Agriculture
Grocery stores try setting up fake farmers markets
Ashley Braun Grist Without a doubt, farmers markets have got a good thing growing. Unfortunately, sneaky copycats have been cropping up as they try to…
Banksters Inflate Speculative Food Bubble, U.N. Offers Global Governance Solution
Eric Blair Activist Post Never let a good crisis go to waste. The international bankers are taking advantage of the “food crisis” by driving up…
Public opinion stopped GM, says campaigner
Global resistance has halted the biotech giants, reports Environment Editor Michael McCarthy from the IoS co-sponsored Sustainable Planet Forum AFP/Getty Image The Independent The tide…
‘Troubled Waters’ overcomes censor troubles; more must-see Ag films
Rady Ananda, Contributing Writer Activist Post After controversy erupted when the University of Minnesota yanked the opening of Larkin McPhee’s new film, Troubled Waters: A Mississippi…
Is Harris County Openly Poisoning Citizens in the Name of Mosquito Control?
Insecticide Sprayed Directly Into Neighborhoods The Intel Hub On Friday, Harris County Texas officials sprayed insecticide throughout multiple neighborhoods in order combat West Nile Virus….
Corn, Soybeans Hit Two Year High While Cotton Jumps To 15-Year Peak
Reuters Oil jumped 2% on Monday and sharp gains in cotton, corn and soybeans also helped boost a commodities index to eight-month highs, while gold…
Global food risk from China-Russia pincer
World food supplies are caught in a pincer as China becomes a net importer of corn for the first time in modern history and Russia’s…
Monsanto, Blackwater and GM crop saboteurs
Rady Ananda Food Freedom Agribusiness giant Monsanto, which genetically modifies plants to excude or tolerate pesticide or to produce nonviable seeds, hired the services of…
The Trouble with Civilization
Sierra Bellows UVA Magazine Phillip Trella studies bones from the ruins of the ancient cities of Upper Mesopotamia. After several millennia, the cities have been…
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 —…
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…