October 21, 2015 Monsanto’s Hand of God: Planned Obsolescence of the Indian Farmer by Colin Todhunter The mantra of global agribusiness companies is that they care about farmers. They also really care about humanity and want to help to feed a growing world population, preferably by using genetically modified (GM) crops. They say that they […]
October 23, 2015 They Profit, We Die: The Perils of Chemical-Intensive Agriculture by Colin Todhunter Our food system is in big trouble. It’s in big trouble because the global agritech/agribusiness sector is poisoning it, us and the environment with its pesticides, herbicides, GMOs and various other chemical inputs. The Rockefeller clan exported the petrochemical intensive […]
Taking the Long View ~~~ Gord Stewart Looking out for nature Who speaks for nature? Who looks out for the wild things? My neighbor makes no bones about it. “Conservation is everyone’s responsibility,” he says. “We can all do things.” He practices what he preaches with a beautiful […]
Federal Court to EPA: No, You Can’t Approve This Pesticide That Kills Bees —By Tom Philpott | Fri Sep. 11, 2015 6:00 AM EDT 417 Dancestrokes/Shutterstock On Thursday, a federal appeals court struck down the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of a pesticide called sulfoxaflor. Marketed by agrichemical giant Dow AgroSciences, sulfoxaflor belongs to a […]
Federated Farmers welcome court ruling on genetic modified crop A Western Australian Court of Appeal ruling on genetically modified (GM) crop liability has been welcomed by Federated Farmers as a landmark decision which clearly sets out fundamental responsibilities of good neighbours that apply equally well in New Zealand and around the farming world. In 2014, […]
Hastings District Council’s decision to ban GE in their district is welcome news, says the Soil & Health Association. The just-released Hastings District Plan prohibits the release and field trialling of genetically engineered organisms, creating the first official GE-free food-producing region in New Zealand, and joining a number of regions around the world.^1 “With a […]
The ETS ‘fiasco’ has sent NZ’s forestry crop backwards, foresters tell Rob Tipa. The Farm Forestry Association’s membership has halved since the ETS scheme collapsed, Dean Satchell says Whatever happened to the emissions trading scheme? When the ETS was introduced in 2008 it was sold to the New Zealand public as the country […]
Shock waves from Silver Fern Farms will now pulsate through the meat industry Posted on September 16, 2015 by Keith Woodford Five months ago I wrote that whatever happened at Silver Fern Farms, it would be like an earthquake within the meat industry. Given that Silver Fern Farms is New Zealand’s largest meat company, and with […]
New York State of Mind: Empowering Women and Creating Local Food Opportunities Posted by Anne L. Alonzo, Agricultural Marketing Service Administrator, on September 2, 2015 at 11:00 AM AMS Administrator Anne Alonzo (standing in the middle) joined USDA state colleagues and New York State Commissioner of Agriculture Richard Ball for a roundtable on Women in […]
The truth about genetically modified food by: EMMA REYNOLDS From: news.com.au Genetic modification is creeping into our crops. Source: istock IT’S accused of causing cancer, destroying the environment and storing up devastating health risks for our children. Genetically modified food is a source of great controversy, yet most of us are eating it every […]