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Farm State Senator Defends 'Monsanto Protection Act'
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24.5.2013 |
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com |
| WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans objected to an attempt Thursday to repeal a controversial provision, informally dubbed the "Monsanto Protection Act," that could allow seeds deemed... |
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Censoring Our Food
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23.5.2013 |
Commondreams.org Views |
Standing outside a slaughterhouse in Draper City, Utah, Amy Meyer was horrified by what she saw. Cows struggled to stay out of the plant and employees hauled one cow that appeared sick or injured in a tractor. While standing on public property, Meyer pulled out her cell phone to document the scene. read more |
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Pesticide Producers Turn to 'Bee-Washing' to Fight Backlash
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23.5.2013 |
Organic Consumers Association News Headlines |
| Pesticide makers have taken to framing themselves as stewards of the bees as backlash over their products' links to mass bee deaths grows. Click here to read this article |
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Food Industry Front Groups Peddle Dangerous Myths
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23.5.2013 |
CommonDreams.org Headlines |
Hormones and antibiotics in food won't harm you and MSG enhances the taste of food.
These are some of the confusing and misleading messages that consumers are inundated with every day under the guise of 'factual evidence' peddled by alleged consumer and food safety groups.
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March against Monsanto: Global day of action to 'take back the food supply'
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23.5.2013 |
rabble.ca - News for the rest of us |
| Thursday, May 23, 2013
Tens of thousands of activists are uniting in a global day of action to "take back the food supply," in a worldwide March Against Monsanto Saturday.
Tens of thousands of activists are uniting in a global day of action to "take back the food supply," in a worldwide March Against Monsanto Saturday.
News of the event has gone viral as environmentalists and others opposed to the rampant spread of genetically modified (GM) crops have planned over 400 events in more than 45 countries. In the United States, actions in 47 states are slated to occur simultaneously.
"Our website is averaging over 40,000 visitors a day and our Facebook page has reached over 10,000,000 people in the last 7 days," the organizers wrote on their website Tuesday.
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Censoring Our Food
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23.5.2013 |
Commondreams.org Views |
Standing outside a slaughterhouse in Draper City, Utah, Amy Meyer was horrified by what she saw. Cows struggled to stay out of the plant and employees hauled one cow that appeared sick or injured in a tractor. While standing on public property, Meyer pulled out her cell phone to document the scene. read more |
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The Growing Global Challenge to Monsanto's Monopolistic Greed
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23.5.2013 |
Organic Consumers Association News Headlines |
| The common problem we face is the power of concentrated wealth and monopolistic corporate interests. This has created a crony capitalist economy that uses government to further enrich the wealthy at the expense of the people, often threatening our basic necessities for life. Click here to read this article |
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Rallying Cry: Citizens Worldwide to Unite in 'March Against Monsanto'
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22.5.2013 |
CommonDreams.org Headlines |
Tens of thousands of activists are uniting in a global day of action to "take back the food supply," in a worldwide March Against Monsanto Saturday.
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Pesticide Producers Turn to 'Bee-Washing' to Fight Backlash
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22.5.2013 |
CommonDreams.org Headlines |
| Pesticide makers have taken to framing themselves as stewards of the bees as backlash over their products' links to mass bee deaths grows.
"Scientists, consumer groups, beekeepers and others blame the devastating rate of bee deaths on the growing use of pesticides sold by agrichemical companies to boost yields of staple crops such as corn," Reuters ' Carey Gillam reports , and this
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Is Monsanto's New Genetically Engineered Soy a Health Food?
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22.5.2013 |
Organic Consumers Association News Headlines |
| Monsanto just announced a deal with DSM Nutritional Products to sell a new type of genetically engineered (GE) soybean: one with supposed nutritional benefits. The majority of Monsanto's GE crops are engineered to resist Monsanto's herbicide, Roundup, or to produce their own pesticide, Bt. Once farmers harvest them, they are mixed together with non-GE crops and sold to consumers without labels. This new soybean, called the SDA Omega-3 soybean, will be different. Click here to read this article |
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A River Runs Through It
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22.5.2013 |
American Prospect |
| Dennis Chamberlin
T o get an idea of how American coastal waters might look just before they succumb to all the degradations they have suffered these past five centuries, it would be worth taking a July trip to Mobile Bay, an Alabama inlet that feeds into the Gulf of Mexico. If the air is still and hot, an event may occur that Gulf Coast residents call a “jubilee.” The bottom-dwelling flounder will be among its first victims, growing agitated as each successive gulp of water brings less and less oxygen across their gills.
In a panic, the fish will head shoreward toward the only breathable water they can find—the tiny oxygenated riffle the sea makes as it bumps lazily against the beach. At the shoreline, they will find humans waiting for them armed with “gigs,” crude sticks with nails protruding. With an easy stab, each gigger will impale a suffocating fish, sometimes two at a time. Wading out farther, the fishermen will find sluggish pods of blue crab and brown shrimp. As the ... |
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Farmworkers Fight Wendy’s, the ‘Last Holdout’ on Fair Food
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22.5.2013 |
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Latest northern coast hatchery chinook catch figures
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22.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Top stories |
| Here are the latest figures from the brief four-day northern coastal hatchery-marked chinook fishery: La Push May 10-11: 143 anglers caught four chinook for 0.03 fish per rod average. May 17-18: Four anglers caught no fish for 0.00 fish per rod average. Neah Bay May 10-11: 486 anglers caught 68 chin |
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Enabling Greed Makes US Sick
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21.5.2013 |
Commondreams.org Views |
Bill Moyers
Michael Winship
At the end of a week that reminds us to be ever vigilant about the dangers of government overreaching its authority, whether by the long arm of the IRS or the Justice Department, we should pause to think about another threat — from too much private power obnoxiously intruding into public life. read more |
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Enabling Greed Makes US Sick
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21.5.2013 |
Commondreams.org Views |
Bill Moyers
Michael Winship
At the end of a week that reminds us to be ever vigilant about the dangers of government overreaching its authority, whether by the long arm of the IRS or the Justice Department, we should pause to think about another threat — from too much private power obnoxiously intruding into public life. read more |
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Wenonah Hauter: Monsanto and Other GM Firms Are Winning in the U.S. and Globally
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20.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| With a farm policy of "get big or get out" that only benefits big and increasingly consolidated companies, which wield unprecedented power over the market and put small and midsized farmers out of business, it's no accident that we're here. |
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'End the Dictatorship': Senator Leads Call to Repeal 'Monsanto Protection Act'
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20.5.2013 |
CommonDreams.org Headlines |
Following the recent passage of a law dubbed derisively by its critics as the 'Monsanto Protection Act', environmentalists and legislators are standing up against the biotech giant and their "dictatorship over seeds, over life, over food and over our freedom."
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"End the Dictatorship": Senator Leads Call to Repeal Monsanto "Giveaway"
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20.5.2013 |
CommonDreams.org Headlines |
| Following the passage of the "outrageous special interest override" of the Monsanto Protection Act, environmentalists and legislators are standing up against the biotech giant and their "dictatorship over seeds, over life, over food and over our freedom."
In an email to supporters on Sunday, Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) announced his proposed amendment to the upcoming farm bill which would effectively eliminate the Act:
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Dem Senator Takes Aim At 'Outrageous Special Interest Provision'
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20.5.2013 |
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) confirmed on Sunday that he is proposing an amendment to the upcoming farm bill that would eliminate the "Monsanto Protection Act."... |
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'Monsanto Protection Act' might be repealed in Senate
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19.5.2013 |
Organic Consumers Association News Headlines |
| The so-called Monsanto Protection Act signed into law earlier this year caused such an outrage that people around the world are planning to protest the biotech company later this month. Now a United States senator is expected to try and repeal that law. Click here to read this article |
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