MRSA in Meat: Why No Recall?
David Kirby Huffington Post Next week, Congress will hold hearings on the recent recall of more than half a billion eggs infected with salmonella —…
Agriculture
Good Food is Emerging as a Real Alternative to the Dominance of Corporate Agriculture
This good food evolution has usually been started by grassroots individuals who grew up in rural communities and now live in cities. Grace Lee Boggs…
Corn syrup producers to change name to ‘corn sugar’ as awareness over health concerns grow
Activist Post Bad press over health concerns has affected sales for the corn syrup industry and as a result the Associated Press reported today that…
Gov’t Employees Say Interference Threatens Public Health
Kate Sheppard Mother Jones In the past months, more than 1,400 Americans have become sick after eating salmonella-tainted eggs, and half a billion eggs have…
10 Reasons Our Shallow Fresh Water Supply is in Deep Trouble
Jeffrey Green Activist Post Fresh clean water is essential to all life forms. It seems that a resource so vital should not be corralled, controlled,…
The Quiet Invasion of Genetically Modified Crops
Spence Cooper Friends Eat According to the USDA, Roundup Ready seeds were planted on about 95 percent of all sugar-beet acreage earlier this year, and will be…
Regulators using egg recall to push support for tyrannical ‘food safety’ bill S.510
Ethan A. Huff Natural News The billion-or-so egg recall fiasco that took place this summer is a perfect example of the failures implicit in modern,…
Drought, Brush Fire Risk Building in the Eastern U.S.
Drought Map – USDA Alex Sosnowski AccuWeather A number of short-term and long-term factors are resulting in building drought conditions over a large part of…
Bee decline already having a dramatic impact on pollination of plants
Richard Alleyne Telegraph Researchers have found that pollination levels of some plants have dropped by up to 50 per cent in the last two decades….
Gender bender chemical atrazine widely contaminates U.S. water supply
David Gutierrez Natural News Emerging research increasingly indicates that the U.S. water supply is widely contaminated with the endocrine disrupting chemical atrazine, but that the…
US pushing drugged, vaccinated, chlorinated chickens on the world
Rady Ananda Food Freedom After over half a billion eggs were recalled from two factory hen layer operations in Iowa,[1] New York lawmakers proposed mandating…
Transgenic corn destruction fuels national debate about GMOs in Paraguay
Lugo government under attack for enforcement of agricultural laws Tracy L. Barnett Esperanza Project ASUNCION, Paraguay – The federal agricultural agency’s dramatic destruction of more…
Global food shortages fears as Russia extends wheat ban
Vladimir Putin has announced Russia will not lift a ban on grain exports before next year’s harvest, extending the embargo for another year, sparking fears…
Fears grow over global food supply
Javier Blas in London, Courtney Weaver in Moscow and Simon Mundy in Johannesburg Financial Times of London Russia announced a 12-month extension of its grain…