Food and Agriculture

The United States of Monsanto?

March 12, 2016 Wenonah Hauter, www.commondreams.org Educate! Food and Agriculture, Legislation, Monsanto

By Wenonah Hauter for Common Dreams - This week thousands of Americans took time out of their busy days to call their Senators to demand that they vote against the DARK Act, a bill sponsored by Kansas Senator Pat Roberts, which would prevent consumers from knowing if the food they eat and feed their families contains genetically engineered (GMO) ingredients. Their support for GMO labeling was echoed by more than 600 organizations, including farming and fishing groups and food companies, representing tens of millions of members and customers who this week also urged the Senate to reject this troubling bill.

Activists Protest Wendy’s For Food Justice For Farmworkers

March 7, 2016 Meagan Dellavilla, www.foodtank.com Resist! Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Food and Agriculture, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Meagan Dellavilla for Food Tank - On Thursday, March 3, hundreds are set to march to the office of Wendy’s Board Chairman, Nelson Peltz. Farmers, religious leaders, students, and consumers are hitting the streets of New York City to demand that the fast food giant joins the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ (CIW) award-winning Fair Food Program (FFP). Regarded as one of the best workplace monitoring programs in the United States, the FFP is an innovative partnership between farmers, farmworkers, and fourteen major food retailers.

Factory Farming Divestment: What You Need To Know

March 5, 2016 Tom Levitt, www.theguardian.com Create! Animal Rights, antibiotics, Corporatism, Divestment, Factory Farming, Food and Agriculture

By Tom Levitt for The Guardian - The fast food chain Subway is latest to join the backlash against antibiotic use in the farm sector. It has launched a new chicken sandwich in the US made with meat from animals raised without antibiotics. The move is a sign of the growing consumer and business interest in the welfare and environmental impact of animals reared for meat, dairy and eggs, with most of the blame directed at intensive, factory-style farms. Hoping to echo the success of the fossil fuel divestment movement (which has seen more than 400 institutions commit to pulling money from coal, oil and gas companies to tackle climate change)...

GMO Labeling Next Steps—Who Will Stabenow Dance With?

February 23, 2016 Katherine Paul, www.organicconsumers.org Strategize! Food and Agriculture, GMOs, Labeling

By Katherine Paul for Organic Consumers Association - The late, great political columnist Molly Ivins, who railed relentlessly against money in politics, would be all over the GMO labeling fight. She’d be especially keen to tackle the next battle, set to take place any day now in the U.S. Senate. On Thursday (February 25) this week, the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry will take up a bill introduced last week (Friday, February 19) by Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.). Roberts’ bill aims to establish a voluntary labeling plan that would block Vermont from enacting its mandatory GMO labeling law on July 1.

US Farmers Allege Deception By Agrochemical Giant

February 18, 2016 Clara Herzberg, www.truth-out.org Educate! Agrochemical, Farming, Food and Agriculture, GMOs

By Clara Herzberg for Truthout - From Indiana to Louisiana, a movement among thousands of corn farmers in the United States is trying to hold a Swiss GMO agribusiness giant to account for willful deceit and is making steady progress in court. According to these lawsuits - which may soon become class action - Syngenta, one of the world's largest agrochemical companies, deliberately misled small farmers into thinking that the genetically modified Viptera corn it was pushing on them would be approved for export to China.

Days Of Revolt: Company Town

February 14, 2016 Chris Hedges, www.therealnews.com Resistance Report Agribusiness, Big Ag, Food and Agriculture, Worker Rights

By Chris Hedges. Welcome to Days of Revolt. We're filming this segment in New York City, and we're going to be discussing the effects of the agricul--the agricultural corporations, in particular in Salinas, California. What they have done to communities, to grassroots democratic movements, and how in this microcosm of Salinas they are reconfiguring the city along the lines of neoliberalism in a way that, of course, communities and cities across this country are being reconfigured. Joining me in the studio is Jose Castaneda. He is an independent radical city councilperson who big business has made war against. And Anthony Prince, an attorney who has been working with groups in Salinas to fight back against the power of big business, and all the ways that they are distorting life within the city, including of course going after what has become a large homeless population. Thank you, Jose, and thank you, Anthony.

Venezuela Agricultural Communes Oppose Privatization Of Lands

February 9, 2016 Lucas Koerner, www.venezuelanalysis.com Resist! Communes, Food and Agriculture, Land Rights, Privatization, Socialism, Venezuela

By Lucas Koerner for Venezuela Analysis – After passing a motion by majority vote on Tuesday, Venezuela’s National Assembly will launch an inquiry into the expropriations of privately owned land and enterprises spearheaded by the socialist government in past years. The country’s newly elected parliament, dominated by the right-wing opposition, has vowed to reverse the socialist government’s social and economic policies, which included the breakup of large private firms and landholdings deemed unproductive and their transfer to state, worker, or communal control.

FDA Issues Ban On Imports Of Genetically Engineered Salmon

February 5, 2016 Abigail Abesamis, www.thedailymeal.com Resist! FDA, Food and Agriculture, Labeling

By Abigail Abesamis for The Daily Meal - Just months after the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved genetically engineered salmon for consumption, the FDA has issued a ban on the import and sale of so-called “Frankenfish” until the agency determines guidelines on how it should be labeled, according to The Washington Post. The ban was made in response to language in a federal spending bill recently passed by Congress instructing regulators to forbid the sale of genetically engineered salmon until labeling guidelines are in place. The Washington Post points out that this process could potentially take years.

Building A Movement For International Seed Sovereignty

February 4, 2016 Simone Adler, www.otherworldsarepossible.org Create! Africa, Autonomy, Food and Agriculture, Seeds

By Simone Adler for Other Worlds Are Possible - Who we are fighting for is every single peasant farmer – more than 200 million – on the planet. People are eager to join hands in building a global voice. Transnational corporations are pushing policies in African countries for industrial farming and the use of GMO [genetically modified] seeds, while grabbing our land and [stealing] our natural resources. No one should come and tell us how to produce food.

Denmark Is On Its Way To Becoming An Organic Country

February 2, 2016 Lindsay Oberst, www.foodrevolution.org Create! Denmark, Food and Agriculture, Organic

By Lindsay Oberst for Food Revolution - Imagine a organic country. Does this seem possible or realistic? In the United States, where only 1 percent of U.S. farmland is certified organic, this may seem like a far-away dream. But in Denmark, this vision is much closer to reality. First of all, people in Denmark have a great appreciation for organic food. Their country’s national organic brand has been in business for 25 years, making it one of the oldest organic brands in the world. Plus, the Danish government is working in multiple ways to convert the entire country’s agriculture into organic and sustainable farming.

FDA Approves Genetically Engineered Potato

January 20, 2016 Just Label It, www.nationofchange.org Educate! FDA, Food and Agriculture, GMOs

By Just Label It for Nation of Change - The new GMO potato cleared this week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for sale in the U.S. is yet another in the long list of reasons why consumers deserve an on-package, federal mandatory labeling system, according to Just Label It. The FDA’s decision means that the Idaho company responsible for the new GMO potato, J.R. Simplot, will be able to bring the product to market next year, assuming it gets final approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Farms Not Fracking At Pennsylvania Farm Show

January 16, 2016 Staff, www.buckslocalnews.com Resist! Energy, Farms, Food and Agriculture, Fracking, Pennsylvania

By Staff of Buck Local News - The Spence family is one of many traveling to Harrisburg for a “Farms, Not Fracking” rally at the opening of the Pennsylvania Farm Show on Saturday, January 9 in Harrisburg. Farmers from across the state, joined by supporters such as the Spences, will converge to bring attention to the negative impact fracking is having on the $2.35 billion a year agriculture industry in Pennsylvania. The Farms Not Fracking rally is being organized by Pennsylvanians Against Fracking, a statewide coalition working to stop fracking.

The Blood Of The Earth: Agriculture, Land Rights, And Haitian History

January 14, 2016 Beverly Bell, www.otherworldsarepossible.org Educate! Food and Agriculture, Haiti, Land grabs, Mining, Trade

By Beverly Bell for Other Worlds - Today we live in a crucial moment in which peasants are confronting challenges as they grapple with global warming, with the power of multinational companies over what they eat and how they live, and with an agricultural model that can’t provide them livelihood. Among the risks and catastrophes the peasants confront are lack of quality and quantity in food production, and their right to live as human beings. They also face a challenge in accessing the basic resources they need to produce, especially seeds and water.

Bee Keepers Sue Over EPA Study On Pesticides

January 11, 2016 Claire Bernish, www.theantimedia.org Resist! Bees, Food and Agriculture, health, Pesticides

By Claire Bernish for Antimedia - United States - A new study by the Environmental Protection Agency has found evidence through a study that backs what activists and environmentalists have asserted for years: one of the most widely used neonicotinoid pesticides can, indeed, cause declines in honeybee populations. But the agency’s findings are too little, too late for many farmers and food safety advocates, who consider the EPA neglectfully responsible for widespread employment of neonicotinoids.

African Women Organize To Reclaim Agriculture

January 9, 2016 Simone Adler and Beverly Bell, www.otherworldsarepossible.org Create! Africa, Food and Agriculture, Women

By Simone Adler and Beverly Bell for Other Worlds Are Possible - Everybody originated with indigenous ways of living and the way of Mother Earth. The real role of women is in the seed. It is the women who harvest, select, store, and plant seeds. Our seeds come from our mothers and our grandmothers. To us, the seed is the symbol of the continuity of life. Seed is not just about the crops. Seed is about the soil, about the water, and about the forest. Everybody originated with indigenous ways of living and the way of Mother Earth. The real role of women is in the seed. It is the women who harvest, select, store, and plant seeds. Our seeds come from our mothers and our grandmothers. To us, the seed is the symbol of the continuity of life. Seed is not just about the crops. Seed is about the soil, about the water, and about the forest. Finger millet. Photo courtesy of Mphathe Makaulele. When we plant our seeds, we don’t just plant them anytime or anywhere. We listen to our elders, who teach us about the ecological calendar.

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