MRSA Strain That Eludes Traditional Tests Found in Cow’s Milk, Study Finds
MRSA germ – Wikimedia image Kristen Hallam Bloomberg British scientists have discovered a new strain of the drug-resistant germ known as MRSA in cow’s milk…
Agriculture
How Seed Banks, Vaults and Exchanges Are Saving Our Food From Disaster
Seeds provide the kind of security to agriculture-oriented people that gold provides to the money-minded. Seed Bank w/ instructions on how to save seeds Ari…
‘Ag-gag’ bills face tough row to hoe
Wiki Image Tom Laskawy Grist Big Ag is having trouble installing its Iron Curtain. I am referring, of course, to the various “ag-gag” laws proposed…
FDA Accused of Endangering U.S. Health by Caving to Cattle Farms on Antibiotics
Wiki Image By Adam Klasfeld Courthouse News Service MANHATTAN (CN) – A supine Food and Drug Administration is allowing the use of low doses of antibiotics…
Family Farmers Worse Off Despite High Prices (Video)
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Family Facing $4 Million in Fines for Selling Bunnies
“There, the inspector began running the width of her finger across the cage and told the Dollarhites they would need to replace the cage, because…
Groups sue US over antibiotics in farm feed
Hogs are raised on a farm in Iowa © AFP/Getty Images/File Scott Olson AFP NEW YORK (AFP) – A coalition of consumer groups filed a…
Factory Farms Produce 100 Times More Waste Than All People In the US Combined
“Factory farms are dangerous to the environment; they are ticking time bombs of manure just waiting to be spilled into public waters.” Jill Richardson AlterNet…
Why chickens should be mandatory in the suburbs
Chickens recycle waste and supply food. Wiki Image Permaculture Planet Chickens play an important role in recycling food, fertilising the garden and cutting down on food waste….
Hedge Farm! The Doomsday Food Price Scenario Turning Hedgies into Survivalists
Wikimedia Commons image Foster Kamer New York Observer On the rare occasion that New Yorkers talk about farming, it’s usually something along the lines of…
Toxic pesticides from GM food crops found in unborn babies
Andy Bloxham The Telegraph Scientists at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, at the University of Sherbrooke Hospital Centre in Quebec, took dozens of samples…
More problems with glyphosate: Rice growers sound alarm
Rady Ananda, Contributing Writer Activist Post Adding to the natural rice industry’s woes after Bayer CropScience contaminated a third of the US rice supply with…
Free our food
Wiki Image By Deirdre Fulton The Portland Phoenix “From farm to table” isn’t just a meaningless foodie slogan anymore. It’s the rallying cry for the…
FEMA to confiscate food from local farms in emergencies?
Dees Illustration J. D. Heyes Natural News Since our nation’s founding the federal government has, in times of emergency, claimed extra-constitutional powers and authority. Under…