Fix by Tafline Laylin Source: Brad Smith The importance of bees to humanity’s long-term survival is impossible to overstate, yet their numbers are plummeting. In the past five years alone, the United States has lost 31 percent of its total bee population.1Each year – because of climate change, mites, pesticides, colony collapse disorder (CCD), and… Read more »
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The Frankenfood Conspiracy: Secret Summit Where Slick Lobbyists for Bio-Tech Giants Seduced Tory Ministers into Changing Their Tune on GM Food
[Note: The British government has recently grown very outspoken in its new-found support for GMO foods. Here’s a revealing look at what changed.] The Daily Mail By Guy Adams Even by the standards of an industry that claims to be able to end hunger, prevent environmental catastrophe and bring prosperity to the developing world, it… Read more »
Embattled by Sea Lice, Salmon Farmers Dump Pesticides in Our Waters
Cornucopia’s Take: Farm-raised salmon has been criticized for being GMO corn fed, but a new problem is infesting salmon farms. Sea Lice are rampant in the enclosed fisheries, killing the fish, and salmon farmers are fighting back with chemicals they dump in the water. Unfortunately, the toxins they dump on the salmon fish farms easily spread… Read more »
Anthropogenic Debris in Seafood: Plastic Debris and Fibers from Textiles in Fish and Bivalves Sold for Human Consumption
Scientific Reports by Chelsea M. Rochman, Akbar Tahir, Susan L. Williams, Dolores V. Baxa, Rosalyn Lam, Jeffrey T. Miller, Foo-Ching Teh, Shinta Werorilangi & Swee J. Teh Source: Andrea Westmoreland Abstract The ubiquity of anthropogenic debris in hundreds of species of wildlife and the toxicity of chemicals associated with it has begun to raise concerns regarding the… Read more »
The F.D.A.’s Not-Really-Such-Good-News
New York Times By Mark Bittman That “good” news you may have read last week about the Food and Drug Administration’s curbing antibiotics in animal feed may not be so good after all. In fact, it appears that the F.D.A. has once again refused to do all it could to protect public health. For those… Read more »
How Monsanto Wrote and Broke Laws to Enter India
Seed Freedom by Dr. Vandana Shiva Source: World Bank Citizens of the United States are being denied the right to know what they are feeding their families. Despite the fact that 90% of American citizens want GMO labelling on their food, big business is doing everything it can to prevent people from accessing their rights…. Read more »
