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NZ: Food Bill Threatens Food Freedom

Kiwi’s rise up and sign this petition to protect your right to do what you choose with your own home-grown food! This is a bill that has been pushed through all around the world and we are already seeing small local real food lovin’ folks being targeted in North America and in UK. Join the global fight for food sovereignty. More information here: www.nzfoodsecurity.org.

Sign this petition to show that you oppose Food Bill 160-2

Bolivia Set to Pass ‘Law of Mother Earth’

Bolivia Set to Pass ‘Law of Mother Earth’

I don't really want to keep posting newgrabs and would prefer to just post interesting news to my accounts on facebook and twitter, but some news is just so fantastic that I can't help but get excited and repost it! With Earth Day coming up on Good Friday, Bolivia is showing us all what we should ha ...

Missing and Murdered Women March 2011

Missing and Murdered Women March 2011

The Vancouver march will begin on Monday, February 14 at 1 p.m. at Main and Hastings, and will continue past the police station and end at Oppenheimer Park. Vancouver march for missing and murdered women to mark 20th year By Yolande Cole, February 11, 2011 What began 20 years ago as a smal ...

Milk War Screening, Vancouver BC

Milk War Screening, Vancouver BC

Event to Support Local Community Dairies Milk War Written and directed by award winning journalist Kevin O'Keefe Produced by Declan O'Driscoll Gemini Award-winning actor Colm Feore narrates Please join us on February 6th, 2011 3-5 pm at the Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway @Commercial Drive) ...

GAPS, Kefir, Fungus and Raw Milk

GAPS, Kefir, Fungus and Raw Milk

Please note that this article was written in early 2011. Some of the details have changed. My health is much improved although I still have to be very careful to get massive amounts of probiotics and plenty of sleep. Today, Health Canada is more terrified than ever of BC's raw milk. British Col ...

Constitutional Battle For Fresh Milk Expands To BC

Constitutional Battle For Fresh Milk Expands To BC

Fresh Milk advocate Alice Jongerden filed an application today in the New Westminster courthouse in British Columbia to challenge the constitutionality of the prohibition against the production and distribution of Fresh Milk. Alice Jongerden, the founder and former operator of a 450-member Fresh ...

Quest for Raw Milk

Quest for Raw Milk

The community of real milk. I've been talking a lot about raw milk lately, but haven't really explained much of my own history and why I am so passionate about such a strange thing. While making my weekly journey to pick up my share of raw milk, the bright orange colors of the fall leaves stimula ...

Micro-organisms Against Big Dairy

Micro-organisms Against Big Dairy

Last night I had an amazing dream. It was about the current war between the small scale farming and the huge factory farm industry. In the dream it was clearly a war, with all the blood and gore, intrigue and propaganda we associate with Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. I don't think the dream really ...

BC Crushes Local Food Community

BC Crushes Local Food Community

The past few days have been very disturbing, with a judge who is obviously in the pocket of the Milk Industry, refusing to even enter into a discourse about the situation of our local Community Supported Dairy. At the end of the trial he ordered our local Agister, Alice to stop milking our cows (poo ...

Defend Co-operative Dairying in BC

Defend Co-operative Dairying in BC

Tomorrow, Tuesday September 14th, 2010 there will be a hearing at the Court building in New Westminster against our local cowshare Home on the Range, please join us if you can. The address is 651 Carnarvon Street, between 6th and 8th Street, adjacent to Douglas College. Parking is hard to find in th ...