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Africa is heading for an ecological disasterMariam Mayet The Cape Times, September 25 2009 *The green and gene revolutions are threatening the richness of traditional agriculture
Roundup Resistant Weeds Create Nightmare for Southern FarmersToday, over 70 percent of all the cotton, rice and corn in the United States are devoted to conservation tillage. The wonder of Roundup Ready technology has allowed this. Without exaggeration, Roundup Ready changed the face of U.S. agriculture.
Please note that you should not proceed beyond this point if you cannot read tongue in cheek. While there may be an Onionesque feel to the reporting, this strange situation is factual. Monsanto wants support.
Monsanto's man Taylor returns to FDA in food-czar roleIn a Tuesday afternoon press release, the FDA announced that Michael Taylor, a former Monsanto executive, had joined the agency as "senior advisor to the commissioner." If the title is vague, the portfolio (pasted from the press release) is substantial—a kind of food czar o …
Failure to Yield: Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered CropsFor years the biotechnology industry has trumpeted that it will feed the world, promising that its genetically engineered crops will produce higher yields.
Argentina Finds Common Herbicide Could Cause Birth DefectsBUENOS AIRES – The herbicide used on genetically modified soy – Argentina's main crop – could cause brain, intestinal and heart defects in fetuses, according to the results of a scientific investigation released Monday.
My fellow American consumers, welcome to the Orwellian version of protection that plays as public service by the corporate government in Washington. The same Agencies, we the public fund with tax dollars, to protect us, are stepping up to protect industry instead.
The global food system feeds gluttonous corporations firstJohn Nichols is Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine The only surprising thing about the global food crisis to Jim Goodman is the notion that anyone finds it surprising.
The War on American Farmers - CBS VideoAfter a decade of silence the CBS news reports about the Monsanto attack on farmers with no more than a casual reference to the gmo crops as a decade old product.
World food crisis hits homeAs the world faces its first global food crisis since World War II, even American consumers are starting to fret.
Al Jazeera Tackles the recipe for food rights Prices of basic foods have sharply increased amid a rise in costs of commodities. The crisis has led to riots in poor countries by people who have limited access to food.
Businessweek Report Raises Alarm over 'Superweeds'At long last the environmental cost and threat of the chemically intensive GMO crops has put the issue on the pages of a mainstream publication. Can the reporting of the threats to human health possibly be far behind?
Monsanto Under Fire From Shareholders !!Hip, hip, hooray!! The day so many of us have been fighting for. One by one, tooth and nail for years.
Syngenta: murder and private militias in BrazilLast October 21st, an armed militia under contract to the GM seeds multinational Syngenta invaded the Terra Livre camp in Paraná in Brazil, killing with two shots from point blank range a 34 year-old activist of the Landless Workers Movement (MST), Valmir Mota de Oliveira, known …
Monsanto Friendly Judge Crushing GMO Opposition In South Africa PRESS RELEASE ISSUED BY: African Centre for Biosafety, Earthlife Africa, SAFeAGE BIOWATCH COURT RULING: GROSS MISCARRIAGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban 7 November 2007.
Genetically altered food: Labels hotly debated in IowaBy PAULA LAVIGNE REGISTER STAFF WRITER October 19, 2007 11 Comments Iowa is playing center stage in a global debate over whether people should be warned when the genetic makeup of their food has been altered.
Monsanto, Dow Agreement Paves the Way for Industry's First-Ever, Eight-Gene Stacked Offering in CornStacked product combines Dow AgroSciences' and Monsanto's insect-protection and weed control trait technologies; product set to deliver greater performance, value and options for farmers Indianapolis, IN and St. Louis, MO - September 14, 2007
Sygenta Continues Spraying Exposure to Hawaiian School Children In the Hawaiian language Maluia means "peaceful passage". Maluia-WCMS is a coalition of Waimea Canyon Middle School staff, parents and community members concerned with the use of pesticide/herbicide, and the agriculture of GMO crops on lands adjacent WCMS campus.
Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble "Our global civilization today is on an economic path that is environmentally unsustainable, a path that is leading us toward economic decline and eventual collapse," says Lester Brown in Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble.
Noam Chomsky ~ Starving the poor The chaos that derives from the so-called international order can be painful if you are on the receiving end of the power that determines that order's structure. Even tortillas come into play in the ungrand scheme of things.
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