FAO food price index hits 27-months high
Source: U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization RELATED ARTICLE: Banksters Inflate Speculative Food Bubble, UN Offers Global Governance Solution
Agriculture
Leaked trade agreements and hidden dangers of S 510: Corporations plan to end normal farming
S. 510 M. Gardner Food Freedom Canada’s National Farmers Union wants the Canada-EU trade deal scrapped. US farmers face the same assault by agribusiness and…
Leading environmental campaigners flip-flop to support nuclear power and GM foods
Editor’s Note: This propaganda alert claims the environmental movement has been wrong for decades in opposing GMO foods and nuclear power. It’s a clear indication that…
EU food safety chief forced to quit GM lobby role
Jemima Roberts and Tom Levitt The Ecologist Questions raised over why European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) chair Diana Banati failed to make clear her connections…
U.S. Wheat Crop in Worse Shape Than Year Ago on Dry Weather
Jeff Wilson Bloomberg The U.S. winter-wheat crop is in worse condition than last year at this time as dry weather slows plant development. The country’s…
Why Monsanto is paying farmers to spray its rivals’ herbicides
Image: Big Grey Mare – Grist Tom Philpott Grist Monsanto’s ongoing humiliation proceeds apace. No, I’m not referring to the company’s triumph in our recent…
The Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex: A Deadly Fairy Tale
Dr. Doug Henderson and Dr. Gary Null Global Research It has been a particularly bad month for the pharmaceutical industrial complex in its ongoing litigations…
Agriculture Secretary and Ex Monsanto Lobbyist Defends Dropping Potatoes From Federal Food Program for Low-Income Mothers
Dan Joseph CNS News Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says there is nothing wrong with eating potatoes in moderation, even though the federal Women, Infants and…
Food inspection is often flawed
Lena H. Sun Washington Post The voluntary quality control system widely used in the nation’s $1 trillion domestic food industry is rife with conflicts of…
Food Stamp Usage Soars Among Working Families
Mark Niesse Associated Press HONOLULU — Lillie Gonzales does whatever it takes to provide for three ravenous sons who live under her roof. She grows…
EU to back sale of meat and milk from cloned animal offspring
Sean Poulter Daily Mail The sale of meat and milk from the offspring of cloned farm animals is set to be backed by EU Commissioners…
More Creepy Than GMO, Nanotech Organic?
Bill Lilliston Think Forward The idea that engineered nanomaterials (involving the manipulation of materials at the molecular level) would be allowed in certified organic food…
Oil, gold, corn…oh my! Commodity prices on a tear
Blake Ellis CNN NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Commodity prices are surging across the board as the U.S. dollar remains under pressure from building speculation that…
Why patents on seeds and animals result in monopolistic control over the entire food chain
Jonathan Benson Natural News When mankind is permitted to steal from nature and claim it as their own, only disaster awaits. And that is…