Obama Puts Monsanto Lobbyist In Charge Of Food Safety Alexis Baden-Mayer, Esq. Organic Consumers Association [1] Friday, July 24, 2009 Genetically modified foods [2] are not safe [3]. The only reason they’re in our food supply is because government bureaucrats with ties to industry suppressed or manipulated scientific research and deprived consumers of the information they need to make informed...
This [unedited] guest post is by a student in my EEP100 class ( background post ). Please praise/critique/comment on its economic quality and importance to you. Sabine Johnson says: Why is organic produce more expensive than regular (i.e. non-organic) produce? For example, at Safeway a pound of regular Fiji Apples costs $1.99, while a pound of organic Fiji Apples costs $2.39, a pound of regular Bananas...
Only, you don’t get a cut. Beyond your privacy, and often that of your friends, being infringed by various Facebook game apps, what’s ultimately happening is you’re setting yourself up to be the target of a shitload of spam advertising , whether via e-mail, on Facebook pages or elsewhere. The maker of Farmville and Mafia Wars gets $200 million a year, much of it from cyber-advertisers...
GM Watch SOUTH AMERICAN GM SOY CLOSE TO GET CARBON CREDITS-AGRIBUSINESS LOBBY IN THE CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS Javiera Rulli La Soja Mata, September 2009 http://lasojamata.org/es/node/397 Nice work if you can get it! Encourage people to chop trees and replace them with soy beans. Then sell them expensive GM seed and qualify for carbon credits because the farmers are using a bit of no-till. Of course with...
By Joy A. Kennelly Now that the Hermosa Beach City Council Candidates I was stumping for, Jeff Duclos and Howard Fishman, are safely in office I can get back to more fun topics seeing as I've left you dangling on...
When every crop has to be licensed from patent owners like Monsanto, only those practiced in the art of pirate agriculture will have reasonably-priced food. This gorgeous series of photographs from... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
LUBBOCK, Texas, Nov. 4, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cotton farmers on the High Plains are always looking for ways to improve their farm's profit potential, and two of the biggest opportunities for farmers to that are to increase yield potential and produce better quality fiber. Those are the goals of Monsanto Company's (NYSE: MON) $10.5 million research "megasite" in Lubbock, where the...
OptionMonster submits: Sabrient’s fundamentals-based ETF rankings, based on our new and powerful SectorCast model, has proven to be quite predictive for identifying the best (most undervalued) and worst (most overvalued) sectors, with a 1-month forward look. This week, Healthcare continues to lead by a healthy margin. Of course, each ETF is unique, so the sectors represented will score differently...
The number of people affected by food shortages is starting to rise again. Is the solution a new biotech version of the Green Revolution, or a green Green Revolution based on organic farming? The New York Times brought together six experts to address those questions. Most fall squarely on one side of the fence or the other, but I'm interested in the more balanced opinion of Jonathan Foley, director...
In my view, the #1 most important significant change we can make in our food system is breaking up anticompetitive businesses that control too much of the market of whatever they are selling. And I'm not alone in thinking that the U.S. government needs to look at consolidation in agriculture. In addition to rumors that the DOJ is looking at market concentration in the seed and the dairy industries,...
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