Shumlin signs GMO bill into law From staff and wire reports 9:20 p.m. EDT May 8, 2014 (Photo11: GLENN RUSSELL/FREE PRESS ) MONTPELIER – Standing on the Statehouse steps before a legion of activists, Gov. Peter Shumlin signed into law a bill Thursday that could make Vermont the first state to require genetically modified foods…
By David Morgan CBS News May 8, 2014, 8:04 AM Documentary: "Fed Up" with rising childhood obesity Eighty percent of processed foods on U.S. store shelves contain added sugar. Radius/TWC 17 Comments 182 Shares Tweets Stumble Email More + The greatest villain to appear on movie screens this summer isn’t a serial killer, terrorist or…
How Barack Obama Sold Out the Kale Crowd By Jason Zengerle @zengerle It was seven years ago this July that Barack Obama brought his presidential campaign to the Van Fossen Farm in Adel, Iowa. There, standing between corn and soybean fields, he held forth on agricultural issues. Obama didn’t have a lot in common with…
FOCUS: Robert Reich | The Four Biggest Right-Wing Lies About Inequality Robert Reich, Robert Reich’s Blog Reich writes: "Even though French economist Thomas Piketty has made an air-tight case that we’re heading toward levels of inequality not seen since the days of the nineteenth-century robber barons, right-wing conservatives haven’t stopped lying about what’s happening and…
www.westernagreporter.com Dear Linda, Thank you for providing so many informative articles on this perplexing Bundy affair. Leesa Zalesky and others reporters have helped shed light. I was particularly taken by John Moore’s thoughtful insights published in last week’s Western Ag Reporter. He brings up the link to our own locally grown rebel group – the…
USDA releases latest ag census data By Michael Fielding on 5/5/2014 In some ways, the highly anticipated release of the final results of the 2012 Census of Agriculture weren’t surprising. The severe drought, record corn, soybean and hay prices, as well as a significant depopulation of the nation’s cattle herd all made 2012 an anomaly…
Farming Free: Vandana Shiva on ‘food fascism’ by geobear7 • 26Apr2014 By Thaddeus Christian Mother Earth News Genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, are constantly in the news these days. Scientists debate the safety of engineered foodstuffs, consumer advocates demand GMO labeling, and farmers and gardeners decry the emergence of corporate seed monopolies that limit what…
Why Big Meat hates ‘Made in the USA’ labels · BY LYDIA DEPILLIS · · May 1 at 5:08 pm Comments What labels look like now. (National Farmers Union) Conventional marketing wisdom is pretty clear on "Made in the USA" labels: If you canactually prove your product is made and assembled domestically, trumpeting the factcan’t…