Ohio HB 414 Would Jeopardize Farmers

By Clint Ziegler
Ohio Freedom Alliance

House Bill 414 is the enabling legislation for the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board which is currently in the Ag and Natural Resources committee. I strongly urge all those who own livestock to read this bill.

All horses, regardless of the purpose for which they are raised, are included under the authority and rules of this board. I wonder what that has to do with “safe local food”?

Innovation Bears Fruit for Family Farm

By Peak Moment

28-min video: Tour the century-old organic Chaffin Family Orchards where even the animals are “farm hands.” Visit chickens in their egg-mobile, scratching for bugs and pooping fertilizer in the heirloom stone-fruit orchards. Goats chomp off low branches from the olive trees, so no fuel or human labor is needed. This certified predator-friendly enterprise includes 200 acres of olive trees plus various fruit and nut trees; sheep, goats, broiler and egg-laying chickens.

Breast cancer virtually eradicated with higher levels of vitamin D

By Mike Adams
Natural News

In a gathering of vitamin D researchers recently held in Toronto, Dr. Cedric Garland delivered a blockbuster announcement: Breast cancer can be virtually “eradicated” by raising vitamin D levels.

Vitamin D is “the cure” for breast cancer that the cancer industry ridiculously claims to be searching for. The cure already exists! But the breast cancer industry simply refuses to acknowledge any “cure” that doesn’t involve mammography, chemotherapy or high-profit pharmaceuticals.

FDA Invades Non-Commercial Amish Farm in PA

By Deborah Stockton
NICFA

Kinzers, PA – At 9:40 a.m. Thursday, February 4, only a few miles from the scene of the Nickel Mines Amish massacre of 2006, another drama against the Amish began as agents of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) came onto the property of Amish farmer Dan Allgyer, without permission, claiming to be conducting an investigation. 

Chicago Health Inspectors Destroy Safe Food for Lack of License

By Monica Eng
Chicago Breaking News

City destroys fruit puree during kitchen inspection

City health inspectors used bleach to destroy hundreds of pounds of frozen fruit puree and threw out other food in a West Town kitchen on Thursday night, citing not safety violations but a lack of proper licensing.

The fruit — apples, plums, raspberries, pears, blueberries and peaches from local growers harvested and frozen last summer — belonged to pastry chef Flora Lazar, who valued it at thousands of dollars.

How Organic Is Organic? Codex Alimentarius Cohorts Wage War Against Food

Video by Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher
COTO Report

This is a short documentary on Codex Alimentarius and genetically modified foods.

ADM Tries to Take Down Funny Video; Big Business Has No Solutions; Now What?

By The Yes Men

A legal complaint from agribusiness giant ADM has resulted in the removal from Youtube of a fake video of ADM’s CEO making over-honest pronouncements. (The video is still available here and here.)

Contraband Chickens Invade Canada

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By Sarah Elton
The Atlantic

From the street, the large gray house, with its wide driveway, landscaped garden, and grand front door, looked like every other home in the upscale 1950s Toronto development. Around back it was a different story. Behind a knee-high, plastic orange fence was an unusual sight: two chickens pecked at the grass while a third broody one sat on a nest.

It’s illegal to keep chickens in Toronto. 

The Kucinich Surprise

By HeadVeg

The World’s Biggest Baingan Bharta

By Jai Krishna 
Greenpeace India

The World’s Biggest Baingan Bharta just got bigger – and it could end up in the Limca Book of Records! In only 48 hours, we smashed our target of 10,000 brinjals. So we’ve set a new goal of 20,000 brinjals.

The World’s Biggest Baingan Bharta will help persuade Jairam Ramesh to save the brinjal and at the same time feed thousands of hungry people in Delhi. Can you help by forwarding this to your friends, family and colleagues?

Here’s the link to the petition: http://greenpeace.in/safefood/the-biggest-baingan-bharta-ever/

Right now, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh is deciding if he’ll allow corporations with American interests to genetically engineer India’s King of Vegetables—the brinjal.

GMO Crops Super-Weed Time Bomb Explodes

By Institute of Science in Society

Superweeds infest a corn field

“The scene is set at harvest time in Arkansas October 2009. Grim-faced farmers and scientists speak from fields infested with giant pigweed plants that can withstand as much glyphosate herbicide as you can afford to douse on them. One farmer spent US$0.5 million in three months trying to clear the monster weeds in vain; they stop combine harvesters and break hand tools. Already, an estimated one million acres of soybean and cotton crops in Arkansas have become infested.”

GM Crops Facing Meltdown in the USA

Major crops genetically modified for just two traits – herbicide tolerance and insect resistance – are ravaged by super weeds and secondary pests in the heartland of GMOs as farmers fight a losing battle with more of the same; a fundamental shift to organic farming practices may be the only salvation Dr. Mae-Wan Ho

New MFA Investigation Reveals the Sour Truth behind Milk Production

By Nathan Runkle
Mercy for Animals

A newly released Mercy For Animals investigation is pulling back the curtains on the largest dairy factory farm in New York State – Willet Dairy in Locke. The investigation, which broke January 26th on ABC’s World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer and Nightline, is exposing millions of Americans to the hidden cruelty common in the dairy industry.

SB 419: Wisconsin’s Honey and Vandana Shiva’s Law for Food Fascism

By Meryl Williamson

What the Wisconsin Senate is attempting to do to honey is the beginning of a long planned noose-tightening for local farmers and food producers by multinational corporations.  SB 419 offers a window into one of the ways they intend to achieve the death of local farming.

Vandana Shiva calls the laws that corporations are putting on the books that control food at a level never seen before in human history, “the Law for Food Fascism.”  Her speech on the future of food is about more than dangers from biotechnology; it’s about the ability of all of us to have a choice of the foods that we eat, and for our farmers to be able to freely use their own seeds, and grow food in the manner that they choose. 

Video: Vandana Shiva – The Future of Food

20-minute talk by Vandana Shiva

How to Heal Yourself in 15 Days (Parts 1 & 2)

By Mike Adams
Natural News

Can you really heal yourself in 15 days? Without using prescription drugs, vaccines, chemotherapy or surgery? Absolutely!

Your body strives to heal itself automatically, every single day. The only thing that really needs to happen for your body to begin healing itself is for you to remove the barriers to healing — the barriers that are holding you back right now.

The tiny, squiggly dividing line between safe and unsafe food

By Meadow Larkin

For those who want to know what the big deal is about raw milk, in two words it’s good bacteria, killed off by pasteurization.  People drink raw milk because they seek good bacteria.  (Raw milk dairies are tested for diseases so this issue should not be confused with diseases.)  
 

BPI Sues to Keep Ammonia Beef Records Private

By Helena Bottemiller
Food Safety News

The ammonia beef saga has taken an interesting twist.

Right before the New York Times published an article questioning the pervasive use of ammonia in beef processing, lawyers at Marler Clark, LLP, a food safety litigation firm based in Seattle, sent a formal request to Iowa State University seeking public records related to the research a University professor did on the safety of ammoniated beef. Beef Products Inc. (BPI), the company that pioneered the ammonia processing technique, has since filed a suit seeking a court order against the university to prevent public records from being released.

Got milk justice?

By Karen Selick
National Post

Sitting in a courtroom listening to someone read 40 pages of closely written legal text is not something that I would ordinarily describe as a treat, but it was a genuine privilege to be in court last Thursday with dairy farmer Michael Schmidt to hear his acquittal on 19 charges relating to the distribution of raw milk.

Bronx Men Arrested for Candy Posession

By Brendan Brosh
NY Daily News

Bronx men to file $2M suit against city after cops arrested them for ‘crack’ that was really candy

A drug bust of two Bronx men wasn’t all it was cracked up to be – and now they’re looking for a sweet payday from the city.

Turning Cancer on and off with Diet

By T. Colin Campbell
VegSource.com

This is Professor T. Colin Campbell PhD’s FULL presentation at the 2003 VegSource Healthy Lifestyle Expo.

In the 45 minute talk, Professor Campbell discusses the powerful evidence demonstrating that animal protein is one of the most carcinogenic substances people are regularly exposed to.