…from land stewardship and immigration to obesity and school lunches, in this week’s New York Times Magazine Michael Pollan outlines how U.S. Farm Bill subsidies for corn, soy and wheat have far-reaching and disturbing implications.
Reading Pollan’s You Are What You Grow was one more weird wake-up call. In the article Pollan compares a bunch of […]
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2007 U.S. farm bill: the root of many evils?
Published by April 25th, 2007 in Political, Government, Action, Farming, Agriculture and Organic. 0 CommentsThe Center for Food Safety Action Alert: Labeling and Safety Testing of GE Foods
Published by March 27th, 2007 in Regulation, Political, Action, Farming, Agriculture, Food and Organic. 0 CommentsThe Center for Food Safety and the True Food Network action alert is a way to tell Congress to Support Labeling and Safety Testing of GE Foods.
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) recently introduced two bills related to GE crops and foods in the House of Representatives. One bill, HR 5269, The Genetically Engineered Food Right to […]
Going where we can’t see the forest OR the trees…
Published by August 30th, 2006 in Political, Government, Resources, Regulation, Action, Agriculture, Food and Environment. 0 Comments…or the seeds or the plants…because of preemptive legislation stripping local control and regulatory authority over agriculture and the food supply. Some of these laws aren’t limited to plants used in agruculture, but remove local control over all plants, including trees.
These sweeping industry-backed laws are being passed in response to movements by concerned communities and […]
