Archive for the 'Food' Category
65-Year-Old California Man Arrested for Distributing Raw Milk and Tortured in L.A. County Jail: ‘I Thought I Was Gonna Die in There’
March 12th, 2012Update: Raw Milk Vending Machine in France Via: YouTube: —End Update— Via: Natural News: NaturalNews can now report that 65-year-old senior citizen James Stewart, a raw milk farmer with no criminal history, was nearly tortured to death in the LA County jail this past week. He survived a “week of torturous Hell” at the hands […]
Short Film: ‘There’s No Tomorrow’
February 29th, 2012Graham let me know that Dermot finished his film, There’s No Tomorrow. Via: Incubate Pictures:
Syria Crops Sheltered in Arctic Doomsday Vault
February 29th, 2012Via: AP: Chick peas, fava beans and other seeds from a facility in Syria are among the 25,000 new samples being deposited this week in an Arctic seed vault built to protect food crops from wars and natural disasters, officials said Tuesday. The latest additions mean that the Svalbard Global Seed Vault — a master […]
Judge Dismisses Organic Farmers’ Case Against Monsanto
February 29th, 2012Via: NPR: A New York federal court today dismissed a lawsuit against agribusiness giant Monsanto brought by thousands of certified organic farmers. The farmers hoped the suit would protect them against infringing on the company’s crop patents in the future. The Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association and several other growers and organizations do not […]
Greece: Farmers Cut Out Parasitic Middlemen, Sell 24 Tons of Potatoes Directly to Consumers
February 27th, 2012Yes. This is the way to do it. Via: Guardian: Hammered by the financial crisis that has led to ever diminishing income, a group of residents in northern Greece have joined forces with potato farmers to slash consumer prices and ensure producers can get their crop to markets by cutting out the middle man. Hundreds […]
White House Refuses to Release Email From Monsanto-Linked Lobbyist
February 27th, 2012Via: TruthOut: The White House is withholding documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by an environmental group that suspects the Obama administration of working with Monsanto-linked lobbyists to defend the planting of genetically engineered (GE) crops in wildlife refuges across the country.
France Asks EU to Suspend GM Crop Authorisation
February 22nd, 2012Does anyone know what the French government means by, “Significant risks for the environment”? Via: AFP: France’s ecology ministry said Monday it had asked European regulators to suspend authorisation for the use of genetically modified MON 810 maize crops from US company Monsanto based on new studies. The request is “based on the latest scientific […]
Now Glyphosate (Roundup) Found in People’s Urine
February 22nd, 2012Via: GM Watch: According to an article in German in the Ithaca journal, a German university study has found significant concentrations of glyphosate in the urine samples of city dwellers. The analysis of the urine samples apparently found that all had concentrations of glyphosate at 5 to 20-fold the limit for drinking water. As well […]
Test Tube Hamburgers
February 20th, 2012Via: Telegraph: By generating strips of meat from stem cells researchers believe they can create a product that is identical to a real burger. The process of culturing the artificial meat in the lab is so laborious that the finished product, expected to arrive in eight months’ time, will cost about £220,000 (EUR250,000). But researchers […]
Food Project Proposes Matrix-Style Vertical Chicken Farms
February 17th, 2012There’s a fair amount of freak-out occurring over this, but as far as I can tell, this is an art project that attempts to draw attention to the ghastly nature of current industrial poultry production methods. Oh yeah, I had an, “Oh shit,” moment when I checked out the pictures of the growth pods (which […]
