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Pesticide Use Tied To Lower IQ In Children
Who could have guessed that drenching our food and homes in brain-ravaging toxins would have dire consequences? Wired Science reports that pesticides have been strongly linked to decreased memory and a...
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Cambridgeshire Farm Seeks Online Farmers
What happens when Farmville becomes reality and not just a game? National Trust create MyFarm, an actual working farm that has 10,000 virtual farmers. BBC reports: A National Trust farm is to be run by...
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China Farmers Facing ‘Exploding’ Watermelon Problem (Video)
Gallagher is not responsible. At least it’s not exploding people. Reports the AP via Yahoo News: BEIJING — The overuse of a chemical that helps fruit grow faster is causing a rash of exploding...
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If The White House Garden Was Planted With Subsidized Crops…
With thanks to @SlowFoodUSA, the image below shows what the White House Garden would look like if it was planted with subsidized crops from the Food and Farm Bill. When will we break this crazy...
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Toxin From Genetically Modified Crops Detected In Canadians’ Blood
Until now, scientists and multinational corporations promoting GM crops have maintained that Bt toxin poses no danger to human health as the protein breaks down in the human gut. But the presence of...
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Food Ark: Will Seed Banks Save Our Sources of Food?
“Experts estimate that we have lost more than half of the world’s food varieties over the past century”. Charles Siebert writes in National Geographic: Svalbard Vault Mountain (Cutaway). Illustration:...
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Monsanto Monster Weeds Spreading Fast
Michael J. Coren warns that Monsanto’s Roundup was supposed to make it easy for farmers to get rid of weeds, but it’s working on fewer and fewer plants, including some monsters that can grow three...
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The Raw Food Conspiracy
Courtesy Counterthink.com/NaturalNews.com SWAT teams assaulting farmers for conspiring to distribute raw milk? Who wrote this fantasy, Aldous Huxley? Actually, no, it’s an all too real event from...
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UK Family Faces Jail Or Eviction From Farm For Living ‘Off The Grid’
The Mason family purchased an abandoned orchard and moved out of public housing. Their self-sustaining lifestyle has baffled local authorities however, who have ordered them to give up their property...
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Soy Protein Present in Egg Yolks and Chicken Tissues
Via Health Freedoms: There is a growing market today of consumers trying to avoid soy in their diet. Many people have developed soy allergies, and a number of people are concerned about the plant...
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Baby Boomers Returning To The Commune
About 100,000 people in the United States lives in so-called “intentional communities.” Via the Atlantic, as mainstream society atrophies, Anna Spinner looks at now-gray hippies migrating back to the...
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Farm and School
Are schoolyard farms the best way to counteract the increasingly industrial food provided by school lunches? Via Denver’s ABC affiliate: DENVER — Just eight months ago, a one-acre plot at the Denver...
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Alabama Looks To Replace Immigrant Workers With Prison Labor
A draconian law passed earlier this year has resulted in an exodus of illegal (and legal) immigrants from Alabama, and as a result, crops are rotting in fields on farms across the state. The solution?...
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Japan To Open Robot Farm In Disaster Zone
A century or two from now, pretty much most of the world will be a flooded/radioactive zone being farmed by robots. The Telegraph reports: The project, masterminded by the Ministry of Agriculture, will...
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The Mother Of All Herbicide Marketing Plans
Dow Agrosciences plans to double the trouble caused by Monsanto’s Roundup with a compelling marketing pitch to farmers. Tom Philpott reports for Mother Jones: During the late December media lull, the...
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Black Farmers Suffer At The Hands Of Monsanto
An interesting take on the disastrous effects on agriculture resulting from Monsanto’s control of seeds, by Dr. John Boyd of BlackFarmers.org, at Roland Martin Reports: Black farmers in the United...
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Removing Consciousness From Farming
Every year, billions of animals suffer in the name of cultivating food for humanity. But, suppose none of them had minds? A nightmare or a solution? Via We Make Money Not Art: Each year, the UK raises...
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Willie Nelson Says We Must Occupy Our Food Supply
Photo: Larry Philpot (CC) Willie and co-author Anna Lappe write at Huffington Post: Our food is under threat. It is felt by every family farmer who has lost their land and livelihood, every parent who...
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Midwestern Hog Farms Keep Mysteriously Exploding
Hog farming is even grosser than you imagined. Farms keep spontaneously blowing up due to chemical interactions involving bacteria-laden gas and a brown goop of sketchy origin. Ars Technica writes:...
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Is Your Favorite Ice Cream Made with Monsanto’s Artificial Hormones?
Monsanto has been in the news again, with a U.S. District Court ruling that the USDA has to at least go through the motions of regulating the company’s genetically engineered sugar beets. Monsanto, you...
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