By Megan Nix
DENVER POST: My grandpa’s dog Gretchen was for hunting, not for loving. She spent more time outside than she did with humans, and I had to trap her in the closet to pet her.
I’d roll my knuckles down her ridged spine and whisper nice things to her, but she would just stare out the yellow crack in the closet, indifferent and distanced. She didn’t seem to mind her relegation to the animal world. It was around then that I decided not to mind my place in the food chain, either.
Categories: Free Range Animals
Tagged: antibiotics, cafo, concentrated animal feeding operations, convenience vs ethics in food choices, e coli, factory farming, farming, food, Free Range Animals, grass-fed cattle, megan nix, pharmaceutical industry, salmonella, usda, vaccine
By the Writers Collective and Friends of American Farmers
If you have ever been in a heated discussion with friends over orthodox medicine as opposed to alternative medicine, or supplements versus drugs, or the necessity to vaccinate versus the danger of vaccination, or over whether raw milk is safe or not, perhaps you have experienced the formidable wall that exists between two worlds. Strong beliefs on both sides seem irreconcilable.
The struggle is actually over bacteria.
Categories: Food Legislation · Health Foods · Scientific Studies
Tagged: alternative medicine, battle over bacteria, evolution, fake food safety bills, hr 2749, hygiene principle, immunity, organic food, super-bacteria
By Jeffrey M. Smith
The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar. This is no joke.
Here’s the back story.
When FDA scientists were asked to weigh in on what was to become the most radical and potentially dangerous change in our food supply — the introduction of genetically modified (GM) foods — secret documents now reveal that the experts were very concerned. (more…)
Categories: CorpoGov · Food News · Genetically Engineered Food · Neoliberalism · Scientific Studies
Tagged: Accelerated Aging, Allergies, American Academy Of Environmental Medicine, Asthma, Bovine Growth Hormone, Cancer, Dennis Wolff, Dr. P. M. Bhargava, fda, FDA Policy, Food And Drug Administration, Food Labels, Food Related Illness, food safety, Food Safety Czar, food supply, Gastrointestinal Disorder, ge foods, Genetically Engineered, Genetically Engineered Foods, Genetically Modified Foods, genetically modified organisms, GM Foods, GMO Labels, Gmos, Governor Ed Rendell, Green News, Igf-1, Immune Problems, Infertility, Inflammation, Insulin Regulation, Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1, International Dairy Foods Association, jeffrey m. smith, Michael Taylor. Safety Testing, Milk, Milk Supply, monsanto, Multiple Chronic Illness, Ohio Governor Strickland, organic, Organic Trade Association, Pennsylvania Secretary Of Agriculture, President Obama, Rbgh, Rbst, Revolving Door, Substantially Equivalent, ted strickland, you're appointing who please obama say it's not so
And now for a little video amusement:
Categories: Films · Humor
Tagged: animal fun, goats sheep surfing, Humor, youtube
Image at greenprophet.com
By MADGE
The whole world is facing challenges of an enormous scale, complexity and depth. Unfortunately, as Naomi Klein set out so clearly in “The Shock Doctrine,” disaster can be very profitable for those willing to take advantage. (more…)
Categories: CorpoGov · Genetically Engineered Food · Neoliberalism
Tagged: basf, bayer, biotechnology, climate change, compost, corporatism, dupont, eric holt-gimenez, food rebellions, gates foundation, Genetically Engineered Food, genetically modified organisms, gm cotton, MADGE, monsanto, Neoliberalism, raj patel, rockefeller foundation, shock doctrine vs organic agriculture, state of the future, syngenta, unesco, wipo, world bank
By Marti Oakley
A decision by U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer, located in the Washington District of Criminals, throwing out a lawsuit brought by Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FCLDF) asking the court to halt the implementation of NAIS, was based on her assertion that there is no federal law and/or, no federal regulation ordering the implementation of the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). FCLDF brought the suit asking for temporary injunctive relief (more…)
Categories: Litigation · Premises ID
Tagged: food freedom, Judge Collyer, marti oakley, Michigan, NAIS, NAIS-Premises ID FCLDF takes it to the courts, politics, Premises ID, tom vilsack, usda, Wisconsin
Categories: Food Criminalization
Tagged: black market food, chris nuttall-smith, criminalizing health food, health food, macleans.ca, raw milk, resistance, sarah elton, underground food, what the right hook-up can get you
By Mike Adams
(NaturalNews) When it comes to healthy-looking skin, nutrition beats cosmetics hands down. Creating radiant, glowing, youthful-looking skin can best be accomplished by focusing on what’s inside, not by covering up the skin with artificial colors that try to paint a new face on the outside. But which superfoods, exactly, are best for supporting healthy skin in the first place?
Categories: Health Foods
Tagged: astaxanthin, faw food, health ranger, juicing, mike adams, natural news, omega-3, pumpkin seeds, shellfish, the world's top five superfoods for silky smooth skin, zinc
Paul Griepentrog inside the greenhouse
By Marti Oakley
“The first thing they did when they got the authority to write rules … was to grant themselves the authority to conduct warrantless searches. Wisconsin is in the process of coercing farmers and backyard producers … into NAIS, and the accompanying Premises ID program, by threatening to withhold any of the licenses they control.” Paul Griepentrog
Categories: NAIS · Peasants, Farmers, Ranchers
Tagged: land grab, marti oakley, NAIS, national animal identification system, paul griepentrog, privacy, property rights, wisconsin's war against agriculture fines imprisonment and property, world trade organization, wto
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