Major new study shows that modified soya produces 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent The Independent By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world food… Read more »
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Action Alert: Protect Organics from Synthetic Additives and Factory Farms
[This Action Alert is Over] Sign and Mail Your Proxy Letter Protect Organics from Synthetic Additives and Factory Farms Please take a moment to print, sign and mail the proxy letter today! The organic label was founded on the idea that food should be produced in concert with nature, without dangerous chemicals and synthetic ingredients…. Read more »
David Suzuki Video: Words of Caution on GMOs — and Blunt Words for Monsanto
Prominent Canadian geneticist David Suzuki outlines the lack of any conclusive research proving GMOs are safe for human consumption and makes the argument that we should be able to choose in the marketplace (labeling). And he “speaks truth to power” in his messaging to the Monsanto. Click here to view this video.
India Puts GM Crop Trials On Hold
BJP-led government gives in to demands from nationalist RSS to not surrender country’s food security to foreign companies The Guardian by Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar Credit: Meena Kadri The battle over testing of genetically modified crops in India took a new turn this week with the Bharatiya Janata party-led government putting field trials on hold. The move reverses the… Read more »
Independent Farmers Feel Squeezed By Milk Cartel
National Public Radio Behind that pure, wholesome, nourishing glass of milk, there’s an insurgency. The price of raw milk paid to farmers has dropped to its lowest level in 40 years. Dairy farms are going under across the country, and a few dairymen have grown so desperate they’ve taken their own lives. As the crisis… Read more »
Russia Suspends Import and Use of American GM Corn After Study Revealed Cancer Risk
Mail Online By Sean Poulter The European Food Safety Authority orders review in to the research, conducted at a French university Russia’s decision could be followed by other nations Experts at the University of Caen conducted an experiment running for the full lives of rats – two years The findings found raised levels of breast… Read more »
How These Farmer Janes Are Making Organics Profitable
Rodale’s Organic Life by Audra Mulkern Farm-to-table gets a serious dose of girl power. All across America, women are returning to the land and reviving age-old traditions of farming, which, as a business, is often fraught with struggles to turn a profit. But these four superwomen have combined their individual passions for food, organic farming,… Read more »
A Change We Can Believe In – Dumping Industrial Agriculture
CommonDreams.org by Jim Goodman As 2009 approaches, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) notes nearly a billion people a day go hungry worldwide. While India supplies Switzerland with 80% of its wheat, 350 million Indians are food-insecure. Rice prices have nearly tripled since early 2007 because, according to The International Rice Research Institute,… Read more »
Voting Beyond Our Forks
Attention shoppers: it’s going to take more than consciousness at the checkout line to fix our broken food system Whole Life Times By Christopher D. Cook Bacterial scares aside, these are propitious days for good food. Burgeoning interest in organic, nontransfatty, local, slow, GMO-free foods suggests a ripening of consciousness that could transform today’s corporate… Read more »
How “Extreme Levels” of Roundup in Food Became the Industry Norm
Independent Science News by Thomas Bøhn and Marek Cuhra Soybeans Credit: USDA NRCS Food and feed quality are crucial to human and animal health. Quality can be defined as sufficiency of appropriate minerals, vitamins and fats, etc. but it also includes the absence of toxins, whether man-made or from other sources. Surprisingly, almost no data exist… Read more »
