France calls on Commission to ban Monsanto GM corn
Nathan Grey, Food Navigator.com, 22 Feb 2012. The French Government have called on the European Commission to suspend the authorisation to grow Monsanto’s genetically modified MON810GM corn seeds in the EU. Continue Reading >>
Organic job growth about to explode
Rodale, 15 Feb 2012 More organic products will line supermarket shelves – in the U.S. and abroad – thanks to a trade deal signed into law this week. It's no secret that the U.S. market needs a jolt. And a major announcement Wednesday means that organics could be at the heart of an economic revival that could bring billions of [...]
Vanishing of the bees: Beekeeper leaks EPA
Dr. Mercola, mercola.com, 28 Jan 2012 Bees have been dying off around the world for more than a decade now, a phenomenon that has been named "Colony Collapse Disorder," or CCD. The U.S. and the U.K. both reported losing a third of their honeybees in 2010. Italy lost half. The die-offs have spread to China and India, in addition to many [...]
Why is Africa falling apart?
Evaggelos Vallianatos, Truthout, 9 Nov 2011 In 1769, J. H. Bernardin de Saint Pierre, a French royal officer, said he was not so sure that coffee and sugar were "really essential to the comfort of Europe." But he was certain that these two crops "have brought wretchedness and misery upon America and Africa. The former is depopulated, that Europeans may [...]
Why you need to eat more lard (and 5 other healthy fats)
Emily Main, Rodale, 20 Dec 2011 Olive oil is sooooo five minutes ago. People who are into healthy cooking oils and fats have moved on to duck fat, real lard, goose renderings, and coconut oil, according to a new report […]