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Designed to Fail: Why Regulatory Agencies Don’t Work
May 1, 2012 08:05 -
Documenting the Urban Farming Boom
April 30, 2012 07:04 -
Mo Rocca Learns to Cook from our Elders: My Grandmother’s Ravioli
February 19, 2012 08:02 -
Occupy Wall Street: the Conscience of the Nation
December 19, 2011 04:12 -
Willie Nelson’s Long Time Bassist—Dan “Bee” Spears Dies
December 14, 2011 09:12 -
Barn Raising and Community Support Celebrated at Pete’s Greens
December 7, 2011 09:12 -
Building Worker Power for a Just and Sustainable Food System
December 4, 2011 13:12
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Oregon Food Bank: Hunger & Food Insecurity In Epic Proportions (video)
May 25, 2012 04:05 -
Rethinking the Problem of Food Waste (video)
May 24, 2012 04:05 -
Urban Gleaners: Reducing Food Waste to Reduce Hunger (video)
May 23, 2012 04:05 -
How to Make Savory Bread Pudding with Chard and Carrots (video)
May 22, 2012 04:05 -
Homemade Living: Home Dairy Review
May 18, 2012 04:05 -
One Farmers Perspective on the Raw Milk Debate (video)
May 17, 2012 04:05 -
A Small Scale Integrated Livestock Farmer (video)
May 16, 2012 04:05
Posts Tagged ‘gmo’
A Potato Remade for Industry Has Some Swedes Frowning
June 11, 2010 In Skara, Sweden, the genetically modified Amflora potato is being grown for its starch content, not food. But the debate and concern still continues for many in the region. Go to original post…
Seeds Of Life: Hybrids and the Emergence of Seed Monopolies (video)
For almost all of agriculture existence, farmers were largely the stewards of the land and the crops that they grew.
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, [...]
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 from the [...]
South Australia alone on GM canola ban
January 28, 2010 Western Australia recently decided to allow genetically modified (GM) canola to be planted in their fields. A statewide ban on GM food and crops was adopted in 2003. This from GeneEthics.org: “State governments agreed with widespread warnings that GM canola would adversely impact markets and trade in Australian food products. They used [...]
Monsanto’s Adventures in Court
January 18, 2010 Battle ahead: the two largest seed companies, Monsanto and DuPont, have gone to court over their seeds. Apparently DuPont created a new line of genetically modified seed by adding one of their genes to an existing genetically engineered Roundup Ready seed, which was created by Monsanto. DuPont “is challenging Monsanto’s licensing agreement [...]
Monsanto’s GMO Corn Linked To Organ Failure, Study Reveals
January 13, 2010 In a report (A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health) published in the International Journal of Biological Sciences, “researchers found that agricultural giant Monsanto’s GM corn is linked to organ damage in rats.” Monsanto refuted the study, in Monsanto Response: de Vendomois et al. 2009, and [...]
A Conversation with Claire Hope Cummings-Part 2 (video)
Cummings believes a handful of global agrichemical companies are threatening the livelihoods of farmers.