Archive for the 'Biotechnology' Category
Industrial Pig Farms Breeding MRSA
March 13th, 2009Via: New York Times: The late Tom Anderson, the family doctor in this little farm town in northwestern Indiana, at first was puzzled, then frightened. He began seeing strange rashes on his patients, starting more than a year ago. They began as innocuous bumps — “pimples from hell,” he called them — and quickly became […]
California Raw Almonds Must be Treated, Judge Rules
March 10th, 2009Mmm hmm. Oh, just wait for HR 875. Your clone burger with genetically engineered freedom fries and synthetic pHood perfumes—to hide the rancid smells—will be A-OK. But raw, whole foods that haven’t been saturated in carcinogens, cooked or irradiated… to render them “safe”… This is enemy combatant stuff. Via: McClatchy: A federal judge Monday upheld […]
Change We Can Believe In: How About the End of Farmers Markets? Say Hello to H.R. 875: Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009
March 9th, 2009Update: The Husband of the Bill’s Sponsor Does Work for Monsanto Reader CW tipped me off to this. It checks out. Rosa DeLauro is married to Stanley B. Greenberg. Here’s a bio on Greenberg: Stanley B. Greenberg is Chairman and CEO of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research. He has served as polling advisor to President Bill […]
Monsanto’s Uphill Battle in Germany
March 8th, 2009Via: Der Spiegel: On the other side stand Monsanto’s many adversaries, a heterogeneous alliance that brings together organic farmers, anti-capitalism activists, churches and politicians with the conservative Christian Social Union, the Bavarian sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats. The dispute between the two camps revolves around the opportunities and risks involved in green […]
FDA Admits Cloned Meat, Milk May Have Already Entered Food Supply
February 1st, 2009Via: Natural News: The FDA has admitted that meat and milk from the offspring of cloned mammals such as cows, pigs, goats and sheep could very well have already entered the food supply in the United States. “It is theoretically possible,” agency spokesperson Siobhan DeLancey said. In January, the FDA declared that foods derived from […]
Amateurs Are Trying Genetic Engineering at Home
December 26th, 2008The 21st-century technologies – genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics (GNR) – are so powerful that they can spawn whole new classes of accidents and abuses. Most dangerously, for the first time, these accidents and abuses are widely within the reach of individuals or small groups. They will not require large facilities or rare raw materials. Knowledge […]
An Open Letter to President-Elect Barack Obama
November 28th, 2008Via: WAPF: AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA From Sally Fallon Morell, President, the Weston A. Price Foundation November 16, 2008 Dear Mr. Obama, Congratulations on your recent victory in the American presidential elections. As the president-elect, you have many issues to consider as you prepare to take office. One issue I would urge […]
Americans’ Food Stamp Use Nears All-Time High
November 27th, 2008This may sound strange, but there’s a lot of opportunity at this stage of collapse. Gardening and food security issues might resonate with many more people now than in recent years. If you know someone who is on the verge of snapping out their trance, offer books, links, some seeds, or a hand. Additionally, I […]
UK: GM Crops ‘To be Grown in Secret’
November 22nd, 2008Via: Telegraph: Genetically-modified crops could be grown by the Government in secret locations in an attempt to prevent trials being attacked by saboteurs, it has been reported. Trials could also be conducted away from the public in the Government’s Porton Down military research site in Salisbury, Wiltshire, it is claimed. There are currently no GM […]
Austrian Government Study Confirms Genetically Modified Crops Threaten Human Fertility and Health Safety
November 21st, 2008Via: Institute for Responsible Technology: A long-term feeding study commissioned by the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, managed by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Health, Family and Youth, and carried out by Veterinary University Vienna, confirms genetically modified (GM) corn seriously affects reproductive health in mice. Non-GMO advocates, who have warned about this […]
