Tag: food
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Corporations Win, Farmers Lose in GE Seed Deals
PESTICIDE ACTION NETWORK — So just what can farmers expect out of all these cross-licensing deals? Stacks upon stacks of traits that they haven’t asked for. More licensing fees. Skyrocketing seed prices. These and other disastrous consequence for farmers have been …
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Pressure Mounts to Remove Genetically Engineered Ingredients from Infant Formula
CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE — The vast majority of corn and soy-based ingredients in processed foods in the U.S., including infant formula, come from genetically engineered crops developed by Monsanto …
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Growing Green Awards: How Organic Farming Promotes a Sustainable Economy
ONEARTH — “The only good aphid is a dead aphid” used to be my mantra. I would walk up and down rows of plotted trees, spraying the plants with Metasystox, oblivious to the risks to my own health. I didn’t bother with rubber gloves …
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Gutting of Industrial Dairy Farm Regulations Puts New York’s Water Quality at Risk
RIVERKEEPER–A coalition of environmental groups expressed their disapproval of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s announcement yesterday that the state will roll-back environmental regulations …
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Resource Scarcity, Climate Change and the Encroaching Global Catastrophe
TOMDISPATCH — Brace yourself. You may not be able to tell yet, but according to global experts and the U.S. intelligence community, the earth is already shifting under you. Whether you know it or not, you’re on a …