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• Why You’d Be Crazy to Consume Aspartame

  
  Natural Bias by Vin Miller — Authority: 119
  Aspartame, more commonly known as NutraSweet or Equal, is an artificial sweetener that’s commonly found in many diet sodas and other low calorie products. Aspartame is a dangerous substance that should have never been approved, and because of the modern obsession with restricting calories, millions of people are ...
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• Can A Company That Makes Roundup Be Sustainable?

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 663
  While waiting for the PBS show, the NewsHour to begin, I saw a Monsanto advertisement which said, “Monsanto…producing more, conversing more…that’s sustainable agriculture.” On Monsanto’s website the company state that its commitment is to “help farmers produce more and conserve more” by 2030. One of ...
  3 days ago

• Former Monsanto Lawyer Hired by FDA as Key Advisor

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 143
  A former lobbyist and Monsanto employee who is credited with playing an instrumental role in introducing genetically modified milk and known carcinogens into the U.S. Food supply has been hired as a key advisor for the FDA.Michael Taylor has been hired to advise Margaret Hamburg, the FDA’s commissioner of food and ...
  3 days ago

• Taliban Throw Blackwater daggers, Indygirl gaggers, and superior Monsanto Swagger

  
  Trials,Tribulations and Maniacal Manipulations — Authority: 119
  Indymedia.us fights off bogus FBI subpeona and gag order  -IndyBay "Another police fishing expedition has been fought successfully over the course of the past year by one of the Indymedia.us server admins and the good folks at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), largely in secret due to dodgy gag orders ...
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• Former Monsanto Lawyer Hired by FDA as Key Advisor

  
  Get Out of Dodge! — Authority: 136
  A former lobbyist and Monsanto employee who is credited with playing an instrumental role in introducing genetically modified milk and known carcinogens into the U.S. Food supply has been hired as a key advisor for the FDA. Michael Taylor has been hired to advise Margaret Hamburg, the FDA’s commissioner of food and ...
  4 days ago

• Eat, Drink, and Be Wary! Meeting Nov. 19

  
  Surviving the Middle Class Crash — Authority: 116
  Who’s growing our food?  What’s in it? Why it isn’t safe!  These are the issues that will be discussed at the following place and time:Venice Center for Peace and Justice (at the Venice United Methodist Church) 2210 Lincoln Blvd, Venice, CA 90291 (1 blk. north of Venice Blvd) Thursday, November 19 7 [...]
  4 days ago

• The Ethics of Selling Crop Seed: Part 2 - GMO Seed

  
  Green Options — Authority: 148
  This is a followup post that will attempt to address some additional, wide-spread myths about the commercial sale of seed.  In this case the topic with be “GMO” seed improved through genetic engineering (an industry that is now 13 years old and which has been planted on well over 2 billion acres cumulatively, ...
  5 days ago

• Stop the Senate Vote to Give Our Food Sovereignty to the WTO Banksters

  
  Newsvine - Pamela Drew's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 126
  Theres never a bad time to know when Congress is putting one over on the public and the win for Monsanto getting WTO corporate buddy rules to trump National Standards is a wet dream come to life. More articulate details follow.
  5 days ago

• FDA Retreats: Oysters Spared

  
  Wannabe TV Chef — Authority: 121
  Originally posted on Third Coast Cuisine on 11-14-9. In a startling admission the FDA acknowledged that it did not thoroughly examine the issue of Vibrio vulnificus contamination from the consumption of raw oysters. In a November 13th press release by Meghan Scott, the FDA announced that it was rescinding ...
  6 days ago

• Monsanto Pulls GM Corn Amid Food Safety Concerns

  
  Surviving the Middle Class Crash — Authority: 116
  "We are quite convinced that Monsanto has been fully aware, from the beginning, that line LY038 and line LY038 x MON810 are both dangerous; and yet they persisted with their applications until the extent of their scientific fraud was exposed to the public."
  6 days ago

• Monsanto and the Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS)

  
  Newsvine - Pamela Drew's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 126
  Nominated for lobbying for RoundupReady (RR) soy to be considered a "climate-friendly" crop that is eligible for carbon credits and subsidies under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM); and for pushing for meaningless responsible label for RoundupReady soy, which could be used …
  6 days ago

• Is Rec & Parks Spraying Herbicides on Twin Peaks this Month? You Bet

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 529
  This is what a Notice of Pesticide* Application  looks like – it’s from our oddly-named  San Francisco Recreation and Park Department . They’re spraying herbicides, like Roundup ProDry from Monsanto and Garlon 4 Ultra  from Dow , on 15 hilly acres up there, right above the Midtown Terrace ...
  1 week ago

• Puerto Rico: Biotech Island

  
  Newsvine - Pamela Drew's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 126
  By CARMELO RUIZ-MARRERO
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• A Strange System: Food: What We Can Do

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 403
  I’m all ranted out for now, so I shall bring this series to a close.  I have hinted at a number of things we, the average consumer, can do to improve the system.  So, to finish off the series, I am posting a list created by a professor of Environmental Studies, Dr. Richard Andrus, which I think is completely ...
  1 week ago

• Can Diet Coke Kill You? Part 2

  
  Green Options — Authority: 148
  Due to the great popularity of “ Can Diet Coke Kill You? ” combined with a lot of controversy over it, I have decided to write this follow-up post. Most of the controversy over the last article was around the fact that the documentary I referenced sited data from the National Cancer Institite (NCI) but that ...
  1 week ago

• Attitudes Toward Genetically Modified Foods are Changing, According to Worlds Largest Purveyor of GMOs

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 719
  Soybeans are one of the worlds most genetically modified crops. Photo credit: Clearly Ambiguous via Flickr Food security is becoming a bigger and bigger part of the global food discussion, and for good reason -- its a big challenge thats only going to continue to grow, and theres even a dedicated conference for it ...
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• Genetic Engineering: Road to Paradise or Paradise Lost?

  
  Cooking Up A Story: A Show about People, Food, and Sustainable Living — Authority: 484
  This video from the political advocacy group Greenpeace, provides an overview of the contentious issues of biotechnology (genetic engineering) as it applies to food production. In some ways, biotechnology is the equivalent of the abortion rights issue of the agriculture world. Both sides of the debate hold ...
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• Plan Colombia – Cashing In on the Drug War Failure (2004)

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 540
  Dandelion SaladFree-Will Productions website56:20Video Documentary Directed by Gerard Ungerman – Narrated By Ed AsnerPlan Colombia: Cashing in on the Drug War Failure documents what many believe to be dangerous hypocrisy on the part of the American government. The film gives particular attention to the reasons ...
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• The fight over the future of food

  
  EndrTimes — Authority: 444
  A worker collects rice at a plantation in Belcreda Gambolo, 30 km (20 miles) southwest of Milan in northern Italy November 6, 2009. REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo Related News TIMELINE: Ground-breaking moments in global agriculture 10 Nov 2009 10 Nov 2009 By Claudia Parsons, Russell Blinch and Svetlana ...
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• Michael Pollan: “What’s in the beef?”

  
  Commodity Corner — Authority: 117
  Photo by Kris Krüg Where does your burger come from? Journalist and food writer Michael Pollan has traced back the source of much of what we eat, and says that the ultimate answer is oil. Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma , argues that it takes massive amounts of petroleum-derived fertilizers and ...
  1 week ago

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