By Pete Kennedy, FTCLDF
Last week, the House of Representatives passed HR 2749, the Food Safety Modernization Act, and the next step in the process will be the Senate. Although it is not certain, the Senate will probably focus its food safety discussions on S. 510, sponsored by Senator Durbin of Illinois. S. 510 is different from HR 2749, but it contains many of the same problems (more below).
Categories: Food Legislation
Tagged: food freedom, food safety, hr 2749, hr2749, independent farmers, haccp, food safety modernization act, S. 510
Food and farm warrior, Marti Oakley, spends nearly an hour discussing the corporate take-over of our food supply thru various laws, regulations and international trade agreements. Spend an hour listening to this radio interview – for the facts and overview, but also to get to know her, a true freedom-lover fighting multi-national corporations.
Categories: CorpoGov · Food Legislation · Genetically Engineered Food · Land Rights · Monopolies · Neoliberalism · Peasants, Farmers, Ranchers · Premises ID · codex · organic
Tagged: cargill, codex, encroaching police state, farm rights, Genetically Modified Foods, genetically modified organisms, hr 875, hr2749, marti oakley, monsanto, politics
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By Scarecrow
While all eyes are on Wall Street, watching for even the faintest signal that the economy will recover as promised by Barack Obama, no one is paying attention to what is happening on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). Here’s a clue. It doesn’t matter what happens on Wall Street. The big players and the big money have abandoned stocks in favor of commodities.
Categories: CorpoGov · Monopolies
Tagged: agribusiness, Big Ag, chicago board of trade, economics, food shortage, stock bubbles
By Food First
On the eve of an upcoming visit to the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Representatives Donald Payne and Nita Lowey, the U.S. Working Group on the Food Crisis challenged the Obama Administration’s plans to fund a new “Green Revolution” in Africa in tandem with the Gates Foundation.
Categories: Genetically Engineered Food · Monopolies · Peasants, Farmers, Ranchers · organic
Tagged: crop diversity, end free trade, food czar, food freedom, Genetically Engineered Food, genetically modified crops, gmo crop failures, hillary clinton, IAASTD, organic farming, vilsack
Legume varietes (Image at www.cintdis.org)
by MADGE
Erik Scott is a seed dealer and agronomist from South Dakota in the US. In this interview, he states that a famine in the US is quite likely for two reasons:
Erik explains that farmers in his area used to grow a wide variety of crops, saved and developed their own seed varieties. Now the main crops are corn and soy, both of these are genetically modified. (more…)
Categories: Genetically Engineered Food · Peasants, Farmers, Ranchers · organic
Tagged: crop diversity, genetically engineered crops, Genetically Modified Foods, organic farming, tomato blight
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By Katie Bezrouch
Chicago is poised to be the first city in the nation to pass a resolution for a healthier, more sustainable food system. Last week Chicago’s Energy, Environmental Protection and Public Utilities Committee presented a proposal to the city council called the “green food resolution.” It is a nonbinding initiative that encourages the city to help make fresh, locally grown food available to Chicagoans. (more…)
Categories: Food Legislation · Peasants, Farmers, Ranchers · Sustainable Practices · organic
Tagged: Agriculture Csa, Animal Protection Organization, Chicago City Council, Community Supported Agriculture, Farm Sanctuary, Farmers Markets, Food Legislation, Green Food, green food resolution, Illinois General Assembly, Organic Gardens, Progressive Policies, Sustainable Food System
We are now heading toward the 2009 World Food Summit that FAO will host 16-18 November. Promises by world leaders in the summits of 1996 and 2002 to halve hunger have led to nothing. We are therefore calling on small-scale food providers (peasants and smallscale farmers, fishers, pastoralists), agrifood workers, rural youth, women, Indigenous Peoples, urban poor and non-governmental organizations to participate in a further elaboration of the food sovereignty agenda and to determine a people’s way out of the continuing multiple crises.
Categories: Food News · Neoliberalism · Peasants, Farmers, Ranchers
Tagged: corporatism, food freedom, Free Trade, international food freedom conference, Neoliberalism, people vs profits, peoples food sovereignty
By Shelly Roche
Recent polls across the world have consistently shown that, if they had a choice, 90% of people would actively seek to avoid GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in their food.
Unfortunately, GMOs are taking over our farmland so quickly, it is virtually impossible to avoid eating GM foods… unless you know what to look for:
Categories: Genetically Engineered Food
Tagged: avoid gmo food, Genetically Engineered Food, genetically modified food, gmo food, shelly roche
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