See attached study. Conclusion This paper presents an exhaustive review of the toxic effects of the herbicide, glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup®, in humans, and demonstrates how glyphosate’s adverse effects on the gut microbiota, in conjunction with its established ability to inhibit the activity of cytochrome P450 enzymes, and its likely impairment of sulfate…

USDA starts new program to track farm animals (Quotes R-CALF USA Animal ID Committee Chair Kenny Fox) Published April 17, 2013 Associated Press July, 2012: The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection has launched a new livestock identification program to help agriculture officials to quickly track livestock in cases of disease. (The Associated…

Food hero, Russ Kremer is a NRDC Going Green winner and a pioneer in environmentally sustainable, humanely-raised drug-free pig farming (Natural Resource Defense Council) Russ Kremer, winner of the Natural Resource Defense Council’s (NRDC) Growing Green Food Producer award, knows firsthand the risks of industrial-scale farming. A fifth-generation farmer who raises pigs in Osage, Missouri…

Tollhouse tortillas won’t end hunger Posted April 16, 2013 by Dale Wiehoff Food Justice Used under creative commons license from Michael Kappel. Efforts to solve the problem of hunger and poverty by turning to the same corporations that helped create the problem have gone viral. Michelle Obama and the President of Mexico have hit on…

Report on U.S. Meat Sounds Alarm on Resistant Bacteria By STEPHANIE STROM Published: April 16, 2013 More than half of samples of ground turkey, pork chops and ground beef collected from supermarkets for testing by the federal government contained a bacteria resistant to antibiotics, according to a new report highlighting the findings. The data, collected…

Genetically modified (GM) crops. (illustration: Melvyn Calderon/Greenpeace) How Monsanto Corrupts Regulators and Consolidates Its Power By Aviva Shen, ThinkProgress 12 April 13 iberals and Tea Party members alike are up in arms over the so-called "Monsanto Protection Act," a provision snuck into the emergency budget bill that essentially exempts biotech firms like Monsanto Company from…

Posted: Friday, April 12, 2013 5:16 PM USDA critic regroups in battle over beef checkoff By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI Capital Press A rancher critical of the USDA’s oversight of the national beef checkoff program has dropped his lawsuit against the agency but vows to revive the battle. Michael Callicrate, who has operations in Colorado and Kansas,…

R-CALF USA Urges USDA to Go Even Further to Modify COOL Billings, Mont. – In comments supporting the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) March 12, 2013 proposal to modify its country of origin labeling (COOL) regulations, R-CALF USA urged the agency to adopt additional modifications the group said would achieve cost savings, eliminate redundancies, and…

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Kansas’s Self-Destruct Button: A Bill to Outlaw Sustainability A Vortex 2 rotating supercell severe thunderstorm near Dodge City, Kansas. Photographer: Ryan McGinnis By Tom Randall Apr 9, 2013 6:10 AM MT Kansas, I love your sense of humor. It seems like every time the Sunflower State pops up in my news feed, it’s for something…