guardian, July 23, 2014
REVEALED: THE DIRTY SECRET OF THE UK'S (AND USA) POULTRY INDUSTRY http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/23/-sp-revealed-dirty-secret-uk-poultry-industry-chicken-campylobacter#comments
Alternet, September 18, 2013
- ▶ HOW CHICKEN IS KILLING THE PLANET - Processed chicken is already bad for the environment, workers and consumers -- and it's about to get a lot worse .http://www.alternet.org/how-chicken-killing-planet?akid=10951.237541.xhkbuI&rd=1&src=newsletter898439&t=9
CHINESE ENTERS US FOOD MARKET CHICKENS BOUND FOR USA -- UNLABELLED, UNREGULATED http://sco.lt/7MuubR ==================== FOOD SAFETY ====================
- ▶ FOUR-FIFTHS OF ALL BIG PHARMA ANTIBIOTICS CONSUMED BY MEAT AND POULTRY INDUSTRY (What Are You Eating?) http://sco.lt/5u5Gyn VIDEO
Food and Water Watch
IS FACTORY FARM CHICKEN SAFE TO EAT? (1:48) Tell the USDA not to allow the privatization of poultry inspections. http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/meat-inspection/factory-farm-chicken/
Center for Food Safety
ABOUT FACTORY FARMS http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/search/factory-farms
Common Dreams, December 19, 2013
- ▶ IS YOUR CHICKEN DINNER MAKING YOU SICK? Two new reports highlight public health risks. For its report "The High Cost of Cheap Chicken," Consumer Reports tested over 300 raw chicken breasts, including some labeled as organic and antibiotic free, at national retailers. The study found that nearly all (97 percent) had potentially harmful bacteria, and roughly half (49.7 percent) the chicken sampled contained at least one multidrug-resistant bacterium... http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/19-3 June 6, 2013 Huffington Post Green
- ▶ USDA INSPECTOR GENERAL: FOOD SAFETY AND HUMANE SLAUGHTER LAWS IGNORED WITH IMPUNITY http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-friedrich/usda-inspector-general-fo_b_3333853.html
Guardian, July 23, 2014
- ▶ REPORT: THE POULTRY AND FOOD POISONING SCANDAL: HOW INDUSTRIAL CHICKEN SPREADS CAMPYLOBACTER AND WHY WE NEED TO REVISIT LARGE FACTORY FARM "PRODUCTION" OF OUR FOOD ANIMALS http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/23/-sp-food-poisoning-scandal-how-chicken-spreads-campylobacter New York Times, February 20, 2015
- ▶ ABSOLUTELY NEEDED: OBAMA PROPOSES SINGLE AGENCY FOR FOOD SAFETY AND REGULATION http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/21/us/obama-proposes-single-overseer-for-food-safety.html
Food and Water Watch
- ▶ WHO'S INSPECTING OUR CHICKEN NOW?
Weigh In: Tell the USDA to Revoke the Filthy Chicken Rule!
http://act.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/MessageViewer?dlv_id=46901&em_id=39442.0 EcoWatch, July 31, 2014 - ▶ USDA TO REPLACE FACTORY FARM POULTRY INSPECTIONS WITH "SELF-POLICING" BY THE COMPANIES THEMSELVES http://ecowatch.com/2014/07/31/usda-final-rule-privatize-poultry-inspection/ The Guardian, July 28, 2014
- ▶ OBAMA IS LETTING THE POULTRY INDUSTRY RUN WILD. YOUR CHICKEN IS ABOUT TO GET MORE FULL OF FECES: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/28/chicken-regulations-obama-poultry-industry
September 4, 2013 Reuters
- ▶ USDA CRITICIZED FOR WORK ON POULTRY PLANT FOOD SAFETY PROJECT http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/04/us-usa-usda-poultry-report-idUSBRE98314420130904
Food Safety News, February 26, 2014 - ▶ POULTRY PROCESSING LINE SPEEDS: HOW FAST IS TOO FAST? http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2014/02/poultry-processing-line-speeds-how-fast-is-too-fast/#.Uw5lJF5kJK4
Washington Post, October 31, 2013 - ▶ WHY A CHICKEN ISN'T AN ANIMAL: USDA PLANS TO SUPER SPEED UP POULTRY-PROCESSING LINES INCREASING RISK OF BIRD ABUSE. Nearly 1 million chickens and turkeys are unintentionally boiled alive each year in U.S. slaughterhouses, often because fast-moving lines fail to kill the birds before they are dropped into scalding water, Agriculture Department records show. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/usda-plan-to-speed-up-poultry-processing-lines-could-increase-risk-of-bird-abuse/2013/10/29/aeeffe1e-3b2e-11e3-b6a9-da62c264f40e_story.html
Mother Jones, December 05, 2013 - ▶ THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S MEATY GIFT TO BIG CHICKEN http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/12/usda-big-chicken-kill-lines
April 24, 2013 Mother Jones Tom Philpott
- ▶ OBAMA ADMIN. ON VERGE OF DRAMATICALLY SCALING BACK OVERSIGHT OF U.S. LARGEST CHICKEN & TURKEY SLAUGHTERHOUSES http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/04/usda-inspectors-poultry-kill-lines-chicken PBS Newshour, October 26, 2014 - ▶ MORE THAN 31,000 POUNDS OF U.S. CHICKEN PRODUCTS RECALLED. HOW MANY WASTED SLAUGHTERED CHICKENS IS THAT? http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/chicken-recall/ Reuters, July 09, 2014
- ▶ FOSTER FARMS BATTLES INSURERS OVER DEFINITION OF "RECALL" Foster Farms is one of the largest chicken producers in the United States http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/09/us-usa-fosterfarms-lawsuit-idUSKBN0FE28S20140709 August 9, 2013 Mother Jones
- ▶ DO CHICKEN PLANT CHEMICALS MASK SALMONELLA? http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/08/your-chicken-swims-chemical-cocktail
France24, May 05, 2014
▶ IS U.S. CHLORINATED CHICKEN AND GMO FOOD HEADED TO THE EU? THE CONTROVERSIAL EU-US TRADE AGREEMENT #TAFTA .Chicken washed in chlorine, meat treated with artificial beef hormones and a host of genetically modified crops – all of these could be making their way into European supermarkets under a free trade agreement being negotiated between the US and EU.. http://www.france24.com/en/20140514-usa-chlorinated-chicken-gm-food-heading-eu-trade-deal-tafta-ttip-france
HuffingtonPost Green, July 14, 2014
▶ GERMANY SAYS NEIN DANKE TO U.S. 'CHLORINE CHICKEN' http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/14/chlorine-chicken-chlorhuehnchen_n_5583419.html?utm_hp_ref=green
Guardian, July 25, 2014
- ▶ BRITAINS' INCREASING TASTE FOR WHITE MEAT IS A DISASTER FOR ANIMALS AND FOR US. As much as 92% of all chicken is contaminated with faecal matter, while intensive livestock production crams 30,000 birds living in their own excrement into a single shed http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/25/britain-white-meat-disaster-animals-chicken-contaminated
May 15, 2013 Nation Of Change - ▶ FACTORY FARMED CHICKEN FOUND TO CONTAIN CONCERNING LEVELS OF ARSENIC DUE TO ANTIBIOTICS http://www.nationofchange.org/conventional-chicken-found-contain-concerning-levels-arsenic-due-antibiotics-1368632553 April 25, 2013 - Washington Post
- ▶ AT CHICKEN PLANTS, CHEMICALS BLAMED FOR HEALTH AILMENT ARE POISED TO PROLIFERATE http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/at-chicken-plants-chemicals-blamed-for-health-ailments-are-poised-to-proliferate/2013/04/25/d2a65ec8-97b1-11e2-97cd-3d8c1afe4f0f_story.html WSBTV, April 24, 2014 - ▶ CHICKEN PLANT WORKERS SAY CHEMICALS SPRAYED ON CARCASSES ARE MAKING THEM SICK http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/chicken-plant-workers-say-chemicals-sprayed-carcas/nfg73/ March 21, 2013 - MyFDL - ▶ HOW THE POULTRY INDUSTRY IS GRINDING UP WORKERS' HEALTH AND RIGHTS http://my.firedoglake.com/meeshellchen/2013/03/21/how-the-poultry-industry-is-grinding-up-workers-health-and-rights/ April 30, 2013 Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
- ▶ WORK IN A POULTRY PLANT? THE GOOD NEWS IS YOU STILL HAVE A JOB, THE BAD NEWS IS IT MAY BE KILLING YOU http://www.iatp.org/blog/201304/work-in-a-poultry-plant-the-good-news-is-you-still-have-a-job-the-bad-news-is-it-may-be- - ▶ GUT BOMB: THAT TURKEY BURGER COULD KILL YOU, AND HERE'S WHY http://grist.org/food/gut-bomb-that-turkey-burger-could-kill-you-and-heres-why/
RE-ENGINEERING OUR FOOD The Guardian, May 19, 2014
- ▶ WANTED: A BREED OF CHICKEN THAT CAN SURVIVE CRIPPLING HEATWAVES IN CONFINED CAFOs: TO MAINTAIN MEGA FACTORY FARM PROFITS http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/may/25/chicken-to-beat-killer-heatwaves BIO RE-ENGINEERING ANIMALS IN LUST FOR PROFITS ... and into our environment, food and bodies No Regulation, No Oversight, No labels... http://sco.lt/6n7JtB
=========================== AND YOUR EGGS ===========================
Mother Jones, January 145, 2014
-▶ WAIT, WE INJECT ANTIBIOTICS INTO EGGS FOR ORGANIC CHICKEN??? http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/01/organic-chicken-and-egg-antibiotics-edition NPR, December 23, 2014
- ▶ FARM FRESH? NATURAL? EGGS NOT ALWAYS WHAT THEY'RE CRACKED UP TO BE http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/12/23/370377902/farm-fresh-natural-eggs-not-always-what-they-re-cracked-up-to-be WATCH ▶ ***** EXTREME CRUELTY EXPOSED AT MAJOR EGG FACTORY http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=embnwQ7ohTc ▶ **** CHEAP EGGS Egg Farm Admits to 10 Counts of Animal Cruelty http://www.mercyforanimals.org/maine-eggs/
Guardian, November 13, 2013 - ▶ ARE FREE-RANGE HENS HAPPIER IN CAGES? JUST LOOK AT THE HENS http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/13/free-range-hens-happier-cages
July 25, 2013 NPR
- ▶ The FDA /USDA PLAY GAMES WITH "FREE RANGE ORGANIC EGG" LABELING http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/07/24/205230655/the-fda-doesnt-want-chickens-to-explore-the-great-outdoors Care2, February 07, 2014 -▶ WHY IS MISSOURI UPSET ABOUT GOOD NEWS FOR EGG-LAYING HENS IN CALIFORNIA http://www.care2.com/causes/why-is-missouri-upset-about-good-news-for-egg-laying-hens-in-california.html Nation of Change, September 21, 2013 - ▶ CORPORATIONS/LOBBYISTS RULE: GOODBYE ORGANIC EGGS
PROPOSED FDA FOOD SAFETY RULES SUPPORT FACTORY FARM CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND THREATEN TRUE FAMILY FARMING - : http://www.nationofchange.org/proposed-fda-food-safety-rules-support-factory-farming-threaten-family-farms-1379774141 July 23, 2013 Cornucopia Institute
- ▶ FDA/USDA COLLUDE TO ELIMINATE TRUE ORGANIC EGG PRODUCTION, FAVORING INDUSTRIAL FACTORY FARMS http://www.cornucopia.org/2013/07/fdausda-collude-to-eliminate-true-organic-egg-production/ August 27, 2013 DW-Eco - ▶ IT'S GLOBAL AND ENDEMIC: THE HIDDEN FACTS OF GERMAN EGG PRODUCTION http://www.dw.de/the-hidden-facts-of-egg-production/a-17030868
========================== MORE ON INDUSTRIAL FARMED FOOD ============================
- ▶ CAUSING ANIMALS WE EAT TO SUFFER COARSENS US AND MAKES US LESS COMPASSIONATE http://www.care2.com/greenliving/farm-animals-are-friends-not-food.html ▶ WELL-TREATED ANIMALS ARE VASTLY SUPERIOR NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS OVER FACTORY FARMED ANIMALS http://ecowatch.org/2012/well-treated-animals/ Der Spiegel English, October 16, 2013
- ▶ ETHICAL FARMING: GERMANY PONDERS THE SUPER CHICKEN http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/lohmann-dual-breed-of-super-chicken-could-cut-down-on-chick-culling-a-927902.html 65 BILLION ANIMALS RAISED IN CORPORATE CONCENTRATION PENS DRUGS, GMO FEED AND 'AG-GAG' LAWS http://sco.lt/6GRczB Alternet, December 19, 2013 - ▶ 6 CRIMES AGAINST NATURE PERPETRATED BY THE FOOD INDUSTRY : THE HORRORS OF FACTORY FARMING ARE MULTIFOLD http://www.alternet.org/food/6-crimes-against-nature-perpetrated-food-industry - ▶ EATING WITH OUR EYES CLOSED - LEGALIZING CORPORATE FARMING ANIMAL ABUSE AND PRACTICES http://sco.lt/8IZrqD EcoWatch, November 26, 2013
- ▶ HOW TO AVOID FACTORY FARMED FOODS http://ecowatch.com/2013/11/26/avoid-factory-farmed-foods/?utm_source=feedly FARM TO FRIDGE THE TRUTH BEHIND MEAT PRODUCTION : IT'S TIME TO STOP PRETENDING AND WAKE-UP TO INDUSTRIAL ANIMAL FARMING http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/994530827/farm-to-fridge-the-truth-behind-meat-production-it-s-time-to-stop-pretending-and-wake-up-to-industrial-farming-now
VIDEO DOWN PRODUCTION: BIRDS HORRENDOUSLY ABUSED FOR THEIR FEATHERS http://www.peta.org/features/down-investigation/ VIDEO
DUCKS DESPAIR:
UNDERCOVER FOOTAGE: HOW DUCKLINGS ARE TREATED IN ONE OF AMERICA'S BIGGEST FACTORY FARMS https://www.thedodo.com/duck-factory-farm-expose-780539441.html - ▶ TURKEY TROUBLE: GENETICS GONE TOO FAR? http://science.kqed.org/quest/2012/11/19/turkey-trouble-genetics-gone-too-far/ - ▶ SO YOU WANT TO EAT FOIE GRAS? Ducks Cruelly Force-Fed for Enlarged Livers - YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW2uiw-p_js VIDEO DailyMail Online
THE BARBARIC COST OF YOUR WINTER COAT AND COMFORTER AND FOIE GRAS Down Feathers ripped from bird's backs and gaping wounds sewn up with no pain relief http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2240096/Feathers-ripped-birds-backs-gaping-wounds-sewn-pain-relief-The-barbaric-cost-winter-coat.html ======================
New York Times, February 17, 2015
- ▶ AFRICA CAN GROW THEIR OWN CHICKENS: THE STRONG ARM AT HEART OF U.S.-SOUTH TRADE DISPUTE, A SERIOUS GAME OF INTERNATIONAL CHICKEN http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/18/us/at-heart-of-us-south-african-trade-dispute-a-serious-game-of-chicken.html?_r=0
===================== MASSIVE HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH CONSEQUENCES =====================
Grist, January 4, 2014
▶ POULTRY MATTER: WHAT DO DO WITH ALL THE CHICKEN SHIT?
Report from the Pew Charitable Trusts on the chicken industry. Nitrogen and phosphorous runoff from agricultural activity is a major source of water pollution in many parts of the country. In the Chesapeake Bay watershed, half of the phosphorous and 40 percent of the excess nitrogen result from agricultural runoff, leading to algae blooms and destructive conditions for the bay’s legendary fish, oysters, and crabs... http://grist.org/food/poultry-matter-what-to-do-with-all-that-chicken-shit/ ORIGINAL REPORT Pew Environmental Trust, December 20, 2013
▶ THE BUSINESS OF BROILERS: HIDDEN COSTS OF PUTTING A CHICKEN ON EVERY GRILL http://www.pewenvironment.org/news-room/reports/the-business-of-broilers-hidden-costs-of-putting-a-chicken-on-every-grill-85899528152
WATCH: A RIVER OF WASTE This documentary looks at the potential hazards caused by factory farms in the United States, particularly by waste disposal. Beginning with a history of the American food system, River of Waste shows its evolution to large-scale corporate farms where pollution and use of growth hormones threaten both individual health and the future of our planet http://sco.lt/5WwPVx EcoWatch, December 07, 2012 ▶ GROUPS FILE MOTION TO STOP FACTORY FARMS FROM USING WATERWAYS AS DUMPING GROUNDS http://ecowatch.org/2012/stop-factory-farms/
================================= FACTORY FARM PIG GESTATION CRATES IMAGES http://ow.ly/lPLtf ================================= Mother Jones July/August Issue
- ▶ YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT PORK PRODUCERS DO TO PREGNANT PIGS? http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/06/pregnant-sows-gestation-crates-abuse CARE2, November 22, 2013
- ▶ GUESS WHICH COMPANY WON'T DROP PORK SUPPLIER AFTER HORRIFIC VIDEO EXPOSES ABUSE? http://www.care2.com/causes/guess-which-company-wont-drop-pork-supplier-after-horrific-video-exposes-abuse.html June 6, 2013 Global Possibilities
- ▶ 6 HORRIFYING THINGS ABOUT PORK EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW http://www.globalpossibilities.org/6-horrifying-things-about-pork-everyone-should-know/
INVESTIGATION
Foreign Policy, July 11, 2014
WHEN WALL STREET WENT TO AFRICA
A New York tycoon won a sweetheart deal to build a massive "sustainable" palm oil plantation in Cameroon. What followed were accusations of intimidation, corruption, bribery, and deceit.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/07/11/bruce_wrobel_cameroon_palm_oil_herakles_greenpeace_logging
Pambazuka,March 16, 2014
▶ HEDGE FUNDS AND CORPORATE RAIDERS IN AFRICA: SPACE INVADERS OF THE THIRD KIND. The new wave of ‘looting’ of land and other natural resources will likely continue on a scale hitherto unknown. Whatever the supposed benefits of this trend, urgent attention ought to be turned to the thousands of people in Africa and other emerging nations who will become landless in the countries of their birth. http://www.pambazuka.net/en/category/features/94233
Mint Press News, December 23, 2014
▶ ATTACK OF THE LAND-GRABBERS: THE RACE FOR LAND IN AFRICA http://www.mintpressnews.com/MyMPN/attack-land-grabbers-race-land-africa/
farmlandgrab.org, August 04, 2014 ▶ CAN 'LAND GRABS' BY FOREIGN INVESTORS IN AFRICA FEED THE HUNGRY? http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/23794
Common Dreams, February 06, 2015
▶ THE RE-COLONIZATION OF AFRICA http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/02/06/re-colonization-africa
Farmlandgrab, January 03, 2015
▶ BARBARIANS AT THE FARM GATE http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/24381
Washington Post, August 05, 2014
▶ VULTURE CAPITALISTS CIRCLING? HOW OTHER COUNTRIES ARE SCRAMBLING FOR AFRICA ALONGSIDE THE U.S. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/08/05/how-other-countries-are-scrambling-for-africa-alongside-the-u-s/?wpisrc=nl-wv&wpmm=1
May 25, 2012 - PR Watch ▶ HOW THE U.S. SOLD AFRICA TO MULTINATIONALS LIKE MONSANTO, CARGILL, DUPONT, PEPSICO AND OTHERS http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/05/11530/how-us-sold-africa-multinationals-monsanto-cargill-dupont-pepsico-and-others
MintPress News, April 01, 2015
-▶ GEORGE SOROS LOOKS TO CO-OWN UKRAINE AND AFRICA.The Hungarian-born economic hitman may be more interested in helping his, and other investor’s, pockets, rather than the people of Ukraine. http://www.mintpressnews.com/george-soros-looks-to-co-own-ukraine/203866/
The Ecologist, March 21, 2014
-▶ UKRAINE: THE CORPORATE ANNEXATION: MEGA PROFITS FOR MULTI-NATIONAL AGRI-BUSINESS AND ENERGY EXPLOITATION http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2328765/ukraine_the_corporate_annexation.html
THE 21st CENTURY CORPORATE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA
World Development Movement
-▶ STOP THE CORPORATE TAKEOVER OF AFRICA'S FOOD. Under the guise of tackling hunger, initiatives like the G8 New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, will help corporations take control over Africa’s land, seeds and markets - at the expense of small farmers. Join our campaign to oppose this twenty-first century corporate scramble for Africa. - See more at: http://www.wdm.org.uk/food#sthash.dgDwkdF0.dpuf http://www.wdm.org.uk/food THE NEW SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA. - INFOGRAPH In the nineteenth century scramble for Africa, European colonial powers took control of the continent’s land, resources and people. Today’s multinational corporations, aided by governments, are taking control over Africa’s food system. http://www.wdm.org.uk/new-scramble-africa-food-monsanto-syngenta-yara/
WATCH
"BIG MEN" (1:23:00)
Big Men provides an unprecedented inside look at the global deal making and dark underside of energy development in Ghana, Nigeria, Africa — a contest for money and power that is reshaping the world.
http://www.pbs.org/pov/bigmen/full.php
▶ AFRICA AN EL DORADO FOR SOUTH AFRICA'S AGRIBUSINESS GIANTS http://www.acbio.org.za/index.php/publications/seedfood-sovereignty/465-africa-an-el-dorado-for-south-africas-agribusiness-giants
Sustainable Pulse, February 25, 2015
▶ US GOVERNMENT, MONSANTO AND GATES FOUNDATION PUSH GMOs ON UNWILLING AFRICA http://sustainablepulse.com/2015/02/23/us-agencies-monsanto-gates-foundation-work-together-force-gmos-africa/#.VPjmUWZQW6B
Friends of the earth international, February 23, 2015
▶ U.S. FORCE FEEDS GM CROPS TO AFRICAN NATIONS, SAYS NEW REPORT http://www.foei.org/press/archive-by-subject/food-sovereignty-press/us-force-feeds-gm-crops-african-nations-says-new-report/
-- WATCH -- Documentary: Farmland Grab
"PLANET FOR SALE" BIG AG BUYING UP WORLD'S FERTILE LAND http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/18542
The Ecologist, February 12, 2015
▶ LAND AND SEED LAWS UNDER ATTACK AS AFRICA IS GROOMED FOR CORPORATE RECOLONIZATION. A battle is raging for control of resources in Africa - land, water, seeds, minerals, ores, forests, oil, renewable energy sources... http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2752051/land_and_seed_laws_under_attack_as_africa_is_groomed_for_corporate_recolonization.html
AFRICA - SOLD OBAMA PUTS G8, BIG 6 BIOTECH CHEMICAL GMO GIANTS IN CHARGE OF "ENDING HUNGER" IN AFRICA http://sco.lt/7ENN8D
-▶ THE CORPORATE 'PHILANTHROCAPITALISTS' TAKEOVER OF AFRICAN AND GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY http://sco.lt/6CHP3R
WATCH (56:27)
STEALING AFRICA: WHY POVERTY? HOW MUCH PROFIT IS FAIR? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNYemuiAOfU
▶ Pambazuka, August 13, 2014
US-AFRICAN LEADERS' SUMMIT - NOTHING MORE THAN THE CONTINUED EXPLOITATION OF AFRICA FOR EXTERNAL BENEFICIARIES http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/92814
farmlandgrab.org, August 04, 2014 ▶ CAN 'LAND GRABS' BY FOREIGN INVESTORS IN AFRICA FEED THE HUNGRY? http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/23794
SPECIAL ISSUE: PAMBAZUKA NEWS GMOs, FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AND AFRICA http://pambazuka.org/en/issue/688
Pambazuka -Voices for Freedom and Justice in Africa ▶ HOW COMPANIES FRAME ISSUES OF FOOD AND GLOBAL HUNGER FOR THEIR OWN SELF-INTEREST AND BOTTOMLINE PROFITS There is a new, but deceptive, foreign drive to end hunger in Africa through large-scale agribusiness. Yet helping poor households in rural Africa feed themselves in an affordable manner means introducing low-cost, sustainable enhancements to farming. History is riddled with examples of the poor dying of hunger when food was plentiful. Classic amongst these is the famine which wracked the West African Sahel during the early 1970s. While people were dying of hunger in Senegal, Mali and Niger, peanuts — a key sauce ingredient and source of protein across the region — were being exported to Europe.... ...The rise of philanthrocapitalism in the US, where former and current business leaders, through the strength of their foundations, have increasingly come to influence the shape and direction of US international development programmes. Central to the philanthrocapitalist worldview is a belief that private enterprise is the fundamental agent of progressive change and that business acumen trumps other forms of expertise... http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/85291
Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, July 19, 2014
▶ TOWARDS FOOD SOVEREIGNTY TO FEED AFRICA: NURTURE THE ENVIRONMENT AND PUT FARMER AT THE CENTER http://afsafrica.org/towards-food-sovereignty-to-feed-africa-nurture-the-environment-and-put-farmers-at-the-center/
farmlandgrab.org, August 04, 2014
▶ LAND GRABS AND RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT IN AFRICA http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/23794 GRAIN, October 23, 2014
▶ HARVEST OF HARDSHIP: YALA SWAMP LAND GRAB DESTROYS KENYAN FARMERS' LIVELIHOOD. Dominion Farms arrived in Kenya's Yala Swamp basin in 2004 with big promises. The company claimed it would turn a defunct state demonstration farm into a modern rice plantation, provide locals with good jobs, and build hospitals and schools. The American owner of the company, Calvin Burgess, presented himself as a 'man of God', on a mission to bring US-style progress to Africa. The locals, sold on this grand vision, decided – with some hesitation and dissent – to allow Dominion to farm on 3,700 ha of their lands... http://www.grain.org/article/entries/5061-harvest-of-hardship-yala-swamp-land-grab-destroys-kenyan-farmers-livelihoods
LAND GRABS HOW FOREIGN "INVESTMENTS" ARE REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH, LAND AND WATER ACROSS THE GLOBE http://sco.lt/5YJpKb
▶ CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE IS CORPORATE GREEN-WASHING - AGRA http://sco.lt/8Ry4Wn
HuffPost Politics, November 28, 2014
▶ OBAMA'S PLAN TO 'POWER AFRICA' GETS OFF TO A DIM START. As with many African aid projects, rights groups have criticized Power Africa as mostly being a vehicle to subsidize U.S. companies. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/28/obama-africa-aid_n_6234774.html
GHANA AND GMOs Genetic engineering is about private corporate control of the food system. Pambazuka, February 19, 2015 ▶ THE RABID TACTICS OF THE BIOTECH INDUSTRY TO GAIN CONTROL OF GHANA'S FOOD SYSTEM Whose interests does Prof. Alhassan represent? Prof. Alhassan was been quoted as dismissing anti-GMO groups because, according to him, they allegedly do not have any scientific proof or knowledge to offer when it comes GMO technology. But he is wrong. Ghanaian farmers need to abhor and reject scientists laden with conflicts of interest. Monsanto and Syngenta are particularly greedy to get their hands on Ghana’s agriculture and control the seed market here.Professor Alhassan is attempting to control the information farmers and the public see and hear just like the industry he represents.... “Today, large numbers of scientists are in the employ of Big Pharma, Big Ag, and all kinds of corporations with anti-environmental and anti-social justice agendas.”(2)... Professor Alhassan is a key employee of Big Ag, and has been for his entire career.... http://www.pambazuka.net/en/category/comment/94029
GMWatch, August 15, 2014
▶ BRITISH THINK TANK TELLS AFRICANS TO GROW AND EAT GMOS
http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2014/15591-british-think-tank-tells-africans-to-grow-and-eat-gmos
Pambazuka, July 24. 2014
-▶ GMOs AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY: WHICH WAY AFRICA?
African governments are under intense pressure from within but also from big agribusiness and Western governments to embrace GMOs. Governments must resist all forms of arm-twisting and food colonialism and make their biotechnology choices based on the facts http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/92594
Mongabay, August 20, 2014
LOOMING MINING 'TSUNAMI' SET TO TAKE AFRICA BY STORM. A new report published by a team of scientists from James Cook University in Cairns, Australia, documents a surging tide of foreign interest in mining in Africa and cautions that the sector’s unchecked development and expansion could devastate the environment. http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0820-gfrn-john-cannon-africa-mining-tsunami.html?n3ws1ttr
farmlandgrab.org, August 04, 2014
▶ CORPORATE INFLUENCE THROUGH THE G8NA AND OBAMA'S NEW ALLIANCE FOR FOOD SECURITY AND NUTRITION IN AFRICA. In recent times, new partnerships models between governments, business and civil society are increasingly gaining attention. One prominent example is the "New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition" (G8NA), inaugurated at the G8 summit 2012 in the United States. This working paper concludes that the approach and objectives of the G8NA are highly problematic. The initiative serves as an enforcing mechanism for corporate driven blueprints for agriculture and sidelines national plans and international standards. It is dominated and tailored towards the interests of big corporate actors and is based on a reductionist approach of agricultural “development”. And lastly, the G8NA is poorly institutionalized and disregards fundamental principles of transparency participation and accountability. http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/23793
INDEPTH REPORT GRAIN, September 16, 2014
AFRICA'S AG GIANTS "GREEN" REVOLUTION
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AFRICA' BURGEONING CHEMICAL FERTILISER RUSH http://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5008-the-political-economy-of-africa-s-burgeoning-chemical-fertiliser-rush
WATCH "LAND RUSH - WHY POVERTY?: THE UGLY RISE OF MONOCULTURE FARMING AND GLOBALIZED FOOD http://sco.lt/5z3gzB
Ecocentric, March 17,2015
▶ THE DANGER OF MONOCROPS: LESSONS FROM THE IRISH POTATO FAMINE http://www.gracelinks.org/blog/1150/the-danger-of-monocrops-lessons-from-the-irish-potato-famin
Truthout, December 04, 2014
▶ SEEDS OF THE FUTURE DIMINISHING AS MONO INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE DOMINATES THE WORLD. A third of the world's land area is dedicated to agriculture. Farmers' fields and pastures comprise (after the oceans) the second largest ecosystem on the planet. This vast tract has been largely transformed into sterile monoculture deserts in which all other organisms are suppressed with agrochemicals, and only the cash crop is allowed to thrive. Whether it is soy in the Brazilian Amazon, wheat on the Ukrainian steppes or corn in Iowa, a single high-yield variety typically dominates the landscape for as far as the eye can see. http://truth-out.org/news/item/27760-seeds-of-the-future
Inter Press Service, August 04, 2014
▶ THE 'GLOBAL' LAND RUSH. The first years of the twenty-first century will be remembered for a global land rush of nearly unprecedented scale.Today, enthusiasm for agriculture borders on speculative mania. When the price of food spiked in 2008, pushing the number of hungry people in the world to over one billion, it spiked the interest of investors as well, and within a year foreign land deals in the developing world rose by a staggering 200 percent. http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/08/the-global-land-rush/
▶ GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS NOT THE SOLUTION FOR "FEEDING THE WORLD" http://sco.lt/9Gdbxh
FOOD AID FOR THE 21st CENTURY: MEETING THE OBJECTIVE OR FEEDING THE CORPORATE COFFERS? http://sco.lt/6jtrlJ
BAN GMOs NOW A Special Report, Institute of Science In Society http://sco.lt/5KV1Cz
======================== SHOULD WE "WESTERNIZE" AFRICA FOR OUR OWN GAINS? ========================
The Washington Post, August 05, 2014
▶ AFRICA AGRICULTURAL INITIATIVE GETS $7 BILLION "BOOST" FROM MEGA MULTI- NATIONAL CORPORATIONS - BUT IS THIS THE BEST FOR AFRICA? http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/africa-agricultural-initiative-gets-7-billion-boost-from-private-companies/2014/08/04/276214d2-1be3-11e4-ae54-0cfe1f974f8a_story.html
EuroActive, July 10, 2014 ▶ A PRIVATE AFFAIR: REPORT SHOWS HOW DEVELOPMENT FINANCE INSTITUTIONS BENEFIT THE RICH IN WESTERN COUNTRIES The European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad) launched today the study A Private Affair in which it shows how the world’s biggest multilateral lenders are using billions of euros of loans in developing countries to finance Western-based companies while excluding governments and citizens of countries they are meant to assist from decision-making. The analysis, which looks among others at loans by the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s lending arm, analyses the consequences of the gradual shift from aid to private finance at the core of global and national development initiatives.http://bankwatch.blogactiv.eu/2014/07/10/a-private-affair-report-shows-how-development-finance-institutions-benefit-the-rich-in-western-countries/
▶ OBAMA SUGGESTS U.S. IS BETTER PARTNER THAN CHINA TO AFRICAN LEADERS AT SUMMIT http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/05/obama-africa-leaders-us-china-investment-summit The Washington Post, August 06, 2014
▶ JUMPING SHIP: U.S. POLICYMAKERS BRACE FOR RASH OF CORPORATE EXPATRIATIONS: DESERTING AMERICA FOR GREENER TAX PASTURES, LESS REGULATION http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/us-policymakers-gird-for-rash-of-corporate-expatriations/2014/08/05/4898ca5e-18d9-11e4-9349-84d4a85be981_story.html?wpisrc=nl_most
INDEPTH REPORT GRAIN, September 16, 2014
AFRICA'S AG GIANTS "GREEN" REVOLUTION
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AFRICA' BURGEONING CHEMICAL FERTILISER RUSH http://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5008-the-political-economy-of-africa-s-burgeoning-chemical-fertiliser-rush
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THE HUNGER GAMES HOW UK AND USA GOVERNMENTS SUPPORT FOR BIG AGRIBUSINESS IS FUELING POVERTY http://sco.lt/6UGd17
-▶ FROM GROWING PROFIT TO GROWING FOOD: CHALLENGING CORPORATE RULE http://sco.lt/7Dg37p
▶ WALL STREET, CORPORATIONS BUYING UP AMERICAN & FOREIGN FARMLAND, THREATENING FUTURE OF U.S. AND WORLD AGRICULTURE http://sco.lt/8mcmbR
▶ BANKS AND LAND GRABS. IS YOUR BANK INVOLVED IN LAND GRABBING? https://www.oxfam.org.au/banks-and-land-grabs/
Guardian, May 28, 2014
▶ CORPORATE STRANGLEHOLD OF FARMLAND A RISK TO WORLD FOOD SECURITY, STUDY SAYS. Small farmers are being squeezed out as mega-farms and plantations gobble up their land http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/28/farmland-food-security-small-farmers
Action Aid Report, May 23, 2014
▶ GLOBAL POLICIES ENCOURAGE LAND GRABBING AND WORSEN HUNGER AND POVERTY. “Allowing land to become vehicles for wealthy corporations and individuals to become richer while pushing vulnerable rural people into poverty and hunger is unjust, unwise and unethical,” it said in the report. http://www.trust.org/item/20140523061928-bn12w/
▶ WORLD BANK AND UN CARBON OFFSET SCHEME 'COMPLICIT' IN GENOCIDAL LAND GRABS http://sco.lt/5IxW2j ▶ LAND GRABBING FOR BIOFUELS MUST STOP http://sco.lt/5kSOFl
▶ BIOFUELS LAND RUSH. WHY POVERTY? THE UGLY RISE OF MONOCULTURE FARMING AND GLOBALIZED FOOD http://sco.lt/5z3gzB
▶ OBESITY QUADRUPLE TO NEARLY ONE BILLION IN DEVELOPING WORLD AS WESTERN DIETS/LIFESTYLE ENCROACHES http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25576400 BIG FOOD: WALL STREET HAS WAY TOO MUCH INFLUENCE OVER WHAT WE EAT http://sco.lt/4zR9LV
▶ A VIP READ: THE ECONOMICS OF CURBING SPECULATION IN FOOD, WATER AND VITAL RESOURCES http://sco.lt/8YbdY1
THE CURSE OF INDUSTRIAL FARM FERTILIZERS AND RUNOFF http://sco.lt/5ZDrZh
▶ OUR INDUSTRIAL, WESTERN AGRICULTURAL FOOD SYSTEM IS DESTROYING THE EARTH AND OUR HEALTH http://sco.lt/63qRl3
======================== ENOUGHNESS: WESTERN THOUGHT vs INDIGENOUS PHILOSOPHY http://sco.lt/4kcNH7
VIDEO: FOREIGN CORPORATIONS DESTROYING ECOSYSTEMS, INDIGENOUS LIVELIHOODS, NULLIFYING LAND RIGHTS, CREATING A CULTURE OF DEPENDENCY http://sco.lt/4l725B
MEGA MINING, FOREIGN LAND GRABS DESTROYING LOCAL COMMUNITIES, ENVIRONMENT AND ECOSYSTEMS http://sco.lt/8nJQf3
AFRICA: PALM OIL DEVELOPERS THREATEN AFRICA'S RAINFORESTS http://sco.lt/6WKXFB
ONE SHORT VIDEO ▶ WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CORPORATE PALM OIL -- IN ONE SHORT VIDEO -- DEFORESTATION, ECOCIDE http://sco.lt/6ni33R
▶ MAJOR PALM OIL COMPANIES ACCUSED OF ECOCIDE, BREAKING ETHICAL PROMISES IN ASIA AND AFRICA http://sco.lt/7DsLLd THE NEW CORPORATE COLONIALISM. DESTRUCTION OF PLANETARY LIFE IN THE NAME OF "GROWTH" http://sco.lt/696Tlx FINANCIALIZING NATURE COULD BANKRUPT US ALL. OLD ECONOMICS OR SUSTAINING POLICY? http://sco.lt/8fNIET
-▶ SHOULD COMPANIES COMPENSATE SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION FROM WHICH THEY PROFIT? http://sco.lt/72Hsf3 AN URGENT MEMO TO THE WORLD The Natural Eye Project http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/an-urgent-memo-to-the-world/ THE SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION IS UPON US. CAN HUMANS SURVIVE? http://sco.lt/630INt WATCH "HOME" Yann Arthus-Bertrand An Exquisite Dedication To the Stewards of Our Planet Solutions For A Sustainable Planet http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2011/03/26/home-an-exquisite-story-of-our-world/
A REALLY GOOD RESOURCE:
AgriCultures Network (@agriculturesnet) | Twitter http://ow.ly/JscXx http://www.agriculturesnetwork.org/
CBC News, January 08, 2015
▶ SEA LICE PESTICIDES USED IN SALMON FARMING INDUSTRY MAY BE HAZARDOUS http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/sea-lice-pesticides-used-in-salmon-industry-may-be-hazardous-1.2894258
Earth Justice ▶ SALMON MUST BE PROTECTED FROM PESTICIDES http://earthjustice.org/features/salmon-must-be-protected-from-pesticides
January 22, 2013 Global Possibilities ▶ ARE GENETICALLY ENGINEERED AND FARMED SALMON SAFE? There are massively disturbing ethical, environmental, and health concerns that make the introduction of Frankenfish highly controversial... Frankenfish could be on your dinner plate by the end of the year. On December 21, at the very end of the last business day before Christmas week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly released its environmental assessment that found “no significant impact” from the controversial AquaBounty AquaAdvantage transgenic salmon.,, What is the rationale behind genetically engineered salmon? Why have scientists spliced genes from an eel-like creature called the ocean pout into the genome of the Atlantic salmon? These genes crank out growth hormone year-round, resulting in a fish that grows faster, cutting the time to reach market weight almost in half. This could mean cost savings for fish farmers, leading to higher profits for the salmon farming industry and (they promise) lower prices for consumers. But there are massively disturbing ethical, environmental, and health concerns that make the introduction of Frankenfish highly controversial... http://www.globalpossibilities.org/is-genetically-engineered-salmon-safe/
The Guardian, October 29, 2014
-▶ GENETICALLY MODIFIED SALMON COMPANY, AQUABOUNTY, FINED BY PANAMA http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/oct/29/panama-regulators-could-slow-us-approval-of-gm-salmon
Grist, November 26, 2013
THROUGH THE BACK DOOR -▶ CANADA APPROVES EXPORT OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED SALMON EGGS - TO USA via PANAMA'S AQUABOUNTY
Canada will allow genetically modified salmon eggs to be produced and exported — but no way in hell will the eggs be allowed to hatch on Canadian soil. The eggs will be exported to Aquabounties hatcheries in Panama and then exported to the USA http://grist.org/news/canada-approves-export-of-genetically-modified-salmon-eggs/
April 27, 2013 Main Sun Journal
-▶ AQUACULTURE OPERATOR TO PAY $490,000 AFTER ILLEGAL PESTICIDE USE KILLS LOBSTERS IN CANADA http://www.sunjournal.com/news/maine-business/2013/04/27/cooke-aquaculture-pay-490000-after-illegal-pestici/1354960 -▶ SCOTTISH FISH FARMERS USE RECORD AMOUNTS OF PARASITE PESTICIDES DESTROYING MARINE ECOSYSTEMS http://sco.lt/4i52I5 UNESCO, February 22, 2012
-▶ MARINE SCIENTIST ALARMED ABOUT INCREASING THREAT TO OCEAN ECOSYSTEMS. In the last 30 years, coastal resources such as mangroves, coral reefs and fishery resources have become depleted on a large scale. For example, more than 60 per cent of Asia’s mangroves have already been converted to aquaculture farms (ESCAP and ADB, 2000). The region is losing its resource bases to support people’s livelihoods and sustain future economic development. http://www.unescobkk.org/news/article/marine-scientists-alarmed-about-increasing-threats-to-ocean-ecosystems/
May 29, 2013 Yale Environment 360
-▶ GENETICALLY MODIFIED SALMON CAN BREED WITH WILD FISH DECIMATING WILD SALMON POPULATION http://e360.yale.edu/digest/genetically_modified_salmon__can_breed_with_wild_fish_and_thrive__/3857/ May 29, 2013 BBC News -
-▶ GENETICALLY MODIFIED SALMON CAN BREED WITH WILD FISH AND PASS ON GENES http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22694239
WATCH
SALMON CONFIDENTIAL 1:09:14
2013 British Columbia Documentary
INDUSTRIAL SALMON FISH FARMS
DESTROYING NATURAL SALMON POPULATION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2AUHpuJzac
The Press Democrat, September 29, 2014
-▶ GOV. BROWN SIGNS BILL BANNING COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION OF GENETICALLY ALTERED SALMON IN CALIFORNIA http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/2901588-181/governor-signs-bill-banning-commercial
The True Food Network -▶ OBAMA TO MOVE FORWARD ON GMO SALMON APPROVAL, REGARDLESS OF 400,000 SIGNATURES... http://truefoodnow.org/2012/12/21/obama-administration-snubs-risks-moves-forward-with-ge-salmon-approval/
VIDEO REPORT THE PROBLEM WITH FARMED SALMON: AQUAFARMING IN CANADA http://sco.lt/8zJ8oj
---------------------------NOTE FROM PDJMOO ---------------------= -▶ YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT THIS GENETICALLY ENGINEERED SALMON WAS PUSHED THROUGH AS A NEW "ANIMAL DRUG APPLICATION", NOT AS "CONSUMER FOOD" -▶ GENETIC MODIFICATION STRAINS OLD FOOD AND DRUG LAWS - HOW A FISH BECOMES A DRUG AND CORN A PEST http://sco.lt/6vynBp
▶ THE ISSUES WITH GMO SALMON - CORPORATIONS GIVEN THE POWER TO CREATE AND PATENT LIFE - Ocean Robbins - Organic Connections http://organicconnectmag.com/wp/the-issues-with-gmo-salmon/#.UQS2nujZ03Y ============================= Dr. David Suzuki, April 29, 2014
▶ SALMON FARMS vs. WILD SALMON: HAS ANYTHING CHANGED AFTER A DECADE OF CONTROVERSY? http://ecowatch.com/2014/04/29/salmon-farms-wild-salmon-controversy/ Nation of Change, April 13, 2014
▶ U.S. FDA CHIEF STILL DECIDING: IS GMO SALMON SAFE? http://www.nationofchange.org/us-fda-chief-still-deciding-gmo-salmon-safe-1397398886 April 30 2013 Center for Food Safety
-▶ NEARLY 2 MILLION PEOPLE TELL FDA NOT TO APPROVE GE GROWTH HORMONE SALMON http://www.genet-info.org/information-services/genetically-engineered-animals/ge-salmon.html -▶ FISHING INDUSTRY & 29 LAWMAKERS CONCERNS: GMO SALMON WITH GENE FROM EEL-LIKE OCEAN PLUT...SEAFOOD'S HIGHLY ALLERGENIC http://www.worldculturepictorial.com/blog/content/gmo-genetically-modified-salmon-health-environmental-dangerous-allergens VIDEO: TAMING THE BLUE FRONTIER - AQUACULTURE http://sco.lt/6rDjaT -▶ MAJOR US FOOD RETAILERS TO SHUN GENETICALLY MODIFIED, PATENTED, FACTORY FARMED, ENSLAVED SEAFOOD http://sco.lt/4qgoDZ April 26, 2013 On Earth Magazine
-▶ GENE-SPLICED GMO SALMON, COMING SOON TO A PLATE NEAR YOU? http://www.onearth.org/articles/2013/04/the-fda-weighs-approval-of-genetically-modified-salmon -▶ UNLEASHING GENETICALLY SALMON ONTO YOUR DINNER PLATE = NO REGULATIONS, NO OVERSIGHT - "FATALLY FLAWED" FDA ASSESSMENT http://sco.lt/8ZDraz May 29, 2013 Center for Food Safety -▶ KEEP GE SALMON OFF OUR TABLES: - Target, Giant Eagle, Meijer and H-E-B have just agreed not to sell genetically engineered fish in their stores! These retail giants join over 55 other food retailers that made similar commitments earlier this year, including Trader Joe’s, Aldi, Whole Foods, Marsh and Hy-Vee.... http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/1881/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=10107 20 March, 2013 - The Guardian Environment -▶ MAJOR US SUPERMARKETS TO BOYCOTT GM SALMON - FIRST OF 30 OTHER GENETICALLY ALTERED SPECIES UNDER DEVELOPMENT. The GM salmon is the first in some 30 other species of genetically engineered fish under development, including tilapia. Researchers are also working to bring GM cows, chickens and pigs to market.... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/20/major-us-supermarkets-boycott-gm-salmon May 1, 2013 Nature
-▶ TRANSGENIC SALMON NEARS APPROVAL IN USA http://www.nature.com/news/transgenic-salmon-nears-approval-1.12903 -▶ WAS THE PUBLIC MISLED BY FDA ON GE SALMON REVIEW? http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/1881/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=10587 June 13, 2013 Phys Org -▶ RESEARCHERS DEVELOPING TECHNIQUES FOR TUNA AQUACULTURE http://phys.org/news/2013-06-techniques-tuna-aquaculture.html 28 March, 2013 - Nation of Change
-▶ BIO-DEMOCRACY OR CORPORATOCRACY: THE FOOD FIGHT OF OUR LIVES http://www.nationofchange.org/biodemocracy-or-corporatocracy-food-fight-our-lives-1364483920
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Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) February 05, 2014
▶ FISH FARMS TO PRODUCE NEARLY TWO THIRDS OF GLOBAL FOOD FISH SUPPLY BY 2030 http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/213522/icode/ June 13, 2013 Sustainablog -▶ FARMED FISH PRODUCTION OVERTAKES BEEF http://sustainablog.org/2013/06/fish-farming-overtakes-beef/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IM-sustainablog+%28Sustainablog%29 WRECKING THE OCEAN ECOSYSTEM OVERFISHING, COLLAPSING FISHERIES, OCEAN DEPENDENT SPECIES STARVING http://sco.lt/6bO2nR VIDEO EMPTYING OUR OCEANS THE WORLD'S LARGEST FACTORY FISHING TRAWLER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCb2TT5GW7k VIDEO: "SEA CHANGE THE LOSS OF OCEAN SPECIES IS STAGGERING http://sco.lt/51LeCn
====================== VIDEO REPORT RT News -▶ ' FRANKENFISH' HEADING TO YOUR DINNER PLATE AS OBAMA SIGNS 'MONSANTO PROTECTION ACT' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao7ECASd5pc
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VIDEO:
"RUNNING THE GAUNTLET"
Salmon, Dams, Energy and Ecocide
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-▶ PATENTING LIFE - RE-ENGINEERING, PROGRAMMING AND PATENTING LIFE ITSELF -- IS BIOTECH OUT OF CONTROL http://sco.lt/4thM6j WATCH A great explanation on the impact of genetically engineering our environment and food - David Suzuki: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GENETIC MODIFICATION http://sco.lt/7804v3 -▶ WHERE DOES IT STOP? CHINESE SCIENTISTS PRESENTLY EXPERIMENT WITH MORE THAN 20 GENETICALLY ENGINEERED ANIMALS: - NBC Chicago http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/health/genetically-engineered-salmon-176698781.html -▶ ----- NEW GM BABIES BORN A DECADE AGO http://www.seattleorganicrestaurants.com/vegan-whole-food/genetically-engineered-babies.php -▶ ------ GM COW BRINGS BIOTECH TO A NEW LEVEL OF CREEPY http://sco.lt/62KG6T -▶ ------ China Develops 300 Genetically Modified Dairy Cows for Human Breast Milk Production http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3601115491/science-gone-mad-china-develops-300-genetically-modified-dairy-cows-for-human-breast-milk-production -▶ ------ GMO PATENTS MAY OWN OUR FORESTS: MONSANTO GMO TREES COULD DEVASTATE FOREST ECOYSTEMS http://sco.lt/5G9P0L -▶ ------ PATENT FOR A PIG: SCIENTIST "IMPROVE' TRANSGENIC GMO "ENVIROPIGS" http://sco.lt/7hrnF3 -▶ ------ FIRST GM CAMELS TO BE ENGINEERED FOR DRUG PRODUCTION http://sco.lt/5L5VVB -▶ ------ INTRODUCING GENETICALLY ENGINEERED ANIMALS INTO OUR ENVIRONMENT AND BODIES http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/2241145898/introducing-genetically-engineered-animals-into-our-environment-and-bodiesl -▶ OBAMA QUIETLY DE-REGULATES GMO/ GENETIC BIOTECH INDUSTRY : Fast-tracking approvals, waiving regulations ... http://sco.lt/5uCx8b -▶ DO WE NEED A GENETIC BILL OF RIGHTS? http://sco.lt/6jmb1l -▶ DID YOU KNOW? GENE ALTERED FOODS NOW LARGE PART OF AMERICAN DIET http://sco.lt/7oVxQH -▶ BIOTECH AGRICHEMICAL INDUSTRY GETS IMMUNITY FROM US CONGRESS, OBAMA - RISES ABOVE COURTS http://sco.lt/8edR3Z
MORE, BIGGER, FASTER What You Need To Know About Factory Farming Your Food http://sco.lt/8usxzV
VIDEO REPORT
PBS Newshour, March 05, 105
THE DEADLY TOXIC LEGACY OF MONSANTO'S "AGENT ORANGE"
Fifty years since the first major American combat unit was deployed to Vietnam, the lethal legacies of war still haunt generations of civilians in that country. Special correspondent Mike Cerre, who served in that conflict, reports from Danang about some Americans who have returned in hopes of making a difference. Agent Orange, the defoliant used extensively by the American military during the war, contains dioxin, a dangerous compound believed to cause birth defects and cancers in Vietnamese families and American veterans. "We’re seeing more and more of the genetic results of Agent Orange. These two boys are third-generation victims. And I see it in our own veterans’ families back in the U.S. The problems have been skipping generations. Grandchildren and now great-grandchildren are being born with problems as a result of the genetic issue with Agent Orange." http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/50-years-veterans-find-healing-returning-vietnam-help/
Huffington Post Green May 04 2015T ▶ THEY ARE BIOCIDES, NOT PESTICIDES AND THEY ARE CREATING AN ECOCIDE http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-kimbrell/they-are-biocides-not-pesticides-_b_7205586.html
Thepeoplesvoice, August 20, 2012 ▶ AGENT ORANGE: A DEADLY LEGACY - COMING TO YOUR FOOD http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2012/08/20/agent-orange-a-deadly-legacy#more22326
The Independent, August 12, 2012
▶ VIETNAM: THE TERRIBLE LEGACY OF MONSANTO'S AGENT ORANGE HERBICIDE (NOW IN YOUR FOOD) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-terrible-legacy-of-agent-orange-8034869.html
July 14, 2013 Wake Up World
▶ WARNING: GENETICALLY MODIFIED 'AGENT ORANGE CORN' COMING SOON TO A PLATE NEAR YOU http://wakeup-world.com/2013/07/14/warning-genetically-modified-agent-orange-corn-coming-soon-to-a-plate-near-you/
August, 9, 2013 Ecowatch
▶ MONSANTO'S #GMO 'AGENT ORANGE' CROPS PLANTED IN NORTH DAKOTA BEFORE APPROVAL http://ecowatch.com/2013/monsanto-gmo-agent-orange-crops-north-dakota/
July 13, 2013 Sustainable Pulse
▶ THE SINISTER MONSANTO GROUP: 'AGENT ORANGE' TO GENETICALLY MODIFIED CORN http://sustainablepulse.com/2013/07/13/the-sinister-monsanto-group-agent-orange-to-genetically-modified-corn/#.UeN6flPpiRQ
Sustainable Pulse, December 19, 2014
-▶ FOOD SAFETY EXPERTS SLAM USDA OVER 'DICAMBA' GM CROPS http://sustainablepulse.com/2014/12/15/food-safety-experts-slam-usda-dicamba-gm-crops/#.VJcfAkChkII
VIDEO REPORT
France 24, APRIL 16, 2015
VIETNAM WAR VICTIM BRINGS AGENT ORANGE MAKERS TO COURT: HORRIFYING DEFORMITIES STILL MANIFESTING IN FAMILIES http://www.france24.com/en/20150416-vietnam-agent-orange-us-chemical-companies-trial-france/
tuoitrenews, April 16, 2015 DOCUMENTARY FILM ON VIETNAM'S AGENT ORANGE VICTIMS SCREENED IN FRANCE http://tuoitrenews.vn/lifestyle/27498/documentary-film-on-vietnams-agent-orange-victims-screened-in-france
Food & Water Watch, September 18, 2014 -▶ APPROVAL OF 2,4-D PESTICIDE TOLERANT CROPS SPEEDS UP AGRICHEMICAL TREADMILL http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/pressreleases/approval-of-24-d-tolerant-crops-speeds-up-agrichemical-treadmill/
▶ 2,4-D :THE NEXT "ROUNDUP" GENERATION.....Michael Pollan: "Don't miss this VIDEO, about the next wave of herbicide-tolerant crops from Monsanto-- will make Round-Up look benign"
-▶ WATCH -▶ DANGERS OF 2,4-D DICAMBA http://www.fixfood.org/features/276/dangers-of-dicamba
▶ THE CHILD VICTIMS OF AGRICULTURAL PESTICIDE POISONING - PESTICIDE INDUSTRY DISMISSIVE http://sco.lt/8KO8GH
Environmental Working Group, June 02, 2014
▶ 2,4-D HERBICIDE & GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROPS http://www.ewg.org/24D GRAIN, May 26, 2014
▶ 2,4-D SOY: WAGING WAR ON PEASANTS Global attempts by Dow AgroSciences to gain approval for new genetically-modified soybean varieties resistant to the herbicide 2,4-D have become particularly aggressive in recent months. Simultaneous applications have been filed in several of the countries where genetically engineered crops (GE or transgenic crops or GMOs) were introduced in the 1990s.
The push for approval of new transgenics is part of a broader strategy by agribusiness to make the world’s farms increasingly dependent on its toxic herbicides, thus increasing the profits it derives from selling these chemicals. The current situation is a rerun of the 1990s’ introduction of Roundup Ready (glyphosate-resistant) crops, only this time the herbicides in question are much more toxic. These weed-killers have been around for a longer time and the case for their hazardousness to human health and the environment has been well documented. http://www.grain.org/article/entries/4945-2-4-d-soy-waging-war-on-peasants
ROUNDUP - THE ULTIMATE KILLING MACHINE MONSANTO'S INSECTICIDE "ROUNDUP" LINKED TO PARKINSON'S, INFERTILITY AND CANCERS http://sco.lt/4pt9tJ
-▶ WORLD'S MOST POPULAR WEEDKILLER BANNED FROM SALE OVER CANCER LINK http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/roundup-weedkiller-banned-from-french-garden-centres-over-probable-link-to-cancer-10319877.html
Motley Fool, March 05, 2014 -▶ GMOs AND ECOCIDE: RENOWNED EXPERT SAYS GMOs POSE MORE RISK THAN WE THINK. Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have the ability to cause "an irreversible termination of life at some scale, which could be the planet." says Nassim Taleb, distinguished professor of risk engineering at New York University http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/03/05/renowned-expert-gmos-pose-more-risk-than-we-think.aspx
Truthout, January 08, 2014
▶ USDA MOVES TO APPROVE "AGENT ORANGE" GMO SEEDS http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/21069-usda-moves-to-approve-agent-orange-gmo-seeds
Living on Earth, October 31, 2014
▶ AGENT ORANGE-RELATED HERBICIDE APPROVED FOR GMO CROPS: EPA SUED http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=14-P13-00044&segmentID=3
Common Dreams, September 18, 2014
-▶ USDA's GREENLIGHTING OF 'AGENT ORANGE' CORN AND SOYBEANS SPARKS CONDEMNATION http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/18/usdas-greenlighting-agent-orange-crops-sparks-condemnation
September 11, 2012 - World Environment News ▶ DOW WANTS FAST TRACKING TO INTRODUCE TOXIC, MORE POWERFUL, PESTICIDE. A U.S. farmer group on Tuesday dropped its opposition to efforts by Dow AgroSciences to roll out a new biotech crop system in exchange for some concessions by Dow, including help investigating any accidental crop damage.... http://planetark.org/wen/66513
Digital Journal, March 10, 2014 -▶ AS DOW SEEKS GROWTH, NEW ENLIST CROP AND CHEMICALS SEEN AS KEY. Dow pegs the market opportunity for Enlist at about $1 billion. (How Interesting they make no mention of toxic impact of required pesticides on environment and human health) http://www.digitaljournal.com/business/business/as-dow-seeks-growth-new-enlist-crop-chemicals-seen-as-key/article/375455
Nation of Change, March 26, 2014 ▶ DOW: THE OTHER MONSANTO http://www.nationofchange.org/dow-other-monsanto-1395841065
June 4, 2013 Japan Times ▶ MONSANTO'S AGENT ORANGE LIES THEN, AND NOW: Toxic legacy crosses continents, spans generations http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/06/04/issues/okinawa-bacteria-toxic-legacy-crosses-continents-spans-generations/#.UbE6VuswOic
July 14, 2013 The Hindu
▶ DOW, MONSANTO ORDERED TO PAY AGENT ORANGE VICTIMS - U.S. FIRMS DENY RESPONSIBILITY http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-international/dow-monsanto-ordered-to-pay-agent-orange-victims/article4913976.ece
Off The Grid News, July 16, 2015
▶ MONSANTO MUST PAY $93 MILLION AFTER POISONING USA TOWN WITH AGENT ORANGE http://www.offthegridnews.com/alternative-health/monsanto-must-pay-93-million-after-poisoning-town/
July 3, 2013 The Oregonian
▶ MANY VETERANS SUFFERING FROM DISEASES LINKED TO MONSANTO'S AGENT ORANGE STILL CAN'T GET COMPENSATION http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2013/07/many_veterans_suffering_from_d.html
The Diplomat, July 04, 2014 ▶ MONSANTO'S AGENT ORANGE LEGACY: THE SCOURGE OF VIETNAM Decades after the Vietnam War, victims wither away with scant efforts being made to tackle the deadly chemicals manufactured by Monsanto and Dow Chemical http://thediplomat.com/2014/07/agent-orange-legacy-scourges-vietnam/
August 7, 2012 Make Agent Orange History
▶ VIETNAM STILL CLEANING UP AGENT ORANGE, 37 YEARS AFTER VIETNAM WAR http://makeagentorangehistory.org/the-vietnamese-ministry-of-defense-the-u-s-agency-for-international-development-usaid-to-launch-a-project-to-clean-up-dioxin-in-da-nang-vietnam/
Investigative Reporting Workshop, December 21, 2012 ▶ WHITE HOUSE STALLS CRITICAL EPA REPORT HIGHLIGHTING CHEMICAL DANGERS TO CHILDREN - AMID FIERCE OPPOSITION FROM CHEMICAL INDUSTRY A landmark Environmental Protection Agency report concluding that children exposed to toxic substances can develop learning disabilities, asthma and other health problems has been sidetracked indefinitely amid fierce opposition from the chemical industry. America’s Children and the Environment, Third Edition, is a sobering analysis of the way in which pollutants build up in children’s developing bodies and the damage they can inflict.... http://investigativereportingworkshop.org/investigations/toxic-influence/story/white-house-stalls-critical-epa-report-highlightin/
The Independent, April 16, 2015
▶ SHARKS AND EXOTIC FISH DIE AFTER TEXAS AQUARIUM TANK IS TREATED FOR PARASITES WITH PESTICIDES http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/sharks-and-exotic-fish-die-after-texas-aquarium-tank-is-treated-for-parasite-with-chemicals-10180260.html
INVESTIGATIVE REPORT SOARING PESTICIDE USE AND POISONING LINKED TO GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROP PRODUCTION http://sco.lt/8iunRp
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OUR GMO CORNFIELDS ARE TOO QUIET ALL LIFE CHEMICALLY EXTERMINATED EXCEPT THE TOXIC BT CORN http://sco.lt/9Lh4iX BAN GMOs NOW - SPECIAL REPORT Institute of Science in Society @ISISscience http://sco.lt/5CPilt
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-▶ EPA OVERSIGHT?: THE 'BAIT AND SWITCH' SALES TACTIC OF THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY http://100r.org/2012/02/epa-oversight-weighing-the-parts-ignoring-the-whole/
▶ ARE YOU EATING 'PESTICIDE PLANTS'? THE CONNECTION BETWEEN GMO AND TOXIC PESTICIDES http://sco.lt/7QbnCz
100Reporters, January 16, 2015 ▶ INVESTIGATION SPARKS DOCUMENTARY COVERAGE OF PESTICIDE http://100r.org/2015/01/100reporters-investigation-sparks-documentary-coverage-of-pesticide/
▶ BEE-KILLING CHEMICALS LURK INSIDE YOUR FOOD: AGROCHEMICALS THREAT TO WILD BEES, FOOD SECURITY AND BIODIVERSITY http://sco.lt/8mGvg1
May 17, 2013 Natural News ▶ YOU EAT THIS POISON: SYSTEMIC PESTICIDES ARE PENETRATING DEEP INTO PLANT TISSUES, DESTROYING BEETLES, TREES, BEES AND HUMAN HORMONES http://www.naturalnews.com/040377_systemic_pesticides_bee_populations_hormones.html
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MONSANTO'S TOXIC HERBICIDE "ROUNDUP" GLYPHOSATE HORMONE INHIBITOR IN OUR FOOD CHAIN http://sco.lt/5IGifZ
Global Research, January 2, 2014 ▶ MONSANTO ROUNDUP: BIG AG PESTICIDES AND THE IMPACTS OF GLYPHOSATE HERBICIDE ON HUMAN HEALTH
The foodstuffs of the Western diet, primarily grown by industrial agriculture, are increasingly being produced using a two-part system of engineered plant seeds and toxic chemical application. Consequences are most of the diseases and conditions associated with a Western diet, which include gastrointestinal disorders, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, depression, autism, infertility, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/monsanto-roundup-the-impacts-of-glyphosate-herbicide-on-human-health-pathways-to-modern-diseases/5342520
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▶ PESTICIDE CHEMICAL REGULATION OVERHAUL NEEDED TO PROTECT WILDLIFE, ECOSYSTEMS AND FOOD CHAIN http://sco.lt/813dw1 ▶ PESTICIDE LOBBY SPENDS MILLIONS TO DEFEND CHEMICALS TIED TO BEE DEATH AND HUMAN HEALTH http://sco.lt/8nhcsT
--- WATCH --- A Must see VIDEO for all. Genetist Dr. David Suzuki WHAT IS GENETIC ENGINEERING "WHAT ARE ROUNDUP READY & Bt PESTICIDE GMO CROPS?" http://sco.lt/5n6cuP
May 15, 2013 Lifewise
-▶ BIOTECH'S NEXT BIG DISASTER: SEEDS THAT EMIT MULTIPLE PESTICIDES http://southweb.org/lifewise/biotechs-next-big-disaster-seeds-that-emit-multiple-pesticides/ May 11, 2013 Focusing on Wildlife -▶ CONSERVATION GROUP SEEKS ASSURANCE THAT WILD BIRD SEED PRODUCTS ARE PESTICIDE (AND GMO) FREE http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/conservation-group-seeks-assurance-that-wild-bird-seed-products-are-pesticide-free/
-▶ OUR INDUSTRIAL, WESTERN AGRICULTURAL FOOD SYSTEM IS DESTROYING THE EARTH AND OUR HEALTH http://sco.lt/63qRl3
-▶ POLITICAL CORRUPTION: MONSANTO AND ITS INFLUENCE OVER GOVERNMENTS WORLDWIDE http://sco.lt/51FzRx
AFRICA - SOLD: OBAMA PUTS BIG 6 CHEMICAL AG GMO GIANTS IN CHARGE OF "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
MONSANTO: A CORPORATE PROFILE From Chemical Warfare to Saccharin to GE Seed, Killer Pesticides & Pharmaceutical... http://sco.lt/80C7fd
WATCH THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO (FULL LENGTH) The Leader of the Global Biotech Chemical Cartel http://sco.lt/7wFWFN
15 April, 2013 George Monbiot, Guardian ▶ HEY, ADVERTISERS, LEAVE OUR DEFENSELESS KIDS ALONE In-school marketing, promoting junk food online: how can we tolerate this corporate capture of young minds?... http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/15/advertisers-leave-defenceless-children-alone
TakePart, January 07, 2015
▶ HERE'S WHY JUNK FOOD MARKETING TO KIDS IS ABOUT TO BE ON A SUGAR HIGH http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/01/07/heres-why-junk-food-marketing-kids-about-be-sugar-high WATCH
THE VIDEO THAT COCA-COLA AND McDONALD'S HOPE YOU NEVER SEE http://www.upworthy.com/watch-the-video-that-coca-cola-and-mcdonalds-hope-you-never-see?c=tkp1
▶ MARKETING ADDICTION: The Covert War Between Corn and Sugar Industries to Keep You Hooked. Diabetes, Obesity, Ill-Health http://sco.lt/8kc8fJ
▶ CAMPAIGN FOR A COMMERCIAL FREE CHILDHOOD http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/issues/inschools.html April 2013 Organic Connect
- ▶ EXPELLING FAST FOOD, JUNK FOOD AND SODA PUSHERS FROM OUR SCHOOLS http://organicconnectmag.com/wp/expelling-fast-food-junk-food-and-soda-pushers-from-our-schools/#.UWYMNhk0ORQ -▶ WATCH -▶ IN EL SALVADOR, AMERICAN JUNK FOOD CREATING CHAOS WITH HEALTH, CHILDREN AND CULTURAL NORMS http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3997415995/in-el-salvador-american-junk-food-creating-chaos-with-health-children-and-cultural-norms-video-report May 7, 2013 MarketPlace NPR - ▶ SPANISH AD HAS A SECRET MESSAGE ONLY KIDS CAN SEE (VIDEO) http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/numbers/spanish-ad-has-secret-message-only-kids-can-see-video - ▶ THE MOST HEAVILY ADVERTISED FOODS TO KIDS ARE SUGARY CEREALS, FAST FOODS, AND SUGARY DRINKS - Food Marketing Workgroup http://www.foodmarketing.org/category/wall-of-shame/ August 27, 2013 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- ▶ DESPITE PROMISES, CEREAL COMPANIES PLAY ON CHILDREN'S IMAGINATIONS TO PROMOTE UNHEALTHY PRODUCTS http://www.rwjf.org/en/about-rwjf/newsroom/newsroom-content/2013/08/despite-promises--cereal-companies-play-on-childrens-imagination.html?cid=xtw_chdobesity Guardian Sustainable Business, February 24, 2014
▶ MARKETING AND ADVERTISING TO CHILDREN: THE ISSUE AT STAKE http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/marketing-advertising-children-issues-at-stake CONSUMING KIDS: THE HOSTILE TAKEOVER OF CHILDHOOD http://www.motherjones.com/media/2004/05/consuming-kids-hostile-takeover-childhood
WATCH "CONSUMING KIDS" - ▶ THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF CHILDHOOD - FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE" Consuming Kids pushes back against the wholesale commercialization of childhood, raising urgent questions about the ethics of children’s marketing and its impact on the health and well-being of kids. http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=60FC8A36BE2196F07035B086C4C8C686 Feb 20, 2013 NY Times - ▶ THE EXTRAORDINARY SCIENCE OF ADDICTIVE JUNK FOOD http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html?hp&_r=3&pagewanted=all&; Eat, Drink Politics, Michele Simon, September 27, 2013 -▶ STOP EXPLOITING OUR CHILDREN - This special edition highlights the ongoing problem of children being exploited by corporate marketers peddling sugar, salt, and fat http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=6d92905ea6348fcc3f1b61a3e&id=867887b837&e=29c60720f8 INFOGRAPH PDF DOWNLOAD
BIG FOOD MARKETING: HOW COMPANIES REACH KIDS & TEENS
http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/resources/upload/docs/news/Big-Food/Big-Food_Marketing.pdfBig-Food_Marketing.pdf VIDEO Berkeley Media Studies Group -▶ DIGITAL FOOD AND BEVERAGE MARKETING TO CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS | http://www.bmsg.org/resources/publications/video-digital-food-and-beverage-marketing-to-children-and-adolescents Guardian Sustainable Business, February 29, 2014
- ▶ FRIEND OR FOE? THE RISE OF ONLINE ADVERTISING AIMED AT KIDS http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/digital-online-advertising-children-privacy Guardian Sustainable Business, February 26, 2014
- ▶ MARKETING AND ADVERTISING TO CHILDREN: A NECESSARY EVIL? PODCAST http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/marketing-advertising-children-podcast VIDEO October 11, 2011 Berkeley Media Studies Group THE NEW AGE OF FOOD MARKETING - HOW COMPANIES ARE TARGETING AND LURING OUR KIDS -- And what advocates can do about it - http://www.bmsg.org/resources/publications/the-new-age-of-food-marketing Treehugger, October 1, 2013
▶ HOOKED ON JUNK FOOD? NEW FILM POINTS FINGER AT BIG FOOD' USE OF MANIPULATIVE MARKETING TO KIDS http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/anna-lappe-joins-food-mythbusters.html TakePart, February 14, 2013
- ▶ KIDS SHOULDN'T HAVE TO BUY A BIG MAC TO DO THEIR HOMEWORK http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/02/13/not-loving-mcwireless - ▶ TIME TO STOP MARKETING JUNK FOOD TO KIDS, PERIOD From organicconnectmag.com - December 29, 2012 Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit The time has come to confront the food industry's practices of marketing directly to kids. The food industry has resisted all forms of regulation other than the useless "voluntary" variety.... http://organicconnectmag.com/wp/time-to-stop-marketing-food-to-kids-period/#.UN6Cz7bZ03Z -▶ FAST FOOD, SLOW DEATH -▶ "Food Deserts" and the $500 Billion Corporate Food Monopoly http://sco.lt/6YRaUr Organic Connections
▶ JUNK FOOD MARKETING TO KIDS SHOWS NO SIGNS OF SLOWING http://organicconnectmag.com/wp/junk-food-marketing-to-kids-shows-no-signs-of-slowing/#.UXsRBILyeic - ▶ HOW THE JUNK FOOD INDUSTRY HAS ENCOURAGED US TO EAT OURSELVES TO DEATH http://www.scoop.it/t/environmental-and-human-health/p/3997370096/how-the-junk-food-industry-has-encouraged-us-to-eat-ourselves-to-death-foodfri - ▶ THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF FAMILY http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/15188-focus-the-commercialization-of-family Reuters, March 16, 2013 - ▶ A PLUNGE IN U.S. PRESCHOOL OBESITY? NOT SO FAST http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/16/us-usa-health-obesity-insight-idUSBREA2F0CX20140316 Feb 11, 2013 Chicago Tribune ▶ FOOD, DRINK INDUSTRIES UNDERMINE HEALTH POLICY, STUDY FINDS http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-02-11/lifestyle/sns-rt-us-chronic-diseasebre91b00d-20130211_1_public-health-health-policy-chronic-diseases -▶ COCA-COLA vs PEPSI AND THE SODA BUSINESS http://sco.lt/7x6Spt May 6, 2013 Wall Street journal ▶ "MONSTER" CAFFEINATED ENERGY DRINK SUED BY SAN FRANCISCO FOR MARKETING TO CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS SIX YEARS OLD http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323826804578466780766004340.html?mod=e2tw June 28, 2013 AlterNet
▶ ENERGY DRINKS ARE SENDING TEENS TO ERs AND MAY BE KILLING THEM, TOO http://www.alternet.org/food/energy-drinks-sending-americas-teens-emergency-room?akid=10642.237541.CxTmug&rd=1&src=newsletter862731&t=5 REWILD THE CHILD If Children Lose Contact With Nature They Won't Fight For It http://sco.lt/6NaJBR Guardian, Green Schools Hub, March 12, 2014
- ▶ CROPS TO CLASSROOMS: HOW SCHOOL FARMS ARE GROWING STUDENT ENGAGEMENT. School farms boost learning and engagement across the curriculum, and provide innovative ways to teach students about wellbeing and green issues http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2014/mar/12/school-farms-engaging-students-curriculum-sustainability NPR THE SALT, April 02, 2012
WHAT'S INSIDE THE 26-INGREDIENT SCHOOL LUNCH BURGER? http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/04/02/149717358/whats-inside-the-26-ingredient-school-lunch-burger
Feb 26, 2013 - Grist - ▶ OPENING PANDORA'S LUNCHBOX: PROCESSED FOODS ARE EVEN SCARIER THAN YOU THOUGHT http://grist.org/food/opening-pan VIDEO REPORT
PBS Newshour, February 26, 2014
MARKETING UNHEALTHY FOOD IN SCHOOLS
U.S. Administration Unveils New Rules That Ban Marketing of Unhealthy Food in Schools to eliminate trans fats and limit the size of sodas and other sugary drinks. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/younger-children-reducing-obesity-rates/ HuffPost Politics, February 27, 2014
-▶ MICHELLE OBAMA WINS BIG AGAINST POWERFUL CORPORATE FOOD INTERESTS http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/27/michelle-obama-nutrition-facts_n_4868208.html MediaPost Publications, February 27, 2014
- ▶ MICHELLE OBAMA PROPOSES SCHOOL JUNK FOOD MARKETING BAN http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/220322/michelle-obama-proposes-junk-food-marketing-ban-in.html Organic Connections, Michele Simons, September 24, 2013
- ▶ MICHELE OBAMA CALLS OUT THE FOOD INDUSTRY ON JUNK FOOD MARKETING TO KIDS http://organicconnectmag.com/michele-obama-calls-food-industry-junk-food-marketing-kids/#.UkPcKSTc-RR Guardian Sustainable Business, February 25, 2014
- ▶ BRANDS CONTINUE TO TARGET FAST FOOD MARKETING AT KIDS. Companies are ploughing more and more money into marketing unhealthy foods to children. What will turn the tide? http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/brands-increase-fast-food-marketing-kids
▶ FOOD MARKETING MAKES FEEDING CHILDREN HEALTHFULLY EVEN HARDER http://www.foodmarketing.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Parent-Stories.pdf
US News ▶ WHY IS EVERYONE ALWAYS GIVING MY KIDS JUNK FOOD? - EAT AND RUN (http://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/2013/02/20/why-is-everyone-always-giving-my-kids-junk-food VIDEO PREVIEW:
EXPOSING THE BITTER TRUTH ABOUT SUGAR AND AMERICA'S OBESITY & DIABETES EPIDEMIC http://www.takepart.com/video/2014/04/15/fed-up-trailer VIDEO (7:13)
"BIG FOOD" And Addiction
Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/news.aspx?id=403 Guardian Sustainable Business, February 24, 2014 ▶ THE TRICKY BUSINESS OF ADVERTISING TO CHILDREN http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/advertising-to-children-tricky-business-subway SWEET-TALKING THE PUBLIC: THE COVERT WAR BETWEEN CORN AND SUGAR INDUSTRIES: MARKETING ADDICTION http://sco.lt/5iliLp Care 2, December 26, 2013
▶ THE SNEAKY WAY FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS ARE TARGETING YOUR KIDS http://www.care2.com/causes/the-sneaky-way-fast-food-restaurants-are-targeting-your-kids.html - ▶ CHICK-FIL-A HAS A NEW CHILDREN'S BOOK LOADED WITH PROPAGANDA TO CONCEAL THE HORRORS OF CORPORATE AGRICULTURE http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3882049890/chick-fil-a-has-a-new-children-s-book-loaded-with-propaganda-to-conceal-the-horrors-of-corporate-agriculture doras-lunchbox-processed-foods-are-even-scarier-than-you-thought/ ▶ MONSANTO BRAINWASHING: GMO MYTHS FOR KIDS: BIOTECHNOLOGY TRADE GROUP PUSHES GMO PROPOGANDA CHILDREN'S BOOK IN SCHOOLS http://sco.lt/7srA7V ----------------------------------------------- ▶ MARKETING GUN TO KIDS http://sco.lt/8Sdgsz The Scapist, November 22, 2010
▶ MARKETING VIDEO GAMES TO KIDS http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/first-personmarketer/8346-Marketing-Games-to-Kids -------------------------------------------- ▶ SALT, SUGAR, FAT : How The Food Giants Hooked Us http://sco.lt/5edsnZ NEW MOVIE FROM Food MythBusters (6:25)
▶ "IS JUNK FOOD WHAT WE REALLY CRAVE?
http://foodmyths.org/ Washington Post, October 22, 2013
- ▶ THIS SNACK-FOOD CORPORATION HAS A CREEPY PLAN TO WATCH YOU IN THE GROCERY STORE http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/10/14/this-snack-food-corporation-has-a-creepy-plan-to-watch-you-in-the-grocery-store/ - ▶ THE EXTRAORDINARY SCIENCE OF ADDICTIVE JUNK FOOD: A Meeting With 11 Men Who Control America's Largest Food Companies http://www.streamorganic.com/index.php/home-mainmenu-1/news-mainmenu-2/1-latest/4887-news-usa-the-extraordinary-science-of-addictive-junk-food.html ▶ IS FAST FOOD WITH INTEGRITY POSSIBLE? CHIPOLTE THINKS SO - GOES GMO FREE http://sco.lt/7GdAR7 WATCH TED VIDEO -▶ FORMER WALL STREET FOOD INDUSTRY ANALYST TURNED 'REAL FOOD' EVANGELIST - ROBYN O'BRIEN http://sco.lt/5zL0fR May 9, 2013 - Harvard Business Review
▶ THE END OF TRADITIONAL AD AGENCIES http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/05/the-end-of-traditional-ad-agen/ ▶ WHAT EVERY PARENT SHOULD KNOW ABOUT OUR BIG FOOD CHEMICAL INDUSTRY http://sco.lt/4iWsID
▶ THINK THOSE CHEMICALS AND PESTICIDES IN YOUR FOOD HAVE BEEN TESTED? http://sco.lt/7QxMob ▶ CHALLENGING THE CORPORATE FOOD MONOPOLY - FROM GROWING PROFIT TO GROWING FOOD http://sco.lt/96Cmaf -- WATCH -- "FOOD, INC" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkL2Q_kCRms THE CORPORATE CONSUMPTION COMPLEX New York Times, February 25, 2014
-▶ RETHINKING OUR 'RIGHTS' TO DANGEROUS BEHAVIOURS. In the last few years, it’s become increasingly clear that food companies engineer hyperprocessed foods in ways precisely geared to most appeal to our tastes. This technologically advanced engineering is done, of course, with the goal of maximizing profits, regardless of the effects of the resulting foods on consumer health, natural resources, the environment or anything else.
But the issues go way beyond food, as the City University of New York professor Nicholas Freudenberg discusses in his new book, “Lethal but Legal: Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health.” Freudenberg’s case is that the food industry is but one example of the threat to public health posed by what he calls “the corporate consumption complex,” an alliance of corporations, banks, marketers and others that essentially promote and benefit from unhealthy lifestyles. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/26/opinion/bittman-rethinking-our-rights-to-dangerous-behaviors.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0 VIDEO REPORT Feb. 21, 2013 PBS Newshour -▶ ARE WE INCHING TOWARDS HEALTHIER EATING, LESS OBESITY? http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/jan-june13/fastfood_02-21.html Guardian, Green Schools Hub, July 12, 2014
-▶ ONE SCHOOL'S RECIPE FOR A HEALTHY APPROACH TO FOOD http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2013/jul/12/school-food-plan-primary-project ▶ WORLD'S LARGEST FOOD COMPANIES CREATING LEGACY OF DESTRUCTION http://sco.lt/6sSzK5 OBESITY PLUS HUGE INCREASE IN DIABETES, STROKES, HEART ATTACKS ON A GLOBAL SCALE -- THE AMERICAN DIET AND CONTEMPORARY FOOD PRODUCTION http://sco.lt/80rmld BBC, January 2, 2014
-▶ OBESITY QUADRUPLE TO NEARLY ONE BILLION IN DEVELOPING WORLD AS WESTERN DIETS/LIFESTYLE ENCROACHES http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25576400 ▶ HOW THE JUNK FOOD INDUSTRY HAS ENCOURAGED US TO EAT OURSELVES TO DEATH http://sco.lt/6xAPtx ▶ HOW THE FOOD GIANTS HOOKED US http://sco.lt/4m8ptp UPDATE ON "BEHIND THE BRANDS" REPORT Oxfam, February 26, 2014
- ▶ PUBLIC PRESSURE PUSHES BIG FOOD COMPANIES TO IMPROVE THEIR POLICIES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES http://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressrelease/2014-02-26/public-pressure-pushes-big-food-companies-improve-policies ▶ BEHIND THE REPORT "BEHIND THE BRANDS? A SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS HORROR STORY http://sco.lt/594zeT
▶ THE GLOBAL CHEMICAL BIOTECH CARTEL - AN UNPRECEDENTED POWER OVER WORLD AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN HEALTH http://sco.lt/9MtkYL ▶ MORE, BIGGER, FASTER : WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT FACTORY FARMING YOUR ANIMAL FOOD: Anti-Whistle-blower Ag Laws Want To Keep You From Knowing How Your Food is "Produced" http://sco.lt/5n7fqD
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++++ GOOGLE Images Say A Thousand Words ++++ FACTORY FARMING http://ow.ly/k2pgD FEEDLOT CATTLE http://ow.ly/mEGS1 GESTATION CRATES http://ow.ly/lPLtf ANIMAL ABUSE FACTORY FARMING http://ow.ly/mHXkT - ▶ 65 BILLION CONFINED FARM ANIMALS - CAFOs (Confined Animal Feed Operations). Today, nearly 65 BILLION animals worldwide, including cows, chickens and pigs, are crammed into CAFOs (Confined Animal Feed Lots). These animals are literally imprisoned and tortured in unhealthy, unsanitary and unconscionably cruel conditions. Sickness is the norm for animals who are confined rather than pastured, and who eat GMO corn and soybeans, rather than grass and forage as nature intended. To prevent the inevitable spread of disease from stress, overcrowding and lack of vitamin D, animals are fed a steady diet of antibiotics. Those antibiotics pose a direct threat to the environment when they run off into our lakes, rivers, aquifers and drinking water. The vast majority of consumers don’t realize that nearly 95% of the meat, dairy and eggs sold in the U.S. come from CAFOs. Nor do most people realize that CAFOs represent a corporate-controlled system characterized by large-scale, centralized, low profit-margin production, processing and distribution systems.... .... CLIMATE-FRIENDLY FOOD DEMANDS ANIMAL-FRIENDLY FARMING. Why we need labels on all factory-farmed food Ronnie Cummins via Common Dreams http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/17-5 GRAIN, March 03, 2020 BUILDING A FACTORY FARM FUTURE, ONE PANDEMIC AT A TIME A new approach to livestock diseases is urgently needed that protects small farmers, consumers and animals by dismantling the main source and vector of lethal pathogens-- Big Meat's factory farms and global supply chains. https://grain.org/e/6418#.XmUma1mzue0.twitter Reuters, October 30, 2019 NO COUNTRY IMMUNE TO RISK OF AFRICAN SWINE FEVER SPREADING: The disease, which has hit the world’s top pork producer China hard, originated in Africa before spreading to Europe and Asia. It has been found in 50 countries, killing hundreds of million pigs, while reshaping global meat and feed markets. VIDEO: Pigs Burned Alive in China: How Meat Farms are Killing Pigs in China Burning and burying pigs alive is standard practice for killing pigs whenever there is a fear of virus infection in China. Such infections are common in crowded and filthy animal factories around the world. In this specific case, the pigs carried the African swine fever virus (ASFV), so the farm burned them alive prior to burying them VIDEO Burying Pigs Alive VIDEO: Food Safety News, January 19, 2015 - ▶ 2.5 MILLION POUNDS OF MEAT, POULTRY RECALLED FOR PATHOGEN CONTAMINATION IN 2014 -- HOW MANY ANIMALS DIED UNNECESSARILY FOR THAT? http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2015/01/fsis-releases-summary-of-2014-recalls/ VIDEOS: MISERY AND SLOW DEATH FOR PIGS CRATED IN FILTHY FACTORY FARMS IN CANADA https://headlines.peta.org/pigs-british-columbia/ FERN, January 26, 2020 A CALL TO ARMS TO END FACTORY FARMS AND CAFOs Across the country, a call grows for moratoriums on huge livestock farms https://thefern.org/ag_insider/across-the-country-a-call-grows-for-moratoriums-on-huge-livestock-farms/ Medium, July 11, 2019 WHILE WE'RE BICKERING OVER COW FARTS, THE HORROR OF EXPANDING FACTORY FARMS MARCHES MERRILY ON. https://medium.com/@mdvmatteo/a-call-to-arms-to-fight-factory-farms-8bbcf92607b8 - ▶ INDUSTRIAL FARMING IS ONE OF THE WORST CRIMES IN HISTORY. The fate of industrially farmed animals is one of the most pressing ethical questions of our time. Tens of billions of sentient beings, each with complex sensations and emotions, live and die on a production line https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/25/industrial-farming-one-worst-crimes-history-ethical-question The New Food Economy, December 17, 2019 The Farm System Reform Act of 2019 calls for an immediate and permanent moratorium on the construction and expansion of all large CAFOs and outlines a plan to close all existing large CAFOs by 2040.
https://newfoodeconomy.org/two-new-bills-booker-cafo-factory-farms-environment/ Quillette, October 20, 2018 - ▶ WHY IT'S TIME TO END FACTORY FARMING Many years from now, our descendants will look back on the use of animals for food—particularly the intense animal suffering in factory farms—as a moral atrocity. There are over 100 billion farmed animals alive at this moment—more than ten times the number of humans. Over 90 percent (over 99 percent in the US) of these animals live on industrial, large-scale factory farms enduring atrocious cruelty such as intense confinement in tiny cages, brutal mutilation and slaughter methods, and rampant health issues from artificial breeding. https://quillette.com/2018/10/20/why-its-time-to-end-factory-farming/ The Guardian - ▶ WHY FACTORY FARMING IS NOT JUST CRUEL -- BUT ALSO A THREAT TO ALL LIFE ON THE PLANET. It’s time the world woke up to the real impact of modern, industrial farming, says Philip Lymbery, author of Farmageddon and the Deadzone https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/04/factory-farming-destructive-wasteful-cruel-says-philip-lymbery-farmageddon-author Mercy For Animals (@MercyForAnimals) - ▶ LIFE IN THE SHADOW OF THE FACTORY FARM: https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/22587/factory-farm/ - ▶ FOOTAGE REVEALS CHICKENS IN "HORRIFYING CONDITIONS AT BIG UK PRODUCER https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/25/footage-chickens-big-uk-producer?CMP=share_btn_tw - ▶ SLAUGHTERHOUSES IN USA EXPOSED: #CHICKENS slowly freezing to death, being boiled alive, drowned or suffocating under piles of other birds among hundreds of shocking welfare incidents recorded at U.S.A. #Slaughterhouses —previously unpublished reports Civil Eats, October 01, 2018 - ▶ WHY ARE SOWS IN FACTORY FARMS DYING IN SURPRISING NUMBERS? Today's sows are being bred to produce more babies faster. They're also dying early and unexpectedly in many large-scale farming operations. https://civileats.com/2018/10/01/why-are-sows-in-factory-farms-dying-in-record-numbers/ Their Turn, October 28, 2014
- ▶ "ESTHER" THE PIG HAS A MESSAGE FOR NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR: BAN PIG GESTATION CRATES http://theirturn.net/gestation-crates-new-jersey/ New York Times, February 19, 2014
-▶ TURNING PIGS INTO CANNIBALS http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/20/opinion/kristof-is-that-sausage-worth-this.html VIDEO, taken secretly by an undercover worker https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/02/21/iron-maiden-hog-farm_n_4832104.html pulls back the curtain on the banal brutality of a huge hog operation in Kentucky called Iron Maiden Farms. The video shows barns filled with hogs jammed so tightly into tiny individual pens that they can’t move, chewing forlornly on the bars that restrain them. It also shows workers gutting dead piglets and turning their intestines into a purée that is then fed back to the mother pigs, or sows. - ▶ OUR FARM ANIMALS ARE NOT LABS - MORE, BIGGER, FASTER: NEW SOW PRODUCT 'MAXIMISES' COLOSTRUM IMPACT FOR PIGLETS Maximising piglet potential for producers across the globe-now seeing larger, lighter litters. This extra weight increases piglet viability by 5% or half a pig per sow (Poor Sows) http://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/new-sow-product-maximises-colostrum-impact-for-piglets/ - ▶ MALE PIGLETS are castrated with a blade or scalpel and no painkillers. Farmers rip out the testicles with their hands. pic.twitter.com/sQ4C0Ym8kl May 6, 2013 Earth Justice - ▶ CONSERVATION GROUPS NOTIFY USDA OF 6,500-PIG SWINE FACILITY VIOLATIONS http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2013/conservation-groups-notify-usda-of-esa-violations-related-to-arkansas-swine-facility National Geographic, May 01, 2014
-▶ VIRUS KILLS SEVEN MILLION AMERICAN PIGS PUSHING UP PORK PRICES: END MEGA FACTORY FARM NOW http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/05/140501-pigs-virus-meat-prices-food-science-health/#close-modal New York Times, August 4, 2013 - ▶ MEGA U.S. HOG FARMS BATTLING TO CONTAIN DEADLY VIRUS... http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/05/us/hog-producers-battling-to-contain-virus-that-has-killed-piglets-by-the-thousands.html - ▶ CAFO DAIRY IS SCARY. THE PUBLIC ARE WAKING UP TO THE DARKEST PART OF FARMING. The photo of calves (VEAL) in cramped pens will shock many, and with so many non-dairy alternatives now, consumers have a choice https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/30/dairy-sc |
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