Social Indoctrination and Geoengineering

By Max Igan
The Crow House

51 minute talk on American Voice Radio – 10/29/10 – covering the topic of aerial spraying, the new film, What in the World Are They Spraying, and the criminalization of natural food, food raids, by the FDA.

New pro-GMO, pro-nuke documentary on UK TV

By GM Watch

UPDATE: See Channel 4 accused of misleading contributors to green documentary. (Reproduced in full in comments section below.)

This latest programme, What the Green Movement Got Wrong, from Channel 4 (airing Nov. 4 9pm) follows a long line of anti-environmentalist documentaries commissioned by this broadcaster. They include The Great Global Warming Swindle, Against Nature, Modified Truth – The Rise and Fall of GM, and The Greenhouse Conspiracy.

The latest from Channel 4 is supposedly aboout “a group of environmentalists across the world” who “believe that, in order to save the planet, humanity must embrace the very science and technology they once so stridently opposed. In this film, these life-long diehard greens advocate radical solutions to climate change, which include GM crops and nuclear energy.”

Leaked trade agreements and hidden dangers of S 510: Corporations plan to end normal farming

By M. Gardner
Food Freedom

Canada’s National Farmers Union wants the Canada-EU trade deal scrapped. US farmers face the same assault by agribusiness and the biotech industry under S 510.

Epoch Times noted: “Under provisions in CETA [Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement], using saved seed could result in a farmer’s land, equipment, and crops being seized for alleged infringement of intellectual property rights attached to plant varieties owned by corporations such as Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta, and Bayer. 

Food Voices: Urban Gardening Is Hip

By Andrianna Natsoulas
WhyHunger

First installment in a series.

In 2008, William Gardener started gardening in his backyard in Detroit, Michigan. He now has a total of 1.4 acres. At the Edgeton Community Garden in Detroit, he grows a variety of fruits, herbs and vegetables; keeps bees; and, raises egg laying chickens, meat producing chickens, and ducks. And he plans on expanding.

U.S. says genes should not be eligible for patents

Can sanity be restored at the US Patent Office?

By Andrew Pollack
New York Times

Reversing a longstanding policy, the federal government said on Friday that human and other genes should not be eligible for patents because they are part of nature. The new position could have a huge impact on medicine and on the biotechnology industry.

The new position was declared in a friend-of-the-court brief filed by the Department of Justice late Friday in a case involving two human genes linked to breast and ovarian cancer.

Cow shares proliferate in reaction to FDA war on natural foods

David Gumpert reports that Massachusetts has resumed war footing with threats against a one-cow herdshare. Brigitte Ruthman, the raw dairy operator who got a cease-and-desist order for her one-cow herdshare, says private food arrangements are springing up in the “Make It Yours” state, where even the Governor drinks raw milk.

MA Resumes War Footing with Threats Against One-Cow Herdshare–How Much Does Raw-Milk-Drinking Guv Know?

By David E. Gumpert

When I try to make sense out of what is happening to Estrella Family Creamery and Morningland Dairy, about all I can conclude is that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is on a vendetta to eliminate anyone involved in the raw dairy business.

French Ag Research Center quits GM foods over public yuck

By GM Watch

INRA – the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (“the leading European agricultural research institute and one of the foremost institutes in the world for agriculture, food and the environment”) is stopping all development of GM crops. Its President says INRA’s “work on new varieties now involves only conventional crops”.

Protect yourself from cancer-causing heavy metals: DIY Chelation

By Paul Fassa
Natural News

PART II. We live in a toxic soup of heavy metals. Many of them create severe neurological consequences, and some of them are carcinogenic. It’s possible to avoid some heavy metal contamination, but not all of it. We need to be constantly detoxing and chelating.

BREAKING: UN Bans Chemtrails

Sept. 29, 2011 Update: Chemtrail article in Project Censored’s Top 10 most censored stories

Dec. 6, 2010 UPDATE: UN Climate Concern Morphs into Chemtrail Glee Club

Geoengineering Moratorium Agreed at UN Ministerial in Japan

By ETC Group

Risky Climate Techno-fixes Blocked

NAGOYA, Japan – In a landmark consensus decision, the 193-member UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will close its tenth biennial meeting with a de facto moratorium on geoengineering projects and experiments. “Any private or public experimentation or adventurism intended to manipulate the planetary thermostat will be in violation of this carefully crafted UN consensus,” stated Silvia Ribeiro, Latin American Director of ETC Group.

What a ‘sweet surprise’! HFCS contains more fructose than believed

By Tom Laskawy
Grist

It turns out that the actual amount of fructose in HFCS in particular food products has never been officially disclosed, just assumed. And that assumption, much to the surprise of even the biggest HFCS-is-bad skeptics, has just been proven way off. Researchers from the University of Southern California decided to test actual brand-name sodas — including Coke, Pepsi, and Sprite — to confirm their exact sugar content and makeup. They found that the HFCS in the vast majority contained far more than the presumed 55 percent fructose: in the case of those three brands, it was actually 65 percent fructose.

Pizza Hut and Dunkin’ Donuts serving up rainforest destruction

By Greenpeace

It doesn’t get much scarier than discovering that both Pizza Hut and Dunkin’ Donuts are adding a gruesome side of “forest destruction” with every meal. These fast food monsters are serving up extinction for species like orangutans, Sumatran tigers, and sun bears. That’s because a very spooky company, Sinar Mas, is slaying tropical rainforests in Indonesia and sucking out palm oil for hungry fast food companies like Pizza Hut and Dunkin’ Donuts to use in their products.

Watch What in the World Are They Spraying?

10/29 BREAKING NEWS: UN BANS CHEMTRAILS

Finally! Watch the entire film, What in the World Are They Spraying, by G. Edward Griffin, Michael J. Murphy, and Paul Whittenberger. (2010, 98 mins)

The Case for Controlled-Atmosphere Killing (CAK)

By People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

PETA Pushes U.S. Fast-Food, Grocery, and Poultry Industries to Adopt Less Cruel, More Profitable Method of Chicken and Turkey Slaughter

Electric immobilization, the conventional method of slaughter in North American poultry slaughterhouses, causes an array of animal welfare, economic, and worker-safety problems. An economical and more humane method exists: Controlled-Atmosphere Killing.

Mad Soy Disease Strikes Brazil

Dr. Mae-Wan Ho
Institute of Science in Society

They call it “mad soy disease” in Brazil, where it has been spreading from the north, causing yield losses of up to 40 percent, most notably in the states of Mato Grosso, Tocantins and Goias. Like its namesake, mad cow disease, it is incurable [1, 2, 3].

Monsanto’s superweeds come home to roost: 11 million US acres infested

By Charles Margulis
Generation Green

There’s been much recent news about Monsanto paying farmers to use its competitors’ herbicides, in what many see as a last ditch effort to address the spread of superweeds created by the company’s “Roundup Ready” (RR) GMO crops. Environmental scientists warned even before Monsanto’s “herbicide tolerant” GMO crops were approved that they would hasten the evolution of resistant weeds.

No GMO label on baby food? DIY activists freed in Australia

Charges dismissed against baby food activists
Contaminated formula remains unlabeled
By Greenpeace Australia Pacific

Charges have been dismissed against six Greenpeace activists who pleaded guilty to trespass this morning after labelling genetically modified baby formula in Woolworths last month.

The DIY labeling, part of a simultaneous protest in Sydney and Melbourne, came in the wake of shocking revelations on Channel Seven’s Sunday Night programme showing one of Australia’s most popular baby formulas – Wyeth’s S-26 Soy – repeatedly tested positive for genetically modified ingredients, despite not carrying any labelling.

Food in Uncertain Times: How to Grow and Store the 5 Crops You Need to Survive

By Makenna Goodman
Alternet

Having food resiliency is as much about learning how to store and use food properly as it is about growing it. The key is learning interdependence not independence.

In an age of erratic weather and instability, it’s increasingly important to develop a greater self-reliance when it comes to food. And because of this, more than ever before, farmers are developing new gardening techniques that help achieve a greater resilience. Longtime gardener and scientist Carol Deppe, in her new book The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times, offers a wealth of unique and expansive information for serious home gardeners and farmers who are seeking optimistic advice.

FDA shuts down Estrella Family Creamery despite clean tests

By Seattle Local Food

Fans of the Estrella Family Creamery got a shock at the U-District farmers market this morning, but likely not as big a shock as the kids of this Montesano family got when the FDA showed up to shut the creamery down.

The claim: Risk of exposure to Listeria.  However, Estrella’s current inspection records (available today at the market) show that all cheeses have tested negative.  

The Places that Food Saves: Evaluating Local Food Infrastructures

By Sharon Astyk
Science Blogs

Review of The Town that Food Saved by Ben Hewitt (Rodale, 2010)

We got a supermarket in the springtime, and much has been made of that in my area. Many of the area’s people rhapsodized about it – one woman told me she’d been waiting 15 years. It is about 8 miles from my house (compared to 13 to the nearest one before), in a town that is making the shift from rural to bedroom suburb, in an area that isn’t quite ready for outer bedroom suburbs.

Venezuela’s Agrarian Revolution meeting UN goals on food

Peanuts intercropped with cassava

By various sources

The UN Millennium Development Goal of halving the numbers who are undernourished has been met in Venezuela, five years ahead of schedule. Venezuela’s representative in the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Alfredo Missair, spoke on October 18 about Venezuela’s achievements in food access, also noting that half its population of 28 million now has access to fair priced food.