War Over Monsanto Gets Ugly
Mike Ludwig Truth-Out A delegation of politicians and community activists gathered on August 7 in La Leonesa, a small farm town in Argentina, to hear…
Agriculture
Jack DeCoster’s Salmonella Touch: Another massive egg recall
Rady Ananda, Contributing Writer Activist Post Another massive egg recall, another tie to scofflaw Jack DeCoster. Nearly 300,000 eggs have been recalled, affecting eight states,…
Jack DeCoster’s Salmonella Touch: Another massive egg recall
Rady Ananda, Contributing Writer Activist Post Another massive egg recall, another tie to scofflaw Jack DeCoster. Nearly 300,000 eggs have been recalled, affecting eight states,…
Morningland Dairy: 50,000 Pounds Of Cheese To Be Destroyed. It’s All Suspect….Or Is it Just Suspicious?
Morningland Dairy Doreen Hannes The Intel Hub The issues that brought a tiny Missouri farmstead cheese plant to the forefront in the U.S. Food and…
China quarantine bureau rejects U.S. GMO corn cargo
Niu Shuping and Tom Miles Reuters China’s quarantine bureau confirmed on Tuesday it had discovered traces of an unapproved genetically modified organism (GMO) in a…
FAO food price index hits 27-months high
Source: U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization RELATED ARTICLE: Banksters Inflate Speculative Food Bubble, UN Offers Global Governance Solution
Leaked trade agreements and hidden dangers of S 510: Corporations plan to end normal farming
S. 510 M. Gardner Food Freedom Canada’s National Farmers Union wants the Canada-EU trade deal scrapped. US farmers face the same assault by agribusiness and…
Leading environmental campaigners flip-flop to support nuclear power and GM foods
Editor’s Note: This propaganda alert claims the environmental movement has been wrong for decades in opposing GMO foods and nuclear power. It’s a clear indication that…
EU food safety chief forced to quit GM lobby role
Jemima Roberts and Tom Levitt The Ecologist Questions raised over why European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) chair Diana Banati failed to make clear her connections…
U.S. Wheat Crop in Worse Shape Than Year Ago on Dry Weather
Jeff Wilson Bloomberg The U.S. winter-wheat crop is in worse condition than last year at this time as dry weather slows plant development. The country’s…
Why Monsanto is paying farmers to spray its rivals’ herbicides
Image: Big Grey Mare – Grist Tom Philpott Grist Monsanto’s ongoing humiliation proceeds apace. No, I’m not referring to the company’s triumph in our recent…
The Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex: A Deadly Fairy Tale
Dr. Doug Henderson and Dr. Gary Null Global Research It has been a particularly bad month for the pharmaceutical industrial complex in its ongoing litigations…
Agriculture Secretary and Ex Monsanto Lobbyist Defends Dropping Potatoes From Federal Food Program for Low-Income Mothers
Dan Joseph CNS News Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says there is nothing wrong with eating potatoes in moderation, even though the federal Women, Infants and…
Food inspection is often flawed
Lena H. Sun Washington Post The voluntary quality control system widely used in the nation’s $1 trillion domestic food industry is rife with conflicts of…