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• In the U.S. and most of the rest of the world, Monsanto OWNS soybeans and corn

  
  And, yes, I DO take it personally — Authority: 132
  heckuva strategy ... genetically modify seeds, patent them, build dominant market share to insure that your seeds are the only ones available and then keep raising the prices... pretty soon, the worlds food supply belongs to YOU... its the same strategy employed by the banksters to keep us servile and productive for ...
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• Older Americans crowding soup kitchens

  
  Goodtimepolitics — Authority: 124
  Older Americans who were raised on stories of the Great Depression and acquired lifelong habits of thrift now find themselves crowding soup kitchens and food pantries in greater numbers for the first time after seeing retirement funds, second jobs and nest eggs wiped out by recession. “What we see in line is lots of ...
  23 hours ago

• Food prices remain subdued thanks to Aussie Dollar strength

  
  Australian Food News — Authority: 441
  The National Australia Bank (NAB) Agribusiness Commodities Wrap released today forecasts the Australian dollar to peak above parity with the US dollar, limiting the impact of rising soft commodity prices.Commodity prices have begun to rise again in US dollar terms but gains for Australian farmers are being wiped out ...
  2 days ago

• Choice continues with grocery price comparison push

  
  Australian Food News — Authority: 441
  Consumer group Choice has not let the Federal Government’s decision to scrap the GroceryChoice website stop them from comparing supermarket prices across the country.The national survey of grocery prices in Coles and Woolworths found residents of Geelong, Victoria, and the Central Coast of NSW enjoy the cheapest ...
  3 days ago

• If I had one dollar

  
  Dana McCauley's food blog — Authority: 420
  I just love Twitter. I know it sounds lame and I used to scoff at it, but seriously, it’s turning into such a useful tool. Just the other day, @jambutter tweeted about how many calories a US dollar could buy. I tweeted back and asked for source info and he passed on a note that the stats came from a study in the ...
  3 days ago

• Deeply concerned over rising food prices: Mukherjee

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Thursday said the government was “deeply concerned” about rising food prices and would take fiscal and monetary steps to deal with the issue.“We are deeply concerned when prices go high, when people suffer,” said Mukherjee during a discussion in the ...
  3 days ago

• Karat flays central government on price rise issue

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Bangalore, Nov 26 (ANI): CPI-M General Secretary Prakash Karat has said the Central Government has failed to curb the price hike of essential commodities because of its wrong policies. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a rally organised by CPI (M), CPI and Forward Bloc, here on Wednesday Karat flayed the ruling ...
  3 days ago

• Give Thanks for This Harvest

  
  Corn Commentary — Authority: 130
  On Twitter:   #thankafarmer   Blake Hurst, the plain speaking and thought provoking farmer from Missouri, is back in The American today providing us all with ample reason to say thanks to farmers as we prepare to load on the turkey tomorrow. Hurst pulls back the invisible curtain that separates today’s ...
  4 days ago

• Thanksgiving blessings

  
  O ECOTEXTILES — Authority: 108
  I have been trying to think of a good subject for this week – one that isn’t too dire and downbeat – while we in the United States are in the midst of our national feast called Thanksgiving.   We’re living in a country where I can get a free range turkey with all the bells and whistles – or soybeans from ...
  5 days ago

• Rally for food security in Delhi Thursday

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) Hundreds of people are expected for a rally in Delhi Thursday to demand change of government policies to ensure food security for all.Announcing the initiative at a press conference in the capital Tuesday, Colin Gonsalves of the Right to Food Campaign said: “Much of the present food crisis ...
  5 days ago

• Bourdain a Hypocrite With a Chef’s Knife?

  
  Corn Commentary — Authority: 130
  Oh, Anthony Bourdain. The “Bad Boy” of food, the one who has eaten fresh seal slain by Inuit and laid out on a kitchen floor that looked like a bloody crime scene. (From guest blogger – Natalie)  You’re such a rebel with your cigarettes and booze; you’ve turned the world of celebrity chefs upside down with ...
  6 days ago

• Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism?

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 436
  Image via Wikipedia Dr. Robert Zeigler, an eminent American botanist, flew to Saudi Arabia in March for a series of high-level discussions about the future of the kingdom’s food supply. Saudi leaders were frightened: heavily dependent on imports, they had seen the price of rice and wheat, their dietary ...
  1 week ago

• Spain Donates $112m to Fight Hunger in Horn of Africa

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 452
  Spain’s Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Soraya Rodriguez Ramos, has announced a donation of €75 million (US$112m) to the United Nations World Food Programme in response to the critical hunger situation in the Horn of Africa. The announcement followed the UN’s three-day World Summit on Food ...
  1 week ago

• Rajnath takes on Sonia over stable government in Jharkhand

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Ranchi, Nov 21 (IANS) Campaigning for the imminent assembly polls, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh Saturday took on Congress president Sonia Gandhi over the issue of providing stable government in Jharkhand.“On Friday Sonia Gandhi talked about stable government. Is she joking? It was the ...
  1 week ago

• Food Security summit sees increased commitment to boost food supplies

  
  Australian Food News — Authority: 441
  The three-day World Summit on Food Security ended on Wednesday after the international community committed to invest more in agriculture.Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General Jacques Diouf, who hosted the event, said the Summit marked “an important step towards the achievement of our common ...
  1 week ago

• India’s annual food inflation rises to 14.55 percent

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) India’s annual food inflation, based on wholesale prices, moved up to 14.55 percent for the week ended Nov 7 from 13.68 percent the week before, official data released Thursday showed.The 52-week average prices of onions were higher by 35 percent and potatoes became costlier by 30.7 percent, ...
  1 week ago

• Food commodity prices 16% lower than last year

  
  Australian Food News — Authority: 441
  The latest release the Westpac-NFF Commodity Index has shown that commodity prices remain 16.2 per cent below last year’s data, despite a 2.5 per cent rise in October.Commodity prices that lifted during October, according to the Index, included wool (4.6%), cotton (3.0%), wheat (3.3%), barley (12.5%), dairy (7.6%), ...
  1 week ago

• Choice still pushing for price comparison website

  
  Australian Food News — Authority: 441
  As the Senate prepares to release their report into the GroceryChoice website, consumer group Choice has renewed its call for the major supermarket chains to offer consumers access to their prices online.Upon controversially scrapping the GroceryChoice website, the Federal Government said they would work with ...
  1 week ago

• Food Security

  
  Corn Commentary — Authority: 130
  A new report out this week from USDA shows that over 85 percent of American households have enough – or more than enough – to eat. As a nation, we are food secure. That’s the good news. The bad news is that almost 15 percent are reportedly some level of “food insecure” – which sounds like some type of ...
  1 week ago

• World Summit on Food Security labels food crisis a “wake-up call”

  
  Australian Food News — Authority: 441
  World leaders convened at FAO Headquarters for the World Summit on Food Security overnight and unanimously adopted a declaration pledging renewed commitment to eradicate hunger from the face of the earth sustainably and at the earliest date. The Summit is due to tackle the issue of food security as food price fears ...
  1 week ago

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