12 Articles

Monday, July 28, 2008
A sinful view of Ann Veneman, Obama's possible choice for VP
(5 comments) Obama is considering Ann Veneman as VP. Veneman is Monsanto. To try to adequately convey how hellish a choice that would be for anyone on earth, this article applies the Catholic Church's new seven mortal sins to Monsanto.

Monday, July 28, 2008
Paul Krugman, tomatoes ain't straightforward. Watch out for how you grab hold.
Paul Krugman wrote an article in the NY Times pushing for regulations to deal with food safety issues. This article reminds him that those who deregulated things are running the show now, suddenly pushing for regulations. The FDA is full of them and is not more to be trusted than the wolf in grandma's clothes. The FDA Globalization Act of 2008 and NAIS are wanted by corporations. Mr. Krugman, there's your tip off.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008
During a world food crisis, Monsanto just raised the price of its corn seed $100 a bag.
(16 comments) "A $100 price increase is a tremendous drain on rural America," said Fred Stokes, OCM's executive director. "Let's say a farmer in Iowa who farms 1,000 acres plants one of these expensive corn varieties next year. The gross increased cost is more than $40,000. Yet there's no scientific basis to justify this price hike. How can we let companies get away with this?" continued Stokes.

Monday, July 21, 2008
Tomatoes and Osama
(5 comments) Are tomatoes the problem or jalapenos? Or is something else going on that is more worrisome? Between terrorists scares and food scares, the Bush Administration is used to creating hysteria and getting bills pushed through Congress to give more power to itself and its corporate friends. They are still at it.

Saturday, July 19, 2008
Bill C51 in Canada
(5 comments) Time to watch what is going on with farmers and food and natural substances like a hawk. All of them seem so basic and boring politically but all of them need serious attention and protection right now because CORPORATE police state control is coming down on all of them. The banning of healthy real milk and NAIS - global tracking info of EVERY move or EVERY farm animal into a CORPORATE data bank - are happening now.

Saturday, July 19, 2008
What is happening to farming - and to your world.
(2 comments) Farming is in terrible trouble. When you hear talk of NAIS or banning of real milk and farmers pleading for no more regulations, please hear with a different ear. It is your world that is being lost.

Friday, July 18, 2008
People are concerned about FEMA camps.
(43 comments) There is a report out that Congress was informed in a secret meeting of the imminent collapse of the US economy and government and the institution of martial law, with internment camps being built in this country to hold "insurgents." What is being done to object?

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Where is the ACLU?
(12 comments) The endless things being done to farmers in this country by the USDA and FDA on behalf of corporations they have come to represent, are serious constitutional violations, but the ACLU is nowhere to be found in defending small conservative farmers. If the ACLU shows up to defend the civil rights of farmers, that would go a great distance toward uniting liberals and conservatives. I'm asking the ACLU to save our family farms.

Saturday, July 12, 2008
The death of the sustainable agriculture movement and its twin, the alternative health movement
(8 comments) While we are assuming the millions of burgeonings of awareness and interest in sustainable and alternative health will continue to grow and come together into a better world, other plans are being laid, right now, that are capable of destroying both in a second. No one is looking. NAIS is a dagger pointed at the heart of all we value on the land, and the FDA and USDA's "protection" of us removes what we need to survive.

Thursday, July 10, 2008
Standing up to terrorists, standing up to tomatoes.
(1 comments) The Bush administration is using the salmonella/tomato scare to pass the Food and Drug Administration Globalization Act of 2008. Liberals should no more be fooled into giving more control to the FDA, than conservatives should be fooled by terrorism scares to allow more surveillance. The bill is a huge threat to small farmers and ranchers and to our non-corporate, and thus vital, alternative health movement.

Monday, July 7, 2008
Raw milk and the government/corporate effort to crush it
(14 comments) Raw milk is being attacked in a number states across the country - most heavily right now in California and Pennsylvania. And yet the milk is not only safe but healthier than pasteurized milk, and far healthier than milk from cows with Monsanto's rBGH (genetically engineered bovine growth hormone). So, what is going on?

Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Oil Crisis. Oh, really? They are hiding oil offshore.
(7 comments) Our country is being brought to its knees based on the rise in oil and gas prices, and the oil, coal and nuclear industries are rising up to demand things they have been pushed back on for years - drilling in ANWAR, off shore drilling, building new coal and nuclear power plants. The "crisis" opens those doors. A look at the "oil crisis," itself.