Monsanto Even Worrying BIG Ag Now! Source: St. Louis Business Jornal
The annual conference for the Organization for Competetive Markets is coming next month to St. Louis. Why St. Louis? Central location, and a certain company named Monsanto is located there. So the theme to the conference? "Confronting Threats to Market Competition."
Feds roundup more than 35,000 fugitivesSource: msnbc.com
At a news conference Thursday morning, federal officials in Chicago said the number is a record for the so-called "Operation Falcon," which has been conducted annually since 2005.
A Year Without a Mexican; Iowa meatpacker files bankruptcySource: MotherJones.com
In the meantime, dozens of ex-workers still walk around Postville in ankle bracelets, unable to earn a living, making the town something of an open-air prison. Some of them are witnesses in state and federal cases against Agri.
Prohibition Racket Harms Indigenous FarmersSource: food.change.org
They say you can learn a lot about people both by the company they keep and the enemies they make. Our War on Drugs is good buddies with Monsanto and a determined enemy of small scale, indigenous agriculture from the Andes to the Yucatan.
Bison roundup shows species' prairie recoverySource: msnbc.com
Bison are no longer in danger of extinction.� With more than 500,000 living in North America, the animals can be found on private ranches, public parks� and wildlife preserves.
Vanity Fair Investigation: Monsanto's Harvest of Fear Source: The Latest From VanityFair.com
Monsanto already dominates America's food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation's tactics–ruthless legal battles against small farmers–is its decades-long history of toxic contamination.
The World According to MonsantoSource: Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television (ARTE – French-German cultural tv channel) by French journalist and film maker Marie-Monique Robin, The World According to Monsanto - A documentary that Americans won't ever see.
The World's Vilest, Most Dangerous Corporation? Source: Google
Monsanto. On March 11, a new documentary was aired on French television (ARTE) by journalist and film maker Marie-Monique Robin: The World According to Monsanto. The documentary was the result of three-years of research across the world.
US Herbicides Exact High Toll on Indigenous PopulationsSource: t r u t h o u t
Despite years of ongoing, critical public health controversies in Colombia and Ecuador over the US-assisted aerial herbicide spraying of coca and poppy crops while trying to reduce illegal cocaine and heroin production, US State Department officials are pursuing that very same sp …
Millions Against Monsanto - The Fact Page at Organic Consumers AssnSource: Organic Consumers' Assn.
1) Take Action! Sign the Millions Against Monsanto petition, demanding that the Monsanto Corporation make changes,
2) Worldwide news items on other consumers' decisions, our patent office, Hillary, Pa.'s Ag Commish, etc.
3) Monsanto's war against family farmers,
4) Roundup aid …
U.S. ignores angry reaction to secret poppy spraying testSource: mcclatchydc.com
In 2004, U.S.-contracted aircraft secretly sprayed harmless plastic granules over poppy fields in Afghanistan to gauge public reaction to using herbicides to kill the opium poppies that help fund the Taliban and al Qaida.
US officials push to spray Afghan drug cropsSource: Telegraph
"The US government has asked for the use of chemical spray but our officials in the ministry of health and ministry of agriculture are not yet satisfied it is safe," said Zalmai Afzali, a spokesman for counter-narcotics in the Kabul government.
United States to begin Chemical Warfare operations in AfghanistanSource: www.chycho.com
As we continue to fund, with our tax dollars, the operations in Afghanistan, we should be asking ourselves if conducting chemical warfare on a civilian population and creating "Super Opium Poppy" plants is an agenda that we wish to support in the occupation of Afghanistan?
US News Reports Monsanto PR as factSource: US News & World Report
It's hard to know if these writers are limited to the information in the Press Releases, or they lack any investigative qualities, but the public relations and marketing material from Monsanto couldn't spin the facts any better than what went out as an article by US News and Wo …
Aerial spraying of herbicide 'damages DNA'Source: scidev.net
Aerial spraying of a herbicide by the Colombian government on the border of Colombia and Ecuador has caused a high degree of DNA damage in local Ecuadorian people, according to a study.
Great Emu Roundup in ColoradoSource: thedenverchannel.com
It likely will be remembered in these parts as The Great Emu Roundup.
On Friday, Alamosa County Sheriff Dave Stong authorized the roundup of 100 of the birds that had been abandoned on a ranch south of here.
Who Benefits from GM Crops? Source: Biosafety Journal
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE REPORT: �Who Benefits from GM crops? An analysis of the global performance of genetically modified (GM) crops 1996-2006�
Monsanto's Roundup linked to health problemsSource: Environmental Health Perspectives
Our studies show that glyphosate acts as a disruptor of mammalian cytochrome P450 aromatase activity from concentrations 100 times lower than the recommended use in agriculture; this is noticeable on human placental cells after only 18 hr, and it can also affect aromatase gene ex …

Today 22 of the 24 league teams played in a Tuesday evening fixture. Harsh conditions almost everywhere may have played a part in the 9 wins and losses, 1 non-scoring draw and 1 scoring draw, all detailed below.

Today saw 14 League 2 teams take part in the second round of the E.on FA Cup. 6 wins, 3 loses and 3 games to be replayed, each one detailed below.