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YOUR FOOD, YOUR ENVIRONMENT, YOUR HEALTH: #Biotech #GMOs #Pesticides #Chemicals #FactoryFarms #CAFOs #BigFood
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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
The Guardian, February 21, 2015
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
Wakeup World, September 04, 2014 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/
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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
Appeal-Democrat, December 21, 2014 —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 ▶ 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
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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
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
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
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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
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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
▶ 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
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Vox, June 09, 2014 40 MAPS THAT EXPLAIN FOOD IN AMERICA http://www.vox.com/a/explain-food-america
WATCH
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
WHITEWASHED HOW INDUSTRY AND GOVERNMENT PROMOTE DAIRY JUNK FOODS
http://ecowatch.com/2014/06/11/dairy-industry-government-promote-junk-foods/
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OutsideOnline, May 12, 2014
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
Scientific American, May 12, 2014 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
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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
Real News One, June 10, 2014
=============================== OUR CORPORATE INDUSTRIAL FARMING ===================================== IMPORTANT WATCH
Guardian Environment, May 22, 2014
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
- 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 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 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
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Organic Lifestyle Magazine, July 08, 2014
▶ 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
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RT News, November 26, 2013
Pambazuka, July 24. 2014
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
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FIXING THE BROKEN BIG FOOD SYSTEM
OBESITY PLUS HUGE INCREASE IN DIABETES, STROKES, HEART ATTACKS ON A GLOBAL SCALE -- THE AMERICAN DIET AND CONTEMPORARY FOOD PRODUCTION
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
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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Nation of Change, October 20, 2013
Treehugger, November 19, 2013
▶ GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS NOT THE SOLUTION FOR "FEEDING THE WORLD" http://sco.lt/77BuML 
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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 '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
- ▶ 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
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
The Hill, April 14, 2015
The Guardian, February 13, 2015
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 Guardian, February 21, 2015
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
RT USA, March 31, 2015
Medical News Today, April 01, 2015
- ▶ 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
Independent Science News, March 24, 2014
Mother Jones, March 26, 2015
SAD WHEN OUR OWN GOVERNMENT TAX-PAID SCIENTISTS NEED PROTECTING FROM THE BIG CORPORATE CHEMICAL CARTEL Reuters, March 27, 2015 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
Huffington Post Green, January 22, 2014 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/22/bpa-health-care-costs_n_4644372.html
National Geographic, March 05, 2015
Truthout, November 30, 2014
VIDEO Ecowatch, October 31, 2013
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
Smithsonian Magazine, December 13, 2013
Treehugger, March 06, 2014
▶ 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
- ▶ THINK THOSE 80,000 CHEMICALS/PESTICIDES HAVE BEEN TESTED? http://sco.lt/7QxMob
NPR, December 13, 2013
Living on Earth, March 14, 2014
THE MALE INFERTILITY TIME BOMB: MEN'S SPERM COUNT FALLING CHEMICALS/PESTICIDES IN FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT
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"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
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Natural News, February 27, 2015 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
Phys.org, February 27,2014 http://phys.org/news/2015-02-personal-product-chemicals-antarctica.html
Common Dreams, November 6, 2013
Sustainable Business, March 13, 2014
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
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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
ARE YOU EATING 'PESTICIDE PLANTS?
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August 30, 2013 Treehugger
PESTICIDES ON MY PLATE FOOD ALLERGIES, CANCER, ILL HEALTH LINKED TO PESTICIDES
- ARE WE EATING STRESS? - INDUSTRIAL FOOD PRODUCTION PUTS EXTREME STRESS ON PLANTS AND ANIMALS WE EAT http://sco.lt/5aqLTd
- ▶ 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
WHAT ARE WE EATING?
▶ 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
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INVESTIGATIVE REPORT Beyond Pesticides, October 22, 2013 SOARING PESTICIDE USE AND POISONING LINKED TO GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROP PRODUCTION
- ▶ 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 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
- ▶ 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
▶ 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
August 12, 2013 Environmental Leader
WATCH --- May 13, 2013 Moyers and Company - Full Show: 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
- ▶ 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
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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 --- 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) 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
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THE LEADER OF THE CHEMICAL BIOTECH CARTEL
- ▶ MONSANTO: A CORPORATE PROFILE From Saccharin to GE Seed - Chemicals for Food, Agriculture, War
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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
- ▶ ENDING DRUG MONOPOLIES, MEGA PROFITS AND STRANGLEHOLD ON PATENTS - PEOPLE ARE DYING http://sco.lt/7nnyL3
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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 Newsweek, June 27, 2014 Nation of Change, May 08, 2014 Union of Concerned Scientists 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 http://www.mnn.com/food/healthy-eating/blogs/12-tips-for-kicking-the-refined-sugar-habit HuffPost, March 13, 2015 ISIS, UK ▶ INDUSTRIAL FRUCTOSE AND OVEREATING - FUELING THE OBESITY EPIDEMIC http://www.i-sis.org.uk TakePart, March 12, 2015 The Mind Unleashed, June 20, 2014
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 VIDEO REPORT PBS Newshour New York Times, December 22, 2014 HuffPost Green, January 05, 2015 BBC, September 18, 2014 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 Grist, November 21, 2014 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 TreeHugger, February 17, 2014 Guardian, November 06, 2014 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 VIDEO WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR WHAT THEY'RE DOING July 5, 2013 Grist CBS News, July 10, 2013 56 NAMES FOR SUGAR: Robert Lustig: http://celebrityweightlosstips.com/robert-lustig-56-names-for-sugar/ Waking Times, November 10, 2014 Alpha Minds
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
VIDEO PREVIEW: ======================= COCA-COLA vs PEPSI AND THE SODA BUSINESS ======================= ▶ 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
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INFOGRAPH PDF DOWNLOAD HOW COMPANIES REACH KIDS & TEENS May 6, 2013 Wall Street journal
June 28, 2013 AlterNet
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 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
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 SPECIAL REPORT: EurActive, April 24, 2013 WHY SUGAR? WHY NOW? SugarScience.org THE SOURCE TO GO TO FOR SUGARSCIENCE.ORG HEY, ADVERTISERS, LEAVE OUR DEFENSELESS KIDS ALONE. THE SCIENCE OF MARKETING FOOD AND DRINK ADDICTION Bay Area Bites, August 06, 2014 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
- ▶ 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 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
THE GREAT AMERICAN EXPORT - JUNK FOOD Processed GMO Food Consumption Rampant
- ▶ 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
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EcoWatch, September 08, 2015 ▶ CALIFORNIA BECOMES FIRST STATE TO LABEL MONSANTO'S 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 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 Ecowatch TreeHugger, April 03, 2015 Michael Pollan: "Don't miss this VIDEO, about the next wave of herbicide-tolerant crops from Monsanto-- will make Round-Up look benign" -▶ ***********DANGERS OF DICAMBA http://www.fixfood.org/features/276/dangers-of-dicamba Sustainable Pulse, February 14, 2014 ARE YOU EATING 'PESTICIDE PLANTS'? THE CONNECTION BETWEEN GMO AND TOXIC PESTICIDES Digital Journal, January 27, 2013 Global Research, January 2, 2014 NewsSum, August 20, 2014 Guardian, March 24 ,2015 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 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 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 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 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 National Geographic, March 05, 2015 -▶ 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 June 23, 2009 Scientific America Summit County Citizens Voice, April 05, 2015 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 http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/27/1373484/-Monsanto-s-Discredit-Bureau-Swings-into-Action# EcoWatch, March 26, 2015 http://ecowatch.com/2015/03/26/monsanto-demands-who-retract-report/ The Washington Post, March 19, 2015 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 About Health, March 11, 2015 June 30, 2013 Nation of Change Institute of Science In Society, December 10, 2014 -▶ 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 Ensia, February 16, 2015 Institute of Science in Society, March 26, 2014 ▶ GLYPHOSATE AND CANCER http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Glyphosate_and_Cancer.php GMWatch Biosafety Information Centre, April 15, 2014 Daily Mail, MAY 20, 2014 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 ▶ 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 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 The Western Producer, December 21, 2012 The Ecologist, February 25, 2015 ====================== ABOUT "ROUNDUP" THE ULTIMATE KILLING MACHINE “GLYPHOSATE" LINKED TO PARKINSON'S, INFERTILITY AND CANCERS MONSANTO: A CORPORATE PROFILE From War Chemicals for Food, Pesticides for Agriculture, Now A War Against Natural Systems http://sco.lt/5TGVDl ====================== 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 GMOs INVADE FRUIT INDUSTRY APPLES, PEARS, CHERRIES AND PEACHES ALL UNLABELED GMO http://sco.lt/5TMFCT RT News, March 17, 2015 100Reporters, January 16, 2015 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 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 Science News, February 25, 2015 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 Environmental Working Group, November 25, 2013 Robyn O'Brien's Website http://www.robynobrien.com/ WHAT PESTICIDE EXPOSURE IS DOING TO YOUR BODY? THE INFERTILITY TIME BOMB MEN'S SPERM COUNT FALLING ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL / PESTICIDE EXPOSURES HuffingtonPost Green, September 15, 2014 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 Digital Journal, February 22, 2015 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 Goldman Prize -▶ ARGENTINA: CHILDREN DYING FROM GMO AGRO-CHEMICAL SPRAYING - A MOTHER TURNS ACTIVIST http://sco.lt/7AxIgr Calgary Herald, October 20, 2013 PHOTO ESSAY RT USA, February 10, 2015 RT USA, February 05, 2015 =========================== ▶ OUR INDUSTRIAL, WESTERN CORPORATE AGRICULTURAL FOOD SYSTEM IS DESTROYING THE EARTH AND OUR HEALTH http://sco.lt/63qRl3 =========================== NaturalNews, July 05, 2014 Food Democracy Now, May 16, 2013 YOUR BODY IS A CORPORATE TEST TUBE: How You Became a Guinea Pig For the Chemical and BioTech Corporations http://sco.lt/8fk9ZJ WATCH ====================== The Ecologist, July 02, 2014 TreeHugger, April 10, 2015 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 -▶ BATTLE FOR THE BEES: Dying Bees Raise Alarm For Humans - Europe Bans Pesticide http://sco.lt/8QOFgv ======================== -▶ 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 TakePart, November 15, 2013 INVESTIGATIVE REPORT SOARING PESTICIDE USE AND POISONING LINKED TO GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROP PRODUCTION BEYOND PESTICIDES -▶ 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 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 -▶ 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 ======================== THINK THOSE CHEMICALS AND PESTICIDES IN YOUR FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT HAVE BEEN TESTED? http://sco.lt/7QxMob ======================== - ▶ 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 -▶ 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 Via pdjmoo
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February 19, 2015 5:09 AM
We create our own new set of problems…like a drug addict. 
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February 20, 2015 2:28 AM
Simply amazing & beautiful work you've done here on this critical topic.
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February 22, 2015 4:41 AM
Por esto no aceptamos el uso de pesticidas en nuestras tierras…tenemos que decir ya no en todo Mexico. This is why we do not use any pesticides at Hacienda Silil, giving our bees and other plants and animals a chance to live and grow in natural conditions.
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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 http://www.ewg.org/release/claims-gmos-will-feed-world-don-t-hold Genetic Literacy Project May 4, 2015 The Ecologist, March 26, 2015 The Ecologist, April 21, 2015 The Independent , March 29, 2015 WATCH BBC VIDEO REPORT Vandana Shiva http://www.sott.net/article/260505-A-billion-go-hungry-because-of-GMO-farming-Vandana-Shiva Natural Society, Novermber 04, 2012 Radio New Zealand, April 16, 2015 The Ecologist, February 12, 2015 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) 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 OWNING THE SEEDS OF LIFE SEED PATENT AND CONTROL OF YOUR FOOD THE GLOBAL CORPORATE MONOPOLY inter Press Service, March 23, 2015 HOW NOT TO "FEED THE WORLD" June 19, 2013 Biosafety Info The Daily Sheeple, June 25, 2014 The Ecologist, February 23, 2015 Sustainable Pulse, February 01, 2015 Institute of Science In Society, December 10, 2014 Sustainable Pulse, February 14, 2014 NEW CHARGES AGAINST MONSANTO'S "PESTICIDE" ROUNDUP (NEEDED FOR GMO CROPS) THE ULTIMATE KILLING MACHINE Michael Pollan: "Don't miss this VIDEO, about the next wave of herbicide-tolerant crops from Monsanto-- will make Round-Up look benign" 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 Reuters, December 04, 2014 WATCH; POISONING PARADISE: ISLANDS AT RISK THE GENETIC ENGINEERING FOOD WAR IN HAWAII FACT-CHECKING ABOUT GMO FOODS 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 Common Dreams, March 21, 2014 Worldwatch Institute, March 24, 2015 -▶ “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 -▶ GMO BIOSAFETY INFORMATION CENTER http://www.biosafety-info.net/ ====================== 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 April 24, 2013 EurActive 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
+++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 ====================== Common Dreams, February 23, 2015 THE CORPORATE 'PHILANTHROCAPITLISTS' TAKEOVER OF AFRICAN AND GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY http://sco.lt/6CHP3R Farmlandgrab, January 03, 2015 Common Dreams, February 06, 2015 March 14, 2013 Al Jazeera VIDEO REPORT 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 AFRICA G8 - FOOD SECURITY FOR WHOM? CORPORATE PROFITS vs SMALLHOLDER FARMER INTERESTS WHEN WALL STREET WENT TO AFRICA Minds, September 25, 2014 ▶ 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 Natural News, March 02, 2015 http://www.naturalnews.com/048828_GMO_corporations_small_farmers_Paraguay.html# Reuters, July 29, 2014 WATCH ***** DAVID SUZUKI: "BIOTECHNOLOGY GENETICS IS OUT OF CONTROL" 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 -▶ THE WAR AGAINST ORGANICS -- WHAT'S AN 'ORGANIC' LABEL REALLY WORTH? http://sco.lt/718cfh Gaia Foundation, December 16, 2011
-▶ 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
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:
-▶ 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) ▶ THINK THOSE CHEMICALS AND PESTICIDES IN YOUR FOOD & ENVIRONMENT HAVE BEEN TESTED? http://sco.lt/72z4g The Analyst Report, July 03, 2014 -▶ 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 -▶ 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 -▶ 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: ▶ 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
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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 ▶ CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE IS CORPORATE GREEN-WASHING - AGRA http://sco.lt/8Ry4Wn ===================== AlterNet, October 9, 2013
- ▶ 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
Common Dreams, May 23, 2014
The Ideas Arcade, March 02, 2014
DW.DE English, October 28, 2013 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
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Hannah Dineley's comment,
May 1, 2013 10:08 AM
The amount of chemical found in nour bodies when eating the processed 'food' that is cheaply available will shock you. Many young girls are now hitting puberty at ages no one would have thought because the hormones in the milk they drink.
Alicia Milanowski's comment,
May 7, 2013 8:37 PM
Wow! Wow! Wow! This is shocking indeed. So informational and so crucial. It is amazing how naive I am when it comes what I am buying and eating. This was truly eyeopening and it truly motivates me to want investigate further!
Kari Rose's comment,
May 9, 2013 2:44 PM
This has def changed my mind on alot of the food that we take into our bodies and that we are not aware of.
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July 12, 2013 Ethical Corporation ▶ WHAT'S AN ORGANIC LABEL REALLY WORTH: Grist, March 05,2015 INFOGRAPH 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
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 HuffPost Green, April 02, 2014 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 NaturalNews, October 03, 2014 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. The Independent, December 12, 2014 Guardian Environment, July 11, 2014
Washington State University Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, July 11, 2014
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 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 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 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 http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/09/03/consumer-reports-infographic Treehugger, MAY 02, 2014 Cornucopia Institute, June 19, 2014 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
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 ▶ 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
WATCH SO YOU WANT TO EAT INDUSTRIAL FACTORY FARMED EGGS? - CALIFORNIA EGG FARM INVESTIGATION Cornucopia Institute, December 11, 2014 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 VIDEO 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 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 The Grio, November 27, 2013
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 ======================= 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 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
INVESTIGATIVE REPORT SOARING PESTICIDE USE AND POISONING LINKED TO GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROP PRODUCTION http://sco.lt/8iunRp ========================= WHY ORGANIC? ========================
Organic Gardening,
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
Third World Network
▶ ORGANIC GROWING HEALS THE EARTH. HERE'S WHY http://sco.lt/8lMQ4H
Seattle Organic Restaurants
▶ 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 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
▶ 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
Treehugger, March 11, 2014
September 13, 2013 Triple Pundit
Organic Gardening,
Alternet, May 11, 2014
Foods4Better Health, January 28th, 2014
TIME, June 23, 2014
BIG FOOD Vox, April 23, 2014
May 30, 2013 Nation of Change Los Angeles, October 3, 2013
The Ideas Arcade, March 02, 2014
▶ 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 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 Wall Street Journal, August 07, 2014 WATCH (6:29) ▶ WHAT EVERY PARENT SHOULD KNOW ABOUT BLIND, FOOTLESS CHICKENS, FACTORY FARMS AND THE AG-GAG BILL http://sco.lt/71PvtJ Alternet, July 30, 2014
BEYOND PESTICIDES
The Ecologist, July 02, 2014
RT News, November 26, 2013
WATCH '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 WATCH; POISONING PARADISE: ISLANDS AT RISK The Genetic Engineering War in Hawai'i
Reuters, July 29, 2013
OWNING THE SEEDS OF LIFE SEED PATENT AND CONTROL OF YOUR FOOD THE GLOBAL CORPORATE MONOPOLY
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
▶ 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
======================== WALMART ======================== In These Times, June 23, 2014
Grist, April 12, 2014
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
Walmart Corporate, April 10, 2014 ▶ 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
▶ 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.
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
pdjmoo's insight:
WATCH THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO (FULL LENGTH) The Leader of the Biotech Agricultural Cartel
MONSANTO: A CORPORATE PROFILE From Saccharin to GE Seed - Chemicals for Food, Agriculture, War http://sco.lt/5TGVDl
Mera Buford's curator insight,
November 27, 2013 10:02 PM
It's good to keep an eye out for these things when you shop. A little knowledge goes a long way.
Jose's curator insight,
March 20, 2014 12:33 PM
After reading this article and having worked at a organic farmers market, i do not believe everything labeled as "organic" can all be 100 percent accurate. Although many are certified or classified as being organic i do not believe what the organic companies are trying to sell us. Makes me as an individual believe what is going on in the world, where you cannot trust what is being put down your mouth. Obviously a person has to eat but what exactly are they eating is the proper question. Certainty an eyebrow raising situation i believe everything is a scam. People will pay for something that is labeled as "organic" which only profits the business and is all about money, rather then be as a positive interest to an individual. 
Hannah Goble's curator insight,
September 9, 2015 10:29 AM
More major food corporations are getting organic foods. Finding new ways to industrialize the organic foods. Looking to remove bad chemicals. Also looking to keep pest out of the crop. Looking to how it can be better for the eco system. How humans can benefit from the farming. What climate have a better effect on the organic farming. Adjusting the farming with global warming to still grow good foods. How it can make a better diet without having to watch eating size. Understanding the soil and how it is fertilized.
Scoop.it!
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 Sustainable Pulse, December 19, 2014 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 ▶ 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 Earth Justice, December 8, 2012 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 July 23, 2013 RT News Reuters, December 19, 2014 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 ========================= ▶ WHAT PESTICIDES ARE ON WHAT FOOD Website:: Pesticides on Carrots http://www.whatsonmyfood.org/food.jsp?food=CR Alternet, July 30, 2014 Guardian Environment, July 17, 2014 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 TruthOut, February 25, 2015 PROFITS BEFORE HEALTH Guardian Environment, February 03 2015 Al Jazeera, January 09, 2015 Wake Up World, November 16, 2014 THOUSANDS OF SRI LANKA FARMERS DYING STUDY LINKS KIDNEY DISEASE TO AGROCHEMICALS, PESTICIDES Inter Press Service, January 12, 2014 Environmental Health News, October 06, 2014 PHOTO ESSAY RT USA, February 05, 2015 ▶ BEE-KILLING CHEMICALS LURK INSIDE YOUR FOOD: AGROCHEMICALS THREAT TO WILD BEES, FOOD SECURITY AND BIODIVERSITY http://sco.lt/8mGvg1 =============== -- YOUR HEALTH -- =============== ▶ The Guardian, September 5, 2013 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 AP INVESTIGATION, October 20, 2013 November 10, 2013
BBC News, May 14, 2014 ▶ 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
Daily Mail, May 20, 2014 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 August 21, 2013 Pesticide Action Group Los Angeles Times, October 23, 2013 US National Institute of Health
May 15, 2013 Natural News WATCH '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 July 18, 2013 National Geographic Pesticide Action Network, December 18, 2013 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 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 ===================== -- WATCH -- ROUNDUP -- THE ULTIMATE KILLING MACHINE GLYPHOSATES New Charges Against Monsanto's Pesticide 'Roundup' ▶ GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS NOT THE SOLUTION FOR "FEEDING THE WORLD" http://sco.lt/77BuML ====================== INVESTIGATIVE REPORT SOARING PESTICIDE USE AND POISONING LINKED TO GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROP PRODUCTION http://sco.lt/8iunRp
BEYOND PESTICIDES ===================== ▶ HOW YOU BECAME A GUINEA PIG FOR THE CHEMICAL AND BIOTECH CORPORATIONS http://sco.lt/76tCpl Organic Authority, April 11, 2012 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 May 15, 2013 Lifewise GreenMediaInfo, June 23, 2013 The Ecologist, January 30, 2014 ▶ 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?" ▶ 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 =================== GMO CROPS =================== OUR GMO CORNFIELDS ARE TOO QUIET - ALL LIFE CHEMICALLY EXTERMINATED EXCEPT THE GENE-ALTERED CORN
REPORT PESTICIDE USE ON GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROPS VIDEO: ISLANDS AT RISK The Genetic Engineering (GMO), Pesticide War in Hawai'i 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
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 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
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 ============= -- REGULATION -- ============== Reader Supported Network, October 9, 2012 ▶ 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 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 Ag Professional, August 01, 2014 - ▶ 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 ▶ 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 ▶ 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
▶ PESTICIDE/CHEMICAL REGULATION OVERHAUL NEEDED TO PROTECT ECOSYSTEMS, FOOD CHAIN AND HUMAN HEALTH http://sco.lt/813dw1 ======================== 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? 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 YourIs, September 16, 2014 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)
The Top Information Post, May 28, 2013
THE GLOBAL CHEMICAL BIOTECH CARTEL: AN UNPRECEDENTED POWER OVER WORLD AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN HEALTH -▶ 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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BAN GMOs NOW - http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/food-speculator/ ▶ ▶ RESOURCES
-- PESTICIDE ACTION NETWORK http://www.panna.org/
-- BEYOND PESTICIDES http://www.beyondpesticides.org/index.php
Ruth Obadia's curator insight,
September 18, 2013 3:18 PM
The reason why you may not have thought much about these pesticide plants before is because our media has found itself in an unhealthy alliance with well paid spokespeople who aggressively represent the biotech industry’s point of view. 
lloyd stanley gordon's curator insight,
September 30, 2013 6:31 PM
Simply frightful! I have been commenting on this topic since I first published my in house thesis for the 21st century:Quantum Organiculture. It was published for me by the Jamaican Gleaner company during the 80s and 90s, and a modified version by the Science Research Council of Jamaica at their 16th Annual Conference in Kingston Jamaica. My position remains the same and as far as I cn see is being almightily reinforced by these findings.
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CGIAR May 5, 2015 One World News, December 9, 2013 African Agriculture: AGRA - ‘Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa' is a major assault on seed sovereignty’ Inter Press Service, September 24, 2014 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 Inter Press Service, October 13, 2014 The Ecologist, September 30, 2014 Gaia Foundation, December 16, 2011 Food First, March 23,2015 ▶ 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 http://www.naturalnews.com/048828_GMO_corporations_small_farmers_Paraguay.html# Biocultural Heritage, Animal Ecology In Focus, January 16, 2015 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 The Ecologist, February 23, 2015 Intercontinental Cry Magazine, July 17, 2014 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 Truthout, December 04, 2014 Common Dreams, February 23, 2015 Farmlandgrab, January 03, 2015 The Ecologist, February 12, 2015 Common Dreams, February 06, 2015 African Centre for Biosafety, November 18, 2013 ▶ 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 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 ▶ 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 WHEN WALL STREET WENT TO AFRICA REPORT Part 2 of 4 and CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION HOW NOT TO "FEED THE WORLD" 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 The Ecologist, September 22, 2014 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 ENOUGHNESS: WESTERN THOUGHT vs INDIGENOUS PHILOSOPHY -▶ 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 WATCH BBC VIDEO REPORT 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 GRAIN, May 26, 2014 Common Dreams, September 18, 2014 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 Pambazuka, September 25, 2014 Grist, February 22, 2013 ▶ 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 HOW MONSANTO IS TERRIFYING THE FARMING WORLD The Devil in The Seeds Of Life
===================== Newsweek, December 13, 2014 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 The Conversation, September 11, 2014 Oliver De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food March 10, 2014 -▶ FULL FINAL REPORT http://www.srfood.org/images/stories/pdf/officialreports/20140310_finalreport_en.pdf =================== OUR INDUSTRIAL, WESTERN AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM IS DESTROYING THE EARTH AND OUR HEALTH http://sco.lt/63qRl3 =================== EcoWatch, March 31, 2014 VIDEO The Green Belt Movement (GBM) https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLFCA5BD7B2D8A8787?wmode=opaque&v=BSOauSpM_ew#t=100 ReliefWeb, December 19, 2014 http://reliefweb.int/report/world/maize-rice-wheat-farming-must-become-more-sustainable Appeal-Democrat, December 21, 2014 ▶ 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 ▶ 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 A REALLY GOOD RESOURCE: http://www.agriculturesnetwork.org/
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A Picture Says A Thousand Words BATTERY FACTORY FARMED HENS The Dodo - 05 May 2015 The Dodo, March 31, 2015 Animals Australia, April 01, 2015 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
The Dodo, March 16, 2015 VIDEO (18:57) Huffington Post Green, March 09, 2014 - ▶ BLIND, FOOTLESS CHICKENS FOR FUTURE CAFO FACTORY FARMS http://farmwars.info/?p=789 One Green Planet, April, 23, 2015 Alternet, December 10, 2013 Reuters, April 23, 2015 CNBC, April 20, 2015 Web MD VIDEO (4:59) 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 WIRED, February 23, 2015 http://www.wired.com/2015/02/watts-response/ June 27, 2013 One Green Planet March 24, 2014 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
▶ 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 http://www.monbiot.com/2014/12/16/overgrowth/
INVESTIGATIVE REPORT WATCH 53:41) REDUCING GROWTH HORMONES USE IN FOOD ANIMALS 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 The Atlantic Wire, October 4, 2013 -- American Journal Of Medicine Abstract http://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343%2813%2900396-3/abstract George Monbiot, December 16, 2014 VIDEO Modern Farmer, February 24, 2014 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
Huffington Post, March 17, 2014 The Dodo, March 06, 2014
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
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VIDEO (7:58) 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) 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 Alternet, September 18, 2013 CHINESE ENTERS US FOOD MARKET CHICKENS BOUND FOR USA -- UNLABELLED, UNREGULATED
==================== FOOD SAFETY ==================== - ▶ FOUR-FIFTHS OF ALL BIG PHARMA ANTIBIOTICS CONSUMED BY MEAT AND POULTRY INDUSTRY (What Are You Eating?) http://sco.lt/5u5Gyn VIDEO 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 http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/search/factory-farms Common Dreams, December 19, 2013
June 6, 2013 Huffington Post Green Guardian, July 23, 2014
New York Times, February 20, 2015 Food and Water Watch
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 September 4, 2013 Reuters 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
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
August 9, 2013 Mother Jones France24, May 05, 2014 HuffingtonPost Green, July 14, 2014 Guardian, July 25, 2014 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 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
- ▶ 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
BIO RE-ENGINEERING ANIMALS IN LUST FOR PROFITS ... and into our environment, food and bodies No Regulation, No Oversight, No labels... =========================== AND YOUR EGGS =========================== Mother Jones, January 145, 2014
NPR, December 23, 2014 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
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
July 23, 2013 Cornucopia Institute
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
65 BILLION ANIMALS RAISED IN CORPORATE CONCENTRATION PENS DRUGS, GMO FEED AND 'AG-GAG' LAWS
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
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/
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- ▶ 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
====================== New York Times, February 17, 2015 ===================== MASSIVE HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH CONSEQUENCES ===================== Grist, January 4, 2014 ORIGINAL REPORT Pew Environmental Trust, December 20, 2013 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 =================================
Mother Jones July/August Issue
CARE2, November 22, 2013
June 6, 2013 Global Possibilities
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AND IT HAPPENS WITH SEAFOOD TOO TAMING THE BLUE FRONTIER. SHOULD WE? WILD vs FARMED FISH The Terrible Price We Pay **** WATCH **** Lovely Video MAKE IT POSSIBLE IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT FACTORY FARMING - ▶ MORE ON AG GAG LAWS AND FACTORY FARMS http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides?q=AG+GAG+LAWS#post_1716244040
Trevor Boyne's curator insight,
September 24, 2013 6:32 PM
This article talked about many different things, one of the things it talked about was the new gag law. This law states that it is illegal to video tape animal farms without permission. It has been implemented in 5 states already. It also talked about the health of the animals. In the small cramped spaces the animals develop diseases, when they take antibiotics we also recieve these antibiotics. AS we keep consuming these drugs our body becomes immune so when its time for us to really need an antibiotic it might not work. 
Zack Dafoe's curator insight,
September 25, 2013 9:31 AM
Farmers are trying to do more to ensure animal safety in farms. Being honest about animal health is a big concern. If an animal has something wrong, the selling of the animal should contain all of the info about the animal. Honesty in the purchasing of animals is very critical. Many farms for breeding are grounds for disease. More antibiotics are being used to ensure animal safety. These animals are being consumed by humans so they are consuming the antibiotics as well so their bodies are becoming less immune to the antibiotic. Scientists suggest that antibiotic use should be limited on farms to ensure more human safety on farms. 
Olivia Haltom's curator insight,
December 18, 2013 9:11 AM
i think that if they didnt have anything to hide, then people would know more about what is going on.
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INVESTIGATION Pambazuka,March 16, 2014 http://www.pambazuka.net/en/category/features/94233 Mint Press News, December 23, 2014 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 Farmlandgrab, January 03, 2015 Washington Post, August 05, 2014 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 The Ecologist, March 21, 2014 THE 21st CENTURY CORPORATE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA 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 ▶ 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 Friends of the earth international, February 23, 2015 -- WATCH -- Documentary: Farmland Grab BIG AG BUYING UP WORLD'S FERTILE LAND http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/18542 The Ecologist, February 12, 2015 AFRICA - SOLD OBAMA PUTS G8, BIG 6 BIOTECH CHEMICAL GMO GIANTS IN CHARGE OF "ENDING HUNGER" IN AFRICA -▶ THE CORPORATE 'PHILANTHROCAPITALISTS' TAKEOVER OF AFRICAN AND GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY http://sco.lt/6CHP3R WATCH (56:27) HOW MUCH PROFIT IS FAIR? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNYemuiAOfU ▶ Pambazuka, August 13, 2014 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 farmlandgrab.org, August 04, 2014
GRAIN, October 23, 2014 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 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 Pambazuka, July 24. 2014 Mongabay, August 20, 2014 farmlandgrab.org, August 04, 2014 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 WATCH "LAND RUSH - WHY POVERTY?: THE UGLY RISE OF MONOCULTURE FARMING AND GLOBALIZED FOOD Ecocentric, March 17,2015 Truthout, December 04, 2014 Inter Press Service, August 04, 2014
▶ 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? BAN GMOs NOW A Special Report, Institute of Science In Society ======================== SHOULD WE "WESTERNIZE" AFRICA FOR OUR OWN GAINS? ======================== The Washington Post, August 05, 2014 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 INDEPTH REPORT GRAIN, September 16, 2014 ====================== 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 Action Aid Report, May 23, 2014 ▶ 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 ▶ OUR INDUSTRIAL, WESTERN AGRICULTURAL FOOD SYSTEM IS DESTROYING THE EARTH AND OUR HEALTH http://sco.lt/63qRl3
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ENOUGHNESS: WESTERN THOUGHT vs INDIGENOUS PHILOSOPHY
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"
FINANCIALIZING NATURE COULD BANKRUPT US ALL. OLD ECONOMICS OR SUSTAINING POLICY? -▶ 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?
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: http://www.agriculturesnetwork.org/
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January 21, 2015 5:18 AM
YOU ARE INVITED TO FOLLOW MY NEWS AGGREGATES @pdjmoo ▶ CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY http://www.scoop.it/t/environmental-and-human-health ▶ CLIMATE CHANGE WILL IMPACT US ALL http://www.scoop.it/t/changingplanet ▶ BIODIVERSITY IS LIFE http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life ▶ OUR OCEANS NEED US http://www.scoop.it/t/our-oceans-need-us ▶ OUR FOOD, OUR HEALTH http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides
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CBC News, January 08, 2015 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 Grist, November 26, 2013 -▶ CANADA APPROVES EXPORT OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED SALMON EGGS - TO USA via PANAMA'S AQUABOUNTY April 27, 2013 Main Sun Journal
-▶ SCOTTISH FISH FARMERS USE RECORD AMOUNTS OF PARASITE PESTICIDES DESTROYING MARINE ECOSYSTEMS http://sco.lt/4i52I5
UNESCO, February 22, 2012 May 29, 2013 Yale Environment 360
May 29, 2013 BBC News - WATCH The Press Democrat, September 29, 2014 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 ---------------------------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
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Dr. David Suzuki, April 29, 2014
Nation of Change, April 13, 2014
April 30 2013 Center for Food Safety
-▶ 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
-▶ MAJOR US FOOD RETAILERS TO SHUN GENETICALLY MODIFIED, PATENTED, FACTORY FARMED, ENSLAVED SEAFOOD http://sco.lt/4qgoDZ
April 26, 2013 On Earth Magazine
-▶ 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
-▶ 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 ===================== WHY WE NEED TO FARM FISH IN CONCENTRATED ENCLOSURES ===================== Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) February 05, 2014
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 ======================
VIDEO REPORT RT News -▶ ' FRANKENFISH' HEADING TO YOUR DINNER PLATE AS OBAMA SIGNS 'MONSANTO PROTECTION ACT' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao7ECASd5pc ======================== VIDEO:
-▶ 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
-▶ 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
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VIDEO REPORT 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 August, 9, 2013 Ecowatch July 13, 2013 Sustainable Pulse Sustainable Pulse, December 19, 2014 http://sustainablepulse.com/2014/12/15/food-safety-experts-slam-usda-dicamba-gm-crops/#.VJcfAkChkII VIDEO REPORT 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" 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
GRAIN, May 26, 2014 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 Living on Earth, October 31, 2014 Common Dreams, September 18, 2014 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 Off The Grid News, July 16, 2015 July 3, 2013 The Oregonian 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 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 INVESTIGATIVE REPORT SOARING PESTICIDE USE AND POISONING LINKED TO GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROP PRODUCTION ======================= OUR GMO CORNFIELDS ARE TOO QUIET ALL LIFE CHEMICALLY EXTERMINATED EXCEPT THE TOXIC BT CORN
BAN GMOs NOW - SPECIAL REPORT Institute of Science in Society @ISISscience ======================= -▶ 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 ======================= 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 ======================== ▶ 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?" May 15, 2013 Lifewise
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
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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
WATCH ▶ 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
-▶ 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
Guardian Sustainable Business, February 24, 2014
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 HOW COMPANIES REACH KIDS & TEENS
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
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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
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- ▶ 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
Organic Connections
- ▶ 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
REWILD THE CHILD If Children Lose Contact With Nature They Won't Fight For It
Guardian, Green Schools Hub, March 12, 2014
NPR THE SALT, April 02, 2012 Feb 26, 2013 - Grist - ▶ OPENING PANDORA'S LUNCHBOX: PROCESSED FOODS ARE EVEN SCARIER THAN YOU THOUGHT http://grist.org/food/opening-pan
VIDEO REPORT
HuffPost Politics, February 27, 2014
MediaPost Publications, February 27, 2014
Organic Connections, Michele Simons, September 24, 2013
Guardian Sustainable Business, February 25, 2014 ▶ 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:
VIDEO (7:13) 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
Care 2, December 26, 2013
- ▶ 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
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▶ MARKETING GUN TO KIDS http://sco.lt/8Sdgsz
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▶ SALT, SUGAR, FAT : How The Food Giants Hooked Us http://sco.lt/5edsnZ
NEW MOVIE FROM Food MythBusters (6:25)
Washington Post, October 22, 2013
- ▶ 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
▶ 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
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
▶ 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
▶ 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
▶ 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. Guardian, June 05, 2019 'NO WAY TO STOP IT': Hundreds of Millions of Pigs 'Culled' Across Asia As Swine Fever Spreads. South-east Asia is battling to contain the spread of highly contagious African swine fever, known as “pig Ebola”, which has already led to the culling of millions of pigs in China and Vietnam. Experts say region is losing the battle to stop the biggest animal disease outbreak the planet has ever faced. 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: Swine fever pigs buried alive in China - Farmers Weekly https://www.fwi.co.uk/livestock/video-swine-fever-pigs-buried-alive-in-china 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
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
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.
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
Mercy For Animals (@MercyForAnimals) This is why it's called factory farming. pic.twitter.com/XnrP8nYf3O
- ▶ 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
- ▶ SLAUGHTERHOUSES IN USA EXPOSED: The Dodo 06 May 2015
▶ Here's proof that the meat industry treats CHICKENS like objects. pic.twitter.com/gTZCA5dMvy ▶ Did you know? pic.twitter.com/3uExINUKCi
▶ OUR FOOD ANIMALS ARE NOT INANIMATE OBJECTS 'Horrific' Undercover Investigation Reveals FISH Being Crushed & Gutted Alive. The terrible suffering of billions of fish in vast underwater
November 24, 2010 OurWorld 2.0
HuffPostGreen, March24, 2015
PIGS
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
- ▶ @MercyForAnimals - VIDEO #Fact: The pork industry kills piglets who aren’t growing fast enough by slamming them head first onto concrete floors. pic.twitter.com/KpZJ9TQpm8
New York Times, February 19, 2014 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
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
AG GAG LAWS
September 28, 2013 - Grist - ▶ HOW BIG AG LOBBYISTS USE FEDERAL DOLLARS TO PROTECT FACTORY FARMS http://grist.org/food/the-other-white-meat/
Mother Jones July/August Issue http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/06/ag-gag-laws-mowmar-farms
Sydney Morning Herald, June 15, 2014
Treehugger - ▶ NEED TO KNOW: U.S. 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
VIDEO (6:00) A WELL-SHOT WINDOW INTO THE INDUSTRIAL FOOD SYSTEM, WHICH WE DON'T THINK ABOUT ENOUGH http://www.upworthy.com/this-video-makes-grocery-shopping-feel-like-a-scene-in-a-horror-film-3
WATCH 6 April 2013 - New York Times
RE-ENGINEERING ANIMALS IN LUST FOR PROFITS ... and into our environment, food and bodies - No Regulation, No Oversight, No Labeling
SHOCKING VIDEOS - ▶ MercyForAnimals investigation is first to expose sickening animal cruelty at pig farms across Mexico. Watch the video and learn more at http://InsidePigFarms.com . - ▶ Mercy For Animals pic.twitter.com/dG37fuiBMk - ▶ This is the very definition of insanity pic.twitter.com/YgaHkJUpk3 - ▶ Mercy For Animals @MercyForAnimals Stop treating animals like objects. pic.twitter.com/Ub4gE4auPu - ▶ Mercy For Animal @MercyForAnimals The Mexican Government owns slaughterhouses. We eat their beef... and they're way worse than you'd think. pic.twitter.com/ev46uyDljh - ▶ WE COULD END FACTORY FARMING THIS CENTURY Jacy Reese thinks that someday, we’ll look back on factory farming as one of the greatest moral mistakes in history. In his new book, The End of Animal Farming, he lays out a road map to get us to that point
▶ STOP TREATING ANIMALS LIKE OBJECTS
Huffington Post Taste, October 27, 2014 Animals value their lives. There is no such thing as humane meat. pic.twitter.com/rXybLXvhMa
- ▶ Excuses don't save animals. pic.twitter.com/ajZN9Wj75T
CLONING PIGS ON AN 'INDUSTRIAL SCALE'
- ▶ Animals are NOT things. pic.twitter.com/smrAK8gdnN
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AG-GAG LAWS Restricting Public's Right To Know Animal Cruelty in Factory Farms, or CAFOs
RT USA, March 06, 2015
April 4, 2013 - Grist - ▶ WHITE HOUSE GUTS THE NEW SAFETY RULES IN FAVOR OF CORPORATIONS http://grist.org/food/oh-rot-the-white-house-just-gutted-the-new-food-safety-rules/
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March 20, 2013 - Tom Philpott - Mother Jones - ▶ FLIES, MAGGOTS, RATS, AND LOTS OF POOP - WHAT BIG AG AND FACTORY FARMS DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/03/ag-ag-illegal-undercover-film-livestock
Alternet, January 20, 2015
VIDEO Organization for Competitive Markets, August 06, 2013
REPORT - INFOGRAPHIC A quick guide, “Rethinking Industrial Animal Production,” detailing the significant and far reaching consequences of a food system dominated by industrial animal production http://www.scribd.com/doc/247019882/Rethinking-Industrial-Animal-Production
The Guardian, November 29, 2014
Guardian, July 25, 2014
MAKING FARM ANIMAL WELFARE A CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY
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Mother Jones July/August Issue
February 1, 2012 - Tom Philpott - ▶ WHAT HAPPENS TO PIGLETS ON FACTORY FARMS? http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/01/piglets-factory-farm-video
An Image Says A Thousand Words GESTATION CRATES
26 March 2013 - Tom Philpott - Mother Jones - ▶ HOGWASH: BIG AG'S BAN ON CAGING PREGNANT PIGS IS JUST FOR SHOW http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/03/pork-industry-flack-gestation-crate-ban-show
Forbes, October 30, 2013
NPR, November 4, 2014
- ▶ CHINA BUYS BIGGEST USA CAFO HOG FACTORY FARM "SMITHFIELD" : CHINA'S RIVER OF DEAD PIGS - 17,000 OF THEM http://sco.lt/5XuHZp
CHINESE ENTER USA CHICKEN AND HOG FACTORY FARM MARKET UNLABELLED, UNREGULATED
WATCH "A RIVER OF WASTE" The Massive Pollution and History of Factory Farms - CAFOs (Confined Animal Feed Operations http://sco.lt/6PQUk5
Huffington Post, December 19, 2014 More than 100 million pigs are killed every year in the U.S. and the pork industry produced over 23 billion pounds of meat in 2012. The massive industrial operations needed to supply America's pork hunger also have a significant environmental impact. Agriculture, including animal feeding operations, is the most common pollutant of U.S. rivers and streams, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. The enormous, toxic waste lagoons attached to some animal feedlots can even be seen from satellites. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/19/eating-wild-boar-feral-pigs_n_6348486.html
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FOUR-FIFTHS OF ALL BIG PHARMA ANTIBIOTICS CONSUMED BY MEAT AND POULTRY INDUSTRY
VIDEO THE DRUG STORE IN AMERICAN MEAT: CAFOs FACTORY FARMING http://sco.lt/5pYaYr
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Mother Jones, December 05, 2013 http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/12/usda-big-chicken-kill-lines
WATCH SO YOU WANT TO EAT INDUSTRIAL FACTORY FARMED EGGS? California Egg Farm Investigation | Mercy For Animals
-▶ WHAT EVERY PARENT SHOULD KNOW ABOUT BLIND, FOOTLESS CHICKENS, FACTORY FARMS AND THE AG-GAG BILL http://sco.lt/71PvtJ
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VIDEO August 15, 2013 Treehugger THE MECHANIZATION OF OUR MEAT, FOOD SUPPLY http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/wordless-comment-overconsumption.html
WHAT NEXT? OUR ANIMALS ARE NOT INANIMATE OBJECTS Grist, January 29, 2014 http://grist.org/news/we-can-harvest-methane-from-cow-guts-should-we/
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CAFO DAIRY FARMS
-- WATCH -- THE INDUSTRIAL DAIRY INDUSTRY IN 60 SECONDS FLAT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZcUrWAK-8Q#at=47
- ▶ EXCLUSIVE: UNDERCOVER INSIDE THE U.S. DAIRY INDUSTRY http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/1918256069/exclusive-undercover-inside-the-us-dairy-industry
April 22, 2013 - Humanosphere
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FEEDLOTS - CATTLE/BEEF
An Image Says A Thousand Words FEED LOT CATTLE http://ow.ly/mEGS1
- ▶ NEW BILL H.R. 5961, SEEKS TO PREVENT EPA FROM FLYING OVER LARGE-SCALE LIVESTOCK OPERATIONS as part of their effort to enforce the Clean Water Act against the biggest polluters of waterways in the country. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-edwards/keeping-secrets-down-on-t_b_1736929.html
Globe and Mail, October05, 2012
Huffington Post Green, December 04, 2013
-▶ SO YOU WANT TO EAT MEAT? FEEDLOTS vs PASTURES http://sco.lt/4qkbib
MEATONOMICS THE DIRTY TRUTH ABOUT CHEAP MEAT
- ▶ BEEF'S RAW EDGES: OUR INDUSTRIALIZED FOOD SYSTEM, PART 1 http://sco.lt/5gZpWT
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You have the power to stop this. pic.twitter.com/4Zn4dpQNPo
June 6, 2013 Huffington Post Green
VIDEO by PAUL McCARTNEY (Former "Beatle") THE WEBSITE THE MEAT INDUSTRY DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE http://www.meat.org/
VIP WATCH Investigation by Australian ABC TV Four Corners "A BLOODY BUSINESS" - LIVE ANIMAL EXPORTS
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▶ 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
The Ecologist, November 28, 2013 -▶ DEFORMITIES, SICKNESS AND LIVESTOCK DEATHS: THE REAL COST OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED ANIMAL FEED http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2176082/deformities_sickness_and_livestock_deaths_the_real_cost_of_gm_animal_feed.html
August 8, 2013 Organic Consumers Association
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WATCH "DEATH ON A USA FACTORY FARM" "[HBO Special] When Animals Become Inanimate Objects On A Balance Sheet
March 19, 2013 - Huffington Post - ▶ WHY EVERYONE SHOULD BE ANGRY ABOUT CORPORATE FACTORY FARMING http://sco.lt/7kUpVp
- ▶ WHAT EVERY PARENT SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ANIMAL CONDITIONS ON FACTORY FARMS AND THE AG-GAG BILL http://sco.lt/5p824n
MORE, BIGGER, FASTER : WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT FACTORY FARMING YOUR ANIMAL FOOD: Anti-Whistle-blower Ag-Gag Laws http://sco.lt/8usxzV
- ▶ LAST CHANCE FOR ANIMALS - FACTORY FARMING http://www.lcanimal.org/index.php/campaigns/other-issues/factory-farming
Huffington Post, March 17, 2014
pdjmoo's insight:
EcoWatch, November 26, 2013 - ▶ HOW TO AVOID FACTORY FARMED FOODS http://ecowatch.com/2013/11/26/avoid-factory-farmed-foods/?utm_source=feedly
VIDEO DailyMail Online
VIDEO DOWN PRODUCTION: BIRDS HORRENDOUSLY ABUSED FOR THEIR FEATHERS http://www.peta.org/features/down-investigation/
- ▶ ANTI-WHISTLE BLOWER AG-GAG LAWS AIMED AT KEEPING YOU IN THE DARK ABOUT YOUR FACTORY FARMED FOOD - PIGS, CHICKENS, VEAL, DAIRY, TURKEY, DUCKS http://sco.lt/7aFBUv
- ▶ EATING WITH OUR EYES CLOSED - LEGALIZING CORPORATE FARMING ANIMAL ABUSE AND PRACTICES http://sco.lt/8IZrqD
-▶ 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
Scoop.it!
AllAfrica, January 07, 2014 ▶ OUR CONTEMPORARY, WESTERN AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM IS DESTROYING THE EARTH AND OUR HEALTH Over the course of the past century our food supply has shifted from local to global. Most food our grandparents ate was grown regionally, often by neighbourhood farmers. Today our food comes from across the world. More importantly, it is often produced in highly destructive ways, at the lowest possible cost. Consequently our food production system is responsible for accelerating the rate of destruction of the very ecosystems we are reliant upon in order to maintain our delicate global environmental equilibrium. We cut and clear the lungs of the world, our tropical rainforests, to feed livestock or grow dishonestly named "biofuels". We bulldoze natural filtration systems and the nurseries for life like wetlands and mangrove swamps to produce luxury foods for obese populations... http://allafrica.com/stories/201401071158.html?viewall=1 WATCH WHEN FARMS TURN INTO FACTORIES (16:17) Down To Earth - France 24 TV It's time to end the myth once and for all. The farms in children's books are history. Today's agriculture is increasingly industrial and only those who adapt will survive. http://www.france24.com/en/20150315-down-to-earth-megafarms-agriculture-factories-environment-footprint Common Dreams, March 21, 2014 Union of Concerned Scientists ▶ HIDDEN COSTS OF INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/our-failing-food-system/industrial-agriculture/hidden-costs- The Ecologist 16 May 2015 Common Dreams, February 18, 2013 ▶ INDUSTRIAL AG TRIGGERS DEVASTATING 'WEB' OF POLLUTION http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/18-2 The Atlantic March 19, 2015 Agricultural and Rural Convention, January 20, 2015 September 4, 2013 NPR ▶ THERE WILL BE NO COMPETITION: HOW BIG AGRICULTURE AND USDA ARE EASING OUT SMALL FARMERS WITH NEW FOOD SAFETY RULES http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/04/218642746/small-farmers-in-new-england-fear-new-food-safety-rules Nation of Change, April 08, 2014 ========================= WESTERN FOOD, WESTERN DIETS OBESITY, DIABETES, CANCER ========================= OBESITY PLUS THE GREAT AMERICAN EXPORT. HUGE INCREASE IN DIABETES, STROKES, HEART ATTACKS ON A GLOBAL SCALE http://sco.lt/4hekXh Oliver De Schutter, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right To Food, May 19, 2014 International Center for Tropical Agriculture, March 03, 2014 -▶ GLOBALIZED DIET: MORE FOOD, LESS DIVERSITY, MORE ASSOCIATED RISKS http://www.ciatnews.cgiar.org/2014/03/03/globalized-diet-more-food-less-diversity-more-associated-risks/
Green Biz, May 15, 2014 ▶ THINK THOSE CHEMICALS AND PESTICIDES IN YOUR FOOD & ENVIRONMENT HAVE BEEN TESTED? http://sco.lt/72z4g ▶ 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 VIDEO INVESTIGATION FOUR-FIFTHS OF ALL BIG PHARMA ANTIBIOTICS CONSUMED BY MEAT AND POULTRY INDUSTRY: A DISASTER IN THE MAKING http://sco.lt/5u5Gyn -▶ FOOD FIGHTS, CORPORATE TRADE AGREEMENTS, AND STATES' RIGHTS: DEMOCRACY OR CORPORATOCRACY? http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_29258.cfm TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP: Obama's New Secretive Global Trade Pacts Are A Global Corporate Coup d'etat http://sco.lt/8kt4ZF Common Dreams, September 23, 2013 ▶ U.N. - ECOLOGICAL WAKE-UP CALL THAT COUNTERS CORPORATE-FRIENDLY 'FREE' TRADE AND OUR INDUSTRIAL FOOD PRODUCTION http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/23-5 Animal Ecology In Focus, January 16, 2015 ▶ OUR AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM HAS LOST IT'S WAY - TOWARD HEALTHY FOOD AND FARMS 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... Truthout, December 04, 2014 Pambazuka -Voices for Freedom and Justice in Africa ▶ HOW MEGA CORPORATIONS FRAME ISSUES OF FOOD AND GLOBAL HUNGER FOR THEIR OWN SELF-INTEREST AND BOTTOM=LINE 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 ▶ THE CORPORATE 'PHILANTHROCAPITALISTS' TAKEOVER OF AFRICAN AND GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY http://sco.lt/6CHP3R The Conversation, September 11, 2014 BBC News, March 03, 2014 -▶ FEWER CROPS FEEDING THE WORLD: INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE THREATENING FOOD SECURITY http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26382067 HuffPostGreen, March24, 2015 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 - ▶ HOW BIOTECH CORPORATIONS AND GMO CROPS ARE THREATENING THE ENVIRONMENT AND HUMANKIND ALIKE http://sco.lt/7OmezB OWNING THE SEEDS OF LIFE SEED PATENT AND CONTROL OF YOUR FOOD THE GLOBAL CORPORATE MONOPOLY The Conversation, February 26, 2015 Guardian Environment, February 24, 2015 Global Development Professionals Network, February 03, 2015 Eat Drink Better -▶ SOYBEANS: FACTORY FARMING AND THE DESTRUCTION OF LANDS AND LIVES IN ARGENTINA http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2013/12/23/soybeans-factory-farming-destruction-argentina/ PRODUCT OF MEXICO Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, January 14, 2015 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 Ecocentric, March 17,2015 Business Recorder, January 26, 2015 Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, January 14, 2015 EcoWatch, March 31, 2014 Biocultural Heritage, WATCH (6:29)
SHORT VIDEO: Guardian Sustainable Business, May 01, 2014 The Daily Climate, November 10, 2014 -▶ 65 BILLION ANIMALS RAISED IN CORPORATE CONCENTRATION PENS: DRUGS, GMO FEED AND AG-GAG LAWS TO IMPACT US ALL http://sco.lt/6GRczB DO WE REALLY NEED CORPORATE 'CLIMATE-SMART' AGRICULTURE GREENWASH? - AGRA http://sco.lt/7GeSET 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 Sustainable Food Trust, July 25, 2014 REPORT Part 2 of 4 and CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION INVESTIGATIVE REPORT SOARING PESTICIDE USE AND POISONING LINKED TO GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROP PRODUCTION http://sco.lt/8iunRp ▶ OUR GMO CORNFIELDS ARE TOO QUIET - ALL LIFE CHEMICALLY EXTERMINATED - EXCEPT THE GENE-ALTERED CORN http://sco.lt/6przzF BAN GMOs NOW - SPECIAL REPORT Institute of Science in Society PHOTO ESSAY 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 Brigit Strawbridge, May 09, 2013
Nation of Change, May 09, 2014 ▶ TOP TEN DISTURBING NEWS STORIES AND WHY CORPORATE FOOD IS THREATENING OUR FOOD SUPPLIES http://sco.lt/5QMaqv
VIDEO Guardian Sustainable Business, October 20, 2014 March 10, 2014 Oliver De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food -▶ 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
WATCH 59:94 SPECIAL ISSUE: PAMBAZUKA NEWS GMOs, FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AND AFRICA Pambazuka, July 24. 2014 -▶ GMOs AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY: WHICH WAY AFRICA? AFRICA G8 - FOOD SECURITY FOR WHOM? CORPORATE PROFITS v SMALL HOLDER FARMERS INTEREST
allAfrica.com: February 18, 2014 ▶ DESPITE CLIMATE CHANGE, AFRICAN CAN FEED AFRICA. There is a continuing argument as to whether the industrial agricultural revolution will solve some or all of Africa's climate change problems. However, experts maintain that industrial agriculture currently accounts for one third of all greenhouse gas emissions--the very element most responsible for climate change. Additionally, they believe that the resources and infrastructure required to operate an industrial agricultural system in Africa are impractical for smallholder farmers... http://allafrica.com/stories/201402191455.html One Green Planet, February 26, 2017 ▶ HOW THE GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL FOOD COMPLEX LEAVES PEOPLE HUNGRY AND UNDERNOURISHED http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/whos-eating-the-worlds-grain/ TripleCrisis, January 14, 2014 Nation of Change, July 27, 2014 WATCH "A RIVER OF WASTE" Industrial livestock produce hundreds of millions of tons of manure annually, polluting our groundwater and waterways http://sco.lt/6PQUk5 WATCH A FARM FOR THE FUTURE - NATURE HOLDS THE KEY ETC Group, September 4, 2013
▶ WALL STREET, CORPORATIONS GOBBLING UP AMERICAN, FOREIGN FARMLAND, THREATENING FUTURE OF U.S. AND WORLD AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY http://sco.lt/8mcmbR EcoWatch, February 22, 2014 -▶ STOP FEEDING THE BEAST AND START FEEDING THE PEOPLE. We have a system of predatory agriculture in which corporations pursue private gain relentlessly regardless of the social consequences. Social consequences can be defined as anything from polluting our water, land and air to impacting the health of our families to making the business of farming economically unsustainable. http://ecowatch.com/2014/02/22/stop-feeding-beast-start-feeding-people/
HUNGRY CORPORATIONS http://sco.lt/8xbKi1
TakePart, July 10, 2014 ▶ LEGAL FIGHT BY CORPORATE AGRICULTURE WHO WANT STATE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS AND OTHER LEGAL MEASURES TO COUNTER RESISTANCE TO INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE . http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/07/10/right-farm-laws =================== PESTICIDES =================== MONSANTO'S TOXIC HERBICIDE "ROUNDUP" GLYPHOSATE HORMONE INHIBITOR IN OUR FOOD CHAIN http://sco.lt/5IGifZ -▶ ANOTHER REASON TO AVOID CONVENTIONAL, INDUSTRIAL WHEAT AND GRAINS: LASHINGS, UPON LASHINGS OF POWERFUL TOXIC INSECTICIDES: NEONICOTINOIDS http://lincoln-adams.wsu.edu/agriculture/NACAA-Wireworm-Control-Poster-2011.pdf BEYOND PESTICIDES -▶ THOUSANDS OF SRI LANKA FA |
This is an awful lot of information but all of it spells one thing: "Be aware and beware!
"Our modern energy-, chemical- and genetically modified organism (GMO)-intensive industrial food and farming systems are the major cause of man-made global warming." Studies show that not only are greenhouse gasses caused by Carbon Dioxide but also by methane and nitrous oxide. Farming includes so many different ways of using fuel form the machinery to the end of food production. Another way farming isn't helping is through deforestation, and wetlands destruction. "When you add it all up, the picture is clear—contemporary agriculture is burning up our planet. And factory farms or, in industry lingo, Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), play a key role in this impending disaster." Climate rise is complex but a few of the top reasons are coal burning, and fossil fuels. To get this under control we would need to stop using 90% of the fosil fuels we are using.
We can't live in fear of the future, we have to have farms no matter what they emit into the air. Without farms, we couldn't survive.