Published on Monday, August 29, 2011 by The Wall Street Journal Monsanto Corn Plant Losing Bug Resistance by Scott Kilman http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/08/29-4 Widely grown corn plants that Monsanto Co. genetically modified to thwart a voracious bug are falling prey to that very pest in a few Iowa fields, the first time a major Midwest scourge has [...]
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Monsanto Corn Plant Losing Bug Resistance
Posted in Genetic Engineering, Farm Issues, Pesticides, Agroecology on September 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Court rules organic farmers can sue conventional, GMO farmers whose pesticides ‘trespass’ and contaminate their fields
Posted in Farm Issues, Pesticides on August 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
NaturalNews) Purveyors of conventional and genetically-modified (GM) crops — and the pesticides and herbicides that accompany them — are finally getting a taste of their own legal medicine. Minnesota’s Star Tribune has reported that the Minnesota Court of Appeals recently ruled that a large organic farm surrounded by chemical-laden conventional farms can seek damages for [...]
Whole Paycheck and Organic Food Deserts: The Challenge
Posted in Organic Foods, Pesticides, Sustainable Agriculture on August 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
By Ronnie Cummins Organic Consumers Association, Aug 4, 2011 After decades of grassroots public education, battles to safeguard standards, and hard work, organic food and farming has become the fastest growing sector of U.S. agriculture. Organics have surged in popularity to become a $30 billion dollar industry in the United States, representing approximately four percent [...]
EPA knowingly allowed bee-killing pesticide onto the market
Posted in Articles, Environment, Farm Issues, Pesticides, Petitions, Sustainable Agriculture on January 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A leaked document from the EPA shows that the agency has knowingly allowed a highly toxic pesticide for bees, to be sold and used nationwide by Bayer, the third-largest producer of pesticides in the world. Below is an except from Tom Philpott’s in-depth Grist.org article on the recent leak which came into the hands of a [...]
Food for a Rooted Future
Posted in Agroecology, Articles, Environment, Farm Issues, Health Issues, Herbicides, Organic Foods, Pesticides, Sustainable Agriculture on January 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Our search for rootedness has brought us back to the Philippines, back to communities in the south where Robin spent a year over three decades ago. We spend time with the family of a rice farmer, Delia, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. Delia, her husband Romulo, two daughters, one son, and three grandchildren [...]
Jacobs Farm/Del Cabo Win Appeal and $1 Million Damage Award Stands in Historic Pesticide Drift Case
Posted in Environment, Farm Issues, Organic Foods, Pesticides on January 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
California’s Sixth Appellate District Court upheld the right of Jacobs Farm/Del Cabo to sue Western Farm Service for damages caused four years ago when organophosphate residues moved via fog from nearby conventional vegetable fields onto Jacobs Farm organic herbs destined for Whole Foods. This precedent-setting decision has significant ramifications for all organic farmers, nearby conventional [...]
Study maps chemical residues in European children’s diets
Posted in Farm Issues, Health Issues, Herbicides, News Articles, Pesticides on January 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Pascale Santi Guardian Weekly, Tuesday 28 December 2010 14.00 GMT Article history A study of food bought from a French supermarket, to form part of a balanced diet, showed an alarming number of chemical residues. Photograph: PAIn a single day, a 10-year-old child in Europe may be exposed throughfood to 128 chemical residues of 81 [...]
USDA Recommends “Coexistence” with Monsanto: We Say Hell No!
Posted in Environment, Farm Issues, Genetic Engineering, Health Issues, Herbicides, News Articles, Organic Foods, Pesticides, Sustainable Agriculture on January 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“If you put a label on genetically engineered food you might as well put a skull and crossbones on it.” Norman Braksick, president of Asgrow Seed Co., a subsidiary of Monsanto, quoted in the Kansas City Star, March 7, 1994 “Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in [...]
WikiLeaks: US Ambassador Planned “Retaliation” Against France Over Ban on Monsanto Corn
Posted in Articles, Environment, Farm Issues, Genetic Engineering, Health Issues, Herbicides, Pesticides on December 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The former United States ambassador to France suggested “moving to retaliation” against France and the European Union (EU) in late 2007 to fight a French ban on Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) corn and changes in European policy toward biotech crops, according to a cable released by WikiLeaks on Sunday. Former Ambassador Craig Stapleton was concerned about [...]
Tell the FTC: GMOs are not “Natural” or “Green”
Posted in Environment, Farm Issues, Genetic Engineering, Health Issues, Herbicides, Pesticides, Petitions on December 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sign the petition today. Join us in telling the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that it is misleading for companies to classify genetically modified organisms (GMOs) as “Natural” or “Green.” We have untilDecember 10th to let the FTC know, as they are revising their Green Guides. Genetic engineering doesn’t happen in nature. Scientists force genes from [...]
