Food and Agriculture

Cuba’s Sustainable Agriculture At Risk In U.S. Thaw

April 13, 2016 Miguel Altieri, www.theconversation.com Resist! Cuba, Food and Agriculture

By Miguel Altieri for The Conversation - President Obama’s trip to Cuba this week accelerated the warming of U.S.-Cuban relations. Many people in both countries believe that normalizing relations will spur investment that can help Cuba develop its economy and improve life for its citizens. But in agriculture, U.S. investment could cause harm instead. For the past 35 years I have studied agroecology in most countries in Central and South America.

Monsanto Profits Drop 25% As Farmers, Individuals Go Organic

April 12, 2016 Mike Barrett, www.globalresearch.ca Resist! Food and Agriculture, GMOs, Monsanto, Organic

By Mike Barrett for Global Research News - For Monsanto’s 2nd quarter, total sales for Monsanto dropped 13%; with one of Monsanto’s top-sellers, corn seeds, falling 11%. The biotech giant cites an “unfavorable agricultural market” for its losses. While the company is admittedly still seeing profits in the billions, the continuous decline paints a bleak picture for the agricultural giant. It means that the massive grassroots movement against Big Biotech giants such as Monsanto is working, and that our collective voice is being more than heard.

Monsanto’s Evil Twin: Disturbing Facts About Fertilizer Industry

April 12, 2016 Martha Rosenberg and Ronnie Cummins, www.organicconsumers.org Educate! Food and Agriculture, Monsanto

By Martha Rosenberg and Ronnie Cummins for Organic Consumers Association - What do you know about the worldwide chemical fertilizer industry? If you’re like most people, not much. There’s plenty of press coverage and consumer awareness when it comes to genetically engineered food and crops, and the environmental hazards of pesticides and animal drugs. But the fertilizer industry? Not so much—even though it’s the largest segment of corporate agribusiness ($175 billion in annual sales), and a major destructive force in polluting the environment, disrupting the climate, and damaging public health.

National Consensus For Transformational Change: Action Needed

April 10, 2016 Robert Weissman, www.huffingtonpost.com Strategize! Banking and Finance, Citizens United, Corporate tax, Democracy, Food and Agriculture, GMOs, Healthcare, Inequality, Social Security, Taxes, Wages

By Robert Weissman for Huffington Post. Americans overwhelmingly agree on a wide range of issues. They want policies to make the economy more fair and hold corporate executives accountable. They want stronger environmental and consumer protections. And they want to fix our political system so that it serves the interest of all, not just Big Money donors. These aren’t close issues for Americans; actually, what’s surprising is the degree of national consensus. The problem isn’t that Americans don’t agree. The problem is that the corporate class doesn’t agree with this agenda, and that class dominates our politics. Because this reality runs so counter to the dominant media story, it’s worth diving into the numbers to get a sense of the vast divide between conventional wisdom and empirical data.

Local Foods, Local Places Program Helping Revive Rainelle

April 5, 2016 Alison Wickline, www.wvva.com Create! Food and Agriculture, health, Local

By Alison Wickline for Multimedia Journalist - Rainelle's "Local Foods, Local Places" newly-assembled steering committee is hoping to get the ball rolling for a healthier community. "This gives them an ability to be able to do a '360' with food here," says Peggy Crowder, with the Greenbrier Valley Economic Development Corporation. Some Rainelle leaders are looking to revive the economy and help residents live a healthier lifestyle. In January, Rainelle was granted assistance from the Local Foods, Local Places program.

Lawsuit Charges FDA Ignored Safety Warnings About GMO Salmon

April 5, 2016 David Kirby, www.readersupportednews.org Resist! FDA, Food and Agriculture, GMOs

By David Kirby for RSN - Several environmental, consumer, and fishing groups filed suit on Thursday against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over its approval of a lab-developed fish that combines genes from three fish species: Atlantic salmon, Chinook salmon, and Arctic eelpout. The lawsuit contends that the FDA ignored advice from federal fisheries and wildlife scientists to delay or deny the application and made the approval “without disclosing or analyzing the significant environmental effects from this foreseeable expansion.”

Berry Farmworkers Toil 12 Hours A Day For $6. Now Demanding Raise

April 5, 2016 Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, www.thinkprogress.org Resist! Farmworkers, Food and Agriculture, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee for Think Progress - Some of the farmworkers who make it possible for U.S. consumers to have berries for breakfast are paid about $6 a day. Those farmworkers include children toiling for 12 hours a day at 85 percent the amount of money that adults get paid. Many farmworkers do not get lunch and rest breaks and are subjected to terrible housing conditions. Hoping to rectify these issues, farmworkers in the United States and in Mexico have been on a three-year-long fight to get Driscolls — the world’s largest berry distributor — to recognize their unions...

Lawsuit Challenges FDA’s Approval Of Genetically Engineered Salmon

April 2, 2016 Staff, www.corporatecrimereporter.com Resist! FDA, Food and Agriculture, Genetically Engineered, GMOs

By Staff of Corporate Crime Reporter - A coalition of environmental, consumer, and commercial and recreational fishing organizations has sued the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approving the first-ever genetically engineered (GE) food animal, an Atlantic salmon engineered to grow quickly. The man-made salmon was created by AquaBounty Technologies, Inc. with DNA from three fish: Atlantic salmon, Pacific king salmon, and Arctic ocean eelpout.

Cesar Chavez Day: His Legacy Lights A New Leader’s Path

March 31, 2016 Emma Torres, www.equalvoiceforfamilies.org Educate! Cesar Chavez, Farm Workers, Food and Agriculture, Strike

By Emma Torres for Equal Voice. I was only 15 years old when my family became involved in the huelga (strike) in California. My parents, aunts and uncles provided meals to hundreds of Chavistas who stopped at our town of Soledad, Calif. during their marches. My siblings and I had no idea how witnessing those historical moments would change our lives. We did not yet understand that we were inheriting the legacy of our humble and hard-working parents. But the idea of being in la lucha – the struggle to achieve social justice – stuck in our minds as we listened to a man who looked like us shout that we were worthy human beings who deserved better wages, better working conditions, portable toilets, clean drinking water and respect. That was something I had not heard before and have never since forgotten.

From TPP To TTIP: Clues To New Food Trade Rules

March 28, 2016 Karen Hansen-Kuhn, www.iatp.org Educate! Food and Agriculture, TPP, Trade Deal, TTIP

By Karen Hansen-Kuhn for IATP - While civil society groups around the world raise a variety of concerns about the substance of free trade agreements, for the most part their criticisms begin with the lack of transparency. Instead of a robust public debate on the merits of the issues under negotiation, civil society groups are forced to rely on bits of leaked text or the evidence of past trade agreements to guess at what might be under negotiation. In the U.S., members of Trade Advisory Committees (which are heavily dominated by corporate advisors) have greater access, but are sworn to secrecy.

Food Companies Plan Labeling GMOs—But Is There More To Story?

March 25, 2016 Katherine Paul and Ronnie Cummins, www.organicconsumers.org Educate! Corporations, Food and Agriculture, GMOs

By Katherine Paul and Ronnie Cummins for Organic Consumers Association - The world’s largest food corporations have spent hundreds of millions of dollars (some of it illegally) to avoid being required to label the genetically engineered ingredients in their products. But with the July 1 deadline for complying with Vermont’s GMO labeling law on the horizon, a handful of the largest multinational food corporations have announced they will now label GMOs—not solely because they will be forced to, but because as General Mills claims, they believe “you should know what’s in your food and how we make ours.”

Farmworkers Fight For Food And Job Justice

March 23, 2016 Staff, www.boycottsakumaberries.com Resist! boycott, Farmworkers, Food and Agriculture, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Staff of Boycott Sakuma Berries - Burlington, WA- Familias Unidas por la Justicia (FUJ) an independent farmworker union comprised of 450 migrant farmworkers based in Burlington is embarking on a month long tour throughout the West Coast to organize a major offensive against the Ag giant Driscoll’s Berries. After two and half years of waging a historic fight to end wage theft, poverty wages, inhumane production standards, and retaliation for organizing at Driscoll’s supplier Sakuma Bros Berry Farm

Boulder To Transition Away From Growing GE Crops

March 20, 2016 Barb Halpin, www.content.govdelivery.com Create! Food and Agriculture, Food Security, GE crops, GMOs

By Boulder County Commissioner's Office. Boulder County, Colo. – At a public meeting today, the County Commissioners directed county Parks and Open Space staff to work with local farmers to develop a transition plan for phasing out the use of genetically engineered (GE) corn and sugarbeets on County Parks and Open Space agricultural lands within a time frame of 3 to 7 years, and for staff to bring a recommendation on the transition plan back for consideration as soon as practicable. Additionally, the Board expressed a preference for phasing out the use of neonicotinoids and greatly reducing the use of herbicides and pesticides on county-owned open space lands. The Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) further provided direction to staff to develop a work plan that includes the continued monitoring of soil health, water quality, and pollinator health on Boulder County agricultural land, and that also looks at developing an Agricultural Research Station in Boulder County, and studies other identified barriers to successful local farming in Boulder County.

‘This Is What Consumers Want’: General Mills To Start Labeling GMOs

March 19, 2016 Nadia Prupis, www.commondreams.org Create! Consumer power, Food and Agriculture, GMOs

By Nadia Prupis for Common Dreams - General Mills will start labeling genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in all its food products, thanks to Vermont's impending GMO law and the failure of the 'voluntary labeling' law in U.S. Congress this week. "We can't label our products for only one state without significantly driving up costs for our consumers, and we simply won't do that," wrote General Mills U.S. retail chief Jeff Harmening in a post to the company's website on Friday. "The result: Consumers all over the country will soon begin seeing words legislated by the state of Vermont on the labels of many of their favorite General Mills food products."

Breaking News: Monsanto Dark Act Defeated In Senate

March 16, 2016 the Center for Food Safety, www.ecowatch.com Resist! Food and Agriculture, GMOs, Monsanto

By the Center for Food Safet for Ecowatch. The US Senate refused to include a policy rider in the must-pass federal omnibus spending bill that would have blocked states from implementing mandatory genetically engineered (GE) food labeling laws. Three states—Connecticut, Maine and Vermont—have passed such laws, with Vermont’s slated be to be the first to go into effect in July 2016. All three democratically passed laws would have been nullified, while any future state GE labeling legislation would have been preempted. More than 30 states have introduced bills to labeling GE foods in just the past few years. This is an amazing people powered victory over one of the most powerful corporations in the world. Monsanto wanted this badly to stop the labeling movement at the state level, but the people defeated them.

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