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Farm bill passes Senate

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By David Rogers - Jun. 11 (News Report) - The 66-27 roll call exceeded last year's margin with 18 Republicans joining Democrats on passage.

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Editorial Board: Farm-bill proposals that fail the truth test

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Editorial Board - Jun. 03 (Opinion) - THE DETAILS OF federal food and agriculture policy have always been notoriously complex. The politics, though, have not. Every five years Congress passed a farm bill that represented a deal between urban and rural states. The city folk got food stamps to help the urban poor (and the grocery chains that sell to them) and the rural folk got subsidies for commodity producers, as well as the boost in demand from food stamps.

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Vertical 'Pinkhouses:' The Future Of Urban Farming?

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - May. 22 (News Report) - Architects have come up with spectacular concepts for vertical farms that would grow crops in city skyscrapers. But many horticulturists think the future of vertical farming isn't in skyscrapers, but rather in large, indoor warehouses lit up magenta by superefficient LEDs.

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Honey Bee Die-Off Caused By Multiple Factors Including Pesticides

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

billmoyers.com - By Therisa Riley - May. 19 (News) - A federal study released today attributes the massive die-off in American honey bee colonies to a combination of factors, including pesticides, poor diet, parasites and a lack of genetic diversity. Nearly a third of honey bee colonies in the United States have been wiped out since 2006. The estimated value of crops lost if bees were no longer able to pollinate fruits and vegetables is around $15 billion.

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Horses as Farm Equipment

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By ANNE RAVER - May. 16 (Special Report) - Horses as Farm Equipment

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America Is One Bad Winter Away From A Food Disaster

Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Todd Woody - May. 06 (News Report) - Forget the plight of the polar bear for a moment and consider the coming collapse of the $30 billion honey bee economy in the US. Since 2006 honey bees responsible for pollinating more than 100 crops—from apples to zucchini—have been dying by the tens of millions.

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Monsanto's Roundup Linked to Parkinson's, Infertility and Cancers

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Carey Gillam - Apr. 28 (News Report) - The peer-reviewed report, published last week in the scientific journal Entropy, said evidence indicates that residues of "glyphosate," the chief ingredient in Roundup weed killer, which is sprayed over millions of acres of crops, has been found in food.

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Why Your Supermarket Only Sells Five Kinds of Apples

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Rowan Jacobsen - Apr. 26 (Special Report) - Every fall at Maine's Common Ground Country Fair, the Lollapalooza of sustainable agriculture, John Bunker sets out a display of eccentric apples. Last September, once again, they covered every possible size, shape, and color in the wide world of appleness. There was a gnarled little yellow thing called a Westfield Seek-No-Further; a purplish plum impostor called a Black Oxford; a massive, red-streaked Wolf River; and one of Thomas Jefferson's go-to fruits, the Esopus Spitzenburg. Bunker is known in Maine as "The Apple Whisperer," or simply "The Apple Guy," and, after laboring for years in semi-obscurity, he has never been in more demand.

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Report on US Meat Sounds Alarm on Resistant Bacteria

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Stephanie Strom - Apr. 17 (News Analysis) - Report on U.S. Meat Sounds Alarm on ‘Superbugs’

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Calamity for Our Most Beneficent Insect

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By THE EDITORIAL BOARD - Apr. 06 (Opinion) - Bee colonies have been dying in increasing numbers, and the latest suspect is a pesticide used to protect common agricultural seeds.

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Maasai herders breed fewer, stronger cattle to resist climate change

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - Jan. 31 (News Report) - To withstand more-intense droughts herders in Tanzania cut the size of their herds and cross-breed for resilience and resistance to disease. ...

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Monsanto Ad Claiming Roundup Safety is Misleading - Dutch Commission

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

nationofchange.org - Jan. 02 (News Report) - "Monsanto is still trying to keep up appearances that Roundup is a harmless substance, while worldwide evidence is accumulating that the formulation, the active ingredient glyphosate and the breakdown product AMPA are actually very harmful to humans, animals and the environment."

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Milk prices could double if Congress doesn't act

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - Dec. 22 (News) - Milk prices are poised to move higher next year unless Congress passes legislation to supersede a 1949 law. That law would boost milk prices by forcing up the price at which government buys milk to keep it off store ...

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The End of Pasta

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Daily Beast - By Mark Hertsgaard - Dec. 10 (Comment) - Temperatures are rising. Rainfalls are shifting. Droughts are intensifying. What will we eat when wheat won’t grow.

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Growing food in the desert: is this the solution to the world's food crisis?

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Jonathan Margolis - Nov. 25 (Special Report) - Philipp Saumweber is creating a miracle in the barren Australian outback, growing tonnes of fresh food. So why has he fallen out with the pioneering environmentalist who invented the revolutionary system?

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Why So Secretive? The Trans-Pacific Partnership as Global Corporate Coup

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

nationofchange.org - By Andrew Gavin Marshall - Nov. 23 (Special Report) - public interest groups have been warning that the TPP could result in millions of lost jobs. As a letter from Congress to United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk stated, the TPP “will create binding policies on future Congresses in numerous areas,” including “those related to labor, patent and copyright, land use, food, agriculture and product standards, natural resources, the environment, professional licensing, state-owned enterprises and government procurement policies, as well as financial, healthcare, energy, telecommunications and other service sector regulations.”

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In sign of growing clout, Brazil’s corn helps hold up U.S. market

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Howard Schneider - Nov. 19 (News Analysis) - As U.S. cornfields withered under drought conditions last summer, Brazil’s once-empty Cerrado region produced a bumper crop of the grain, helping feed livestock on U.S. farms and ease a drought-related spike in prices. ...

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The Big Picture on RT

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Big Picture on RT - By Thom Hartman, Frederick Kaufman - Oct. 28 (Opinion) - (Video)

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India May Ban GMO Crop Field Trials for 10 Years

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

nationofchange.org - By Anthony Gucciardi - Oct. 22 (News Report) - “The nation’s new expert committee appointed by the Supreme Court of India is now calling upon the Indian government to enact a 10 year ban on all GMO crop field trials for the next 10 years.”

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Fighting for Prop 37: The Truth that $36 Million Can’t Hide

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

nationofchange.org - By Stacy Malkan - Oct. 13 (Fact Check) - The people's movement for our right to know what's in our food has hit a critical fork in the road: the moment when it's time to ask ourselves and each other -- how hard are we willing to fight for our basic right to know what's in the food we're eating and feeding our families? Proposition 37 is the litmus test for whether there is actually a food movement in this country

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Biotech Scientist: It’s ‘Awesome’ that GMOs Cause Infertility, Death

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

nationofchange.org - By Anthony Gucciardi - Oct. 12 (Special Report) - “I received from a very angry biotech scientist who proclaimed it was ‘awesome’ if GMOs were causing mass infertility and death, it becomes tragically clear that even many of the scientists working in the biotech field know full well that GMOs are causing significant bouts of disease across the globe.”

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GMO Technology, Glyphosate Toxicity Leaving Men Sterile

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

nationofchange.org - By Elizabeth Renter - Sep. 30 (Special Report) - One study in particular found that glyphosate (an ingredient in Roundup), leaves a residue on crops and this residue is “actually toxic to testicle cells.” Also, the residue lowers testosterone synthesis—this means the glyphosate toxicity lowers the amount of the male sex hormone available for the body to use.

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Study Linking Monsanto Corn to Cancer Must Be Taken Seriously by Regulators

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By John Vidal - Sep. 29 (News Report) - last week, Seralini brought the whole scientific and corporate establishment crashing down on his head. In a peer-reviewed US journal, Food and Chemical Toxicology, he reported the results of a €3.2m study. Fed a diet of Monsanto's Roundup-tolerant GM maize NK603 for two years, or exposed to Roundup over the same period, rats developed higher levels of cancers and died earlier than controls. Séralini suggested that the results could be explained by the endocrine-disrupting effects of Roundup, and overexpression of the transgene in the GMO.

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Russia Bans Use and Import of Monsanto’s GMO Corn Following Study

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

nationofchange.org - By Anthony Gucciardi - Sep. 27 (News Report) - Following the groundbreaking French study that graphically linked the lifetime consumption of Monsanto’s GMO corn in rats to massive tumors and direct organ failure, Russia’s premiere consumers rights organization has suspended both the importation and use of Monsanto’s GMO corn within the nation’s borders.

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Drought knocks U.S. off its soybean pedestal

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

latitudenews.com - By Jack Rodolico - Aug. 30 (Special Report) - More bad news for Midwest farmers: American soy is now number two.

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