Sector Snap: Agribusiness stocks rise

Shares of agribusiness stocks rose on Friday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the economy is on the verge of recovery, signaling that global demand for meat and grains could strengthen in coming months.

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5M Pizzas Recalled for Possible E. Coli

General Mills on Thursday recalled about 5 million frozen pizzas sold nationwide under the Totino's and Jeno's labels because of possible E. coli contamination.

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Pet Food Recall Expands to Third Company

NOTE: This story erroneously said Blue Buffalo recalled both cat food and dog food. It only recalled a kind of cat food.

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States Seek to Kill Sea Lions for Salmon

So far, California sea lions have been winning their contest for survival with the Washington and Oregon salmon heading upstream to spawn. That may be about to change.

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U.S. Sees No Breakthrough at WTO Talks

The United States downplayed prospects for an immediate breakthrough in stalled global trade negotiations as top officials from six member nations of the World Trade Organization headed Thursday for talks in India.

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South Korea, U.S. Reach Free Trade Deal

The United States and South Korea concluded a landmark free trade agreement Monday, officials said, culminating 10 months of negotiations in a final week of intense haggling that just beat a key U.S. legislative deadline.

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Recall Expanded to Some Dry Cat Food

The recall of pet foods contaminated with a chemical used to make plastics has grown to include both wet and dry products, even as investigators remain uncertain about why the substance would be fatal to dogs and cats.

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Brazil Shuts Down Cargill's Amazon Port

Authorities shut down an important deep-water Amazon River port owned by Cargill Inc. on Saturday, saying the huge U.S. agribusiness firm failed to provide an environmental impact statement required by law.

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UglyRipes Prevail in Tomato Growers Spat

It's the Rocky of tomatoes, lumpy but loved by fans.

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Agricultural pollution flowing out of the Midwest kills aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico, with seafood harvesters and eaters paying the cost for this displaced cost of "cheap food." By Krista Hozyash

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Statement of Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter. Washington, D.C. – "The Farm Bureau-sponsored campaign to change Ohio's constitution and give industrialized agriculture control over livestock issues succeeded with the passage of ballot Issue 2.

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There's never a bad time to know when Congress is putting one over on the public and the win for Monsanto getting WTO corporate buddy rules to trump National Standards is a wet dream come to life. More articulate details follow.

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Nominated for lobbying for RoundupReady (RR) soy to be considered a "climate-friendly" crop that is eligible for carbon credits and subsidies under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM); and for pushing for meaningless 'responsible' label for RoundupReady soy, which could be used …

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By CARMELO RUIZ-MARRERO

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Editor's Note: It is amazing that CNN is covering this topic.

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This is a series in the New York Times about polluted water from coal mining, factory farming, and the lack of regulation.

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So to get to the root of the exploding obesity epidemic, I went in search of a junk food farm. Such farms are not so easy to spot. No fields of Dorito bags waving in the breeze, no orchards blooming with soda pop, no soil bursting with 99-cent burgers.

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Monsanto has filed a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court's decision to block the cultivation of the company's Roundup Ready alfalfa until the USDA completes its environmental assessment.

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With all the talk about "food security," and distorted media statements like "South Korea leases half of Madagascar's land,"1 it may not be evident to a lot of people that the lead actors in today's global land grab for overseas food production are not countries or governments  …

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If and when health care reform finally passes, we will have successfully ameliorated only half of the crisis. The treatment half.

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Even if agribusiness could shut Michael Pollan up, the outspoken author of Omnivore's Dilemma and a journalism professor at University of California, Berkeley, it still has the Los Angeles Times to contend with.

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With food prices remaining high in developing countries, the United Nations estimates that the number of hungry people around the world could increase by 100 million in 2009 and pass the one billion mark.

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If Norman Borlaug was not a Monsanto Man in life, though many believe him to be the best poster boy the Biotech Brigade could produce, his legacy is cemented as a promoter of privatized seeds and genetically modified life forms, fueled by Land Grant University research.

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by Kathy Ozer and Marcia Ishii-Eiteman "Lobbyists won't find a job in my White House." President Obama assured us with this claim upon inauguration.

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Norman Borlaug passed away some 10 days back. Ever since he passed away, a number of newspapers globally have published obituries and explained his contribution to agriculture. I too was flooded with requests to write about him or to talk about his role in Indian agriculture.

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While it was written in the height of the summer it is even more timely as Nature sends much of our plant life to seed.

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Mae-Wan Ho reports on an extraordinary gathering of Thai farmers, activists, government officials, academics and rice research scientists with the objective of securing official protection for indigenous biodiversity knowledge and wisdom.

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Dr M.S. Swaminathan, considered the Father of the Green Revolution in India, finally stated his views on genetically-modified (GM) crops in an opinion piece published on August 26, 2009, in this newspaper.

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The recent appointment of Michael Taylor as FDA's Senior Food Safety Advisor is of major public health concern.

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Monsanto has placed me on their blacklist, I've just discovered. Though I've personally served Clinton, G.W.

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Mariam Mayet The Cape Times, September 25 2009 *The green and gene revolutions are threatening the richness of traditional agriculture

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The industrial agriculture complex has been doing back flips for the last few weeks, first because of the ascendancy of Blanche Lincoln (ConservaDem-AR) to the high throne of the Senate Agriculture Committee, where she promises to pinch climate legislation (or at the very least s …

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