November 24th, 2011 | Blog, Stories & News, Canada, corporation, dirty, environment, forest, oil, pipeline, tarsands, US
Information reposted from youtube channel:
Environmental devastation of the land, water, and air – the largest industrial energy project in the world is extracting crude oil from bitumen found beneath the pristine boreal forest of Alberta, Canada. Effecting a land mass equivalent in size to Florida or England, Both industry and government are putting money before the health and security of its people and the environment.
Tar sands take 3 barrels of water to process every barrel of oil extracted. Ninety percent of this water becomes so toxic that it must be stored in tailing ponds. Unfortunately these ponds regularly leach pollution into the third largest watershed in the world.
November 22nd, 2011
With all the fuss going on lately about raw milk, it is a good idea to have a look at the history of the dairy industry and how we have gotten to this point. Let's call it part two of our Factory Farm History 101. Read the first part here about distillery dairies in New York. This is taken from Anne ...
October 9th, 2011
There are some things in the world that are so basic, it is hard to imagine they need to be stated, much less fought for. Air to breathe, water to drink, time to sleep and food to eat are the most basic. The unfortunate thing is, throughout history greedy, unscrupulous people have found that control ...
July 24th, 2011
This is a post I have been meaning to write for ages, its been floating about my head for a couple years, so I should be able to say what I mean by now. I just went through all of my old notebooks and whatnot trying to find my favorite quotes which I pulled out from C.S. Lewis' book That Hideous Str ...
June 17th, 2011
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 ...
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 ...
February 4th, 2011
There is more and more information coming out that highlights the true environmental and health costs of factory farmed foods. The idea that human population can only be fed by massive industrial farms is a myth and it is destroying our world. The following is from some of the articles that have bee ...
January 28th, 2011
Are the huge dairy corporations saving or destroying our world? Providing good affordable food for all or breaking up local communities and livelihoods? How nieve are we exactly? A simple google search of industrial dairies around the world reveals all sorts of dairy industry abuses, some of the ...
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 ...
January 28th, 2010
I discovered this really well written letter by Corky Evans on the site EdibleLandscapes.ca. I will repost some of it here, to read the whole letter please go to www.ediblelandscapes.ca and click on the button that says "Be Subversive". What Corky Evans speaks of as happening in Canada has and is ha ...
