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Factory Farms: An Environmental Calamity

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 much to Nyeleni and Via Campesina for the work they are doing to defend food sovereignty. I have pulled out a few of the articles and blurbs that were in the newsletter, but there is some other great info there too so I recommend you check it out here and subscribe.

Foodie’s Follow Friday 4 – Food Sovereignty

Foodie’s Follow Friday 4 – Food Sovereignty

I have teamed up with Alex over at www.amoderatelife.com and April of 21st Century Housewife to host the Feed Me! Tweet Me! Follow Me Home Friday Friend Builder Linky. Scroll to the bottom of this page to link up your Real food lovin' blog so we can all get to know each other. Focus on Food Sover ...

Edible Oil Wars: Adulterated Mustard Oil

Edible Oil Wars: Adulterated Mustard Oil

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 ...

Edible Oil Wars: Genetically Modified Oils

Edible Oil Wars: Genetically Modified Oils

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 ...