Food and Agriculture

Homeless Activists Feed Shelter With Rooftop Garden

January 6, 2016 Steven Maxwell, www.activistpost.com Create! Food and Agriculture, Homelessness, Poverty, Urban Agriculture

By Steven Maxwell for Activist Post - Every activist has read the increasing number of stories where homelessness is being criminalized, as if simply being homeless isn’t punishment enough. However, there is a rising tide among all walks of life that is beginning to view homelessness in a very different light. As a sinking economy and the criminal actions of the banking elite are leading many middle class, stable families into abject poverty, it is becoming much easier to identify with the less fortunate the closer their plight appears to be.

Organic Farmers Score Victory In ‘David And Goliath’ GMO Fight

January 6, 2016 Nadia Prupis, www.commondreams.org Resist! Food and Agriculture, GMOs, Monsanto, Oregon, Pesticides

By Nadia Prupis for Common Dreams - Jackson County, Oregon wins new protections against cultivation of genetically engineered crops. Organic farmers are racking up new victories in the fight against 'franken-food', as a growing number of counties line up to bar genetically engineered (GE) crop cultivation throughout the country. A federal judge in Jackson County, Oregon recently upheld a consent decree that designates the region a "GE-free zone," a ruling which officially protects the decree from appeal, granting new protections to farmers, consumers, and the environment.

‘No-Grow Zone’: Israel Admits Spraying Poisons Inside Gaza Strip

January 5, 2016 Staff, www.sputniknews.com Educate! Food and Agriculture, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Pesticides

By Staff of Sputnik - The Israeli Army has admitted that they used crop-dusters to kill hundreds of acres of Palestinian crops, claiming that it was to “enable security operations.” Palestinian officials have stated that over 420 acres of land inside the Gaza strip were damaged by the poisons sprayed to kill vegetation. “For years now, the IDF has unilaterally maintained a lethal ‘no-go zone’ on the Palestinian side of the border with Gaza. Now, it seems, it has also implemented a ‘no-grow zone,’” Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man wrote for +972.

Green Design Has More Impact When Local Residents Are Involved

January 4, 2016 Eilis O'Neill, www.earthisland.org Create! Environment, Food and Agriculture, Urban Agriculture, Urban Design

By Eilis O'Neill for Earth Island Journal - Raindrops are falling slow and heavy on the concrete walkways, children’s playgrounds, and brick, V-shaped apartment buildings of the Bronx River Houses, one of New York City’s largest housing projects. But today’s rain won’t slide off the roofs, walkways, and hard-packed lawns into the Bronx River across the street. Instead, it will gather in the project’s bioswales, rain gardens, enhanced tree pits, and blue roofs, which together can capture 32,000 gallons of water. Unlike the monotonous lawns and ordered trees that characterize the landscaping here and at other housing projects, the rain gardens add a splash of yellow, a spray of white flowers, and an explosion of bushiness.

140 Food Communities Celebrate Indigenous Food Systems & Worldview

January 3, 2016 Rucha Chitnis, www.indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com Create! Food and Agriculture, indigenous, Indigenous foods

By Rucha Chitnis for Indian Country Today. The walk in the sacred grove was part of Indigenous Terra Madre(ITM) that brought together 140 indigenous food communities from 58 countries in November. A collaboration of the Indigenous Partnership for Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty, Slow Food International and North East Slow Food and Agrobiodiversity Society(NESFAS), ITM celebrated the rich food cultures of Indigenous Peoples and showcased their resilient food systems and sustainable practices. “Indigenous Peoples have a lesson for all of us as we search for a way forward to overcome the crises we face today,” said Phrang Roy, founder of NESFAS and an advocate of indigenous food systems from the Khasi tribe in Meghalaya. “Today there is growing awareness that indigenous knowledge that had been ignored and marginalized as a primitive knowledge system is something we need to look to to build a sustainable, fairer system where food security, nutrition and well being of people is held together.”

Newsletter – In With The New!

January 2, 2016 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Climate Change, Empire, Food and Agriculture, Housing, Internet, Media, Neoliberalism, New Economy, Renewable Energy, TPP

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. For the new year, we thought we would start with a newsletter that highlights a critical task of the movement for transformation - the creation of alternative systems to replace the current dysfunctional systems. There are exciting advances in this work. There were many actions of resistance this past week, especially around the holidays, and you can read about them here. In addition to stopping harmful policies and practices, people are creating alternatives that may mature to a place where they replace the current systems and the current systems of capitalism, oppression, militarism, racism, etc, will wither away. We call this combination "Stop the machine, create a new world".

Afraid Of Food Activists, Big Food Using Dirty Tricks

December 28, 2015 Martha Rosenberg, www.counterpunch.org Resist! Corporations, Corruption, Food and Agriculture

By Martha Rosenberg for Counter Punch - Officially, Big Food is not worried about the small number of “fringe” food activists who object to cruel, unhealthful and environmentally destructive products. But unofficially, it is a different story. American Egg Board CEO Joanne Ivy stepped down in apparent disgrace this fall when a 2013 email she wrote to a consultant saying the board was accepting “your offer to make that phone call to keep Just Mayo off Whole Foods shelves,” was revealed. Just Mayo is an egg-free and vegan product from San Francisco start-up Hampton Creek. Whole Foods still sells it.

Food Sovereignty: This is What Anarchy Looks Like

December 27, 2015 Boyan Atzev, www.resilience.org Strategize! Anarchism, Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Sovereignty

By Boyan Atzev for Resilience. The principles of food sovereignty are best followed in anarchy. The definition states that one should have direct control and choice over the kind of food one consumes and produces. The beauty of anarchy is that rather than worrying about a large scale, complex, centralized society one can focus on the immediate matters of one’s community. In case of peasants' movements these immediate matters are exactly the production and distribution of food locally. The knowledge coming from direct involvement with food production ensures well informed appropriate decisions made directly by the peasants based on their immediate needs.

17 Of The Worst Corporate Crimes In 2015

December 27, 2015 Phil Mattera, www.DirtDiggersDigest.org Educate! Big Banks, Big Pharma, Bribery, Climate Change, Corporate crime, Finance, Food and Agriculture, Oceans, Oil and Gas, pollution, Wage Theft, Workplace hazards

By Phil Mattera for Dirt Diggers Digest. The ongoing corporate crime wave showed no signs of abating in 2015. BP paid a record $20 billion to settle the remaining civil charges relating to the Deepwater Horizon disaster (on top of the $4 billion in previous criminal penalties), and Volkswagen is facing perhaps even greater liability in connection with its scheme to evade emission standards. Other automakers and suppliers were hit with large penalties for safety violations, including a $900 million fine (and deferred criminal prosecution) for General Motors, a record civil penalty of $200 million for Japanese airbag maker Takata, penalties of $105 million and $70 million for Fiat Chrysler, and $70 million for Honda. Major banks continued to pay large penalties to resolve a variety of legal entanglements. Five banks (Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS) had to pay a total of $2.5 billion to the Justice Department and $1.8 billion to the Federal Reserve in connection with charges that they conspired to manipulate foreign exchange markets.

116 Organizations Creating A Sustainable Global Food System

December 26, 2015 Staff, www.ecowatch.com Create! Food and Agriculture, Sustainability

By Staff of Food Tank - Each year, Food Tank highlights organizations that help create a more sustainable global food system. They protect biodiversity, produce valuable agricultural research, fight hunger and much more. This year, Food Tank featured 116 organizations that made vital improvements to our food system in 2015. Here are the 116 sustainable organizations to watch in 2016: 1. 4-H: 4-H is a youth development program of the Cooperative Extension System of land-grant universities in the U.S. Based in Chevy Chase, Maryland, 4-H encourages youth to pursue their own projects, with help from volunteers and mentors.

GMO Chestnuts? Ho Ho No!

December 15, 2015 Staff, www.globaljusticeecology.org Resist! Food and Agriculture, GE Trees, GMOs

By Global Justice Ecology Project. New York (15 December 2015)– In the midst of the holiday season, while thoughts turn to roasting chestnuts, a handful of scientists are working to genetically engineer the iconic American chestnut tree which they hope to release throughout the Appalachians and the Eastern US. Indigenous Peoples, scientists and others are raising alarms about the risks of these trees, cautioning about their dangerous impacts to forests, wildlife and human health [1]. Due to these unassessed risks, they warn, GE chestnuts, or any GE trees trees should never be approved for planting. But GE tree scientists appear less worried about risks than about public relations.

Merger Perpetuating GMOs, Squeezing Farmers And Consumers?

December 14, 2015 Staff, www.accuracy.org Educate! Corporations, Food and Agriculture

By Staff of IPA - AP is reporting: “Dow Chemical and the DuPont Co. announced Friday that they are merging in a $130 billion chemical industry megadeal. “The merger would combine two companies that sell agricultural products to millions of farmers around the world, and make a variety of chemicals for consumer and industrial products ranging from electronics, automobiles, and household goods to building materials and safety equipment. “The two companies will form DowDuPont, then separate into three independent publicly traded companies focused on agriculture, material science and specialty products.”

Big Food Aims To Kill Mandatory GMO Labels Before Year’s End

December 10, 2015 Jason Best, www.takepart.com Educate! Food and Agriculture, GMOs

By Jason Best for Take Part - There's no doubt about it: The food industry is counting on you to be distracted at this busy time of year, what with all those visions of sugarplums, etc., as it tries to make a stealth end run to quash any effort to require the labeling of foods that contain genetically modified ingredients. That presumes, of course, that you want food made with GMOs to be labeled, but the odds are pretty heavy that you do: After all, just last week yet another poll confirmed that a whopping nine out of 10 Americans think the federal government should come up with a GMO label and require food makers to use it.

WTO Rules US Faces $1 Billion Annually For Meat Labeling

December 8, 2015 Staff, www.foodandwaterwatch.org, www.nfu.org, www.prosperousamerica.org, www.citizen.org, Educate! Canada, Food and Agriculture, Mexico, WTO

By Staff of Food and Water Watch, NFU, CPA, and Public Citizen - The World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled in favor of Canada and Mexico against the United States regarding the labeling of meat. This follows a recent decision on labeling of tuna. The US will be forced to change their laws or face large payments for these trade violatins. The WTO ruled that labeling meat under the Country Of Origin Labelling (COOL) law violates NAFTA and can result in up to a billion dollars in damages annually. Last month the WTO ruled that dolphin-safe tuna labeling laws which are required by U.S. law to protect dolphins from slaughter by tuna fisheries violates the rights of the Mexican fishing industry, also resulting in damages to the US.

Rebuilding The World: An Interview with Lester Brown

December 6, 2015 Amitabh Pal, www.progressive.org Educate! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Solar, Wind

By Amitabh Pal for the Progressive. The two big issues we are facing are climate change and water shortages. Water shortages are more imminent. They’re here now. We suddenly look around and realize that water tables are falling everywhere: throughout the high plains of the United States, for instance, in the Ogallala Aquifer. This is a huge source of water, but it has already been pumped out in Texas-Oklahoma. Much of the water used in the world comes from aquifers. There are thirty-seven major aquifers. More than twenty of them have no major recharge at all. When they’re gone, they’re gone. Over the last thirty years, numerous lakes and rivers have disappeared in the world, and that’s going to continue. Some of the larger rivers no longer make it to the sea, such as the Colorado River or the Yellow River. We’ve got to reshape the economy to make it much more water-efficient than it now is. We know that there are already a number of countries that are running out of water. They’ve pumped their aquifers dry or they’re getting very close to it. This includes Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq. And in India, water tables are falling everywhere. The question is: What happens when wells start to run dry?

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