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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

WATCH

UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATIONS

2017, 2018 

Behind closed doors, animals are suffering on factory farms

Shocking undercover footage taken at a JBS supplier reveals sickening animal cruelty, including pigs punched and kicked in the face; mother pigs confined to cages so small they are unable to even turn around; and piglets painfully mutilated, suffering from untreated injuries and illness, and killed by having their heads smashed against the ground.

https://mercyforanimals.org/investigations?_ga=2.240567107.19086133.1541224703-1486436995.1541224703

Mail Online January 24, 2014

 - ▶  FARM-AGEDDON: TODAY'S MEGA FARMS DESTROYING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN HEALTH Today, ‘mixed’ farming of animals and crops has all but disappeared, writes PHILIP LYMBERY, and has been replaced by farms specialising in one product only....

   Because without fuss or fanfare, and largely unnoticed by the public, our farm animals are being disconnected from the land, disappearing from fields and moved into cramped, airless hangars and barns, with concrete beneath their feet instead of grass.

   And now the pressure is growing to move to the next stage of intensive farming: mega-piggeries, mega-dairies and ‘battery’-reared beef, with the genetically engineered animals and crops already common in the United States and elsewhere.

   It is a pressure we in this country should resist with all our might. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2545647/Farm-ageddon-No-birds-No-bees-Our-countryside-laid-waste-And-billions-animals-never-blade-grass-book-warns-terrifying-threat-todays-gram-mega-farms.html 

Quillette, October 18, 2018

- ▶ WHY IT'S TIME TO END FACTORY FARMING

There are over 100 billion farmed animals alive at this moment—more than ten times the number of humans. 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

https://quillette.com/2018/10/20/why-its-time-to-end-factory-farming/

 #Fact: VIDEO The pork industry kills piglets who aren’t growing fast enough by slamming them head first onto concrete floors. pic.twitter.com/KpZJ9TQpm8

- ▶ FEED LOTS:

THIS IS HOW YOUR BEEF IS RAISED: #CAFO Lots:  Are We Allowed to See How Our Food Is Raised?  A Husband and Wife Goes Out to Investigate: VIDEO 15:40  https://youtu.be/sFDpsUDE27A

CivilEats, 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.

In a closed farrowing system, the average sow produces around 23.5 piglets per year—or 10 per litter at an industry target rate of 2.35 litters annually. Across the country, some 33.2 million pigs enter the system per year. If the sows die before the piglets are weaned, the loss can also impact their health and rate of survival. After 2-4 litters, however, most sows tend to get replaced by younger gilts who can produce piglets at a higher rate. When this happens, the sows being replaced are typically culled and sold to sausage companies like Jimmy Dean.

https://civileats.com/2018/10/01/why-are-sows-in-factory-farms-dying-in-record-numbers/

CivilEats, September 27, 2018

- ▶ IOWANS UNITE TO STOP HOG FARMS FROM POLLUTING THEIR COMMUNITY

Families in the Hawkeye State are joining together to stop the spread of large-scale farms that they say are polluting the environment and destroying their way of life.

Between 1982 and 2012, the most recent U.S. Department of Agriculture census, total hog production in Iowa rose from 14.3 million a year to 20.5 million. During the same time period, the number of farmers producing hogs dropped from 45,768 to 6,266.

In Howard County, 427 hog farms existed in 1982 and just 54 in 2012, according to census data. Those 54 farmers are producing 197,113 hogs a year, or about 3,650 hogs a farmer

https://civileats.com/2018/09/27/iowans-unite-to-stop-hog-farms-from-polluting-their-community/

This is why it's called factory farming.  

pic.twitter.com/XnrP8nYf3O

- ▶ SHOCKING: Thousands of chicks tossed in the trash. Fully conscious. This is how the Egg Industry treats *millions* of male chicks every year pic.twitter.com/ZBnPvNjddD

The Atlantic, March 19, 2014
  -▶ THE LAW THAT MAKES IT ILLEGAL TO REPORT ON ANIMAL CRUELTY ON CORPORATE FACTORY FARMS. What makes Idaho's agricultural industry deserve special protection from journalists and activists?  http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/03/the-law-that-makes-it-illegal-to-report-on-animal-cruelty/284485/

Alternet, December 10, 2013
- ▶ HOW BIG AGRIBUSINESS IS TRYING TO MUZZLE THE TRUTH BEHIND CORPORATE FACTORY FARMS http://www.alternet.org/big-agribusiness-trying-muzzle-animal-rights-activists-who-infiltrate-their-factory-farms?akid=11256.237541.4BAflB&rd=1&src=newsletter934989&t=5

  -▶ UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATIONS OF FACTORY FARMS AND SLAUGHTERHOUSES http://www.mercyforanimals.org/investigations.aspx

- ▶ This pig is heroic! He put himself at risk by disrupting the slaughter of his friend. Animals are incredible. pic.twitter.com/3VFbE0IdKE

Businessweek, January 09, 2014

DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN

 -▶ INDUSTRIAL FARMING:  STATE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS MAY GIVE LEGAL SHIELD TO CORPORATIONS http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-09/industrial-farming-state-constitutional-amendments-may-give-legal-shield

- ▶ 15 PIECES OF PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE PROVING MEAT COMES FROM HELL. May 20, 2017  

https://mercyforanimals.org/15-pieces-of-photographic-evidence-proving

Huffington Post, March 17, 2014

  -▶ 9 FACTS ABOUT FACTORY FARMING THAT WILL BREAK YOUR HEART  (GRAPHIC PHOTOS) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/17/factory-farming-facts_n_4063892.html

Collective Evolution, March 4, 2014

▶  CORPORATE FACTORY FARMING IS DESTROYING OUR ENVIRONMENT -- 10 BILLION -- ANIMALS ARE RAISED AND KILLED FOR FOOD EACH YEAR IN THE UNITED STATES ALONE, According to the US Department of Agriculture http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/03/04/eating-meat-destruction-of-environment/

Reuter, 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

ANIMATED VIDEO

CORPORATE FACTORY FARMING
The Brutal Basics of American Modern Farms
http://www.aspca.org/blog/factory-farming-video-brutal-basics-modern-farms

 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

Organic Lifestyle Magazine, July 08, 2014
- ▶ FACTORY FARMED CHICKENS:  THE HIDDEN COST OF CHEAP CHICKEN http://www.organiclifestylemagazine.com/factory-farmed-chickens-the-hidden-cost-of-cheap-chicken/

George Monbiot, December 16, 2014

- ▶ IF YOU MUST EAT MEAT, SAVE IT FOR CHRISTMAS : We are in perputual denial about our food : From chickens pumped with antibiotics to the environmental devastation caused by production, we need to realise we are not fed with happy farm animals http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/16/perpetual-denial-food-meat-production-environmental-devastation

 HuffingtonPost, February 19, 2014
  -▶ FARMAGEDDON, THE TRUE COST OF CHEAP MEAT http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/sue-cross/farmageddon-the-true-cost_b_4809387.html

The Telegraph, February 10, 2014
  -▶ FARMAGEDDON:  REVIEW OF EXPOSE OF THE NIGHTMARE WORLD OF MODERN FACTORY FARMING http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/10620308/Farmageddon-by-Philip-Lymbery-with-Isabel-Oakeshott-review.html

Huffington Post Taste, October 27, 2014
  - ▶ WHAT EXACTLY DOES 'HUMANELY RAISED' MEAN? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/24/humanely-raised_n_6041402.html

OnEarth Magazine, February 2, 2014
-▶ HOG WILD:  U.S. FACTORY FARMS ARE POISONING IOWA'S DRINKING WATER -- ALL TO FEED CHINA http://www.onearth.org/articles/2014/02/factory-farms-are-poisoning-iowa-water

Guardian Sustainable Living, March 14, 2014
▶  THE ANIMAL WELFARE AND ANTITRUST ISSUES BEHIND AMERICA'S CHEAP MEAT http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/animal-welfare-america-cheap-meat-industry

Los Angeles, January 27, 2014

  -▶  TO MAKE A BURGER, FIRST YOU NEED 660 GALLONS OF WATER ... http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-gallons-of-water-to-make-a-burger-20140124,0,1713014.story#axzz2rixf8e4w

EurActive, January 10, 2014
  -▶  'MEAT ATLAS' SHEDS LIGHT ON HIDDEN COSTS OF BEEF, PIGMEAT http://www.euractiv.com/cap/costs-eu-meat-consumption-go-pri-news-532696

Seattle Organic Restaurants
  -▶ THE SECRET TAKEOVER OF OUR FOOD SUPPLY BY A FEW GIANT AMERICAN CORPORATIONS AND CORPORATIONS LIKE TYSON ARE PIONEERS OF MEAT RACKET http://www.seattleorganicrestaurants.com/vegan-whole-food/takeover-of-our-food-by-giant-agribusinesses-Tyson-foods-meat-racket.php

Grist, January 27, 2014
 -▶  U.N, WARNS US TO EAT LESS MEAT AND LAY OFF BIOFUELS, OR WE'RE IN FOR IT. We’re over consuming ourselves into environmental oblivion. Farming will eliminate forests, plains, and other wild areas nearly the size of Brazil by 2050 around the world if we can’t mend our agricultural, dietary, and biofuel-burning ways. This unsustainable drive for more growing land will result in rising hunger and more frequent riots as food prices increase. http://grist.org/news/un-warns-us-to-eat-less-meat-and-lay-off-biofuels-or-were-in-for-it/

Treehugger, January 31, 2014
▶  WHY OUR CHILDREN NEED REAL FOOD, NOT FOOD PRODUCTS  (book review) http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/why-our-children-need-real-food-not-food-products-book-review.html

                                                       VIDEO
                                           FARM TO FRIDGE
                     The Truth Behind Industrial Meat Production
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THIODWTqx5E#t=29

Food Safety News, June 30, 2014

 -▶ AMA SEEKS BAN ON ANTIBIOTIC USE ON FARMS FOR GROWTH PROMOTION http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2014/06/american-medical-association-calls-for-federal-action-on-antibiotic-use-on-farms/

WATCH

LIVE EXPORT

 "A BLOODY BUSINESS" - LIVE ANIMAL EXPORTS

***Australian TV Four Corners Investigation

 http://sco.lt/7cFyuf

Common Dreams, Ronnie Cummins

65 BILLION ANIMALS WORLDWIDE CRAMMED INTO CAFOs (Confined Animal Feed Lots  including cows, chickens and pigs, 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.... http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/17-5

New York Time, February 19, 2014
  -▶  IS THAT SAUSAGE WORTH THIS?  TURNING PIGS INTO CANNIBALS http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/20/opinion/kristof-is-that-sausage-worth-this.html?_r=0

VIDEO
The Humane Society of the United States, February 20, 2014
 UNDERCOVER AT IRON MAIDEN:

IS YOUR SAUSAGE WORTH THIS?
http://video.humanesociety.org/

Grist, January 29, 2015

-▶  POOR COWS:  HARVESTING METHANE BY PUNCHING HOLES IN COWS STOMACHS: Argentinian scientists are punching holes in the sides of cattle and passing pipes through to their stomachs. The other end of the pipe goes into a bag fitted on the cow’s back. The captured gas, can be burned to produce energy. http://grist.org/news/we-can-harvest-methane-from-cow-guts-should-we/

- ▶ THE RISE OF THE 'DESIGNER' FARM ANIMAL http://action.raw.info/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=119&ea.campaign.id=22518&ea.tracking.id=1174f49c&utm_campaign=raw&utm_source=shared&utm_medium=link

- ▶ PATENT FOR A PIG -- BIOTECH SCIENTISTS RACING TO RE-ENGINEER OUR FARM ANIMALS: ANIMALS LIKE ON AN INANIMATE AUTO PRODUCTION LINE http://sco.lt/7g1H3R

                                          INVESTIGATIVE REPORT
                                                    WATCH 53:41)
                                      Frontline PBS, October 14, 2014
THE TROUBLE WITH ANTIBIOTICS REDUCING GROWTH HORMONES USE IN FOOD ANIMALS
Up to 70 percent of all antibiotics sold in the U.S. are used in food animals. For years, farmers and ranchers have used antibiotics to help food animals grow faster on less feed. This practice, known as “growth promotion,” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/trouble-with-antibiotics/

-▶ FOUR-FIFTHS OF BIG PHARMA ANTIBIOTICS CONSUMED BY MEAT AND POULTRY INDUSTRY  (What Are You Eating?) http://sco.lt/5u5Gyn

CORPORATE MONOPOLY OF OUR FOOD SUPPLY 

TakePart, July 10, 2014
  -▶ THE LEGAL FIGHT OVER WRITING CORPORATE INDUSTRIAL FARMING INTO THE CONSTITUTION  State constitutional amendments and other legal measures would protect industrial agriculture. When state legislators met to hash out new laws in the spring of 2013, farm protection or ag-gag bills were voted on across the Midwest and in agricultural states in the South and Southwest. The laws were designed to criminalize the work of animal rights activists and whistle-blowers who secretly recorded abuse or other unlawful activity in confined animal feeding operations or other farms... http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/07/10/right-farm-laws

 Grist, June 10, 2014
- ▶  MONOPOLIES: A MEAT GIANT GOBBLES UP ANOTHER MEAT GIANT:  GRAPHS There are problems with this kind of consolidation...“When all the power is so centralized in these behemoths, they end up writing their own rules in Congress and fighting the reforms to protect consumers and farmers”...

When the Obama administration sought to reform the animal farming industry, many farmers, some visibly frightened, risked their livelihoods by speaking publicly about abuses. But industry squelched that attempt.

Now, the industry lobbyists are working to reduce the number of inspectors in slaughterhouses, while speeding up the kill and processing lines. "But the chickens already move down the disassembly lines “obscenely fast, in my opinion,” http://grist.org/food/a-meat-giant-gobbles-up-another-meat-giant/

The Ecologist, June 2, 2014
 -▶ THE BIG TEN FOOD COMPANIES MUST JOIN THE CLIMATE FIGHT. In the fight for zero hunger in a safer climate, the silence of the food and beverage industry is not a virtue. They must cut their huge carbon emissions, campaign to protect global climate, and rethink their entire mission to encompass health and wellbeing. http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2445685

Common Dreams, March 21, 2014
  -▶ RADICAL U.N. REPORT PROMOTES DEMOCRATIC CONTROL OF FOOD AND AN END TO CORPORATE DOMINATION http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/21-0

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, January 9, 2014

 - ▶ GERMANS SPEAKING OUT AGAINST INDUSTRIAL MEAT AND AGRICULTURE   http://www.iatp.org/blog/201401/germans-speaking-out-against-industrial-meat-and-agriculture

NationofChange, June 17, 2014
▶ FARMERS SEE BETTER ANIMAL HEALTH WITH NON-GMO FEED, BUT SCARED TO SAY SO http://www.nationofchange.org/farmers-see-better-animal-health-non-gmo-feed-scared-say-so-1403019863

 Yale Environment 260, May 27, 2014
 ▶ AS CORPORATE DAIRY FARMS GROW BIGGER, NEW CONCERN ABOUT POLLUTION. Dairy operations in the U.S. are consolidating, with ever-larger numbers of cows concentrated on single farms. In states like Wisconsin, opposition to some large operations is growing after manure spills and improper handling of waste have contaminated waterways and aquifers. http://e360.yale.edu/feature/as_dairy_farms_grow_bigger_new_concerns_about_pollution/2768/

                                                       WATCH: 

                                             "A RIVER OF WASTE"

The Massive Pollution and History of Factory Farms - CAFOs (Confined Animal Feed Lots) http://sco.lt/6PQUk5

- ▶ WHAT EVERY PARENT SHOULD KNOW ABOUT BLIND, FOOTLESS CHICKENS, EGGS, FACTORY FARMS AND THE AG-GAG BILL http://sco.lt/71PvtJ

     -▶  ANIMALS RAISED IN CORPORATE CONCENTRATION PENS - DRUGS, GMO FEED AND 'AG-GAG' LAWS TO IMPACT BEYOND THE USA  http://sco.lt/6jKf2H

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AG-GAG LAWS

http://sco.lt/7QskbJ

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 Mother Jones, May/June Issue
▶ HOW TO FIGHT A FACTORY FARM AND WIN: A couple of attorneys have sniffed out Big Pork' legal weak spot http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/04/law-and-odor-attorneys-big-pork-legal-weak-spot

Al Jazeera America, February 28, 2014
- ▶ IDAHO GOVERNOR SIGNS AG GAG BILL INTO LAW: ABUSE WILL NOW GO UNEXPOSED - FURTHER PROTECTING CORPORATE PROFITS http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/2/28/idaho-gov-signs-aggagbillintolaw.html

 Green Is the New Red, February 20, 2014
- ▶ IDAHO AG-GAG LAW WOULD MAKE IT ILLEGAL TO PHOTOGRAPH FACTORY FARM CRUELTY  http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/idaho-ag-gag-law/7635/

 HuffPost Food For Thought, February 25, 2014

- ▶ IDAHO'S AG-GAG BILL IS A SHAMEFUL ATTEMPT TO HIDE ANIMAL CRUELTY ON CORPORATE FACTORY FARMS http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-runkle/idahos-aggag-bill-shamefu_b_4848923.html

                                                     WATCH
                "DEATH ON A FACTORY FARM  [HBO] (2009) 1:27:25

Directors Tom Simon and Sarah Teale (HBOs Dealing Dogs) tell the story of an animal rights investigator who goes undercover at hog farm in Ohio to explore a whistle blowers allegations. The evidence he gathers leads to a rare prosecution and trial for animal cruelty, and a verdict that surprises nearly everyone.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfiolWwzD94

Salon, March 17, 2014
  -▶ IDAHO'S CONTROVERSIAL AG-GAG LAW CHALLENGED IN FEDERAL COURT http://www.salon.com/2014/03/17/idahos_controversial_ag_gag_law_challenged_in_federal_court/

                                                        VIDEO
                         Mercy For Animals, February 19, 2014
- ▶  IDAHO AG-GAG LAW:  MFA RELEASES SHOCKING NEW VIDEO OF DAIRY COW SEX ABUSE http://www.mfablog.org/2014/02/idaho-ag-gag-mfa-releases-shocking-new-video-of-dairy-cow-sex-abuse.html

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                                        - ▶ MEATONOMICS:

                       THE DIRTY TRUTH ABOUT CHEAP MEAT

                                            http://sco.lt/5MiErp

 -▶  IT'S RIDICULOUS TO SAY COWS PRODUCE MORE METHANE THAN NATURAL GAS FRACKING, AUTO EMISSIONS, COAL & GAS... http://sco.lt/8TIRX7

               +++++A Picture Says 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

    -▶  CHINESE ENTER US FOOD MARKET :  HOGS and CHICKENS -- UNLABELLED,  NO OVERSIGHT http://sco.lt/7MuubR

▶ MORE, BIGGER, FASTER : WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT FACTORY FARMING YOUR ANIMAL FOOD: ANTI-WHISTLE BLOWER AG GAG LAWS  http://sco.lt/5n7fqD

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                                             AGRICULTURE

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BBC News, March 03, 2014
 -▶ FEWER CROPS FEEDING THE WORLD: INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE THREATENING FOOD SECURITY http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26382067

  Mother Jones, January 10, 2014
- ▶ HOW BILL GATES IS HELPING KFC TAKE OVER AFRICA http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/01/kfc-africa-chicken-usaid-gates-foundation

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/

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/

 Yale Environment 360, March 13, 2014
-▶ IN THE PASTURES OF COLUMBIA, COWS, CROPS AND TIMBER COEXIST. As an ambitious program in Colombia demonstrates, combining grazing and agriculture with tree cultivation can coax more food from each acre, boost farmers’ incomes, restore degraded landscapes, and make farmland more resilient to climate change. http://e360.yale.edu/feature/in_the_pastures_of_colombia_cows_crops_and_timber_coexist/2746/

   -▶  WALL STREET BANKS EYE AMERICAN FARMLAND, THREATEN FUTURE OF U.S. AND WORLD AGRICULTURE http://sco.lt/4nG6Ur

-▶ BIG CORPORATE AGRICULTURE CAUSES 80% OF TROPICAL DEFORESTATION - THE TERRIBLE PRICE WE PAY http://sco.lt/8DCl1d

 - ▶  HOW BIOTECH CORPORATIONS AND GMO CROPS ARE THREATENING THE ENVIRONMENT AND HUMANKIND ALIKE http://sco.lt/7OmezB

 -▶ CORPORATE HIJACKING OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE: GENETIC ENGINEERING AND THE GMO INDUSTRY http://sco.lt/73IdQ9

 -▶ OUR INDUSTRIAL, WESTERN AGRICULTURAL FOOD SYSTEM IS DESTROYING THE EARTH AND OUR HEALTH http://sco.lt/63qRl3

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                                                         USA

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Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, February 18, 2014
   -▶  BRACING FOR IMPACTS AS CHINA ENTERS INDUSTRIAL MEAT COMPLEX http://www.iatp.org/blog/201402/bracing-for-impacts-as-china-enters-industrial-meat-complex

-▶  ARE YOU EATING CLONED PORK? CHINA ENTERS USA FOOD MARKET UNLABELED, UNREGULATED http://sco.lt/57VNh3

One Green Planet, February 26, 2014

▶ HOW THE GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL FOOD COMPLEX LEAVES PEOPLE HUNGRY AND UNDERNOURISHED http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/whos-eating-the-worlds-grain/

RT News, February 24, 2014

▶ FINALLY, SOME ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:  GMO MONOCROPS MAY CAUSE MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL (AND HUMAN HEALTH) RISKS, USDA ADMITS http://rt.com/usa/usda-gmo-risk-report-537/

 ▶  OUR GMO CORNFIELDS ARE TOO QUIET - ALL LIFE CHEMICALLY EXTERMINATED - EXCEPT THE GENE-ALTERED CORN http://sco.lt/6przzF

 ETC Group, September 06, 2013

  -▶  WHO WILL FEED US? THE INDUSTRIAL FOOD CHAIN OR THE PEASANT FOOD WEBS? http://www.etcgroup.org/content/poster-who-will-feed-us-industrial-food-chain-or-peasant-food-webs

                                 INVESTIGATIVE REPORT 

SOARING PESTICIDE USE AND POISONING LINKED TO GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROP PRODUCTION http://sco.lt/8iunRp

                                       BEYOND PESTICIDES
           PESTICIDE-INDUCED DISEASES DATA BASE -- CANCER
               http://www.beyondpesticides.org/health/cancer.php

 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/

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

                                       VIDEO INVESTIGATION:

                                        "DAIRY'S DARK SIDE"

                             http://www.mercyforanimals.org/dairy/

                                         INDUSTRIAL DAIRY FARM

                                               http://ow.ly/m3nKA

 ;Union Of Concerned Scientists

▶  TOWARD HEALTHY FOOD AND FARMS: OUR AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM HAS LOST IT'S WAY http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/

 The Ecologist, February 05, 2014
  -▶ GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS ARE DRIVING GENOCIDE AND ECOCIDE -- KEEP THEM OUT OF THE EU http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2267255/gm_crops_are_driving_genocide_and_ecocide_keep_them_out_of_the_eu.html

  -▶ WIKILEAKS: USA GOVERNMENT PUSHES MONSANTO, GMO CROPS GLOBALLY: STARTS 'TRADE WARS' WITH NATIONS OPPOSED http://sco.lt/6PzO9x

                                                       VIDEO:
                   McDONALD'S SUPERBOWL MAKEOVER ATTEMPT
                              "PINK SLIME", WHAT PINK SLIME? 

       http://grist.org/list/mcdonalds-pink-slime-video-superbowl-ad/

                                ==========================

                        CORPORATE INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE

                                             AND OUR FOOD

                                 =========================

                                               WATCH (6:29)
                   ANNA LAPPE AND FOOD MYTHBUSTERS
   DO WE NEED INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE TO FEED THE WORLD
              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uem2ceZMxYk

BBC News, March 03, 2014
 -▶  FEWER CROPS NOW FEEDING THE WORLD: INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE THREATENS GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26382067

                                                      WATCH

                  THE FUTURE OF FOOD - PART 2 Vandana Shiva

http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/951852556/the-future-of-food-part-2-vandana-shiva

 ▶  OUR GMO CORNFIELDS ARE TOO QUIET - ALL LIFE CHEMICALLY EXTERMINATED - EXCEPT THE GENE-ALTERED CORN http://sco.lt/6przzF

                                  INFOGRAPHIC - SOIL TO SKY
                 AGROECOLOGY vs INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE PDF
http://agroecologygroup.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Soil-to-Sky-infographic.pdf

   -▶  ARE YOU EATING PESTICIDE PLANTS? http://sco.lt/7v6Y2T

  The Ecologist, January 30, 2014
  -▶ THE CHEMICAL BLITZ OF PESTICIDES IN OUR FIELDS: An ordinary arable field in Sussex is sprayed with pesticides 22 times over a single growing season. Dave Goulson wonders how the bees can survive this toxic onslaught - and exactly who benefits. http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2258103/revealed_the_chemical_blitz_of_pesticides_in_our_fields.html

  -▶ 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

▶ FIVE HOLISTIC ALTERNATIVE FARMING METHODS: AGROECOLOGY AT ITS BEST http://sco.lt/4i3lqr

                                 WATCH DOCUMENTARY (88 min)
                 "SEEDS OF PERMACULTURE" - ECOLOGICAL FARMING
People are becoming less and less self-sufficient around the world, these local communities that were previously growing everything themselves and knew how to build their own houses out of natural materials are completely dependent on big foreign powers and import from other countries. ... http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/seeds-permaculture/

 Guardian Environment, February 03, 2014
-▶ INDIGENOUS DIETS CAN FIGHT MODERN ILLNESSES, SAY HEALTH EXPERTS  Unprecedented levels of chronic non-communicable diseases are prompting calls to revert to the diets of our ancestors to regain lost nutrients. It is believed that such a shift would help to improve society's relationship with the Earth and restore human and environmental health.
"The rise of the industrial model of agriculture has contributed greatly to people being disconnected from the food on their plates," says Sarah Somian, a France-based nutritionist. http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/feb/03/indigenous-diets-fight-modern-illnesses

                                                     WATCH

                                                 Short Video

                                 "FARMED AND DANGEROUS"

Chipotle's online show about the terrors of industrial farming Is

                                        http://sco.lt/7ZNsfZ

EcoNews, January 28, 2014
▶ REPORTS AFFIRM CLIMATE CHANGE COULD LEAD TO DRASTIC INCREASES IN FOOD PRICES:  OLD BUSINESS MODELS WON'T WORK http://ecowatch.com/2014/01/28/climate-change-lead-to-increases-food-prices/

▶ DECLINE IN BIODIVERSITY OF FARMED PLANTS AND ANIMALS GATHERING PACE http://sco.lt/7o99MH

EurActiv, January 24, 2014
▶ MORE CONSUMPTION NOT NECESSARY FOR HUMAN WELL-BEING, SAYS UN REPORT. Greater food system efficiency and curbs to the expansion of cropland are necessary to prevent the collapse of global ecosystems, says a report presented today (24 January) by the UN at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. http://www.euractiv.com/sustainability/greater-consumption-necessary-hu-news-532991

    -▶  FARM TO FORK:  THE STORY OF OUR TOXIC FOOD SYSTEM - INFOGRAPH http://sco.lt/8xKt7J

                                                    WATCH

                 A SYSTEM BASED ON PROFITS IS UNSUSTAINABLE

                           Vandana Shiva on Industrial Agriculture

http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/1614565249/a-system-based-on-profits-is-unsustainable-vandana-shiva-on-industrial-agriculture

 -▶  CHEAP FOOD, DIABETES, CANCER AND OBESITY http://sco.lt/7JtMNV

- ▶  FOOD AID FOR THE 21st CENTURY:  MEETING THE OBJECTIVE OR FEEDING THE BIG AG BIOTECH CHEMICAL CARTEL COFFERS? http://sco.lt/6bJSgD

▶ THE NEW CORPORATE COLONIALISM. DESTRUCTION OF PLANETARY LIFE, INDIGENOUS LAND AND LIVELIHOODS IN THE NAME OF "GROWTH"  http://sco.lt/5nT3OT

-▶  PESTICIDE/CHEMICAL REGULATION OVERHAUL NEEDED TO PROTECT WILDLIFE, ECOSYSTEMS AND FOOD CHAIN http://sco.lt/5oplFx

-▶ THE CURSE OF PETROLEUM, CHEMICAL-BASED FERTILIZERS http://sco.lt/4iAdaz

- ▶ "FOODOPOLY" = EXPOSING THE HANDFUL OF CORPORATIONS THAT CONTROL OUR FOOD SYSTEM FROM SEED TO DINNER PLATE http://sco.lt/7YSrYX

- ▶ WHY ARE COUNTRIES BANNING GMO GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROPS AND ANIMALS? http://sco.lt/7l7AVV

 - ▶ STARVED OF DEMOCRACY AND THE FIGHT AGAINST CORPORATE 'FOODOPOLY'  http://sco.lt/8WdPUH

-▶  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

 - ▶ THE HIDDEN WORLD OF SOIL UNDER OUR FEET - SOIL AS A LIFELINE - CLIMATE CHANGE http://sco.lt/6MYz0j

   -▶  FOOD, SLAVE LABOR AND THE WALMARTIZATION OF AGRICULTURE AND AMERICA  http://sco.lt/8oSVBx

 -▶  MONSANTO ACQUIRES KEY 'GENE SILENCING' TECHNOLOGY FOR FOOD, ENTERS PHARMACEUTICAL BUSINESS http://sco.lt/6N2Q2j

                               =======================

BIOENGINEERING

AND PATENTING  OUR FOOD LIFELINES

 -▶  BIOTECH IS RE-ENGINEERING, RE-PROGRAMMING AND PATENTING LIFE ITSELF -- IS BIOTECH OUT OF CONTROL? http://sco.lt/4thM6j

  - ▶  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

 -▶  GENETIC MODIFICATION STRAIN OLD FOOD AND DRUG LAWS:  HOW A FISH BECOMES A DRUG AND CORN A PEST   http://sco.lt/66YF2v

 ▶  PATENT FOR A PIG:  BIOTECH SCIENTISTS PUSH TO PATENT, "IMPROVE" TRANSGENIC GMO 'ENVIROPIGS' FOR YOU TO EAT http://sco.lt/6nOLuz

▶ MANIPULATING THE SEEDS OF LIFE: SEED PATENTS AND CONTROL OF YOUR FOOD  http://sco.lt/7yB3XF

 ▶   SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY AND THE RISE OF THE 'SPIDER-GOATS' http:

▶ AN EXCELLENT ESSAY AND SUMMARY OVERVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF MONSANTO, IT'S TACTICS AND THE GENETICALLY MODIFIED BIOTECH CARTEL AIMS.

July 2013 Miami New Times, Chris Parker

According to the USDA, 95,000 acres of corn, 125,000 acres of upland cotton, and 25,000 acres of soybeans have been planted in the state of Florida in 2013. With Food and Water Watch warning that nationally, 90 to 93 percent of such crops are genetically modified, Floridians have cause to know what's lurking up the food chain.....  http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2013-07-25/restaurants/monsanto-gm-crops/full/

Global Research, April 05, 2014
▶ THE SEEDS OF SUICIDE:  HOW MONSANTO DESTROYS FARMING http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-seeds-of-suicide-how-monsanto-destroys-farming/5329947

                                                 WATCH

                                 A FARMER SPEAKS OUT (23:30)

           HOW MONSANTO CONTROLS AND BULLIES FARMERS

               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEX654gN3c4

RT USA, February 05, 2015
▶ MONSANTO'S ROUNDUP PESTICIDE SYSTEM THREATENS EXTINCTION OF MONARCH BUTTERFLIES: http://rt.com/usa/229667-monsanto-monarch-butterflies-extinct/

Pambazuka, September 25, 2014
▶MAYAN PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT DEFEATS MONSANTO LAW IN GUATEMALA. There was a great risk that the Monsanto Law would have made criminals of already repressed small farmers who are just trying to make ends meet and doing what they have done for generations – cultivating corn and black beans for their own consumption. The Monsanto Law meant that they would not have been able to grow and harvest anything that originates from natural seeds. Farmers would be breaking the laws if these natural seeds had been mixed with patented seeds from other crops as a result of pollination or wind, unless they had had a license for the patented seed from a transnational corporation like Monsanto. .. The Monsanto Law would have given exclusivity on patented seeds to a handful of transnational companies....the Mayan people – or actually most people – in Guatemala do not agree with a policy of treating nature like a commodity to be sold off piece by piece, ...http://pambazuka.net/en/category/features/92994

The Times of India, June 12, 2012

- ▶ FIVE MILLION BRAZILIAN FARMERS TAKE ON BIOTECH GIANT MONSANTO -- AND WIN http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/Five-million-Brazilian-farmers-take-on-biotech-giant-Monsanto/articleshow/14059443.cms

Food Freedom News, May 31, 2012
- ▶ MEXICAN FARMERS BLOCK MONSANTO LAW TO PRIVATIZE PLANTS AND SEEDS http://foodfreedomgroup.com/2012/05/31/mexican-farmers-block-monsanto-law-to-privatize-plants-and-seeds/

Care2 Causes, September 24, 2014
▶  MASSIVE PROTESTS LEAD GUATEMALA TO REJECT 'MONSANTO LAW' IN COURT http://www.care2.com/causes/massive-protests-lead-guatemala-to-reject-monsanto-law-in-court.html

                                                        VIDEOS
                                                June 12, 2014

▶  ARGENTINA:  ACTIVISTS ARRESTED & BRUTAL POLICE REPRESSION AFTER 'MONSANTO LAW' IS APPROVED http://revolution-news.com/argentina-activists-arrested-brutal-police-repression-monsanto-law-approved/

 July 23, 2013 RT News
▶ MONSANTO LEAVES FARMERS 'ENSLAVED IN A NEW KIND OF SERFDOM' http://rt.com/op-edge/monsanto-eu-gmo-engdahl-491/

                                                   WATCH
                                 MONSANTO vs FARMERS (14:09)
                In 1996, Monsanto introduced its first GMO seeds. It ensured that farmers could not save the seeds and essentially loose the ownership of their seeds. Consequently, the power balance shifted away from the farmers to corporations who now own 80 percent of GM corn and 93 percent of the GM soy market. Now farmers not only have to buy the seeds from the corporations year after year, but they are also forced to comply with the rules and regulations embedded in the contracts, which are designed to put the farmers at a juridical disadvantage.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNvW-uGBTSk

                                           VIDEO (1:05:57)
                                     DAVID vs MONSANTO
               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULhb1kjqkAk

                                                  VIDEO

                    PERCY SCHMEISER vs MONSANTO (8:40)
The Story of a Canadian Farmer's Battle With The Biotech Giant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_9dNDyw5kA

 - ▶  MONSANTO vs FARMER: THE GRAND DISILLUSION http://thegranddisillusion.wordpress.com/monsanto-vs-farmer/

ThinkProgress, November 21, 2012

- ▶ FARMERS TOLD TO BUY INSURANCE IF THEY DON'T WANT TO GET SUED BY CORPORATIONS http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/11/21/1224761/farmers-insurance-sued-by-corporations/

- ▶ U.S. SUPREME COURT GIVES MONSANTO FULL ABILITY TO SUE FARMER http://www.naturalcuresnotmedicine.com/2014/06/supreme-court-gives-monsanto-full-ability-sue-farmers.html

- ▶ FARMERS FIGHT MONSANTO'S THREATS AND INTIMIDATION

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/445-farm-and-food-policy/13042-focus-farmers-fight-monsantos-threats-and-intimidation

- ▶ DECLARING INDEPENDENCE FROM MONSANTO AND CORPORATE CONTROL OF OUR FOOD AND FARMING http://www.panna.org/blog/guest-blog-declaring-independence-monsanto-co

Guardian, Feb 25, 2013 - Vandana Shiva:

- ▶ 'SEEDS MUST REMAIN IN THE HANDS OF FARMERS ' http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/feb/25/vandana-shiva-seeds-farmers

                                                      WATCH

                                   SEEDING DEEP DEMOCRACY

                                              Vandana Shiva

                                             http://sco.lt/5ij8Ft

 The Associated Press Report:

- ▶ MONSANTO''s  CONTROL OF GLOBAL SEED BUSINESS REVEALED - Corporate Ethics Watch International http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15489

                             MANIPULATING THE SEEDS OF LIFE 

                       SEED PATENTS AND CONTROL OF YOUR FOOD

                                THE GLOBAL CORPORATE MONOPOLY

                                           http://sco.lt/7yB3XF

Grist, August 08, 2014
▶  THE LITTLE SEED LIBRARY THAT COULD ... GET BUSTED BY A STATE AG DEPARTMENT http://grist.org/food/the-little-seed-library-that-could-get-busted-by-the-state-agriculture-department/

                                                     WATCH

                            SEEDS OF DEATH  - Full Movie (1:19:37)

                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUd9rRSLY4A

 Modern Farmer, December 06, 2013
- ▶ THE POST-GMO ECONOMY - RETURNING TO CONVENTIONAL SEED http://modernfarmer.com/2013/12/post-gmo-economy/

- ▶ GMO AND THE CORPORATE PATENTING OF LIFE  http://sco.lt/7pDBIX

- ▶ MONSANTO AND THE SEEDS OF SUICIDE http://sco.lt/84jT17

Global Research, February 8, 2013
- ▶ HARVEST OF HYPOCRISY: FARMERS BEING BLAMED FOR GMO CROP FAILURE http://www.globalresearch.ca/harvest-of-hypocrisy-farmers-being-blamed-for-gmo-crop-failures/5322807

                                                       WATCH

                        THE FUTURE OF FOOD - PART 2 Vandana Shiva

http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/951852556/the-future-of-food-part-2-vandana-shiva

The Economic Times, November 25, 2013
▶ AS OPPOSITION TO GM CROPS GROWS, COMPANIES ARE TURNING TO MUTANT BREEDING http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/agriculture/as-opposition-to-gm-grows-companies-are-turning-to-mutant-breeding/articleshow/26334154.cms

                            BAN GMOs NOW - SPECIAL REPORT

                                   Institute of Science in Society

                                           http://sco.lt/5KV1Cz

  August, 9, 2013 Ecowatch
▶ MONSANTO'S #GMO 'AGENT ORANGE' CROPS PLANTED IN NORTH DAKOTA BEFORE APPROVAL  http://ecowatch.com/2013/monsanto-gmo-agent-orange-crops-north-dakota/

                                                    WATCH

                   ROUNDUP - THE ULTIMATE KILLING MACHINE: 

   NEW CHARGES AGAINST MONSANTO'S PESTICIDE "ROUNDUP"

                                         http://sco.lt/63470L

                                                  -- WATCH ---

                    HOW MONSANTO CONTROLS THE GOVERNMENT

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/monsanto-controls-government-chris-parker-135253110.html

AGROPOLY - September 2013
▶ A HANDFUL OF CORPORATIONS CONTROL WORLD FOOD PRODUCTION (PDF REPORT) http://www.econexus.info/publication/agropoly-handful-corporations-control-world-food-production

PDF REPORT

http://www.econexus.info/sites/econexus/files/Agropoly_Econexus_BerneDeclaration_wide-format.pdf

                                                       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

ETC Group, September 4, 2013
▶ WHO WILL CONTROL THE AGRICULTURAL INPUTS: THE STATE OF CORPORATE CONCENTRATION, 2013 (PDF REPORT)
PUTTING THE CARTEL BEFORE THE HORSE... AND FARM, SEEDS, SOIL AND PEASANTS ETC. http://www.etcgroup.org/putting_the_cartel_before_the_horse_2013

                                           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

                                             --- WATCH ---

                             A Must see VIDEO for all. Dr. David Suzuki 

                                     WHAT IS GENETIC ENGINEERING

         "WHAT ARE ROUNDUP READY & Bt PESTICIDE GMO CROPS?"

                                          http://sco.lt/5n6cuP

July 24, 2013 Elle
▶ GENETICALLY MODIFIED CORN - ALLERGIES TO #GMO CORN http://www.elle.com/beauty/health-fitness/allergy-to-genetically-modified-corn

                                            VIDEO REPORT
             INDIA'S TRANSGENIC (GMO) COTTON TRAGEDY http://www.france24.com/en/20130705-wb-en-reporters-india-transgenic-cotton-fields-monsanto-farmers-maharastra-state/

                                        INVESTIGATIVE REPORT: 

SOARING PESTICIDE USE AND POISONING LINKED TO TO CROP PRODUCTION  http://sco.lt/8iunRp

▶  CONTEMPORARY AGRICULTURE IS BURNING UP OUR PLANET http://sco.lt/9E1XDV

Common Dreams, December 06, 2013
▶ IN WTO DEAL 'CORPORATE RIGHTS TRUMP THE RIGHT OF PEOPLE TO FOOD' http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/06-4

 July 23, 2013 Ottawa Citizen
▶ POOPING CANADA GEESE MAY HAVE SPREAD GM WHEAT SEEDS http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Pooping+Canada+geese+have+spread+wheat+seeds/8698908/story.html

▶ THE GMO SEED PATENT GAME: HOW SEED COMPANIES CONTROL GM CROP RESEARCH  - Scientific American http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/946593435/the-seed-patent-game-do-seed-companies-control-gm-crop-research-scientific-american

▶ 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 --- (1:05:57)

          MONSANTO: THE POWER OF MONSANTO  OVER FARMERS

           AND HOW GMO SEEDS CAN DESTROY OUR FOOD SUPPLY

                   http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/153943/Monsanto__A_Documentary_on_GMO_a_must_watch/

   ▶ THE GLOBAL CHEMICAL BIOTECH AGRICULTURAL CARTEL - AN UNPRECEDENTED POWER OVER WORLD AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN HEALTH  http://sco.lt/9MtkYL

▶ 30 YEARS OF GENETICALLY ENGINEERED PLANTS - 20 YEARS OF COMMERCIAL CULTIVATION IN THE U.S. - A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT  http://sco.lt/5PYIM5

▶ U.S. GOVERNMENT AGGRESSIVELY BACKS/PROMOTES MONSANTO'S THRUST FOR CONTROL OF GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY - WITH YOUR DOLLARS  http://sco.lt/8RhvPt

▶ NEW SECRETIVE CORPORATE/OBAMA TRADE DEALS WILL IMPACT US ALL AS OUR RIGHTS AND REGULATIONS ARE NEGOTIATED AWAY  http://sco.lt/62UixN

  ▶ OBAMA QUIETLY DE-REGULATES GMO/ GENETIC BIOTECH INDUSTRY  : Fast-tracking Approvals, Waiving Regulations, Liability http://sco.lt/5uCx8b

▶ THE GLOBAL CORPORATE MONOPOLY IN SEED PATENTS: WHY THE MOST POWERFUL THING IN THE WORLD IS THE SEED http://sco.lt/5O0tFZ

▶ THE NEXT GMO BIOTECH WAVE: EXTREME SYNTHETIC GENETICS. THE IMPLICATIONS, THE ETHICS  http://sco.lt/6TyUmv

▶ BIODEMOCRACY OR CORPORATOCRACY: THE FOOD FIGHT OF OUR LIVES http://sco.lt/7696kT

▶ GENETIC MODIFICATION STRAINS OLD FOOD AND DRUG LAWS: HOW A FISH BECOMES A DRUG AND CORN A PEST  http://sco.lt/6vynBp

▶ GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS NOT THE SOLUTION FOR "FEEDING THE WORLD" http://sco.lt/77BuML

  ▶  CORPORATE-SPONSORED RESEARCH: ARE UNIVERSITIES RESTRICTING SCIENTISTS' STUDY OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED SEEDS? http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3996053783/corporate-sponsored-research-are-universities-restricting-scientists-study-of-genetically-modified-seeds

                                                 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/

                                                     WATCH

         Emmy Award Winning 1 hr Film - University of Minnesota

              "TROUBLED WATERS:  A MISSISSIPPI RIVER STORY"
This excellent one hour documentary examines the "unintended consequences" of farming practices on water quality, soil loss and the "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico. Knitting together federal energy, farm and environmental policies, the film makes a compelling case for the revamping of US agricultural policy.  Through beautiful photography and inspiring narrative, the film puts deliberate emphasis on solutions and provides a hopeful blueprint for progress and positive change... http://www.rememberthispoint.com/?p=212

▶  THE CURSE OF PETROLEUM, CHEMICAL-BASED INDUSTRIAL FARM FETTILIZERS http://sco.lt/8wk5lB

                                                 WATCH

           THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO  (FULL LENGTH)

                       The Leader of the Biotech, Chemical, Ag Cartel

                                          http://sco.lt/4ukXE

Think Progress, September 11, 2015

▶FEDERAL APPEALS COURT STRIKES DOWN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY'S UNCONDITIONAL AUTHORIZATION OF BEE KILLING PESTICIDE Sulfoxaflor was approved in 2013 for use on a variety of crops, including citrus, potatoes, soybeans, and strawberries. http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/09/11/3700777/epa-pesticide-court-ruling/

April 11, 2013 Corporate Europe Observatory

 ▶   PRIVATE LETTERS REVEAL SYNGENTA AND BAYER'S FURIOUS LOBBYING AGAINST BEE PESTICIDE BAN  http://corporateeurope.org/publications/pesticides-against-pollinators

The Ecologist, July 02, 2014

-▶ NEONICOTINOIDS ARE POISONING NOT JUST BEES BUT ENTIRE FARMLAND ECOSYSTEMS The world's most widely used insecticides have contaminated the environment across the planet so pervasively that global food production is at risk, according to a comprehensive scientific assessment of the chemicals' impacts.

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2459001/neonicotoids_are_poisoning_entire_farmland_ecosystems.html

Summit County Citizens Voice May 4, 2015
▶ NEONICOTINOIDS KILL BEES BRAIN CELLS http://summitcountyvoice.com/2015/05/04/environment-neonicotinoids-kill-bees-brain-cells/

April 5, 2013 Science News

 ▶   YET ANOTHER STUDY LINKS INSECTICIDE IN GMOs TO BEE LOSSES Findings point to treated corn seed — and corn syrup — as possible links to a pandemic afflicting North American pollinators http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/339726/description/Yet_another_study_links_insecticide_to_bee_losses      

                               SILENCING THE SCIENTIST

                                       THE BEE KILLERS

                SYNGENTA TARGETS SCIENTISTS EXPOSING

                         ALTRAZINE AND NEONICOTINOIDS

                                    http://sco.lt/8VIcAz

Harvard Gazette, August 19, 2014

▶ ARE FAILING BEES OUR WARNING SIGN FOR HUMAN HEALTH IMPLICATIONS? Harvard School of Public Health’s (HSPH) Chengsheng (Alex) Lu, an associate professor of environmental exposure biology,  believes that the potential human health implications of colony collapse disorder extend beyond the drop in pollination — though that is worrisome enough — to the impact on humans of long exposure to low-level poisons like neonicotinoid pesticides...links the pesticide to the recent increase in neurological conditions in children such as autism and ADHD. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/08/are-failing-bees-our-warning-sign/

▶ 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

The Post, Canada, June 19, 2013
▶  BEES DYING BY THE MILLIONS AS GMO CORN WITH THEIR PESTICIDES ARE PLANTED http://www.thepost.on.ca/2013/06/19/bees-dying-by-the-millions

 Buzz About Bees, April 29, 2014
 -▶ 80,000 BEE COLONIES POISONED IN CALIFORNIA DURING ALMOND POLLINATION - THE DEVASTATING BEE DIE-OFF
http://www.buzzaboutbees.net/Bee-Colonies-Poisoned-in-California.html

End Ecocide in Europe, May 10, 2014
  -▶ ECOCIDE IN SLOVENIA: BEE COLONY COLLAPSE Slovenian bee colonies are in great danger, for they are again being killed in mass quantities due to extensive use of Phytopharmaceuticals in agriculture. There was a huge colony collapse in Slovenia already in 2011 due to insecticide called Clothianidin which belongs to the group of neonicotinoids. Neonicotinoids are insecticides that are chemically similar to nicotine, which has been used as a pesticide since the late 1700s and acts on central nervous system of an animal which results in its death. http://www.endecocide.eu/ecocide-slovenia-bee-colony-collapse/?lang=en

 Elephant Journal

 ▶   50% OF US BEES DEAD: COLONY COLLAPSE DISORDER: COMMON PESTICIDES DISRUPT BRAIN FUNCTIONING IN BEES (AND YOU AND I?) http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/03/colony-collapse-disorder-common-pesticides-disrupt-brain-functioning-in-bees-jeremy-hance/

May 8, 2013 Guardian Environment
 ▶   U.S. HONEYBEES THREATENED AS 31% OF COLONIES DIED OUT IN 2012 (Pesticides Weaken Immune Systems) http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/08/honey-bees-threatened-colonies-extinct-2012

Guardian Environment, May 09, 2014
 -▶ HONEYBEES ABANDONING HIVES AND DYING DUE TO INSECTICIDE USE, RESEARCH STUDY FINDS Harvard study shows neonicotionoids are devastating colonies by triggerring colony collapse disorder http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/09/honeybees-dying-insecticide-harvard-study

                                                      WATCH:

                                  EXCELLENT SHORT VIDEO

THE EFFECTS MULTIPLE PESTICIDES ARE HAVING UPON BEES AND YOU? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-fXYR9FTfM

  -▶ 700,000x LETHAL DOSE OF PESTICIDES FOUND IN BEES http://sco.lt/8DQnqr

May 11, 2013 Focusing on Wildlife

 ▶   PESTICIDE PESTILENCE: NEONICOTINOIDS DEADLY TO SONG BIRDS - COATED WILD BIRD SEED BEING SOLD TO CONSUMERS? http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/conservation-group-seeks-assurance-that-wild-bird-seed-products-are-pesticide-fre

The Rock River Times, May 14, 2014

  -▶ MULTI-NATIONAL PESTICIDE CORPORATIONS SMOKE SCREENING BEE CRISIS http://rockrivertimes.com/2014/05/14/pesticide-companies-smoke-screening-bee-crisis/

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

May 1, 2013 - The Guardian

 ▶   THESE 'BEE' KILLING PESTICIDES TERMINATE MORE THAN JUST BEES: STUDY LINKS INSECTICIDE USE TO INVERTEBRATE DIE OFFS http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/01/study-links-insecticide-invertebrate-die-off

THE BIG AG, GMO INDUSTRY WILL DO ANYTHING TO MAINTAIN THEIR BILLION DOLLAR PESTICIDE BUSINESS, KILLING ALL LIFE IT TOUCHES

Business Insider, July 07, 2014
▶  TINY FLYING ROBOTS ARE BEING BUILT TO POLLINATE CROPS INSTEAD OF REAL BEES http://www.businessinsider.com/harvard-robobees-closer-to-pollinating-crops-2014-6

June 5, 2013 Fractured Paradigm
 ▶   ARE BEES CAUGHT IN A GENETICALLY MODIFIED DOWNWARD SPIRAL? http://fracturedparadigm.com/2013/06/05/are-bees-caught-in-a-genetically-modified-downward-spiral/

▶   LASHINGS OF PESTICIDES “STUNNING" DIFFERENCE OF GM FROM NON-GMO CORN http://sco.lt/5X53bt

                          OUR GMO CORNFIELDS ARE TOO QUIET

ALL LIFE CHEMICALLY EXTERMINATED - EXCEPT THE GENE-ALTERED CORN http://sco.lt/6przzF

  -▶ FEEDING BEES GMO PESTICIDE CORN SYRUP WEAKENS IMMUNE SYSTEM AND HONEY BEE HEALTH http://www.beekeepereric.com/?p=307

May 10, 2013 Honey Colony
 ▶  SAME HIGH-FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP USED IN OUR SOFT DRINKS LINKED TO BEE COLONY COLLAPSE http://www.honeycolony.com/article/high-fructose-corn-syrup-linked-to-bee-colony-collapse/

▶  COULD DISAPPEARING WILD INSECTS TRIGGER A GLOBAL CROP CRISIS? BENEFICIAL POLLINATORS, BEES AND PESTICIDES http://sco.lt/9Id8RV

 Guardian Environment, June 23, 2014
 -▶ INSECTICIDES PUT WORLD FOOD SUPPLIES AT RISK, SAY SCIENTISTS. Regulations on pesticides have failed to prevent poisoning of almost all habitats, international team of scientists concludes http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/24/insecticides-world-food-supplies-risk

-▶ STARVING HIVES ! BEES EXPOSED TO INSECTICIDES, SUCH AS NEONICOTINOIDS, ARE UNABLE TO GATHER ENOUGH POLLEN DOOMING THEIR YOUNG TO DIE http://www.seattleorganicrestaurants.com/vegan-whole-food/starving-hives-bees-exposed-to-systemic-pesticides-are-unable-to-gather-enough-pollen-neonicotinoids-kill-honeybees.php

 ▶   ARE NEONICOTINOIDS TOO BIG TO BAN? http://www.theorganicview.com/health/are-neonicotinoids-too-big-to-ban/

 PBS Science, February 25, 2014
▶  U.S. AILING BEES GET $3 MILLION TO RESTORE HEALTH http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/u-s-bees-get-3-million/

 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 INSECTICIDES -- IMIDACLOPRID AND CLOTHIANIDIN PRODUCED BY BAYER, AND THIAMETHOXAM, MADE BY SYNGENTA -- are used to treat genetically engineered seeds, and applied to soil or sprayed on bee-attractive plants and cereals http://www.seeddaily.com/reports/EU_to_ban_pesticides_linked_to_bee_deaths_999.html

Digital Journal , July 02, 2014
 -▶ GENETICALLY ENGINEERED U.S. COTTON GROWERS WANT UNLICENSED, HIGHLY TOXIC PESTICIDE USE ON 3 MILLION ACRES - FURTHER POISONING SOIL, WATER AND ALL LIFE WITHIN THE ENVIRONMENT -- EXCEPT THE COTTON http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/2031904

August 30, 2013 Sustainable Pulse:

 -▶ THE NEVER-ENDING TREADMILL OF MORE AND STRONGER PESTICIDE:

-----BIOTECH 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

                                                WATCH

 ******DANGERS OF DICAMBA- "Roundup" 's Next Generation http://www.fixfood.org/features/276/dangers-of-dicamba

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                       THE ULTIMATE KILLING MACHINE - "ROUNDUP"

        NEW CHARGES AGAINST MONSANTO'S "PESTICIDE" ROUNDUP

                                           http://sco.lt/5bdPhx

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                                             GR8 READ &  PHOTOS
                             On The Wing Photography, May 21, 2014
              WHEN ALL THE HIVES COLLAPSE WHERE WILL WE BEE? http://onthewingphotography.com/wings/2014/05/21/when-all-the-hives-collapse-where-will-we-bee/

                                 -▶     GARDENERS BEWARE     -▶

DEADLY PESTICIDE SOLD AS 'BEE FRIENDLY' PRETREATED PLANTS & SEEDS SOLD TO CONSUMERS - UNLABELED, UNTESTED http://sco.lt/93qJaj

 Beyond Pesticides, May 21, 2014

LANDMARK LEGISLATION

-▶MINNESOTA PASSES BILL TO LABEL GARDEN PLANTS FOR POLLINATORS. Under the bill passed by Minnesota’s House and Senate last week, plants may not be labeled as beneficial to pollinators if they have been treated with detectible levels of systemic insecticides.

     Bees and beekeepers are in dire need of protection from the effects of systemic neonicotinoid pesticides. Neonicotinoids are a relatively new class of insecticides that share a common mode of action that affect the central nervous system of insects, resulting in paralysis and death. They include imidacloprid, acetamiprid, clothianidin, dinotefuran, nithiazine, thiacloprid and thiamethoxam. Currently, neonicotinoid insecticides are the most widely used class of insecticides in the world and comprise about 25% of the global agrichemical market.

Neonicotinoids are systemic, meaning that as the plant grows the pesticide becomes incorporated into the plant (AND WE HUMANS DIGEST THIS???)  http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=13312

 TreeHugger, February 23, 2012
 ▶   INDUSTRY SPIN: MAKER OF CONTROVERSIAL BEE-KILLING INSECTICIDE LAUNCHES 'BEE CARE CENTERS'.  SHOULD WE CELEBRATE? http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-agriculture/maker-controversial-insecticide-launches-bee-care-centers-should-we-celebrate.html

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 ClimateProgress, June 25, 2014

  ▶  DON'T FORGET BUTTERFLIES! OUR POLLINATION CRISIS IS MORE THAN HONEYBEE. “Our natural ecosystems depend upon pollination from many species, including birds, bats, native bees, and butterflies — not just honeybees http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/25/3447062/pollination-crisis-honeybees/

                   MONARCH BUTTERFLY MIGRATION PLUNGES

THE PERFECT STORM: GMO CROPS, PESTICIDES AND EXTREME WEATHER  http://sco.lt/6JKCR7

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                                                     PHOTOS
                             On The Wing Photography, May 21, 2014
              WHEN ALL THE HIVES COLLAPSE WHERE WILL WE BEE? http://onthewingphotography.com/wings/2014/05/21/when-all-the-hives-collapse-where-will-we-bee/

April 29, 2013 LifeWise News

▶ EUROPE WILL ENFORCE WORLD'S FIRST CONTINENT-WIDE BAN ON INSECTICIDES HARMING BEES (AND YOU) http://southweb.org/lifewise/europe-will-enforces-worlds-first-continent-wide-ban-on-insecticides-harming-bees/

 July 17, 2013 Grist
▶ EU BANS YET ANOTHER BEE-KILLING INSECTICIDE - USA REMAINS IN DEFIANCE http://grist.org/news/e-u-bans-another-bee-killing-insecticide/

▶   THOUSANDS OF FARMERS DYING: STUDY LINKS KIDNEY DISEASE TO AGROCHEMICALS http://sco.lt/8EMqMj

 ▶   PESTICIDE/CHEMICAL REGULATION OVERHAUL NEEDED TO PROTECT WILDLIFE, ECOSYSTEMS AND FOOD CHAIN http://sco.lt/813dw1

May 3, 2013 Mongabay
 ▶   WIDELY USED INSECTICIDE CONTAMINATING WATER SUPPLIES, TRIGGERING WILDLIFE DIE-OFF IN EUROPE http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0503-gen-imidacloprid-europe.html

  ▶   HOW BIOTECH CORPORATIONS AND GMO CROPS ARE THREATENING THE ENVIRONMENT AND HUMANKIND ALIKE http://sco.lt/7OmezB

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                          THE POLLINATION PROCESS EXPLAINED

                                            WIRED, May 20, 2014
                       WILL WE STILL HAVE FRUIT IF BEES DIE OFF?

http://www.wired.com/2014/05/will-we-still-have-fruit-if-bees-die-off/

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May 10, 2013 National Geographic

 ▶   THE PLIGHT OF THE HONEYBEES http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130510-honeybee-bee-science-european-union-pesticides-colony-collapse-epa-science/?conf=714690f7-017e-4691-a8d0-072ad4787a6b#

May 10, 2013 Thing Progress
 ▶   WHY YOU SHOULD CARE THAT NEARLY A THIRD OF U.S. HONEY BEES DIED LAST WINTER http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/10/1974281/honey-bees-food-crisis/

 ABC Science, May 23, 2014
▶  THE WISDOM OF THE BEES:  DANCING BEES REVEALS ENVIRONMENTAL TALE http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2014/05/23/4010640.htm

 Wildlife Extra News, April 2014
 ▶   EUROPEAN BUMBLEBEE SPECIES FACE EXTINCTION http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/European-bumblee.html#cr

LifeWise, April 29, 2014

▶   EUROPE WILL ENFORCE WORLD'S FIRST CONTINENT-WIDE BAN ON INSECTICIDES HARMING BEES http://southweb.org/lifewise/europe-will-enforces-worlds-first-continent-wide-ban-on-insecticides-harming-bees/

July 22, 2013 Reuters

 ▶   WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION HAD ASKED INDIA TO BAN PESTICIDE THAT KILLED 23 CHILDREN IN THEIR SCHOOL LUNCH http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/22/us-india-poisoning-monocrotophos-idUSBRE96L0HB20130722?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews

 "Monocrotophos" - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocrotophos

 May 12, 2013 Nation Of Change
 ▶   U.S. APPROVES BEE DEATH PESTICIDE AS E.U. BANS IT http://www.nationofchange.org/us-approves-bee-death-pesticide-eu-bans-it-1368372299

                                                         VIDEO

             POLLINATION: A LOVE STORY THAT FEEDS THE EARTH

                                            http://sco.lt/4uCikD

 April 30, 2013 - New Scientist
 ▶   GOOD ARTICLE EXPLAINING RESEARCH : BEES NEED EUROPE'S PESTICIDE BAN, WHATEVER THE UK OR US SAYS http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23465-bees-need-europes-pesticide-ban-whatever-the-uk-says.html?page=1

May 13, 2013 Focusing On Wildlife
 ▶   WIDELY USED INSECTICIDE CONTAMINATING WATER SUPPLIES, TRIGGERING WILDLIFE DIE OFF http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/widely-used-insecticide-contaminating-water-supplies-triggering-wildlife-die-off-in-europe/

                                                    VIDEO

                             May 31st 2012 - The Economist

                   SUBTLE POISON - BEES AND INSECTICIDES

http://www.economist.com/node/21551451?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/ar/subtlepoison

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                                  PESTICIDES ARE POISON. PERIOD

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May 2, 2013 Guardian Environment
 ▶   USA BOWS TO POWERFUL BIOTECH CHEMICAL CARTEL - REJECTS EU CLAIM OF INSECTICIDE AS PRIME REASON FOR BEE COLONY COLLAPSE http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/02/us-bee-report-pesticide-eu

May 3, 2013 Mother Jones, Tom Philpott
 ▶   EUROPE BANS BEE HARMING PESTICIDES: USA KEEPS SPRAYING In the US, neonic-treated crops cover a land mass equivalent to as much as twice the size of the California. http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/05/eu-ban-bee-harming-pesticides-puts-pressure-us-epa

May 3, 2013 World Environmental News
 ▶   AS HONEY BEE NUMBERS DROP, U.S. SEES THREAT TO FOOD SUPPLY http://planetark.org/wen/68568

 May 3, 2013 Mongabay

 ▶   WIDELY USED INSECTICIDE CONTAMINATING WATER SUPPLIES, TRIGGERING WILDLIFE DIE-OFF IN EUROPE http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0503-gen-imidacloprid-europe.html

 April 25, 2013 - Sun Journal

 ▶   U.S. SENATORS INTRODUCE BILL TO --  "REDUCE" -- REGULATIONS ON PESTICIDES  http://www.newbernsj.com/news/business/hagan-co-sponsors-bill-to-reduce-regulations-on-pesticides-1.132767in-the-air

27 March 2013 - Seed Daily

 ▶   USA REGULATORS UNDER FIRE OVER RISKY PESTICIDES THAT PUT PEOPLE AND VALUABLE CROP POLLINATORS, LIKE BEES, IN PERIL http://www.seeddaily.com/reports/US_regulators_under_fire_over_bee-toxic_pesticides_999.html

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                                 PESTICIDE INDUSTRY PUSHES BACK

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April 29, 2013 Guardian UK - George Monbiot

 ▶   BEWARE THE RISE OF GOVERNMENT SCIENTIST TURNED LOBBYISTS http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/29/beware-rise-government-scientists-lobbyists

April 30, 2013 EurActive

 ▶   INSECTICIDE FIRMS IN SECRET BID TO STOP BAN THAT COULD SAVE BEES http://www.euractiv.com/sustainability/insecticide-firms-secret-bid-ban-news-519410

 ▶   MONSANTO RIDER" IN FARM BILL EXEMPTS AGRIBUSINESS FROM LIABILITY FOR BIOCROPS, PESTICIDES, CHEMICALS AND ELIMINATES GOVERNMENT POWER TO REGULATE THEM ... http://grist.org/article/frankenfoods-hitch-a-ride-through-congress-but-you-can-help-stop-them/

January 10, 2012 Mother Jones

 ▶   BAYER ALONE 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

May 3, 2013 Guardian Environment - Damian Carrington
 ▶   REVEALED: GERMANY'S SECRET BID TO KILL BAN ON BEE-HARMING PESTICIDES http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2013/may/03/bees-pesticides-neonicotinoid-germany

▶   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

 ▶   IF PESTICIDES ARE STRESSING AND KILLING BEES, WHAT'S IT DOING TO US http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides?q=BEES+PESTICIDES#post_3998071752

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May 1, 2013 Earth Justice
 ▶   PESTICIDE REGULATION OVERHAUL NEEDED TO PROTECT WILDLIFE FROM PESTICIDES http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2013/pesticide-regulation-overhaul-needed-to-protect-wildlife-from-pesticides

April 29, 2013 EurActive

 ▶   GREEN NGOs HAIL 'HISTORIC' VICTORY IN PESTICIDE VOTE http://www.euractiv.com/sustainability/environment-ngos-hail-historic-v-news-519428

April 30, 2013 Yale Environment 360
 ▶   DECLINING BEE POPULATIONS POSE THREAT TO GLOBAL AGRICULTURE  http://e360.yale.edu/feature/declining_bee_populations_pose_a_threat_to_global_agriculture/2645/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29

                                                    VIDEO

                             May 31st 2012 - The Economist

                   SUBTLE POISON - BEES AND INSECTICIDES

http://www.economist.com/node/21551451?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/ar/subtlepoison

April 29, 2013 Buglife
 ▶   EUROPEAN COMMISSION PLACES A TEMPORARY SUSPENSION ON DANGEROUS INSECTICIDES - BUT WILL IT BE ENOUGH TO SAVE THE POLLINATING BEES? European Commission places a temporary suspension on dangerous insecticides http://www.buglife.org.uk/News/European+Commission+places+a+temporary+suspension+on+dangerous+insecticides

 ▶   WHY IS OUR FOOD BEING MADE AND MODIFIED BY THE WORLD'S LARGEST PESTICIDE MANUFACTURERS? http://gmo-awareness.com/all-about-gmos/gmo-defined/

 ▶   THINK THOSE CHEMICALS AND PESTICIDES IN YOUR FOOD HAVE BEEN TESTED? http://sco.lt/7QxMob

                                                    WATCH:

                                  "BITTER SEEDS' FILM TRAILER:

MONSANTO, GMO SEEDS, PESTICIDES AND INDIAN FARMER SUICIDES                       http://sco.lt/5F90Mr

 ▶   INDIA: 8,200 FARMERS SUICIDE: MAHARASHTRA STATE REVOKES MONSANTO'S COTTON SEED LICENSE DUE TO PESTICIDE OVERUSE  http://sco.lt/6UU39d

 ▶   HOW YOU BECAME A GUINEA PIG FOR THE CHEMICAL CORPORATIONS  http://sco.lt/5fQh73

 April 12, 2013 - Honey Colony - Mark Bittman

 ▶   PESTICIDES:  THE THREAT IS MORE ACUTE THAN EVER http://www.honeycolony.com/article/pesticides-now-more-than-ever/

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                              THE CANARY IN THE COAL MINE

  IF THESE CHEMICALS AND PESTICIDES ARE KILLING OUR INSECTS AND BIRDS, WHAT ARE THEY DOING TO US?

 ▶   WHAT PESTICIDE EXPOSURE IS DOING TO YOUR BODY http://sco.lt/7IKHmD

▶  FOOD ALLERGIES, CANCER, ILL HEALTH LINKED TO PESTICIDES http://sco.lt/4megAz

July 22, 2013 Reuters
 ▶   WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION HAD ASKED INDIA TO BAN PESTICIDE THAT KILLED 23 CHILDREN IN THEIR SCHOOL LUNCH http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/22/us-india-poisoning-monocrotophos-idUSBRE96L0HB20130722?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews

 "Monocrotophos" - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocrotophos

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

 ▶   CHEMICAL "SOUP" CONNECTION BETWEEN TOXINS AND POOR HEALTH - SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN http://sco.lt/4srC4n

 ▶   CHEMICAL CREEP: HOW TOXIC CHEMICALS ARE SNEAKING INTO YOUR FOOD AND YOUR BODY - March 7, 2013 Huffington Post  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/07/toxic-chemicals-food-body_n_2829270.html

 ▶   8 WAYS CORPORATIONS ARE POISONING OUR FOOD, WATER AND EARTH http://www.nationofchange.org/8-ways-corporations-are-poisoning-our-food-water-earth-1362318238

 ▶   HOW GMO FOODS AFFECT HEALTH - GENE ALTERED FOODS NOW LARGE PART OF AMERICAN DIET http://dailyhealthpost.com/how-gmo-foods-affect-health/#axzz2NCebcdtc

April 30, 2013 Elephant Journal
 ▶   BUTTER, SALT, AND A SIDE OF POISON: HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FAMILY FROM MONSANTO AND GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/04/butter-salt-a-side-of-poison-how-to-protect-your-family-from-monsanto-genetically-modified-foods-marylee-fairbanks/

                                                   WATCH

        THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO  (FULL LENGTH) 

                  THE LEADER OF THE CHEMICAL BIOTECH CARTEL

                                           http://sco.lt/7FFsXZ

March 19, 2013 - Huffington Post Green

- ▶ With our food system the way it currently is, there are many reasons to be angry about industrialized animal agriculture. Check out the slideshow to get informed about the issues surrounding factory farming and learn how to get involved http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anjali-sareen/factory-farming_b_2904891.html

                               An Image Says A Thousand Words

                                         GESTATION CRATES

                                           http://ow.ly/lPLtf

 ▶ 65 BILLION ANIMALS RAISED IN CORPORATE CONCENTRATION PENS:  DRUGS, GMO FEED AND AG-GAG LAWS TO IMPACT BEYOND USA http://sco.lt/6jKf2H

Change.org
PETITION:  STOP THIS AMERICAN HORROR STORY.  TELL WALMART TO STOP TORTURING PIGS https://www.change.org/petitions/stop-this-american-horror-story-tell-walmart-to-stop-torturing-pigs

July 12, 2013 Care2
- ▶ STAND WITH RYAN GOSLING: NO MORE GESTATION CRATES FOR PIGS http://www.care2.com/causes/stand-with-ryan-gosling-no-more-gestation-crates-for-pigs.html

  Mother Jones July/August Issue

- ▶  YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT PORK PRODUCERS DO TO PREGNANT PIGS?  http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/06/pregnant-sows-gestation-crates-abuse

                                                     VIDEO

                           February 1, 2012 - Tom Philpott

- ▶ WHAT HAPPENS TO PIGLETS ON FACTORY FARMS?  http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/01/piglets-factory-farm-video

 June 6, 2013 Global Possibilities
- ▶  6 HORRIFYING THINGS ABOUT PORK EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW http://www.globalpossibilities.org/6-horrifying-things-about-pork-everyone-should-know/

 New York Time, February 19, 2014
  -▶  IS THAT SAUSAGE WORTH THIS? TURNING PIGS INTO CANNIBALS http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/20/opinion/kristof-is-that-sausage-worth-this.html?_r=0              

                                                    VIDEO
          The Humane Society of the United States, February 20, 2014
UNDERCOVER AT IRON MAIDEN: IS YOUR SAUSAGE WORTH THIS?
                            http://video.humanesociety.org/

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

 Huffington Post, January 10, 2014
- ▶ U.S. PORK PRODUCERS CALL FOR MORE HUMANE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS AFTER DECADES OF ABUSE AND PROTESTS http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/10/-pork-producers-humane_n_4572968.html?ref=topbar

Huffington Post, March 17, 2014
-▶  9 FACTS ABOUT FACTORY FARMING THAT WILL BREAK YOUR HEART  (GRAPHIC PHOTOS) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/17/factory-farming-facts_n_4063892.html

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                                6 April 2013 - New York Times
             VIDEO TAPING OF FARM CRUELTY IS NOW A CRIME  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/us/taping-of-farm-cruelty-is-becoming-the-crime.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

                                                    WATCH

                     "DEATH ON A FACTORY FARM"  [HBO Special]

When Animals Become Inanimate Objects On A Corporate Balance Sheet

                                         http://sco.lt/5uDfyj

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HOW WILL HISTORY REMEMBER US?  A WORLD WITHOUT FACTORY FARMS?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM6V6lq_p0o&feature=youtu.be

Alternet, December 10, 2013
- ▶ HOW BIG AGRIBUSINESS IS TRYING TO MUZZLE THE TRUTH BEHIND FACTORY FARMS http://www.alternet.org/big-agribusiness-trying-muzzle-animal-rights-activists-who-infiltrate-their-factory-farms?akid=11256.237541.4BAflB&rd=1&src=newsletter934989&t=5

The Des Moines Register, July 11, 2014
 ▶ BIG CORPORATE AG INTERESTS SEEK TO WRITE THEIR INDUSTRIAL FARMING INTO CONSTITUTIONAL  LAW. Powerful big 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/

 Sydney Morning Herald, June 15, 2014

- ▶ 65 BILLION ANIMALS RAISED IN CORPORATE CONCENTRATION PENS:  DRUGS, GMO FEED AND AG-GAG LAWS TO IMPACT US ALL  http://sco.lt/6GRczB

Alternet, December 19, 2013
- ▶ 6 CRIMES AGAINST NATURE PERPETRATED BY THE FOOD INDUSTRY : THE HORRORS OF FACTORY FARMING ARE MULTIFOLD http://www.alternet.org/food/6-crimes-against-nature-perpetrated-food-industry

Forbes, October 30, 2013
- ▶  U.S. PORK WALLOWS IN DANGEROUS ANTIBIOTICS, POLLUTION, WELFARE VIOLATIONS http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmcwilliams/2013/10/30/u-s-pork-wallows-in-dangerous-antibiotics-pollution-welfare-violations/

- ▶ (CAFOs) 4.3 BILLION CONFINED FARM ANIMALS POSE ENVIRONMENTAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH RISKS - AG GAG LAWS  http://sco.lt/62Uh1d

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                                                OneGreenPlanet
- ▶ 5 POWERFUL VIDEOS ON FACTORY FARMING (WITHOUT THE GORE) http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/5-powerful-videos-on-factory-farming-without-the-gore/

The Ecologist, November 30, 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

                                        VIDEO INVESTIGATION

                                  April 9, 2013 - Democracy Now

AFTER ACTIVISTS COVERTLY EXPOSE ANIMAL CRUELTY IN FACTORY FARMS, SHOULD THEY BE TARGETED WITH "AG-GAG" LAWS? http://www.democracynow.org/2013/4/9/debate_after_activists_covertly_expose_animal

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IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT FACTORY FARMING - MAKE IT POSSIBLE             http://www.makeitpossible.com/

NPR, December 27, 2013
- ▶ 2013 WAS THE YEAR BILLS TO CRIMINALIZE ANIMAL CRUELTY VIDEOS FAILED http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/19/255549796/2013-was-the-year-every-new-ag-gag-bill-failed

EcoWatch, November 26, 2013

- ▶ HOW TO AVOID FACTORY FARMED FOODS http://ecowatch.com/2013/11/26/avoid-factory-farmed-foods/?utm_source=feedly

CARE2, November 22, 2013
- ▶ GUESS WHICH COMPANY WON'T DROP PORK SUPPLIER AFTER HORRIFIC VIDEO EXPOSES ABUSE? http://www.care2.com/causes/guess-which-company-wont-drop-pork-supplier-after-horrific-video-exposes-abuse.html

 June 6, 2013 Global Possibilities
- ▶ 6 HORRIFYING THINGS ABOUT PORK EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW http://www.globalpossibilities.org/6-horrifying-things-about-pork-everyone-should-know/

  - ▶ HOW BIG AGRIBUSINESS IS INITIATING AND FUNDING THE ECO TERRORISM ACT http://newint.org/blog/2013/04/30/eco-terrorism-act-usa/

 - ▶ SCIENTIFIC PAPER ARGUES AGAINST FACTORY FARMS "FEEDING THE WORLD" http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3995263792/scientific-paper-argues-against-factory-farms-feeding-the-world

- ▶ THEY EAT WHAT? THE REALITY OF FEED AT ANIMAL FACTORIES | Union of Concerned Scientists http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/our-failing-food-system/industrial-agriculture/they-eat-what-the-reality-of.html

- ▶ ALTERING OUR COWS BY INJECTING THEM WITH rBST FORCING THEM TO PRODUCE MORE MILK http://www.seeddaily.com/reports/Cattle_flatulence_doesnt_stink_with_biotechnology_999.html

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         THE INDUSTRIAL DAIRY INDUSTRY IN 60 SECONDS FLAT  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZcUrWAK-8Q#at=47

- ▶ ANTI-WHISTLE BLOWER AG-GAG BILLS AIMED AT KEEPING YOU IN THE DARK ABOUT FACTORY FARMS - AND YOUR FOOD  http://sco.lt/7ZewEr

Reuters, November 25, 2013
- ▶ NEW GERMAN COALITION WOULD SEEK STRICTER LABELING OF GMO-FED MEAT AND FOOD http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/11/25/us-germany-coalition-agriculture-idUKBRE9AO0DW20131125

August 15, 2013 Treehugger
- ▶ THE MECHANIZATION OF OUR MEAT, FOOD SUPPLY
Without any words, the film makes a statement about the production of meat, its mechanization and the people and animals involved in that process. http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/wordless-comment-overconsumption.html

The Atlantic, September 25, 2013

-▶  WHY AGRICULTURE NEEDS MORE WOMEN http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/09/agriculture-needs-more-women/279987/

         +++++++++++++++"ENVIROPIGS" +++++++++++++++++++

Rather Than Find An Alternative to Extreme Factory Farming, The Biotech Industry is altering our animals to keep "more of the same" mega-profit factory farming going, with little regulation, oversight, or labeling for consumers:

- ▶ PATENT FOR A PIG:  BIOTECH SCIENTISTS "IMPROVE" TRANSGENIC GMO "ENVIROPIGS" http://sco.lt/7hrnF3

- ▶ THE RISE OF THE 'DESIGNER' FARM ANIMAL  http://action.raw.info/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=119&ea.campaign.id=22518&ea.tracking.id=1174f49c&utm_campaign=raw&utm_source=shared&utm_medium=link

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Modern Farmer, February 24, 2014
- ▶  CHICKEN FACTORY FARMING AND ITS DISCONTENTS http://modernfarmer.com/2014/02/chicken-farming-discontents/

- ▶ BLIND, FOOTLESS CHICKENS FOR FUTURE CAFO FACTORY FARMS  http://farmwars.info/?p=7897

April 13, 2013 The Real News VIDEO
- ▶ OBAMA BUDGET PLANS ON REPLACING USDA POULTRY INSPECTORS WITH INDUSTRY SELF REGULATION http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10052

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- ▶ ***** FULL GROWN CHICKEN IN 49 DAYS -  Growth Hormones For Rapid Growth, 'Efficiency' and Fast Profits http://sco.lt/5Za1o1

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- ▶ THE RAW TRUTH OF FACTORY FARMING http://www.raw.info/

 August 8, 2013 Organic Consumers Association
- ▶ TORTURING ANIMALS WITH MONSANTO'S GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FEED http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_28062.cfm

LIKE AUTOS ON A PRODUCTION LINE:
July 21, 2013 Free From Harm
- ▶ FAIR OAKS FARMS, THE LATEST "AGRITOURISM" DESTINATION: USES 2,700 SOWS TO PRODUCE 75,000 PIGS ANNUALLY http://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/article_7c7063d3-e336-5d1c-b7da-cdf8852c5f5d.html#.Ue15bezytDw.twitter

August 4, 2013 New York Time
- ▶ MEGA U.S. HOG FARMS BATTLING TO CONTAIN DEADLY VIRUS...KILLING PIGLETS BY THE THOUSANDS http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/05/us/hog-producers-battling-to-contain-virus-that-has-killed-piglets-by-the-thousands.html

                             A Picture Says A Thousand words

                                    "FACTORY FARMING'

                                          http://ow.ly/juoVR

Mother Jones July/August Issue
- ▶ GAGGED BY BIG AG http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/06/ag-gag-laws-mowmar-farms

 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

July 22, 2013 Huffington Post Green
- ▶ ANIMAL WELFARE ACTIVISTS FILE LAWSUIT TO OVERTURN UTAH 'AG GAG' LAW http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/22/utah-ag-gag_n_3636036.html

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                               July 23, 2013 Democracy Now
VIDEO REPORT - ▶ **** Journalists, Animal Rights Advocates File Lawsuit Against Utah "Ag-Gag" Law http://www.democracynow.org/2013/7/23/headlines/journalists_animal_advocates_file_lawsuit_against_utah_ag_gag_law

 June 29, 2013 About My Planet
- ▶ RETHINKING FACTORY FARMING http://www.aboutmyplanet.com/science-technology/rethinking-factory/

- ▶ THE DRUG STORE IN AMERICAN MEAT: CAFOs AND INDUSTRIAL FACTORY FARMING YOUR MEAT  http://sco.lt/5pYaYr

                                                WATCH:

                              Compassion In World Farming
                     CAMPAIGNING FOR FARM ANIMAL WELFARE

http://action.ciwf.org.uk/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=119&ea.campaign.id=21323

                                                    VIDEO

- ▶ **** SO YOU WANT TO EAT INDUSTRIAL FACTORY FARMED EGGS? California Egg Farm Investigation | Mercy For Animals http://ow.ly/kXbz1

Nation of Change, September 21, 2013
- ▶ CORPORATIONS/LOBBYISTS RULE: GOODBYE ORGANIC EGGS
 PROPOSED FDA FOOD SAFETY RULES SUPPORT FACTORY FARM CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND THREATEN TRUE FAMILY FARMING - : http://www.nationofchange.org/proposed-fda-food-safety-rules-support-factory-farming-threaten-family-farms-1379774141

 June 27, 2013 Nation of Change
- ▶ FIRST LONG TERM STUDY RELEASED ON PIGS, CATTLE WHO EAT GMO SOY AND CORN OFFER FRIGHTENING RESULTS http://www.nationofchange.org/first-long-term-study-released-pigs-cattle-who-eat-gmo-soy-and-corn-offers-frightening-results-13723

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November 24, 2010 OurWorld 2.0
- ▶ THE SHAME OF CONCENTRATED ANIMAL FEEDLOTS http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/the-shame-of-concentrated-animal-feedlots/

                        An Image Says A Thousand Words                  

                    FEEDLOT CATTLE http://ow.ly/mEGS1

                                                       WATCH

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 28, 2013
- ▶  CATTLE ABUSE VIDEO PUTS SPOTLIGHT ON WISCONSIN'S MEGA FARMS http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/cattle-abuse-video-puts-spotlight-on-wisconsins-mega-farms-b99167789z1-237839491.html

July 10, 2013 Grist
- ▶ MEAT INDUSTRY DOESN'T WANT TO TELL YOU WHERE YOUR MEAT COMES FROM http://grist.org/news/meat-industry-doesnt-want-to-tell-you-where-your-meat-comes-from/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=tweet&utm_campaign=socialflow

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/?utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter

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

April 22, 2013 - Humanosphere
- ▶ STATE DEREGULATION OF INDUSTRIAL DAIRY FARMS - ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION RESPONDS http://www.riverkeeper.org/news-events/news/preserve-river-ecology/environmental-coalition-responds-to-state-deregulation-of-industrial-dairy-farms/

 April 29, 2013 Green Is The New Red

- ▶ FIRST "AG-GAG' ARRESTS: FOR FILMING SLAUGHTERHOUSE -- FROM THE STREET http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/first-ag-gag-arrest-utah-amy-meyer/6948/

- ▶ NOW YOU WILL NEVER KNOW -- MORE STATES MOVE TO BAN HIDDEN CAMERAS ON FARMS http://sco.lt/57pzkn

June 13, 2013 The Center for Investigative Reporting
- ▶ ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS SURFACE AS CALIFORNIA AIMS TO MILK CHINA'S DAIRY DEMAND http://cironline.org/node/4726

- ▶ SO YOU WANT TO EAT FOIE GRAS? Ducks Cruelly Force-Fed for Enlarged Livers - YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW2uiw-p_js

- ▶ EXPOSING FOI GRAS DUCK CRUELTY - VIDEO  #Ducks #FactoryFarming http://allanimalrights.com/kate-winslet-exposes-foie-gras-cruelty/

 April 7, 2013 - Care2

- ▶ BIOTECH COMPANY ABUSING AND NEGLECTING GOATS WHILE SELLING THEIR BLOOD http://www.care2.com/causes/company-abusing-and-neglecting-goats-while-selling-their-blood.html

- ▶ EATING WITH OUR EYES CLOSED - LEGALIZING CORPORATE FARMING ANIMAL ABUSE AND PRACTICES http://sco.lt/8IZrqD

 - ▶ LAST CHANCE FOR ANIMALS - FACTORY FARMING http://www.lcanimal.org/index.php/campaigns/other-issues/factory-farming

April 10, 2013 - Global Possibilities - Dot Earth

- ▶ HUMAN SPECIES NO LONGER CAN IGNORE THE RIGHTS OF NON-HUMAN PERSONS TO HUMANE TREATMENT AND SLAUGHTER http://www.globalpossibilities.org/when-is-a-person-not-a-human-when-its-a-dolphin-or-chimp-or/

                                                       VIDEO

                                       March 22, 2013 - Care2
VEAL CALVES TOO WEAK TO STAND WILL NOT BE SLAUGHTERED - USDA http://s.einnews.com/VuigRh4iLP http://ow.ly/jmkEG

                                                 VIDEO

                        by PAUL McCARTNEY  (Former "Beatle")

THE WEBSITE THE MEAT INDUSTRY DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE                                        http://www.meat.org/

Huffington Post, January 03, 2014
- ▶ THE IMPORTANCE OF OUR EVOLUTION BEYOND KILLING FOR FOOD - A PIG FARMER SPEAKS OUT  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-comis/the-importance-of-our-evolution-beyond-killing-for-food_b_4518133.html?ir=Green&ref=topbar

 - ▶ COULD EATING LESS MEAT HELP SAVE THE PLANET AND AVOID AN ECOLOGICAL DISASTER?  http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3304266960/could-eating-less-meat-help-save-the-planet-and-avoid-an-ecological-disaster

April 28, 2012 Huffington Post Green
- ▶ USDA INSPECTOR GENERAL: FOOD SAFETY AND HUMANE SLAUGHTER LAWS IGNORED WITH IMPUNITY http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-friedrich/usda-inspector-general-fo_b_3333853.html

- ▶ GROUPS FILE MOTION TO STOP FACTORY FARMS FROM USING WATERWAYS AS DUMPING GROUNDS http://sco.lt/5TfhOj

- ▶ CHINA'S RIVER OF DEAD PIGS - 17000 OF THEM  http://sco.lt/9GipcH

- ▶ - ▶ MORE, BIGGER, FASTER : WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT FACTORY FARMING YOUR ANIMAL FOOD: Anti-Whistle-blower Ag-Gag Laws http://sco.lt/8usxzV

 Organic News USA -

- ▶ Find out more about factory farming & the state of the food industry - This powerful film changed the way millions of Americans eat. Find out why http://www.streamorganic.com/index.php/home-mainmenu-1/news-mainmenu-2/1-latest/4610-organic-news-usa-find-out-more-about-factory-farming-a-the-state-of-the-food-industry-this-powerful-film-changed-the-way-millions-of-.html

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                                              "FOOD, INC"

                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkL2Q_kCRms

- ▶ NOWHERE TO SWIM:  MILESTONE LOOMS FOR CORPORATE FACTORY FARMED (GMO) RAISED FISH -- MORE, BIGGER, FASTER  http://sco.lt/7QUAZV

- ▶ MORE ON FACTORY FARMING http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides?q=animal+abuse