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Robert Weiner: Even with Child Tax Credit partially restored, Children's Food Shortage and Federal Housing Cutbacks Imminent in House Child tax credit has been partially restored in House legislation, but Republican cutbacks threaten food security. More needs to be done to address child hunger and poverty.
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Mark Lansvin: German proposal to cut agriculture subsidies infuriates farmers Farmers and governments can achieve mutually beneficial agreements through open, inclusive, and transparent communication 4 4 Comment Count
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Bob Gaydos: Snoop Dogg, ghee and me! Join me on an impromptu international journey. It's all about mind/body balance and a little clarified butter.
When farmers choose to grow food, not tobacco, sustainable development wins!, From Uploaded
Citizen News Service - CNS: When farmers choose to grow food, not tobacco, sustainable development wins Please consider the article. In line with legally binding global tobacco treaty and domestic efforts, several governments are making efforts to reduce tobacco cultivation and encourage farmers to transition away from tobacco, and rather grow food! Several farmers we interviewed share their successful experience of not growing tobacco and rather growing food.
Russ Doty: Ignore Emerging Science -- at Your Children's Peril This opinion debunks Gas Industry and conservative media claims in light of reputable mounting reports that induction cooking is better than "Cookin' With Gas." It discusses tax credits for induction stoves available via the IRA if your state chooses to administer them. 3 3 Comment Count
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Citizen News Service - CNS: Fork in the road: Will we protect medicines that protect us or deal with incurable diseases? Please consider this article with insights from leaders fighting antimicrobial resistance globally as well as in African and Asian regions. We cannot afford to lose the medicines that protect us, relieve us from pain and suffering, and often save lives. Time to take corrective steps to STOP irresponsible and inappropriate use of medicines in human health, animal health, agriculture, and environment, ONE HEALTH approach is key
Cracker Barrel breakfast in north Nashville. Those are not Impossible Sausage patties., From CreativeCommonsPhoto
Bob Gaydos: Here comes another food fight, America If some Cracker Barrel customers were angry over Impossible Sausage, just wait until they hear about "non-meat meat." 1 1 Comment Count
Arshad M Khan: Global Warming and the Future of Food Six foods that scientists believe could figure prominently in our future under global warming.
Robert Weiner: Time for Berlin-Like Airlift of Food and Medicine to Major Ukraine Cities, Especially Kyiv It's time for an Airlift, similar to the Berlin Airlift 1948-49, of food and medicines to major Ukraine cities, especially Kyiv and also other cities where Russia is trying to bomb, fire missiles against civilian living centers and buildings, and starve the entire populations-- what retired Four-Star General Barry McCaffrey today called a "war of extinction." 2 2 Comment Count
Abdus-Sattar Ghazali: Indian parliament votes to scrap controversial farm laws but farmers continue year-long protest Indian parliament on Monday voted to repeal the controversial farm laws that had triggered year-long protests by farmers. However, Farmers have refused to end protests until their other demands are also discussed. Protesting farmers say the laws would lead to a corporate takeover of the vast agriculture sector, which is the largest source of livelihood in India and about 70% of rural households depend on it for a living.
Raise Awareness, Stop Antimicrobial Resistance: World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 18-24 November 2021, From Uploaded
Citizen News Service - CNS: What's the link? Food, human health, livestock, environment, and antimicrobial resistance This article is based on interviews with top experts and scientists of the World Health Organization (WHO) HQ, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), and OMAG. All governments worldwide and many other groups are observing 18-24 November as World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, to raise awareness, and stop resistance of medicines to bugs that make us ill.
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Waymon Hinson: Why Am I Writing This? Enslavement to Farming While Black in 2021 There is a lot of noise these days in the media about the debt relief issue for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers versus white farmers and their law suits. This article lines out the historical context of farming while Black in America and why the white farmers are misguided. 2 2 Comment Count
Abdus-Sattar Ghazali: Hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers rally against farm laws Hundreds of thousands of farmers gathered in India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, the biggest rally yet in a months-long series of demonstrations to press Narendra Modi's government to repeal three new agricultural laws, Reuters reported. More than 500,000 farmers attended the rally in the city of Muzaffarnagar, local police was quoted as saying. 2 2 Comment Count
Waymon Hinson: Dear White People, Part Two The white-farmer lawsuits versus USDA are claiming reverse discrimination, that the funds that are to be allocated to socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers should also go to them since they are also in debt. The article disputes that determination with data from the USDA database for farmers and ranchers who receive various subsidies. .
Ensuring food sovereignty is central to sustainable development where no one is left behind, From Uploaded
Citizen News Service - CNS: Are we hungry for change for genuinely transforming food systems? This article is in lead-up to the global UN Food Systems Summit 2021 with insights from range of food system experts and farmers. .
Abdus-Sattar Ghazali: Indian farmers protest continues for five months April 26 marks the completion of five months of protest of Indian farmers against three farm laws. Since November 26, 2020, hundreds of thousands of farmers and workers have been in their continuous sit-in protest at different points around Delhi border. At one point the line of protesters is four kilometer long.
Land belongs to those who till the land to feed us and nourish life, From Uploaded
Citizen News Service - CNS: Land to the tillers for genuine food system change This article marks the Day Of The Landless 2021 based on insights from range of Asian leaders who have been committed for food sovereignty.
Abdus-Sattar Ghazali: 100 days and 248 deaths later, protesting Indian farmers remain determined The 'Delhi Chalo' (Go to Delhi) farmers' protest at border points of New Delhi has been on for 100 day now. Thousands of farmers, especially from Punjab and Haryana, are staging a sit-in protest along Delhi's borders. The Time Magazine has described it as the world's largest ongoing demonstration and perhaps the biggest in human history which has prompted thousands to make their voices heard. 1 1 Comment Count
Abdus-Sattar Ghazali: Indian farmers protest gain momentum as Modi govt's repressive measures fail to disperse the farmers Indian farmers protest entered the 67th day on Sunday as repressive measures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi failed to dislodge the protesting farmers at different borders of the national capital, New Delhi.
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Marcelo Mainzer: We need to Occupy Earth Now One persons call for a more just and joyful world. The choice between Utopia and Distopia is ours to make. 1 1 Comment Count
Abdus-Sattar Ghazali: Pained by Indian farmers' plight, Sikh priest commits suicide The death of Sikh priest Sant Baba Ram Singh near the Singhu border in Delhi Wednesday gave a new twist to more than three weeks protest by thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana and other states have been protesting near the Delhi borders demanding that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government should repeal the controversial farm laws.
Arshad M Khan: India Food Fight Becomes a Matter of Life and Death Farmer protests in India -- the whys and wherefores.
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Fakeer Ishavardas: Can one be a vegetarian and yet be masculine? One need not be a meat-eating being to be masculine. It is a wrong perception, perpetuated by obstinate men and by obsolete -isms. Confucius, Pythagoras, Leonardo da Vinci, Nikolai Tesla, Thomas Edison, Paul McCartney, the American civil-rights activist Rosa Parks, Steve Jobs, Abraham Lincoln, and the current Indian Prime Minister Narendera Modi are vegetarians. Dare one doubt the masculinity of the above cited? I think not. 4 4 Comment Count
James A. Haught: Burbank"s Crop of Doubt In Luther Burbank's era, agriculture remained the heart of America's economy. He transformed it - and also enraged church believers with his skepticism.
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Vijayaraghavan Padmanabhan: An Opportunity for Health-Oriented Development Resumption of activity after several weeks of lockdown has been proceeding in a stepwise manner, though out of compulsion, providing understanding of what is essential and what is relatively non-essential for the society as a whole. The supply of food, water and basic health services form the core needs of any society. Gainful employment, transport and education form the next important needs.
Fish and wildlife have returned to newly clear canals in Venice since the pandemic., From YouTubeVideos
Bob Gaydos: By the way ... is the planet rebooting? In non-Trump news, China moves in the South China Sea, Putin postpones and the planet reboots. 2 2 Comment Count
Bold Nebraska's Jane Kleeb Talks Keystone XL on FoxBusiness Bold Nebraska Executive Director Jane Kleeb appears on Fox Business Channel's Varney & Friends to discuss the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. 4/10/13., From YouTubeVideos
Stephen Fox: Nebraska Democratic Party Chair Jane Kleeb: Rural vote should be 'bedrock' of party Nebraska's Democratic Party chair warns White House hopefuls not to overlook rural communities in their pursuit of the Democratic nomination, predicting that this voting bloc will play a key role in November's election. "If we really care about the U.S. Senate, if we really care about climate policies at the state level we have have to start closing the margins in rural communities," Jane Kleeb told Hill.TV on Wednesday. 4 4 Comment Count
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Ted Millar: 700,000 Americans To Lose SNAP Benefits Under New USDA Policy Under a new USDA rule, nearly 700,000 Americans risk losing the safety net they have relied on to feed themselves and their families.
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Ted Millar: EPA Refuses To Ban A Neurotoxin To Which We Have All Been Exposed The Environmental Protection Agency has decided not to ban a neurotoxic pesticide its own scientists concluded is known to cause pediatric brain damage. Banned for household use, chlorpyrifos, sold under its commercial sobriquet Lorsban, is still being sprayed on more than 50 fruit, nuts, cereal and vegetable crops despite EPA research revealing its deleterious health effects. 4 4 Comment Count
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Harold Novikoff: Back to the Farm By a radical shift from the exploitive soil-destroying methods now used by industrial agriculture that release enormous amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, to state-of-the-art regenerative methods, agriculture could become a primary carbon sequestering factor, sufficient to compensate for current levels of greenhouse gas emissions. 11 11 Comment Count

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