Consumers: Soon to feed through
Gary Farrell Financial Times of London Kevin Gaffney had to face up to a double setback on Friday. The 53-year-old, made redundant by the airline…
Agriculture
All States Must Acknowledge the UN’s Recognition of Water as a Human Right
Meera Karunananthan Alternet It is crucial now that we use this opportunity to hold governments accountable to the international commitment to recognize water and sanitation…
Federal Court Victory: Almond Farmers Can Challenge USDA Pasteurization Rule
The Cornucopia Institute Onerous Rule has Devastated California Raw Almond Producers WASHINGTON, DC – A federal appeals court ruled today, overturning a lower court decision, that…
Food Prices Warning as World Wheat Costs Rise
Adrian Lowery This Is Money Shoppers were warned today that food prices are set to soar further, after food inflation already jumped in July. Hovis…
Popularity of Farming Soars in Massachusetts
D.C. Denison Boston Globe DRACUT — Midway through her first growing season, Rachael Potts, 31, pointed to long rows of thriving peppers, scallions, and Swiss…
Raiding and Regulating the New Enemy in the War on Drugs: Rawesome ‘Foodies’
Eric Blair Activist Post As if the prohibition of non-corporate drugs wasn’t already enough of a tragedy of liberty, the Feds are now increasingly arming…
Michael Pollan: The Food Movement, A Rising Revolution
Michael Pollan New York Book Review 1. Food Made Visible It might sound odd to say this about something people deal with at least three…
Rice farmer is awarded $500,000 in case over crop contamination
Robert Patrick Stl. Today A federal jury in St. Louis awarded $500,248 on Wednesday to a farmer who claimed that he and his family had…
Tobacco giant Philip Morris sold cigarettes made using child labour
Shaun Walker The Independent Tobacco giant Philip Morris has been forced to admit that child workers as young as 10 have been subjected to long…
Five Questions Monsanto Needs to Answer about its Seed Donation to Haiti
Timi Gerson Civil Eats Monsanto has donated $4 million in seeds to Haiti, sending 60 tons of conventional hybrid corn and vegetable seed, followed by…
Free Market Famine Redux: Who Will Feed China?
Activist Post Long-time published author, Joseph E. Fasciani, wrote an article in May, 2004 for Axis of Logic titled, It’s Time to Again Ask: Who…
The Toxic Truth About Mega-Farms
Chemical fumes, distressed animals and poisoned locals driven from their homes and worse By STEVE BOGGAN Daily Mail Aside from the times when he worried…
Goldman Sachs-Owned Oil Dispersant Corexit Blamed for Crop Damage
YOBIE BENJAMIN – San Francisco Chronicle BP oil spill dispersants suspected in widespread crop damage Just when you thought the damages BP could cause was limited…