March 12, 2010 Sometimes called the Doomsday Vault, built inside a mountain located in a remote area of Norway, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is designed to reliably store the world’s remaining samples of important agricultural seeds over extended periods of time. Given the year-round, chilly conditions of the surrounding arctic permafrost, the seeds (no [...]
Author: Fred Gerendasy
A Important Case of Preserving Food Sovereignty and Avoiding Green Revolution Calamity
March 109, 2010; Don’t overlook Malawi! In Seedling Magazine, a recent article about this tiny east African country that faces big battles ahead with how it feeds its people, and whether it can forestall the pressures of “Green Revolution” style assistance from the international community. At stake a nation, how it can reliably feed itself, [...]
Posted in CUpS Food News Wire Tagged africa, flax, food security, food sovereignty, gmo, green revolution, malawi, via campesina 1 Comment
And Finally, Man?
“Mankind’s closest relatives – the world’s monkeys, apes and other primates – are disappearing from the face of the Earth, with some literally being eaten into extinction.”
One of the world’s leading primate authorities, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), issued a new, and alarming report, Primates In Peril: The World’s 25 Most [...]
Organic Livestock Recieve Emancipation Proclamation from USDA
February 15, 2010 On Friday, February 12, the USDA issued its final ruling for Access to Pasture organic certification requirements for all organic livestock producers. The National Organic Program (NOP) began in October of 2002, and up until the present was designed to ensure that pasture and ruminant animals received adequate access to pasture grass, [...]
Temporary Stay Against GM Introduction Granted to India’s “king of Vegetables”-the Aubergine
February 10, 2010 Jairam Ramesh, India’s minister for environment and forests, announced yesterday that India would impose a temporary moratorium on the introduction of a genetically modified Aubergine (eggplant). Bt Brinjal, would have been the first genetically modified food allowed for commercial cultivation in India. The Aubergine had been modified with a gene [...]
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Nutri-Grain legal challenge has ‘no merit’, says Kellogg
February 4, 2010 A class action lawsuit has been brought against The Kellogg Company for allegedly engaging in deceptive advertising practices regarding its Nutra-Grain Bars it claims are healthier to eat because of their ingredients.
The company is being sued in the US District Court of Southern California for violations of the Lanham Act, Unfair [...]
Posted in CUpS Food News Wire Tagged breakfast bars, food marketing hypes, kellogg, nutra-grain cereal, nutrients, sugar, sugary foods, trans fats Post a comment
