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The Illusion of Choice: The 10 corporations that control everything you buy

April 26, 2012

Source: The Illusion of Choice

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Monsanto plans massive biotech experiment in the US

March 15, 2012

The US government has for the first time signed off on a large-scale experiment involving genetically modified crops, which will lead to biotech big shot Monsanto introducing an engineered corn seed across America from South Dakota to Texas. The Monsanto Corporation has been given the go-ahead to test out a man-made corn variant that they [...]

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Scientists warn EPA on Monsanto GMO corn rootworm

March 11, 2012

A group of plant scientists is warning federal regulators that action is needed to mitigate a growing problem with biotech corn that is losing its resistance to plant-damaging pests. The stakes are high – corn production is critical for food, animal feed and ethanol production, and farmers have increasingly been relying on corn that has [...]

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JIM ROGERS: The Government Is Lying About Inflation And It’s Crushing The Consumer

March 7, 2012

What is feeding into oil prices at the moment? Iran obviously, is one thing, but another is in the U.S. it’s the infrastructure problem. We have oil but it’s in the wrong places. On the east coast, they use imported oil, and imported oil is higher because of Iran. And it comes from Europe. North [...]

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Test-tube burgers closer to reality

February 18, 2012

Tastes just like chicken. FYI: First artificial burger to cost £250,000 MEAT MADE FROM TURDS-(SHIT BURGERS) Source: The Australian Mark Post, professor of vascular physiology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, where burger meat with muscle cells identical to those found in real meat is being grown, said: “We are in the process of [...]

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Monsanto found guilty of chemical poisoning in France

February 13, 2012

A French court has declared the US biotech giant Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning of a French farmer, a judgment that could lend weight to other health claims against pesticides. In the first such case heard in court in France, the grain grower Paul Francois, 47, said he suffered neurological problems including memory loss, headaches [...]

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Feds shut down Amish farm for selling fresh milk

February 13, 2012

So the first domino has fallen. The FDA has won its two-year fight to shut down an Amish farmer who was selling fresh, raw milk to eager consumers in the Washington region, after a judge this month banned Daniel Allgyerfrom selling his milk across state lines, and he told his customers he’ll shut his [...]

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Brazil to overtake U.S. as top producer of genetically modified crops

February 7, 2012

If you are purchasing fruits and vegetables from South or Central America at you local supermarket, guaranteed they are genetically modified. Brazil is on course to dislodge the United States as the world’s top producer of biotech crops in the coming years, a leading promoter of farm biotechnology said Tuesday. The US currently holds [...]

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Is it just China buying land worldwide? India, Saudi Arabia, US Universities…?

February 2, 2012

There is no doubt China is investing large sums of money to purchase land worldwide to guarantee the Chinese mineral and agriculture rights. Newswire – The Evil Chinese are buying farmland worldwide, we must stop them. Look, I am no fan of the Chinese government. Never have been, never will be. But, the corporate media [...]

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Moonshine Produced from Heirloom Corn

February 1, 2012

Source: The Perennial Plate Episode 88: American Indian Mothers (and Fathers) from Daniel Klein on Vimeo.

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Chinese swoop on 16 dairy farms in New Zealand

January 30, 2012

More info on the sale Chinese might train on Crafar dairy farms Source: AP/Independent Chinese investors are buying New Zealand farmland for the first time, causing anxiety in a country heavily reliant on agriculture. New Zealand’s government approved the sale of 16 dairy farms to a Chinese developer, whose total investment in the project will [...]

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Would You Like Sketchy Meat With That?

January 27, 2012

Source: Courthouse News Service The Food and Drug Administration plans to allow for the importation of meat that contains residues of new animal drugs not approved in the United States. The FDA seeks comment on its newly proposed procedures for establishing how much of each new animal drug would be allowed in “edible parts of [...]

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Bill Gates push for genetically-modified foods

January 24, 2012

Source: ABC News After the Gates Foundation’s vaccination efforts in India, that nation reported only one case of polio last year. And while the foundation promises to fight on against preventable diseases, the top focus of this year’s letter is agriculture and Gates’ belief that without technology, farmers could never feed the world’s exploding population. He calls for [...]

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The future of food

January 23, 2012

By 2050 there will be another 2.5 billion people on the planet. How to feed them? Science’s answer: a diet of algae, insects and meat grown in a lab. It looks like meat, feels like meat and it is meat, although it’s never been near a living, breathing animal. Instead, artificial or “cultured” meat is [...]

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Subculture of Americans prepares for civilization’s collapse

January 22, 2012

Is it truly a subculture of Americans? The FBI had 16.5 million background checks for firearm purchases for 2011. Firearm Background Checks Spike In 2011 According To FBI Statistics. I recommend reading the comments from the article. The comments section contains a plethora of opinions and suggestions. There is nothing wrong with being prepared [...]

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Processed meat ‘linked to pancreatic cancer’

January 15, 2012

A link between eating processed meat, such as bacon or sausages, and pancreatic cancer has been suggested by researchers in Sweden. They said eating an extra 50g of processed meat, approximately one sausage, every day would increase a person’s risk by 19%. But the chance of developing the rare cancer remains low. The World Cancer [...]

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Value Afghan Opium Yield Rose 133 Percent from 2010

January 14, 2012

Image:UNODC October 2010, a UNODC survey “Afghanistan opium production set to rise 61 per cent” reported the cultivation of the poppy crop reached 131,000 hectares in 2011 and the price of opium crop rose 43 %compared to 2010 and total farm-gate income is set to increase by 133 % to reach $1.4 billion in 2011. [...]

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Leaked documents reveal US diplomats actually work for Monsanto

January 11, 2012

Biotech giant Monsanto has been genetically modifying the world’s food supply and subsequently breeding environmental devastation for years, but leaked documents now reveal that Monsanto has also deeply infiltrated the United States government. With leaked reports revealing how U.S. diplomats are actually working for Monsanto to push their agenda along with other key government officials, [...]

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The Very Real Danger of Genetically Modified Foods

January 10, 2012

Update: I had a chance to read through the scientific journal in Nature Cell Research Exogenous plant MIR168a specifically targets mammalian LDLRAP1: evidence of cross-kingdom regulation by microRNA and in the text of the article there is no indication the researchers analyzed GMO rice. Zhang et al findings: “the intake of certain plant miRNAs generation [...]

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Coca-Cola accused of propping up notorious Swaziland dictator

January 2, 2012

Coca-Cola has been accused of propping up one of Africa‘s most notorious dictators. The multibillion dollar beverage company owns a concentrate-manufacturing plant in Swaziland, an impoverished kingdom ruled by Africa’s last absolute monarch, Mswati III. The king has travelled to Coca-Cola’s headquarters in Atlanta in the US, much to the disgust of Swazi political activists [...]

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IBM wins diet monitoring and reward patent

December 30, 2011

Does your employer offer a “wellness rebate program?” No? Then you can’t be working for IBM, which has been bribing its staff to eat healthier since 2004. It’s a Watson-worthy idea, because what the company pays out in incentives it recoups in lower healthcare costs. Now, after a decade of toing and froing with the [...]

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This Next Generation Vending Machine

December 28, 2011

The latest in the vending machine transformation is the concept machine by Sanden, a vending machine manufacturer, and Okaya Electronics. You can scroll through choices and make a selection using touchscreen. A massive 65-inch transparent HD display uses Intel software to create animations that make our purchasing experience a pleasing one, and entice other would-be [...]

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Gov’t to buy radioactive rice from Fukushima

December 28, 2011

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said Tuesday that it will buy all the rice contaminated with radioactive cesium in Fukushima Prefecture. Agriculture minister Michihiko Kano said the government will buy all rice with radiation levels exceeding 100 becquerels per kilogram. Ministry officials estimated that about 4,000 tons will have to be purchased, Fuji [...]

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Intel and Kraft’s iSample Biometric Vending Kiosks

December 26, 2011

The iSample is being used to offer customers trials of a new dessert. It allows Kraft to tailor the product to the shopper, and exclude children from the adult-focused promotion. Intel says it intends to retrofit the technology to existing vending machines to allow companies to study what type of people are buying their products. [...]

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GMOs are taking over your pantry

November 7, 2011

daho farmer Phil Geertson was an alfalfa seed grower for many years, before losing out on big parts of his export market. He saw it coming. “We were in the plant-breeding business along with raising alfalfa seeds, so I knew what would happen when genetically modified alfalfa was introduced into the area,” Geertson said. “It [...]

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A Worrying Look At Food Inflation In The Coming Year

October 30, 2011

The folks at the USDA released their projections for 2011/2012-food price inflation. The bad news is that feeding ourselves will cost ~4% more in 2011. The good news is that USDA thinks prices will rise only ~2.5% next year. I shop (I hate it). My food inflation is closer to 10%. It depends on what [...]

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BPA Tied to Behavior Problems in Girls

October 24, 2011

In a new study of Cincinnati-area kids, girls exposed to higher levels of bisphenol A before birth had more behavioral problems and were more anxious and over-active than those only exposed to small amounts of the chemical. The finding doesn’t prove that moms who have more contact with BPA, which is used to make plastics [...]

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Fertilizer trees boost yields in Africa

October 17, 2011

Fertilizer trees—which fix nitrogen in the soil—have improved crops yields in five African countries, according to a new study in the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability. In some cases yields have doubled with the simple addition of nitrogen-soaking trees. The research found that fertilizer trees could play a role in alleviating hunger on the continent [...]

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Peanut butter prices about to soar amid poor harvest

October 11, 2011

After searingly hot weather devastated the summer crop of Runner peanuts, the variety mostly used to make peanut butter, raw peanuts that cost about $450 a ton in 2010 now cost $1,150 a ton, according to USDA figures. The crunch will affect the 90% of U.S. households that consume peanut butter — Americans eat about [...]

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