now moved to Food Inc
[2010 Aug] As a vet, I weep for these poor cash cows
[2010 Feb Interview] Robert Kenner: Big Food will do everything to stop you talking about this
[Media UK, March 2001] Why fruit and veg were better for us 50 years ago
Interview with GM Watch editor, Jonathan Matthews
[August 2009] Half of all the fruit & veg you buy is contaminated
More Than You Bargained for in Your Chicken The U.S. Department of Agriculture has found that Tyson Foods routinely gave antibiotics to chicken it raised to sell as meat, and labeled it as antibiotic free. Tyson said that the antibiotics were not a type used in humans, and so were not likely to lead to "superbugs" immune to medical treatments. But the USDA found that in addition to the non-human antibiotic, Tyson was also using a drug commonly given to people. The USDA told Tyson that it can no longer consider the company's no-antibiotics label "truthful and accurate." Tyson disagreed but said it would end its misleading labeling ... after a federal court issued an injunction stopping them from making the claim.
[The Future of Food - Fake
Foods] Investigative Reporter, Pam Killeen interviews
Deborah Garcia about her new movie, The Future of Food.
If these genetically engineered seeds blow onto a farmer’s field, Monsanto could
come on their field, test their crops, demand money from them and claim
ownership of the crops. The farmer, who probably doesn't want to have
genetically engineered seeds anywhere near his field, now has this
responsibility. It’s a very strange situation. It seems like Monsanto has all
the power and that they don't have any accountability or responsibility. If
contamination occurs on an innocent neighboring farm, somehow the innocent
farmer has to pay for the contamination. It’s illogical. This is now the way
that the system is working. It’s the opposite from what you would imagine..............
in order to determine whether or not these crops would
be regulated, both the government and the biotech industry decided that these
seeds would be considered “substantially equivalent” to normal seeds. This is
simply not true. The reason why they came up with this
determination was so that GE foods wouldn't have to be regulated, tested nor
labeled.
...One future is industrial
pesticides, chemical laden, tasteless food that is heavily processed, controlled
by huge multinational corporations for their own benefit; the other future is
exemplified by organic farmers who farm and feed people regionally with good
healthy food that people can feel safe eating and eat in a sense of community
and family. If people really understood what was happening to our food supply,
they would choose good, safe, healthy food grown by a local farmer. If we choose
to eat this way, we will also benefit by supporting local economies.
[Gupta Oct 2006] The
Machinations Of The New World Order - The Farmer
Roughly 100,000 farmers committed suicide over six years to 2003 in India
Farming and government covert agenda quotes