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Sayer Ji, Founder, Greenmedinfo.com - May 12, 2013.
New Study Links GMO Food To Leukemia
A new study published in the Journal of Hematology & Thromboembolic Diseases indicates that the biopesticides engineered into GM crops known as Bacillus Thuringensis (Bt) or Cry-toxins, may also contribute to blood abnormalities from anemia to hematological malignancies (blood cancers) such as leukemia.
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Sustainable Pulse - May 8, 2013.
European Supermarkets Shock Monsanto with Non-GMO Soy Declaration
Supermarkets from across Europe have signed the Brussels Soy Declaration to state that they want EU consumers and farmers to have a choice to eat and use non-gmo soy,
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Thierry Vrain, Food Democracy Now - May 6, 2013.
Former Pro-GMO Scientist Speaks Out On The Real Dangers of Genetically Engineered Food
'I refute the claims of the biotechnology companies that their engineered crops yield more, that they require less pesticide applications, that they have no impact on the environment and of course that they are safe to eat.'
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Science Daily - April 29, 2013.
Fertilizers Provide Mixed Benefits to Soil in 50-Year Study
While 50 years of inorganic fertilization did increase soil organic carbon stocks in a long-term experiment in western Kansas, the practice seemingly failed to enhance soil aggregate stability - a key indicator of soil structural quality that helps dictate how water moves through soil and soil's resistance to erosion.
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Tafline Laylin, Green Prophet - April 29, 2013.
Turkey Bans 26 Genetically Modified Organisms
The Biosecurity Board unanimously passed the ban, though some genetically modified corn and soy will be permitted for animal feed.
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Science Daily - April 23, 2013.
Strengthening Legumes to Tackle Fertilizer Pollution
An international team of scientists aims to lessen the reliance on these fertilizers by helping beans and similar plants boost their nitrogen production, even in areas with traditionally poor soil quality.
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in the House of Commons on April 19, 2013.
Statement by Alex Atamanenko MP (BC Southern Interior)
In support of Canada-wide National Day of Action to stop the release of genetically-modified alfalfa.
Heather Lee, The Bulletin (Toronto) - April 9, 2013.
Anti-GMO alfalfa demo at St. Lawrence Market
Hundreds of Torontonians joined local farmers April 9 to demand the federal Minister of Agriculture step in to stop the release genetically modified alfalfa, that farmers say threatens their livelihoods and their ability to produce the local food consumers want.
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SustainableBusiness.com - April 8, 2013.
Certified Organic Foods Have Suspect Ingredient, Carrageenan
The Cornucopia Institute has been working to eliminate carrageenan from allowable organic ingredients and has now formally requested the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) remove it from the US food supply.
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Costa Rica News - April 8, 2013.
Costa Rica Canada Sign Agreement Promoting Organic Products
Both countries recognized the regulations governing the accreditation and certification of organic agricultural products in both countries.
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Stop the Crop - April 4, 2013.
Italian Health minister demands ban of GM maize
Today the Italian Health minister required that the authorization of the cultivation of GM maize (technical name Mon810) should be immediately suspended in Italy and all other European countries.
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Judson Parker, Examiner.com - April 1, 2013.
Genetically modified wheat may 'silence' human genome
Experts in the biotechnology field say that genetically modified wheat currently in development could potentially silence human genes if ingested, resulting in premature death and risk of passing the defect on to future generations.
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Science Daily - March 26, 2013.
Fruit Flies Fed Organic Diets Are Healthier Than Flies Fed Nonorganic Diets, Study Finds
A new study looking at the potential health benefits of organic versus non-organic food found that fruit flies fed an organic diet recorded better health outcomes than flies fed a nonorganic diet.
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Roger Ziegler, Examiner.com- March 22, 2013. Press Release
Changes to GM Food Safety Regulation Debated
Today, a representative of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, Coordinator Lucy Sharratt, told the House of Commons Agriculture and Agri-food Committee that government proposals to establish a Low Level Presence policy would sacrifice health and safety because they would allow imports contaminated with genetically modified foods that have not been approved by Health Canada.
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CBAN - March 7, 2013. Press Release
Changes to GM Food Safety Regulation Debated
Today, a representative of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, Coordinator Lucy Sharratt, told the House of Commons Agriculture and Agri-food Committee that government proposals to establish a Low Level Presence policy would sacrifice health and safety because they would allow imports contaminated with genetically modified foods that have not been approved by Health Canada.
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GMWatch - March 7, 2013.
Growers face huge losses in Brazil as Bt cotton eaten by caterpillars
One of the proposals submitted to the government is the establishment of a fallow period between August and October for crops that Helicoverpa makes its home in, such as beans, wheat, barley, Brachiaria, millet, sorghum, watermelon, orange, pumpkin, and green manures.
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Christoph Pauly and Christoph Schult, Der Spiegel - February 26, 2013.
Trans-Atlantic Rifts: European Activists Could Thwart US-EU Trade Deal
Consumer watchdogs, Internet activists and European farmers are gearing up to fight the planned trade agreement between Europe and the United States.
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Science Daily - February 20, 2013.
Organic Tomatoes Accumulate More Vitamin C, Sugars Than Conventionally Grown Fruit
Increased stress may be the reason organic tomatoes had higher levels sugars, vitamin C and pigment molecules like lycopene, an anti-oxidant compound - all of which are associated with the biological response to stress.
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Robert Arnason, The Western Producer - February 14, 2013.
Manitoba government organizing organic clubs
Manitoba’s organic community is small and many producers already know each other, but the clubs would be a forum to share knowledge and advance organic agriculture, said Laura Telford, Manitoba Agriculture’s business development specialist for organics.
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True Activist - February 10, 2013.
Hungary Destroys All Monsanto GMO Corn Fields
Unlike many European Union countries, Hungary is a nation where genetically modified seeds are banned.
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Maryn McKenna, Wired - February 9, 2013.
Antibiotics and Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in Meat: Not Getting Better
It’s worth noting that this continued antibiotic use, and continued and rising appearance of resistant bacteria on meat, is happening as the FDA has abandoned attempting to regulate livestock producers’ use of antibiotics, and has switched to a voluntary approach.
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Robyn Vinter, Farmers Weekly - February 6, 2013.
US farmers may stop planting GMs after poor global yields
Farmers are paying extra for the technology but have seen yields which are no better than 10 years ago
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Susie Cagle, Gristmill - February 4, 2013.
Walmart’s big push into groceries is not good for small farmers
To assert its dominance in the grocery sector, Walmart 'leverages its scale' so its suppliers can pay lower prices to farmers, as investing site Trefis reports — which is bad news for small farmers across the country.
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Barry Wilson, The Western Producer - January 31, 2013.
Ag committee to focus on biotech as Parliament resumes
Atamanenko said he will use the committee hearings to press the point that there are dangers in releasing GM varieties that could face market resistance and contamination of non-GM fields.
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Matt McGrath, BBC News - January 31, 2013.
EU says pesticides linked to bee decline should be restricted
Sprays that use neonicotinoid chemicals should only be used on crops that are not attractive to the insects they said.
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Expatica.com - January 29, 2013.
BASF halts EU approval process for GM potatoes
BASF, the world's biggest chemicals company, said Tuesday it has decided to no longer seek European approval of its genetically modified potato products in the face of stiff resistance.
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Grainews - January 24, 2013.
Glyphosate/dicamba-tolerant soybean cleared in Canada
Monsanto plans a 2014 rollout; U.S. approval still needed
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Carolanne Wright, NaturalNews - January 22, 2013.
New farm bill gives Monsanto carte blanche
Massive public outcry necessary to stop the legislation from passing into law
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Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson, Independent Science News - January 21, 2013.
Regulators Discover a Hidden Viral Gene in Commercial GMO Crops
Campaigners say the conclusion by the European Food Safety Authority is a 'death knell' for neonicotinoid pesticides
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Sean Pratt - The Western Producer - January 18, 2013.
No GM mustard: EU buyer
Kemperdick said Canada is the only reliable source of quality mustard for European condiment makers.
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Carey Gillam - Canadian Cattlemen / Reuters - January 18, 2013.
Dow delays Enlist corn release amid protests
Canada approved company's new GM corn, soybeans in October
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Richard Rolke - Vernon Morning Star - January 17, 2013.
North Okanagan pushed to ban genetically modified crops
The Regional District of North Okanagan is under pressure to take a stand on genetically modified crops.
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Susie Cagle, Gristmill - January 16, 2013.
European agency declares popular pesticide too dangerous for bees
For the first time, Europe’s food safety agency this week officially labeled the world’s most popular insecticide, imidacloprid, as so dangerous as to be unacceptable for use on crops pollinated by bees, though the body lacks the power to ban the chemical.
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Damian Carrington, The Guardian - January 16, 2013.
Insecticide 'unacceptable' danger to bees, report finds
Campaigners say the conclusion by the European Food Safety Authority is a 'death knell' for neonicotinoid pesticides
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Lisa Garber, GM Watch - January 12, 2013.
GMO Soy Repeatedly Linked to Sterility, Infant Mortality, Birth Defects
GMO studies with troubling results are cropping up worldwide.
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GM Watch - January 11, 2013.
Flax growers try to flush Triffid from system
The Canadian flax industry hopes to rid the country’s commercial flax supply of the last troublesome traces of CDC Triffid, a genetically modified variety that disrupted flax exports to Europe in 2009.
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GM Watch - January 11, 2013.
Toxicity confirmed for GMO and Roundup - Seralini press conference
CRIIGEN welcomes the confirmation of the research of Prof. Seralini's group on the long-term toxicity of Roundup, the most widely used herbicide in the world, and of a genetically modified (GM) maize which absorbs it without being killed.
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Claire Thompson, Grist - January 10, 2013.
Thought for food: New think tank looks for global solutions to our broken food system
Food Tank’s website launches today, and in addition to an idea-sharing tool, Nierenberg says she and Gustafson hope to make it a clearinghouse for the most important food and agriculture reports of recent years.
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Courtney Perkes, Orange County Register - January 9, 2013.
Non-GMO labels reach more store shelves
Despite the defeat, the measure has generated sharp interest in a voluntary labeling program that verifies products as free of GMOs.
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Ken Roseboro, The Organic & Non-GMO Report - January 4, 2013.
Demand growing for non-GMO corn seed
Interest and demand for non-GMO corn seed among US farmers is growing, according to seed suppliers who say that higher yields and returns, less cost, dissatisfaction with genetically modified traits, and better animal health are driving the demand.
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Twilight Greenaway, Grist - January 3, 2013.
Congress extends farm bill, still manages to screw sustainable farmers
The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC), meanwhile, has referred to it as 'blatantly anti-reform,' while the Union of Concerned Scientists calls it 'a giant step backward' and 'a blow to farmers who want to grow healthy foods and the consumers who want to buy them.'
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Organic Consumers Association - December 5, 2012.
Dr. Oz Flip Flops as High-Profile Attacks on Organic Food Intensify
In the December issue of Time magazine, Dr. Oz described organic foodies as "elitist" - part of the 1% - and claimed that conventional foods are nutritionally equivalent to organic foods.
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ARCHIVED NEWS STORIES (More than four months old)
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| Tim A. Wise: Family farmers caught in the middle between corporate monopolies
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Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family's farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers that nature holds the key. With her father close to retirement, Rebecca returns to her family's wildlife-friendly farm in Devon, to become the next generation to farm the land. But last year's high fuel prices were a wake-up call for Rebecca. Realising that all food production in the UK is completely dependent on abundant cheap fossil fuel, particularly oil, she sets out to discover just how secure this oil supply is. Alarmed by the answers, she explores ways of farming without using fossil fuel. With the help of pioneering farmers and growers, Rebecca learns that it is actually nature that holds the key to farming in a low-energy future. |
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FOOD, INC. In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that's been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of e coli - the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults. Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farm's Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms' Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising - and often shocking - truths about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here. |
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Soil: The Secret Solution to Global Warming. Research by the Rodale Institute reveals that sustainably-farmed soil holds up to 30% more carbon than conventional agriculture. Converting all of Canada's farmland to organic would reduce CO2 emissions by 20%. The extra carbon in the soil also increases food nutrients, which could greatly reduce health care costs. |
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Vandana Shiva: The Future of Food. This 3-part series of interviews with Dr. Vandana Shiva about the future of food is one of the most contentious, revolutionary, profound, and important discussions of any, we have had to date on Food News. This is more than about the safety of biotechnology; it's about the ability of all of us to have a choice of the foods that we eat, and for our farmers to be able to freely use their own seeds, and grow food in the manner that they choose. In Part 2, Dr. Vandana Shiva expresses her strong views about the problems of hunger in the developing world; the struggle of farmers in India; biotechnology, and her prescription for the type of farming model she believes the world needs. In Part 3, Dr. Vandana Shiva takes us back to the role of organic farming, and to the organic farmer who she believes embodies the best scientists of our time. For Dr. Shiva, as a scientist herself, and a longtime environmental activist, it's understanding nature and working within its laws that produces peace, prosperity, and a sustainable future.
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| New Film Takes on Organic Food Critics and Kicks Ass Surely you've heard the arguments: "organic isn't any healthier," "organic food is too expensive," "organic doesn't mean anything," or maybe you've seen Penn and Teller's take-down of the "Organic tastes better argument." During the last 12 months, a slew of anti-organic messages have been promulgated in the media. Good thing filmmaker Shelley Rogers has spent the past five years of her life putting together a movie that not only refutes most of these bogus talking points, but gives us an up-close look at what organic agriculture really is (as well as addressing some of the criticisms brought against it). Rogers' conclusion, after years of work and research, is that organic isn't just a question of personal health, and that standards really do make a difference. But rather than telling us this, she lets the experts - farmers, scientists, activists, doctors, and ecopreneurs - explain from their knowledgeable and frontline perspectives. |
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How a group of First Nations People in Saskatchewan Canada are reclaiming their indigenous agricultural heritage, reconnecting with Nature, learning and observing her natural laws, and getting back on the road to self-reliance.
Organic Agriculture and Climate Change: Dr. Adrian Mueller, a senior researcher at both the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture in Frick, Switzerland and at the Chair for Environmental Policy and Economics PEPE at ETH Zurich, discusses the opportunities and challenges of organic agriculture. He examines the contributions of both modern and organic farming techniques to climate change on a global scale, as well as the impact of organic farming on the small farmers and regional communities. - AUDIO Solutions for Urban Living #2: Turn warehouse roofs into city farms and grow local, sustainably produced food. Annie Novak and Ben Flanner have been farming the rooftop of a Brooklyn warehouse since May 2009 and the 6,000 square-foot farm has over 30 different varieties of vegetables. Nearby restaurants have caught on to the idea and the urban farmers have been making deliveries on their bikes - now that's local. - VIDEO What You Sow. New Yorker, Interview with John Seabrook about the world's first global seed bank, in Svalbard, Norway. Seabrook talked with Blake Eskin about the history of seed saving and the importance of biological diversity. The Meatrix II: Revolting. A follow-up to the original animated expose of factory-farming. - VIDEO Farming Today This Week Magazine from the BBC - AUDIO Rural News Australian Broadcasting Corporation - AUDIO Grocery Store Wars U.S Organic Trade Association Flash movie adapts Star Wars characters and plot to promote the organic cause. - VIDEO What's Happening to the Family Farm? Bill Mollison, Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Bill Mollison has been called the genius of permaculture, a guru, a living legend, a crank, and even a bombastic old bastard. But whatever you think of him, you'd have to be impressed that Bill's ideas have influenced the lives of millions of people all over the world. - AUDIO
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Achieving a Sustainable Food System with Organic Farming
Despite a slight decline between 2009 and 2010, since 1999 the global land area farmed organically has expanded more than threefold to 37 million hectares, according to new research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute for its Vital Signs Online service.
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Growing Crops With No Water, The Old-Fashioned Way
Before we thought the water supply would last forever (or at least several political cycles), we had dry farming. As the worst drought in decades grips the U.S., dry farming is getting a second look.
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Diary of an Organic Strawberry
Largely missing from that debate are the voices of the farm workers who spend their days harvesting these crops. For Jesús E. Valenzuela Félix, there's no one better to tell that story than... an organic strawberry.
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A conversation with environmental campaigner Wendell Berry
Berry is still a committed activist, arguing these days for a 50-Year Farm Bill to address such deeply unfashionable issues as soil degradation and sustainable agriculture.
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Celebrate the Farmer!
We need real farmers who grow real food, and the will to reform a broken food system. And for that, we need not only to celebrate farmers, but also to advocate for them.
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Where have Canada’s young farmers gone?
Let’s be clear that we’re not only talking about fewer farmers as farms increase in size. The point to emphasize is that as the overall population of farmers declines, young farmers are disappearing even faster.
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The Organic Watergate White Paper
For a comprehensive look at the organic sausage making in Washington, The Cornucopia Institute has lifted the veil on how the USDA has implemented the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990, the law passed by Congress to protect the integrity of organic food and farming.
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A technological leap forward to old-time farming
A team of four scientists in the United Kingdom spent a year collecting dirt from all over an organic farm near Bristol, which grew mostly clover, oats, wheat, and barley. Their goal? To determine just how much food a farm that grows crops to feed humans also provides for wildlife.
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The Storm Surge of Decentralization
Local organic food initiatives are often more contentious. Industrial agriculture and food processing corporations are very powerful, to the point of having subverted regulatory mechanisms ostensibly geared towards the public good, but which now serve to safeguard corporate profits and market share.
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The great milk robbery: How corporations are stealing livelihoods and a vital source of nutrition from the poor
Milk is taking on ever-greater importance in the livelihoods and health of the world's poor. Most of the dairy markets that serve the poor are supplied by small-scale vendors who collect milk from farmers who own just a few dairy animals. But such systems of "people's milk" are in direct competition with the ambitions of big dairy companies, such as Nestlé, and a growing number of other wealthy players that want to take over the entire dairy chain in the South, from the farms to the markets.
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Organic rice cultivation transforming lives of Damoh farmers
The farmers in these villages shunned the High Yielding Varieties and the 'progressive', high-input, fertilizer-pesticide dominated farming practices often advocated by the government and took to completely traditional methods along with a set of cultivation practices collectively called System of Rice Intensification (SRI), initially developed in the early 1980s by a French priest in Madagascar.
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Frances Moore Lappe’s Grand Vision: Treat Markets as Ecosystems
As Occupy protests across the United States challenge gross economic disparities, Lappé’s EcoMind calls for a drastic rethinking of how markets should work, in a grand vision that weaves together environmental and social justice.
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It Takes a Village to Raise a Vegetable
Tainting of organic crops cannot be undone and at the risk of ending up like we did with corn where you can rarely find purely organic corn in the U.S. because of GMOs, it's a slippery and scary slope to start down.
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Pasture-raised or organic: Why we can’t do both
Although it's far from the current reality, one of the most transformative innovations - and I believe the most ideal method for grain acquisition - would be an independent system owned and controlled by local farmers.
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Organic Growers Focus On Planning
Today they have one of B.C.’s model agriculture operations: Klipper’s Organic Acres based at Cawston, B.C. in the ag-rich Okanagan-Similkameen region, south of Penticton. They’d made a local name for their 40-acre market garden and orchard operation for the past 10 years, expanding from five acres in 2001 when the farm was launched. But this year their reputation erupted when they won the B.C. &Yukon Outstanding Young Farmers of 2011 title, an award they were finalists for in 2005, ’06 an ’07.
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30 Years of the Farming Systems Trial | Rodale Institute
Organic farming is far superior to conventional systems when it comes to building, maintaining and replenishing the health of the soil. For soil health alone, organic agriculture is more sustainable than conventional. When one also considers yields, economic viability, energy usage, and human health, it’s clear that organic farming is sustainable, while current conventional practices are not.
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Tweeting farmers bridge gap between farm, table
Like more and more farmers across Canada, Black has found that Twitter has become, among other things, a way to bridge the gap between farm and table, and connect Canadians wanting to know more about where their food comes from with the people who make their living producing it.
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Pesticides are good for you
The lowest point in the session came when Carl Winter launched into a lengthy attack on the Environmental Working group's Dirty Dozen, an annual list of the 12 fruits and vegetables most contaminated with pesticides.
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Heritage livestock: Milk ‘em for all they’re worth
As heirloom produce gains a growing cult following among eaters, the more under-the-radar interest in heritage livestock breeds may see a resurgence, too.
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U.S. touts fruit and vegetables while subsidizing animals that become meat
U.S. farm policy grew out of the economic hardships suffered by Midwestern farmers in the 1930s due to unpredictable swings in agricultural markets and the desire to protect the national food supply. Many critics feel the policy is no longer relevant and should be redesigned to promote healthful eating.
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Kickstarting on-demand heirloom produce
This two-pronged project will include both an open-access photo bank of heirloom produce, dubbed Food Foto Bank, and Pollin8r, an inventive new web-based project building on the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model, that promises to connect heirloom-produce loving eaters to farmers willing to grow heritage produce - all with just the click of a mouse.
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Without GMO labels, we all eat in the dark
You'd think that if 93 percent of Americans could agree on something, their government might just pay attention. In the case of labels for GMO foods, you'd be wrong: Polls show overwhelming consumer support [PDF] for labels. But for some not particularly convincing reasons, neither Congress, the FDA, nor the USDA have been willing to respond.
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On the evils of wheat
William Davis, a preventive cardiologist who practises in Milwaukee, Wis., argues in his new book Wheat Belly that wheat is bad for your health - so bad that it should carry a surgeon general’s warning.
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Pesticides in food linked to ADHD in kids
Levels of pesticides commonly encountered across the country in food as well as around the home are significantly increasing children's risk of developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and could be causing an increase in the number of children living with the condition, according to new research published in the journal Pediatrics.
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