Is the world running out of food, alongside oil, metals, water and much else?
The Fed is fuelling the catastrophe of fast rising raw material prices Jeremy Warner Telegraph The answer to this question, according to a recent OECD…
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Monsanto’s Super Weeds Come Home to Roost
Charles Marqulis Generation Green There’s been much recent news about Monsanto paying farmers to use its competitors’ herbicides, in what many see as a last…
Baby Boomers: Get Out of the Stock Market Now, the Rug is Being Pulled Out By Insiders
CNBC reports insider selling-to-buying ratio for top firms is a staggering 3177 to 1 Eric Blair Activist Post If you’re a baby boomer who still believes…
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…
Baltimore Hands Out First Trans Fat Citation
Trans Fats Banned From Facilities In 2009 NBC – Baltimore BALTIMORE — The Baltimore City Health Department issued its first environmental citation for repeat violations…
Chart of the Week: Inflation in the Real World
Jake Weber, Editor The Casey Report As is often the case, there is a big difference between what the government statistics are reporting and what’s…
What They Don’t Tell You About Storable Foods
Holly Deyo Millennium Ark Today’s headlines scream from every sector “get your food NOW!” We are barraged by news of an economic meltdown, natural and…
Food Prices Expected to Rise Sharply
Brian A. Shactman CNBC Everyone is waiting for inflation. Corn is up 45 percent the last three months. We haven’t seen cotton prices this high…
Gene Giants Stockpile Patents on “Climate-Ready” Crops in Bid to Become Biomassters
Surge in Corporate Patents on “Climate-Ready” Crops Threatens Biodiversity and Signals Grab on Land and Biomass Arctic Doomsday Seed Vault ETC Group Nagoya, Japan —…
Global food crisis forecast as prices reach record highs
Cost of meat, sugar, rice, wheat and maize soars as World Bank predicts five years of price volatility John Vidal Guardian Rising food prices and…
Corn Syrup Lobby Courts Mommybloggers, Gets Spanked
Jaelithe Judy Care2 High fructose corn syrup, an inexpensive sweetener made from highly processed corn that has become an almost ubiquitous ingredient in packaged processed…
Massive stretches of weathered oil spotted in the Gulf of Mexico
Image: Mathew Hinton – Times-Picayune Bob Marshall The Times-Picayune Just three days after the U.S. Coast Guard admiral in charge of the BP oil spill…
Regulators prey on food processing plant in effort to pass federal food legislation
Ethan A. Huff Natural News The Texas Department of State Health Services recently ordered Sangar Produce, a San Antonio-based produce processor, to cease operations and…