Spycraft, Guts and Talent Expose The Cove

By Rady Ananda
Cross posted at Global Research (Canada) and Scoop (New Zealand).

From a high-tech, deep cover investigation emerges The Cove, a stunning documentary exposing the horrors of dolphin slaughter – for human consumption, despite extreme levels of mercury contamination. Dolphin activist Ric O’Barry and his crack team of world-class divers, ex-military, professional artisans and a former NatGeo photographer risk life, limb and freedom to film the action in a private cove in Taiji, Japan.

The Jackasses Did It: HR 2749 – Seizure of the US food Supply and Production – Passed the House

By Marti Oakley

Despite some really eloquent speeches to the contrary, our “for sale” House of Representatives passed the Food Fascism Act, euphemistically called a food safety act, by a margin of about 140 over the naysayers. 

Do Seed Companies Control GM Crop Research?

By Matt Collins

By Scientific American

It is impossible to verify that genetically modified crops perform as advertised. That is because agritech companies have given themselves veto power over the work of independent researchers. Scientists must ask corporations for permission before publishing independent research on genetically modified crops. That restriction must end.

Young organic farmers, local food systems and urban beekeeping

By MADGE

A new young and vibrant group of farmers is emerging in the US. Just in time as the average age of US farmers is 57 and more than 25% are 65 or older.

More Unknowns than Knowns with GM Crops

By Michelle Pressend
 
Genetically modified (GMO) crops have more unknowns than knowns. Yet the South African government whole-heartily embraces this technology in the production of food crops, particularly maize, a staple food in South Africa.

The South African pro-GMO lobby is very proud of the fact that South Africa is the eighth biggest GMO producer in the world among the 13 largest biotechnology-producing countries. They also make claims that this technology is accepted worldwide, however many African countries have put a ban on GMO foods and in Europe, countries like Switzerland have put a moratorium on GMOs. 

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

By Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher

For those of us committed to improving or maintaining our health by eating a balanced organic diet, the agenda of corporate farming and governmental regulations complying with the Codex Alimentarius proposals spell disaster. This not only affects our access and right to additive-free, pesticide-free, industrially produced chemical-fertilizer-free and non-genetically-modified organic foods, it also threatens every participating country’s rights of national sovereignty. In the United States of America the new federal food bills also threaten the constitutional sovereignty of the states.

Infectious Diseases Study Site Questioned

By Carol D. Leonnig, Washington Post

The Department of Homeland Security relied on a rushed, flawed study to justify its decision to locate a $700 million research facility for highly infectious pathogens in a tornado-prone section of Kansas, according to a government report.

The department’s analysis was not “scientifically defensible” in concluding that it could safely handle dangerous animal diseases in Kansas — or any other location on the U.S. mainland, according to a Government Accountability Office draft report obtained by The Washington Post. The GAO said DHS greatly underestimated the chance of accidental release and major contamination from such research, which has been conducted only on a remote island off the United States.