June 17th, 2011 | Food Security, Our Food, agriculture, big ag, corporation, crisis, farming, food, industrial, Monsanto, people, poverty, profit, sovereignty, speculation, transnational
In the latest newsletter from www.Nyeleni.org covers the issues of food speculation and rising food prices. Please view the full newsletter here. A short excerpt describing the current food crisis:
Higher Food Prices but Poorer Farmers
Nowadays the whole food system – from production to processing and distribution – is mainly controlled by transnational corporations. Since 2007 these companies such as Monsanto, DuPont, Bayer, Cargill, Sinochem, Nestlé (to name just a few) have seen increases in their profits. On the contrary, small scale food producers that are not favoured by trade and agricultural policies and that do not have direct access to markets, but sell their products to distributing companies, haven’t seen any concrete benefits from the rising in price of foodstuffs. Often the difference between the price that consumers pay for a product is from four to nine times higher than the price received by producers for the same good.[1] The profit margin remains in the hands of big companies and other private distributors and “middlemen” in between.
April 23rd, 2011
This article is written by Jeffrey Smith for The Institute of Responsible Technology. They are encouraging everyone to share and repost this information as widely as possible. More information on the history and goals of Monsanto are posted in this article: Monsanto: The World’s Poster Child for C ...
March 13th, 2011
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 ...
March 11th, 2011
The following is taken from Nyeleni.org's Newsletter--Industrialized Food Production: The Base of the Junk Food System. They encourage people to spread the information in this newsletter so please feel free to re-post anything posted here, just be sure to reference and link back to them. Thanks so m ...
February 16th, 2011
This is a practical post outlining several things you can do to stop supporting Monsanto and their cronies who have foisted genetically modified organisms on us. I though it was a helpful post--it gives a good list of numbers to call. Thanks to Myra Said It--please read the full article there.
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November 7th, 2010
Over the past few years I have seen various information about chemtrails. While I was reading about it I would be concerned, but once finished, I would quickly put it out of my mind. I know I am not the only one who does that when faced with something so outrageous--especially if there doesn't seem ...
November 1st, 2010
Little Red Rubbing Scarf is back this time as Little Black Bludgeoning Spork with a brand new magic spork and attitude to match. In this episode she takes on killer mutant GMO winter squash possessed by the ghosts of ancient giant winter squash. This Halloween adventure confronts the evil forces ...
August 25th, 2010
Given the rising plethora of food outbreaks courtesy of our industrial food system, this article will give us some history and a clear example of how large-scale agriculture is destroying every corner of our world.
The following events are taken from Vandana Shiva's book Stolen Harvest: The Hijac ...
August 24th, 2010
After reading this recent horrific news about what the biotech industry is plotting for our supposed 'health' by manipulating vegetable oils even further, we realized we need more info about oil and fat and the economic battles that are being and have been fought over this most basic and vital nutri ...
July 22nd, 2010
This article was recently pointed out to me by a friend who knows of my distaste for the Gates Foundation and all of the "good work" they are doing. I once looked through a long list of all the projects they were funding in 'developing' countries and was quite disturbed. One example of something the ...
