Ecowarriors destroy 6,000 GM beets in Oregon
By Rady Ananda Food Freedom News To protect against genetic contamination, a group of ecodefenders destroyed 6,000 genetically modified beets in Jackson County, Oregon earlier this month. The FBI is involved and has deemed the act "economic sabotage,"… more »
Occupy Monsanto Genetic Crimes Unit invades Congress and Natural Products Expo
By Rady Ananda Food Freedom North America’s largest trade show for natural products learned a dramatic lesson in hypocrisy last week when Occupy Monsanto members of the “Genetic Crimes Unit” showed up in biohazard suits, to highlight the hidden GMOs in… more »
Bug Docs Tell EPA US Should Stop Planting GM Corn
By Rady Ananda Food Freedom Last week, 22 corn entomologists sent a letter to the US Environmental Protection Agency warning that insect resistance to genetically modified corn can be halted by planting non-GMO seed. Increasing pesticide use or buffer… more »
Monsanto-FDA’s Michael Taylor to Keynote Food Safety Town Hall
By Rady Ananda Activist Post An agtivist with chutzpa might want to perform a GMO label action at the Food Safety Summit where Monsanto-lobbyist-now-Obama’s-Food-Safety-Czar, Michael R. Taylor, plans to wax tyrannical at a Town Hall on April 19. For a… more »
Beyond Protest: Saving our planet with 'Deep Green Resistance'
By Rady Ananda From what makes an effective resister to effective resistance strategies, in Deep Green Resistance, Aric McBay, Lierre Keith and Derrick Jensen lay out the reasons for and methods of bringing down industrial civilization. The goal is… more »
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USGS: Glyphosate pollutes air, rain and rivers in US
By Rady Ananda Two new studies by the U.S. Geological Survey reveal the pervasive spread of the biocide, glyphosate, mostly used as a weedkiller for crops genetically engineered to resist it. Used in formulations by Monsanto, Bayer, Dow and others,… more »
Monsanto GM Corn in Peril: Beetle develops Bt-resistance
By Rady Ananda Food Freedom Nature herself may be the best opponent of genetically modified crops and pesticides. Not only plants, but insects are also developing resistance. The Western rootworm beetle – one of the most serious threats to corn – has… more »
Behind the Foodborne Illness Numbers: Politics vs Science
By Rady Ananda With all the milk raids over the past few years, you wouldn’t think that dairy is the safest type of food in the U.S., or that factory foods cause 70% of all foodborne illnesses – but that’s just what a new study by the University of… more »
Uncle Sam Food History Exhibit Promotes Food Control
By Rady Ananda Oh, gag me with a bowl of propaganda. The National Archives is hosting an historical exhibit on government say in what we eat and grow and how to cook it: “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam: The Government's Effect on the American Diet.” From the… more »
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Controversial ag spending bill defunds local food systems, promotes meat monopoly
By Rady Ananda Plutocrats aimed another weapon at the nation’s poor and at small and midsized farmers, this time thru the 2012 agriculture appropriations bill, H.R. 2112, which the House passed on June 16. The 82-page bill returns some federal spending… more »
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