Food and Agriculture

The Edible “U” Campus Gardens

June 26, 2016 Sarah Lappe, www.utahstories.com Create! Education, Food and Agriculture, Sustainability

By Sarah Lappe for Utah Stories. Salt Lake City, UT - Just beyond of the University of Utah’s President’s Circle, tucked between buildings and walkways, you will find one of the Edible Campus Gardens. This beautiful garden has long brown garden beds speckled with a variety of young, green plants. As you walk between the beds, you will find kale, onions, garlic, and tomatoes, and for a moment you forget you are on an urban campus. There are two garden locations on campus. The first and oldest garden is located at the Sill Center for undergraduate research, which was started in 1996 by Professor Fred Montague, who is also known for his handwritten and drawn book entitled, Gardening: An Ecological Approach. The second and larger garden site is located just east of Pioneer Memorial Theatre and was established in 2002.

Consumers Union Opposes Senate GMO Labeling Bill

June 26, 2016 Jean Halloran and Michael Hansen, www.consumersunion.org Educate! Democracy, Food and Agriculture, GMOs, health

By Jean Halloran and Michael Hansen for Consumers Union. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts (R-KS) and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) announced a deal on legislation related to genetically engineered ingredients, or GMOs. The new bill would nullify state laws requiring clear, on-package labeling of food with GMOs and replace them with an ineffective national standard to be set two years from now by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Jean Halloran, director of food policy initiatives for Consumers Union, the policy and advocacy division of Consumer Reports, issued this statement in response: “This deal is unacceptable to the nine out of ten Americans who support mandatory GMO labeling.

Olympics: Torch Reaches Land Of Tribe Facing ‘Genocide’

June 25, 2016 Staff, www.survivalinternational.org Resist! Brazil, Food and Agriculture, Indigenous Rights, Olympics

By Survival International. The Olympic torch is set to arrive on June 25 in a state where the Guarani tribe is widely feared to be facing annihilation due to systematic land theft, malnutrition, suicide and violence. The torch’s arrival in Mato Grosso do Sul in the southwest of Brazil comes as part of a nationwide tour before the start of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in August. It is set to be carried by Rocleiton Ribeiro Flores, an indigenous man from the Terena people, in the city of Dourados which is close to Guarani territory. Last week, one Guarani man was killed and several others – including a twelve year old boy – were seriously injured in an attack by ranchers’ gunmen on Tey’i Jusu community.

EWG Database Reveals 16,000 Foods That May Be Packaged With BPA

June 25, 2016 Monica Amarelo, www.ewg.org Educate! BPA, Food and Agriculture, Toxic Chemicals

By Monica Amarelo for EWG - WASHINGTON––For consumers who want to avoid bisphenol A, EWG today unveiled an easily searchable database of more than 16,000 food and beverage items that may come in cans, bottles or jars containing the hormone-disrupting chemical, better known as BPA. The list was compiled from a little-known food industry inventory and is now available at EWG'sFood Scores database. BPA acts like estrogen in the body and is especially dangerous for pregnant women and children in critical stages of development.

Sold Out. Again.

June 24, 2016 Katherine Paul, www.organicconsumers.org Resist! Food and Agriculture, GMOs, Labeling, Monsanto

By Katherine Paul for Organic Consumers Association - It’s hard to know which is worse. The corporations that profit from poisoning your food and water. Or the politicians who will happily sell you down the river for a few campaign contributions. Today, our “leaders” in the U.S. Senate proudly announced that they’ve “reached a deal” on a federal GMO labeling bill. No matter how they spin it—and they will spin it—this “compromise” is nothing more than a handout to Monsanto, an industry-brokered deal intended to legally sanction the right of corporations to deceive you, the consumer.

Bolivia Flips Bird To World’s Richest Man

June 19, 2016 Staff, www.sputniknews.com Educate! Bolivia, Food and Agriculture, nonprofit industrial complex, Poverty

By Sputnik News. Last week, Bill Gates, listed as the world’s richest person, with a net worth in excess of some $79.4 billion, turned heads when he proposed that those living on less than $2 per day should invest in chickens, fancying that he could heroically survive such an austere life of extreme poverty. In a piece titled, "Why I Would Raise Chickens," the tech magnate, who earns more per year in interest alone than the poorest 45 countries in the world, lectured humanity’s most economically-depressed on surviving hardship. Wealthy American liberals heaped praise on the mega-billionaire for his humanitarian mission, without asking how people living in extreme poverty, in societies with endemic corruption and a constant threat of violence, would feed their flock.

Bayer And Monsanto: A Marriage Made In Hell

May 28, 2016 Martha Rosenberg and Ronnie Cummins, www.organicconsumers.org Educate! Food and Agriculture, GMOs, Monsanto, Pesticides

By Martha Rosenberg and Ronnie Cummins for Organic Consumers Association - The two multinationals that teamed up during the Vietnam War to poison millions of people with its Agent Orange herbicide—St. Louis, Mo.-based Monsanto and Germany’s Bayer AG—are looking to become one. Bayer has announced a bid to buy Monsanto in a deal that would expand Bayer's GMO and pesticide holdings and add drugs to Monsanto’s global portfolio. Monsanto has rejected the latest bid, but the two are still in talks.

Western Donors Shape Pro-Corporate Agenda For Africa

May 27, 2016 Staff, www.oaklandinstitute.org Educate! Africa, Capitalism, Corporations, Food and Agriculture

By Staff of Oakland Institute - The Unholy Alliance, Five Western Donors Shape a Pro-Corporate Agenda for African Agriculture, exposes how a coalition of four donor countries and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is shaping a pro-business environment in the agricultural sector of developing countries, especially in Africa. “‘Enabling Business’ has become a buzzword for development agencies, but it is vital to understand what this entails,” said Anuradha Mittal, Executive Director of the Oakland Institute. “Our research shows that, in order to foster private investments, governments are being forced to open their agricultural sector...

Peeling Back The Curtain On Monsanto

May 24, 2016 Paul Thacker, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Food and Agriculture, GMOs, Labeling, Monsanto

By Paul Thacker for The Huffington Post - For nearly 30 years, Carey Gillam has worked as a business reporter covering corporate America, the last 17 of those with Reuters, where she specialized in writing about food and agriculture. In that role, she gained a reputation for her in-depth skeptical eye on issues involving GMO (genetically modified organisms) crops and the pesticides used with them. Her award-winning coverage has taken her across the country, visiting farmers and ranchers and exploring the high-tech laboratories and corporate offices of some of the largest agribusinesses corporations in the world.

Activists, Farmers, Indigenous People March Against Monsanto

May 22, 2016 Nika Knight, www.commondreams.org Resist! Food and Agriculture, GMOs, health, Monsanto

By Nika Knight for CommonDreams. Anti-corporate activists, organic farmers, Indigenous peoples, environmental groups and others took to the streets across six continents and over 400 cities on Saturday in a global grassroots march against bioengineering giant Monsanto. "The fight against corporate control of our food is global," a food sovereignty campaigner with UK-based nonprofit Global Justice Now rallied the crowd marching in London. The grassroots March Against Monstanto campaign began in 2013 as a coordinated movement to "take back the food supply." This year's march takes place amid allegations of collusion and industry rigging of the regulatory processes surrounding the company's toxic weedkiller Roundup and GMO crops in Europe and the United States.

Children Near Farms Pay Steep Price For Food We Eat

May 15, 2016 Elizabeth Grossman, www.civileats.com Educate! Farmworkers, Food and Agriculture, Pesticides

By Elizabeth Grossman for Civil Eats. The report out today from Pesticide Action Network (PAN) found that children in rural and agriculture communities across the United States are effectively exposed to a “double dose” of pesticides. They’re exposed both directly, through pesticide drift, and indirectly, through the residue that makes it home on their family members’ bodies and clothing. At the same time, PAN researchers say many children in rural communities also experience economic and social pressures that can exacerbate the adverse health effects of these chemicals. What’s worse, there is now increasingly solid evidence linking pesticide exposure to an array of childhood cancers—particularly leukemia and brain tumors—which are on the rise, as well as adverse impacts on children’s neurological development. Yet despite mounting evidence that rural children are in very real danger, they are still not being protected, says PAN.

2-Acre Farm, Packed Into Shipping Container

May 9, 2016 Derek Markham, www.treehugger.com Create! Farming, Food and Agriculture

By Derek Markham for Tree Hugger - This plug-and-play farming system combines water-smart irrigation, renewable energy, and precision farming technology in a single shipping container that is said to be capable of supporting the cultivation of almost two and a half acres, using regenerative agriculture practices. We've covered a few different approaches to the 'farm in a box' concept, but all of them so far have been built around the idea of growing the crops inside a shipping container, using hydroponics or aeroponics and artificial lighting.

Urban Fruit Trails

May 8, 2016 Staff, www.fallenfruit.org Create! Food and Agriculture, Urban Agriculture

By Fallen Fruit. When people think of Los Angeles, it isn’t usually a bountiful landscape teeming with public fruit trees that comes to mind. But the artists of Fallen Fruit – Austin Young and David Burns – are working with local communities to transform the neighborhoods surrounding Downtown Los Angeles into a walk-able network of Urban Fruit Trails. Starting this month Heart of LA (HOLA) will collaborate with Fallen Fruit to create the City’s very first Urban Fruit Trail: over 150-fruit trees planted in the MacArthur Park neighborhood. HOLA students will research where the trees can be planted, plant them, and then map their location. During weekly workshops with Fallen Fruit, HOLA’s young artists will create site-specific artworks based on the places, people, cultures, and trees they discover along the Trail; and their actions and artworks will be documented and geo-tagged in a free downloadable app.

A Look At The Herbicide Glyphosate In US Food Production

May 6, 2016 Carey Gillam, www.usrtk.org Educate! Food and Agriculture, glyphosate

By Carey Gillam for US RTK - As the active ingredient in Monsanto’s branded Roundup weed killer, along with hundreds of other weed-killing products, the chemical called glyphosate spells billions of dollars in sales for Monsanto and other companies each year as farmers around the world use it in their fields and orchards. Ubiquitous in food production, glyphosate is used not just with row crops like corn, soybeans and wheat but also a range of fruits, nuts and veggies. Even spinach growers use glyphosate.

Food Banks Brace For Long Lines As Thousands Lose Benefits

April 24, 2016 Brynne Keith-Jennings, www.cbpp.org Educate! Austerity, Budget Cuts, Food and Agriculture, Jobs

By Brynne Keith-Jennings for Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. United States - Across the country, food banks and other organizations that serve the needy are preparing for long lines as childless adults begin losing SNAP (formerly food stamps) benefits due to the return in over 20 states of a three-month time limit for able-bodied adults. Federal law limits adults aged 18-49 who aren’t raising minor children to three months of SNAP out of every three years unless they’re working at least 20 hours a week or participating in a job training program at least 20 hours a week. More than half a million people will lose SNAP over the course of the year due to the time limit. The time limit is “going to increase hunger among some of the most vulnerable Mississippians,” says Matt Williams of the Mississippi Center for Justice.

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