(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, November 22, 2008
Global warming - pill by pill, and seed by seed. We have had such a fractured view of things that we miss the obvious, even around something we are desperate to fix. First, the choice between drugs and natural supplements is a global warming choice. Second, the choice between genetic engineering and organic is a global warming choice.

(15 comments) SHARE        Thursday, November 20, 2008
Obama may choose Monsanto's GE-nightmare over an organic human vision The Obama people ask us all to express our "vision." Meanwhile Obama is putting together a literal nightmare for the American people by considering appointing Tom Vilsack to head the USDA and Monsanto's guy.

(2 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Agriculture as a dangerously unrecognized human rights issue. A letter to Obama from Sally Fallon Sally Fallon, president of the Weston A Price Foundation, asks Obama to intercede on behalf of Illinois prisoners being tortured by a soy-based diet. It is time for Amnesty International to help those fighting for human survival who are up against multinational corporations taking over agriculture and food, yet without an adequate paradigm that defines the profound human rights issue involved - SURVIVAL itself.

(19 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 16, 2008
Ever heard of JBS Swift. You badly need to. JBS Swift, a Brazilian outfit, is taking over control of most beef worldwide. Brazilian cattle ranchers are wiping out previously uncontacted Indians in the rainforests of Western Paraquay to make room for their cattle. Conservative organizations are battle to protect your food supply and democracy. And do you know about any of this and what a joke it makes of sustainable agriculture?

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, November 15, 2008
How to Rig a Monsanto GM trial. Take a look at Australia's latest. Media has devoted attention to the Andrew Weidermann's GM trials in Australia but has failed to notice that the trials had been manipulated in a series of ways to make the GM-canola look as though it outperformed normal canola. Julie Newman, reporting on these trials, asks "Why has there been so much promotion of GM trials but little attention to detail?"

(4 comments) SHARE        Friday, November 14, 2008
NAIS protests draw attention internationally Lost in Bush's last minute push to get through one terrible anti-regulatory action after another, is a SUPER-regulatory one that is linked to Monsanto and threatens every farmer in the US and sustainable agriculture's very existence. Wake up, people. Help the farmers who are fighting for their lives, and now, for yours.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, November 1, 2008
Bush agenda moving into place as you are distracted by the election A group of people in this country are being singled out for true totalitarian control and for personal destruction by corporations (using the government to do it) - a group we all depend on for our own survival - and no one has any idea. And the USDA is moving fast to get it in place (and as silently as possible) before any change in government.

(3 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Justice for black people in Georgia? Help stop Troy Davis' execution Troy Davis is a black man accused of killing a policeman in Savannah, Georgia. Nine eyewitnesses testified. In a case that was lacking evidence and surrounded by questions, seven of those witnesses have now recanted and even said that one of the witnesses actually did the murder. Georgia would not allow an appeal. The Supreme Court stopped the execution in Septemeber but now has refused to hear the case.

(5 comments) SHARE        Monday, July 28, 2008
A sinful view of Ann Veneman, Obama's possible choice for VP 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.

SHARE        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.

(16 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, July 23, 2008
During a world food crisis, Monsanto just raised the price of its corn seed $100 a bag. "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.

(5 comments) SHARE        Monday, July 21, 2008
Tomatoes and Osama 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.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, July 19, 2008
What is happening to farming - and to your world. 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.

(5 comments) SHARE        Saturday, July 19, 2008
Bill C51 in Canada 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.

(43 comments) SHARE        Friday, July 18, 2008
People are concerned about FEMA camps. 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?

(12 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Where is the ACLU? 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.

(8 comments) SHARE        Saturday, July 12, 2008
The death of the sustainable agriculture movement and its twin, the alternative health movement 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.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, July 10, 2008
Standing up to terrorists, standing up to tomatoes. 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.

(14 comments) SHARE        Monday, July 7, 2008
Raw milk and the government/corporate effort to crush it 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?

(7 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Oil Crisis. Oh, really? They are hiding oil offshore. 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.