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Farm and School
Are schoolyard farms the best way to counteract the increasingly industrial food provided by school lunches? Via Denver’s ABC affiliate: DENVER — Just eight months ago, a one-acre plot at the Denver...
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Alabama Looks To Replace Immigrant Workers With Prison Labor
A draconian law passed earlier this year has resulted in an exodus of illegal (and legal) immigrants from Alabama, and as a result, crops are rotting in fields on farms across the state. The solution?...
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The Industry of Hunger
Photo: Tawheed Manzoor (CC) Vandana Shiva on Al Jazeera English explains how, as mega-chains venture into industrial farming, they have created an epidemic of hunger- and generated billions in profit....
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Japan To Open Robot Farm In Disaster Zone
A century or two from now, pretty much most of the world will be a flooded/radioactive zone being farmed by robots. The Telegraph reports: The project, masterminded by the Ministry of Agriculture, will...
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France Defeats Monsanto
Gordon Davidson writes in the Scottish Farmer: France has held firm in its opposition to Monsanto’s genetically modified MON 810 maize [trade name: YieldGard] – and the agri-chemical multinational has...
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The Mother Of All Herbicide Marketing Plans
Dow Agrosciences plans to double the trouble caused by Monsanto’s Roundup with a compelling marketing pitch to farmers. Tom Philpott reports for Mother Jones: During the late December media lull, the...
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No Monsanto GMOs For The UK
UPDATE from Natural News: We regret to inform our readers that this story is based on a Daily Mail article that we have now been informed is from 2003, not 2012. In their own search engine, Daily Mail...
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Is There Herbicide in Your Urine?
Via GMWatch: According to an article in German in the Ithaka Journal, a German university study has found significant concentrations of glyphosate in the urine samples of city dwellers. The analysis of...
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Black Farmers Suffer At The Hands Of Monsanto
An interesting take on the disastrous effects on agriculture resulting from Monsanto’s control of seeds, by Dr. John Boyd of BlackFarmers.org, at Roland Martin Reports: Black farmers in the United...
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Removing Consciousness From Farming
Every year, billions of animals suffer in the name of cultivating food for humanity. But, suppose none of them had minds? A nightmare or a solution? Via We Make Money Not Art: Each year, the UK raises...
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Is the Obama Administration Planting Monsanto GM Crops in Wildlife Refuges?
Mike Ludwig reports in Truthout: The White House is withholding documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by an environmental group that suspects the Obama administration of...
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We Must De-Occupy Big Food
Following on from Willie Nelson’s call to “Occupy The Food Supply”, Christopher D. Cook says we need to de-occupy the industrial “food” suppliers, writing at Alternet: It is no longer news that a few...
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Dow and Monsanto Join Forces to Bring Agent Orange Component to America’s...
Richard Schiffman writes on OpEdNews: In a match that some would say was made in hell, the nation’s two leading producers of agro-chemicals have joined forces in a partnership to reintroduce the use of...
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Retro Dreams Of Giant Future Food
Lifestyle magazine articles and Sunday comic strips in the 1960s predicted the arrival of a golden age of eating by the year 2000, with plates filled by technologically modified, super-sized foods of...
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Colonialism and The American Diet
Jill Richardson writes on Alternet: It is hardly news that the United States faces epidemic health problems linked to poor diets. Nearly two out of every five Americans are obese. But according to a...
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Midwestern Hog Farms Keep Mysteriously Exploding
Hog farming is even grosser than you imagined. Farms keep spontaneously blowing up due to chemical interactions involving bacteria-laden gas and a brown goop of sketchy origin. Ars Technica writes:...
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Farmers & Food Co’s Rally Against GM Seeds & Chemicals
The dangers of using bio-engineered seeds and chemical pesticides in agriculture have been warned against by activists for many years, but now many farmers and food companies are sounding the alarm...
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Vandana Shiva writes on the intersections of capitalism, the state, agribusiness, and a burgeoning organic movement in South Asia. Via Al Jazeera: The economic crisis, the ecological crisis and the...
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Guerrilla Labeling Of GMO Foods
When your government is so beholden to agribusiness that it won’t listen to overwhelming consumer demand for foods to be labeled if they contain genetically modified organisms, what do you do? Create...
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California To Vote On Labeling Genetically Modified Foods
Should people have a right to know what corporations are feeding to them, or is it none of their business? The Guardian on a referendum this November which could change how food is sold across the...
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