CUpS: Food News
Throughout much of agriculture, a remarkable span of 10,000 years, farmers were largely the stewards of the land and the crops that they grew. Seeds collected from one year’s harvest were selected, stored, and used again for successive growing seasons. As Frank Morton, an organic seed breeder explains in this segment of the Seeds [...]
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Seeds Of Life: Hybrids and the Emergence of Seed Monopolies
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A Conversation with Claire Hope Cummings-Part 2
editor’s note: In a recently disclosed Associated Press investigative report, Monsanto is being investigated for possible antitrust violations regarding its (seed) business licensing practices by the U.S. Department of Justice, and at least two state attorneys general. The video below was originally published in February, 2009; the written post has been updated to reflect new [...]
Posted in Food News Also tagged biotechnology, claire hope cummings, dupont, Environment, food system, fred kirschenmann, genetic engineering, gmo, monsanto, paul roberts, sygenta, uncertain peril, vandana shiva 1 Comment
Seeds of Life: David Vs. Goliath
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Center for Food Safety, et al. v. Thomas J. Vilsack, et al.
In an ongoing David versus Goliath legal battle, Frank Morton, an organic seed breeder in Philomath, Oregon, along with the plaintiffs listed in this lawsuit, have successfully sued the USDA and its Animal and Plant Health Inspection [...]
Posted in Food News Also tagged alfalfa, aphis, center for food safety, dow, Environment, frank morton, judge jeffrey white, monsanto, organic seeds, patenting of life, ppa, roundup, roundup ready sugar beets, seeds of life, swiss chard, sygenta, table beets, usda, utility patents, wild garden seeds 8 Comments
Genetic Engineering: Road to Paradise or Paradise Lost?
This video from the political advocacy group Greenpeace, provides an overview of the contentious issues of biotechnology (genetic engineering) as it applies to food production. In some ways, biotechnology is the equivalent of the abortion rights issue of the agriculture world. Both sides of the debate hold entrenched views; those in opposition to its use [...]
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A Conversation with Claire Hope Cummings-Part 4
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In Claire Hope Cummings very fine book, Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds, she dedicates a chapter to corn, and her visit to a region of Mexico, the center of origin where ancient corn began. Centers of origin, as Cummings explains, are the few places on earth [...]
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A Conversation with Claire Hope Cummings-Part 3
Cooking Up a Story: Food News
Claire Hope Cummings, in this third segment of interviews hones in upon the essential problems plaguing our agriculture system, she argues is a direct result of the industrialization of agriculture. “Our bodies are not machines”, Cummings reminds us, all the parts of a biological (agriculture) system must remain healthy if [...]
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