Codex and ‘the Face of Controlled Opposition’

Two free videos on Codex, which is set to go into effect Dec. 31, 2009.

We Become Silent: The Last Days of Health Freedom (29 mins, 2005), a film by Kevin P. Miller, narrated by Judi Dench (pictured left), covering Codex Alimentarius, which seeks to criminalize nutrients and dietary supplements.

Senator calls for investigation into Dean Foods

By Guy Montague-Jones, Baker and Snacks

Dean Foods is one of the largest dairy processing firms in the US, and according to Sanders, the Justice Department should investigate whether the company has a monopoly grip on the market.

Controlling the Food Supply: Two new federal reports released

CIFOR Releases Guidelines to Foodborne Outbreak Response; FSWG Issues Key Control Findings

By Rady Ananda

The Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response just released its Guidelines for Foodborne Outbreak Response. Earlier this month, Obama’s new Food Safety Working Group, headed by Monsanto executive Michael Taylor, released its Key Control Findings. Decentralizing the food supply would provide the greatest food security. Instead the Administration seeks omnipotent control.

HR 2749 and shades of Hitler

By The Writers Collective and Friends of Farmers

Cherry growers face ten years in prison and/or $7.5 million in penalties for citing scientific studies.

Why?

Small Towns vs. Nestlé

Terry Swier demonstrates outside Nestle Waters North America headquarters in Greenwich, CT

By JENNY TOMKINS, In these times
June 26, 2009

When Nestlé Waters North America, the world’s largest bottler of water, comes a-courting, promising jobs and increased tax revenues in exchange for local water rights, many small, rural towns get nervous.

National animal ID plan stumbles

PROGRAM ON HOLD: House bill cuts off spending for system

By MARC HELLER, Watertown Daily Times
July 14, 2009

WASHINGTON — Congress is on the verge of putting on hold a national system to track livestock, telling the Obama administration it will not fund the effort until the U.S. Department of Agriculture does a better job implementing it.

Federal Court Upholds Ban on Genetically Engineered Alfalfa

GE alfalfa at USDA

Appeals Court Rules Planting of Biotech Crop Can Cause Irreversible Harm to Organic and Conventional Crops, Farmers, and the Environment.

Monsanto’s Petition to Rehear Denied in Full

The Center for Food Safety

SAN FRANCISCO June 24, 2009: In a decision handed down here today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has re-affirmed its previous decision upholding a nationwide ban on the planting of genetically-engineered (GE) Roundup Ready alfalfa pending a full Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). The Court determined that the planting of genetically modified alfalfa can result in potentially irreversible harm to organic and conventional varieties of crops, damage to the environment, and economic harm to farmers.