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Wave Of Suicides Among Indian Farmers

Alex Rossi, India correspondent reports on the most recent surge of suicides in India. This has been going on for more than a decade now. I remember how shocked I was when I first learned of this terrible situation, since then it has only gotten worse. Monsanto and other corporations in the Big Ag world will stop at nothing until there is nothing left. Do we need any more proof of this?

Watch video here: Wave Of Suicides Among Indian Farmers

The record suicide rate among farmers in India continues to rise and is threatening the country’s stability and future development, according to campaigners.

They are blaming the government’s policies for the agrarian crisis and are demanding it takes urgent action.

More than a quarter of a million farmers have killed themselves in the last 16 years in what is the largest recorded wave of suicides in history.

Rally for Food Freedom Nov 2nd

Rally for Food Freedom Nov 2nd

Please join us Nov 2nd with Michael Schmidt and this rally for food freedom and to get corporate agenda's out of our local food systems. Around the world the situation is getting increasingly insane. Michael Schmidt speaks in this interview about his personal history, growing up in Germany, studying ...

A Most Basic Right – To Choose What we Eat – Denied in Canada

A Most Basic Right – To Choose What we Eat – Denied in Canada

Michael Schmidt is “willing to die if it’s necessary” for responsible food freedom. That’s what raw milk farmer and activist Michael Schmidt said today at a Queen’s Park news conference in response to a question from a Toronto Star reporter. Of course dying for the cause wouldn’t b ...

Protect Our Local Raw Dairy Farmers (& Cows!)

Protect Our Local Raw Dairy Farmers (& Cows!)

I'm compiling this post this from various emails we've received today. The images are by Heather Passmore and are posted so you can use them however you think best--print them out to hand out at #occupyvancouver or post them as your profile photo on facebook, use them on your blog, email them to fri ...

Vancouver’s Fresh Milk Family

Vancouver’s Fresh Milk Family

Last weekend we headed out to our local community dairy's annual farm picnic (www.ourcows.ca). I was pretty excited as we'd only been out to the farm once before on a cold rainy day, which was fun as well--at the time there were about 7 young calves and a litter of puppies--but it is always nice to ...

The Battle to Save the Polish Countryside

The Battle to Save the Polish Countryside

From the Winter edition of Wise Traditions the Journal of the Weston A. Price Foundation. Pig Business is a real money maker for industrial ag corporations. Please read the whole article here. Article is by Sir Julian Rose. Poland is a country that is accustomed to fighting rearguard actions to f ...

The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer

The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer

Wednesday is the day I pick up my raw milk from a local urban drop point and it is also Real Food Wednesdays over at Kelly the Kitchen Kop's blog. She has a great round-up of all kinds of real food related posts and recipes every Wednesday from the realfood blogosphere. I have come to really look fo ...

There is No “Sustainable Biofuel”

There is No “Sustainable Biofuel”

Small farmers that came together in Japan recently have come up with some very practical and do-able solutions. La Via Campesina--The International Peasant Movement--posted this press release from the biodiversity conference last month: Small Farmers’ Solutions to the Biodiversity Crisis (Na ...

Canada Raw Milk Farmer’s Call To Arms

Canada Raw Milk Farmer’s Call To Arms

"The centralisation of our food system is currently the greatest danger to the food security of our nation." Since I am on the topic of raw milk this week I have to post this very important statement from Michael Schmidt. It was presented at a news conference on the steps of the Alberta Legislatu ...

Taking Shelter Under a Nuclear Umbrella

Taking Shelter Under a Nuclear Umbrella

I have been reading The One-Straw Revolutionby Masanobu Fukuoka over the last year. It is a small book, but each essay/teaching/experience/chapter packs a powerful punch and I have taken my time, savoring each section. Usually I am quite greedy when I read a book and devour it too quickly, but this ...