Archive for the 'Biotechnology' Category
FDA Attempting to Regulate Supplements, Herbs and Juices as “Drugs”
April 14th, 2007Just have a clone burger instead. Via: Organic Consumers: When it comes to health freedom, this is the FDA’s end game. A new FDA “guidance” document, published on the FDA’s website, reveals plans to reclassify virtually all vitamins, supplements, herbs and even vegetable juices as FDA-regulated drugs. Massage oils and massage rocks will be classified […]
Digging In: Britain’s Green Revolution on the Home Front
April 12th, 2007Once people understand the complex of issues related to food, the rest falls into place pretty damn fast. Via: Guardian: During the second world war the government famously urged every able man and woman in Britain to “dig for victory” – to grub up their flower beds and tear up their lawns to grow vegetables […]
The Right to Raw Milk
March 27th, 2007Excellent raw milk article. Via: Acres USA: ACRES U.S.A. Fresh or raw milk producers are having problems just about everywhere, such as in Michigan, where they pulled over a guy and destroyed his product and raided his house and took the records — and similar things have happened in state after state. I’d like to […]
BASF and Monsanto in Terrifying Alliance
March 25th, 2007BASF, a descendant of the Third Reich’s extermination industries, is teaming up with Monsanto to put pHood on your belly, biofuel in your SUV. Have a nice day. Via: STLtoday: Monsanto Co. and BASF AG, a German competitor, on Wednesday promised to work together to deliver higher-yielding crops to meet increasing global demand. The companies […]
Are GM Crops Killing Bees?
March 24th, 2007Via: Der Spiegel: A mysterious decimation of bee populations has German beekeepers worried, while a similar phenomenon in the United States is gradually assuming catastrophic proportions. The consequences for agriculture and the economy could be enormous. Walter Haefeker is a man who is used to painting grim scenarios. He sits on the board of directors […]
Got Milk? You’re Under Arrest
March 18th, 2007Via: Information Liberation: In many states, you can possess it, but the law prohibits its sale. It is a violation of federal law to transport the substance across state lines with the intent to sell it. In many states, undercover investigators are at work trying to uncover the furtive networks that produce and distribute the […]
The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
March 16th, 2007Via: Cornell University: The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) is a core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, crops and their protection, food science,forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science. Scholars have […]
How to Save the World
March 12th, 2007Via: How to Save the World: One Man, One Cow, One Planet: Our existence on this planet is precarious. How to Save the World exposes globalization and the mantra of infinite growth in a finite world for what it really is: an environmental and human disaster. But across India marginal farmers are fighting back. By […]
FDA: Cattle Antibiotic Moves Forward Despite Fears of Human Risk
March 5th, 2007Madness. Or… “Consumers” are being softened up for the kill off event. Take your pick. Via: Washington Post: The government is on track to approve a new antibiotic to treat a pneumonia-like disease in cattle, despite warnings from health groups and a majority of the agency’s own expert advisers that the decision will be dangerous […]
USDA Backs Production of Rice With Human Genes
March 3rd, 2007Total madness. Via: Washington Post: The Agriculture Department has given a preliminary green light for the first commercial production of a food crop engineered to contain human genes, reigniting fears that biomedically potent substances in high-tech plants could escape and turn up in other foods. The plan, confirmed yesterday by the California biotechnology company leading […]
