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Polish Farmers Protest Sale of Land for GM Crops
by Guest Blogger, Sir Julian Rose The Polish farmers' protest against a government sell-off of farmland to multinational corporations is now in its 5th week in Zachodniopomorskie region of Poland and is spreading to other Provinces. ...
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By Roma Today natural resources – land, forests, air, mineral and water – are under major attack from neo-liberalism, wherein a few are usurping the rights and access of a significant proportion of the disempowered. Unsustainable economic development and inequitable growt ...
Source: West Papua Media PRESS RELEASE FROM awasMIFEE (April 25, 2012): Announcing the publication of a new report into a major land grab in West Papua. “An Agribusiness Attack in West Papua: Unravelling the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate” is now online at: http://awasmifee ...
Health Canada and the Canadian Government sure think so, especially in British Columbia where raw milk was declared to be as hazardous to your health as nuclear waste in 2009. We recently got a letter from Tim Lambert, Executive Director of Health Protection reaffirming their fear that threateni ...
Take Apartheid off the Menu! Day of Action Against Israeli Agricultural Produce Exporters – November 26, 2011 Export of Israeli agricultural produce is at the heart of Israel’s apartheid regime over the Palestinian people. It is an integral component of the ongoing process of colonisation and ...
It is a delight to see more articles popping up lately discussing how us foodies need to put our differences aside and focus on ending this despicable practice of factory farming. Absolutely. I spent a little bit of time volunteering at the Food not Bombs kitchen set up for the people down at Occupy ...
In order to understand what is going on with all the recent crack downs on cowshares, private food clubs and restrictions on herbal remedies it is important to know about the set of food regulations called Codex Alimentarius which are now in play in both the EU and North America. Gaia-Health is a we ...
Since I just recently posted my review of the book Mad Sheep whose author is featured in this film, I figured you guys would appreciate this review of Farmageddon: The Unseen War on American Family Farms by Jessica Claire Haney of Crunchy-Chewy Mama. Please click here for the full article. Below I h ...
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 proces ...
