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House votes to delay food safety rules
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20.6.2013 |
Yahoo: Business |
| WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted late Wednesday to delay sweeping food safety rules that would require farmers and food companies to be more vigilant about guarding against contamination. |
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Monsanto executive is among World Food Prize winners
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20.6.2013 |
Star Tribune: Business |
| The decision could heat up the debate over the role of biotech crops in the fight against global hunger. |
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And the 'World Food Prize' goes to? 3 GMO Scientists
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20.6.2013 |
CommonDreams.org Headlines |
This year's World Food Prize was handed to leading GMO scientists, including a developer at biotech giant Monsanto.
The move was an unbridled endorsement of GMOs amidst growing controversy as rising numbers question the technology's safety for people and the environment. read more |
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And The Winner Of The World Food Prize Is ... The Man From Monsanto
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20.6.2013 |
NPR News |
| The prize is sometimes called the "Nobel Prize for food and agriculture." And this year's winners include Monsanto executive Robert Fraley, a pioneer in genetically engineered crops. If there's a single person who personifies the company's controversial role in American agriculture, it's probably Fraley. |
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World Food Prize goes to 3 biotech scientists
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20.6.2013 |
Yahoo: US National |
| DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The World Food Prize Foundation on Wednesday took the bold step of awarding this year's prize to three pioneers of plant biotechnology whose work brought the world genetically modified crops. ... |
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World Food Prize goes to 3 biotech scientists
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19.6.2013 |
Seattle Times: Nation & World |
| The World Food Prize Foundation on Wednesday took the bold step of awarding this year's prize to three pioneers of plant biotechnology whose work brought the world genetically modified crops. |
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World Food Prize goes to 3 biotech scientists
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19.6.2013 |
Seattle Times: Top stories |
| The World Food Prize Foundation on Wednesday took the bold step of awarding this year's prize to three pioneers of plant biotechnology whose work brought the world genetically modified crops. |
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Monsanto Executive Is Among World Food Prize Winners
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19.6.2013 |
NY Times: Business |
| Monsanto Executive Is Among World Food Prize Winners |
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World Food Prize goes to 3 biotech scientists
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19.6.2013 |
Twincities.com: Nation |
| DES MOINES, Iowa—The World Food Prize Foundation on Wednesday took the bold step of awarding this year's prize to three pioneers of plant |
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Ecosystem and Food Supply Threatened by Toxic Neonicotinoids
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19.6.2013 |
Organic Consumers Association News Headlines |
| Research has shown that many pesticides are neurotoxic and can cause disruptions to your neurological system and your brain. The reason why neurotoxins still enjoy widespread use on our food supply is really more about the bottom line for farming operations than it is about the science of human health. Click here to read this article |
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Buzz Off, Monsanto
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18.6.2013 |
Commondreams.org Views |
Last week, the term “bee-washing” emerged in public conversation. read more |
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Buzz Off, Monsanto
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18.6.2013 |
Commondreams.org Views |
Last week, the term “bee-washing” emerged in public conversation. read more |
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Foes of GMO Labeling in Washington State Build War Chest
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18.6.2013 |
Organic Consumers Association News Headlines |
| OLYMPIA - In another sign that Washington will be the national battleground this fall for the fight over genetically altered foods, opponents of a ballot measure requiring those products to be labeled raised almost $1 million last month. Click here to read this article |
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Six Horrifying Things About Pork Everyone Should Know
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17.6.2013 |
Organic Consumers Association News Headlines |
| American hog farmers have managed to eliminate all wholesomeness, purity, ethics and animal welfare from the pork industry. Click here to read this article |
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You Won't Believe What Pork Producers Do to Pregnant Pigs
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17.6.2013 |
Mother Jones |
| Illustration: Rick Sealock
Like a lot of food-obsessed people, I love pork. The chef David Chang, whose Manhattan restaurant Momofuku is practically a porcine temple, once declared the pig a " mystical, magical animal ." In addition to being delicious, pigs are profoundly smart and social creatures that can even be taught to play simple video games with their snouts . (The jury's out on whether doing so lowers their IQs.)
Yet despite pigs' many lovable qualities, of all the billions of beasts confined in our meat factories, the most miserable may be the 5.9 million sows that churn out the piglets that grow into chops, bacon, and ham.
Throughout their four-month pregnancies, many of these sows live in cages just large enough to contain their bodies. As the sows grow bigger, the tight confinement means they can lie face down but can't flop over onto their sides. The floors under these "gestation crates" are slotted so that urine and feces can slip through into vast cesspits . Immobilized ... |
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Gagged by Big Ag
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17.6.2013 |
Mother Jones |
| Shawn Lyons was dead to rights —and he knew it. More than a month had passed since People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals had released a video of savage mistreatment at the MowMar Farms hog confinement facility where he worked as an entry-level herdsman in the breeding room. The three enormous sow barns in rural Greene County, Iowa, were less than five years old and, until recently, had raised few concerns. They seemed well ventilated and well supplied with water from giant holding tanks. Their tightly tacked steel siding always gleamed white in the sun. But the PETA hidden-camera footage shot by two undercover activists over a period of months in the summer of 2008, following up on a tip from a former employee, showed a harsh reality concealed inside.
The recordings caught one senior worker beating a sow repeatedly on the back with a metal gate rod, a supervisor turning an electric prod on a sow too crippled to stand, another worker shoving a herding cane into a sow's vagina. In one ... |
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Green diary rescue: Wolves under the gun, eyeballing damselflies & mapping the polar cyclone
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16.6.2013 |
Daily Kos |
| Every week Daily Kos diarists write dozens of environmentally related posts. Many don't get the readership they deserve. Helping improve the odds is the motivation behind the Green Diary Rescue. In the past seven years, there have been 230 of these spotlighting more than 12,964 eco-diaries. Below are categorized links and excerpts to 50 more that appeared in the past seven days. That makes for lots of good reading during the spare moments of your weekend. [ Disclaimer: Inclusion of a diary in the rescue does not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it.]
Green Diary of the Week
Wolves: "Mission Accomplished" —by Agathena : "The original mission was wolf recovery begun in 1994 because of expiration (local extinction) of the grey wolf in many areas. Recovery goals of an equitably distributed wolf population containing at least 300 wolves and 30 breeding pairs in 3 recovery areas within Montana (MT), Idaho (ID), and Wyoming (WY) for at least 3 consecutive years were ... |
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Michelle Chen: Why Safer Food Workers Mean Safer Food
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15.6.2013 |
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Americans these days are nervous about what they eat, and they should be, what with outbreaks of foodborne illnesses, meat pumped with veterinary drugs and... |
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Why Safer Food Workers Mean Safer Food
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15.6.2013 |
Commondreams.org Views |
Americans these days are nervous about what they eat, and they should be, what with outbreaks of foodborne illnesses, meat pumped with veterinary drugs and genetically modified organisms creeping into our groceries. And in May, when the iconic brand of Smithfield Foods was bought by a Chinese multinational, there seemed to be still more cause for alarm. read more |
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Carole Bartolotto: Is the Movement to Label GMOs Anti-Science?
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15.6.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| The research related to GMOs can be hard to sort through. One study may find health problems in animals, but then proponents and biotech scientists say the study is flawed. But are there any scientists that question the safety and effectiveness of GMOs? |
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