Animals Fed GMO Are Different!

01-15-2010 • CYMRU

It's finally coming to the surface. If you feed an animal genetically modified feed, the gene from that GMO feed stays with the animal.

Monsanto seed business role revealed

12-13-2009 • AP

Confidential contracts detailing Monsanto Co.'s business practices reveal how the world's biggest seed developer is squeezing competitors, controlling smaller seed companies and protecting its dominance over genetically altered crops

The 7 foods experts won't eat

12-10-2009 • Liz Vaccariello

How healthy (or not) certain foods are—for us, for the environment—is a hotly debated topic among experts and consumers alike, and there are no easy answers. But when Prevention talked to the people at the forefront of food safety and asked them one

Boston brewer pushes new limits on extreme beer

11-30-2009 • AP

It is banned in 13 states and sure doesn’t come in a six-pack. The maker of Samuel Adams beer has released an updated version of its biennial beer Utopias — now the highest alcohol content beer on the market. At 27 percent alcohol by volume and $1

Monsanto draws U.S. antitrust scrutiny

11-29-2009 • United Press International

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Antitrust scrutiny of agriculture conglomerate Monsanto has high stakes for U.S. farmers and its competitors, analysts say.

Monsanto's dominance draws antitrust inquiry

11-29-2009 • Washington Post

For plants designed in a lab a little more than a decade ago, they've come a long way: Today, the vast majority of the nation's two primary crops grow from seeds genetically altered according to Monsanto company patents. Ninety-three percent of so

Wisconsin: Heroes will just set things back……Oh! The drama of it all!

11-24-2009 • Marti Oakley

Jackass Alert! Someone ought to tell these people that monopolies are illegal. So are monopsony’s.

The Rooftop Garden Climbs Down a Wall

11-18-2009 • NY Times

Edible walls produce fruit, vegetables and herbs in far less space than typical gardens. That’s why advocates of urban farming have embraced them as a way to lower food costs, increase nutritional quality and cut fuel consumption and carbon emissions

Monsanto Pulls GM Corn Amid Food Safety Concerns

11-16-2009 • SMCC

Rather than provide documented research that its new GMO product was safe, Monsanto chose to pull the product, and remove all test results from further inspection.

Drilling for Scotch whiskey in the Antarctic

11-16-2009 • AP

A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica's ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whiskey that has been on the rocks since a century ago. The drillers will be trying to reach two crates of McKinlay and Co. whiskey that

Nearly 15 percent of households don't get enough to eat

11-16-2009 • Reuters

One in seven Americans struggles to get enough to eat, the government reported on Monday, and more than a third go hungry from time to time -- the highest levels since the "food security" report began in 1995. The new report covers 2008, when the

The Festering Fraud behind Food Safety Reform

11-14-2009 • Nicole Johnson

You cannot have a vibrant, community-based food system at the same time you legislate an anti-small, anti-entrepreneurial, overburdensome, capricious food regulatory system.

The fight over the future of food

11-09-2009 • Reuters

At first glance, Giuseppe Oglio's farm near Milan looks like it's suffering from neglect. Weeds run rampant amid the rice fields and clover grows unchecked around his millet crop. Oglio, a third generation farmer eschews modern farming techniques --

Bill giving FDA new powers to oversee food supply has wide support

10-22-2009 • LA Times

- Legislation granting the Food and Drug Administration new powers to oversee the nation's food supply has elbowed its way onto Congress' crammed calendar with bipartisan support and rare agreement between consumer groups and an industry stung by pr

Drought: California Agriculture in Collapse

10-16-2009 • Cryptogen

As California prepares for its fourth year of drought, farmers are nervous in California’s San Joaquin Valley. The valley’s eight counties, if they were their own state, would be the top producing one in the nation. Nearly all the U.S. cantaloupes, g

What Makes Food Organic and Why it is Expensive

10-13-09 • www.buzzle.com/articles/what-makes-food-org

Many consumers hear about organic farming, but they aren't sure what that means and sometimes question what makes food organic and why it is more expensive than other options. They may be amazed of the typically higher cost of organic foods and may c

Hazards of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in GE Foods

10-13-09 • http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/genemarker.cfm

Included as a Marker, Antibiotic Resistance Bred into Crops has Disastrous Potential by Marty Traynor Genetically modified genes in food crops can jump from one species to another and can cause bacteria in the new host to mutate, according to

Learn about Fruit Trees in the Desert!

10-12-2009 • Phoenix Permaculture Guild

Every year at this time the Phoenix Permaculture Guild and the Urban Farm bring you classes, open houses, and order forms to get you started planting fruit trees in your yard.

The Future of Food - Full Length Movie

10-10-2009 • Farm Wars

Watch this must-see full length movie here.

When heated, high-fructose corn syrup can be dangerous

10-02-2009 • RD Magazine

Researchers have established the conditions that foster formation of potentially dangerous levels of a toxic substance in the high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) often fed to honey bees. Their study, which appears in the current issue of ACS' bi-weekly J

Monsanto – YOU are on MY Terrorist Watch List!

09-28-2009 • Surviving the Middle Class Crash

Read my lips, pond scum. Your company bears the majority of responsibility for forcefully removing we the people’s right to choose what kind of food we eat. Hence, you have earned the title Public Enemy No. 1.

Court Rejects Genetically Modified Sugar Beets - It's About Time!

09-27-2009 • Surviving the Middle Class Crash

The government illegally approved a genetically modified, herbicide-resistant strain of sugar beets without adequately considering the chance they will contaminate other beet crops, a federal judge in San Francisco has ruled.

Everything you HAVE TO KNOW about Dangerous Genetically Modified Foods

09-25-2009 • Farm Wars

Roundup Ready gut bacteria anyone? You cannot recall what has already been unleashed, but you can mitigate the effects by putting a stop to the GMO insanity.

History, HACCP and the Food Safety Con Job

09-10-2009 • Nicole Johnson

The same agricultural policies that made farmers into commodity crop growers are at the root of the current obesity epidemic. According to a report by the Institute for Agricultural and Trade Policy called “Food Without Thought: How US Farm Policy Contributes to Obesity,” “the problem with the extensive use of cheap commodities in food products is that they fall into the very dietary categories that have been linked to obesity: added sugars and fats. US Farm policies driving down the price of these commodities made added sugars and fats some of the cheapest food substances to produce. High fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated vegetable oils – products that did not even exist a few generations ago but are now hard to avoid – have proliferated thanks to artificially cheap corn and soybeans.”[13] In other words, US farm policies make poor eating habits an economically sensible choice – with long-term negative health consequences for consumers and economically devastating consequences for

'Mouse' in Pepsi can was frog, FDA says

09-03-2009 • Orlando Sentinel

The tests are in and a federal report confirms what seems like an urban legend: a Diet Pepsi can consumed by an Ormond Beach man did indeed contain the remains of an animal, believed to be a frog or a toad.

Amy Denegri said she has received a report from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration with test results showing that the soda can contained a small animal, which they had thought was a rodent.

10 Ways Growing an Organic Garden Can Help Your Health and Budget

08-29-2009 • Dr. Mercola

Organic farming could be one of the few survival tactics left for family farms.

Simple Drip Irrigation

08-28-2009 • Surviving the Middle Class Crash

Setting up your container garden with a simple drip irrigation system. VIDEO

World Running Out Of Food Before Our Eyes

08-24-2009 • Market Skeptic

The world is running out of food before our very eyes. People are declaring the financial crisis over, although it has yet to even start. Believe me, everything that has happened so far is nothing compared to what is to come. Now that I have finished analyzing open interest on US futures markets, my next step is to finish the major article which lays out exactly what I see happening. Below is a quick preview/outline to hold you over until I am done.

Venezuela Seizes Coffee Companies

08-04-2009 • BBC

"If at the end of the audit, we can show there has been smuggling, hoarding, disloyal and monopolistic practices, we could consider nationalising the companies." [Hugo, you have officially gone too far]