Food and Agriculture

Monsanto’s Stock Becoming High Risk as Demand for GMO Labeling Grows

August 18, 2013 Lauren Berlekamp, www.ecowatch.com Educate! Environment, Food and Agriculture

Whether you believe genetically engineered (GE) foods ought to be labeled or you believe they ought to be outright banned, this very debate means bad news for notorious Big Ag biotech giant Monsanto. In a recent article published by conservative Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail, well-known growth investor and columnist Chris Umiastowski, P.Eng., MBA, wrote about the instability of Monsanto’s longterm stock value in light of the swelling demand for GE labeling. Citing his focus on long term stocks, he notes: "… it’s just as important to know what stocks to avoid as it is to know which ones to invest in. Most growth trends don’t last forever and you don’t want to be stuck holding the bag when growth disappears or reverses."

Texas Towns Running Out Of Water Due To Fracking

August 17, 2013 Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com Educate! Energy, Environment, Food and Agriculture

Three years of drought, decades of overuse and now the oil industry's outsize demands on water for fracking are running down reservoirs and underground aquifers. And climate change is making things worse. In Texas alone, about 30 communities could run out of water by the end of the year, according to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Nearly 15 million people are living under some form of water rationing, barred from freely sprinkling their lawns or refilling their swimming pools. In Barnhart's case, the well appears to have run dry because the water was being extracted for shale gas fracking.

Monsanto’s GMO Feed Creates Horrific Physical Ailments In Animals

August 17, 2013 Katherine Paul, www.alternet.org Educate! Food and Agriculture

What they’ve uncovered should give us all pause. Because the symptoms veterinarians and researchers have observed in animals are not unlike many of the chronic, and increasingly prevalent, health problems plaguing humans today. Digestive disorders. Damaged organs. Infertility. Weak immune systems. Chronic depression. “We’ve got a real mess,” says Dr. Art Dunham, an Iowa veterinarian who has treated farm animals for several decades. Dunham is a staunch believer that GMO crops are wreaking havoc with the health of animals and humans. His daughter, Leah Dunham, who tagged along with her father on many a farm visit over the years, recently wrote America’s Two-Headed Pig.

Resources For Starting Food Or Business Co-ops

August 16, 2013 Staff, www.nfca,coop Create! Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Worker Rights and Jobs

Last year was the United Nations' Year of the Co-op. The number of worker-owned and consumer-owned cooperatives is increasing in the US. Co-ops can create businesses that support the local economy and community and create more democratic institutions. They are a foundation of a more participatory democratic society. Here are resources on everything from why co-ops are important to how to start one or transform an existing business. More is available at the Neighboring Food Cooperative Association website: www.nfca.coop.

14 Year Old Takes On TV Host Over GMO’s And Wins

August 13, 2013 Staff, www.youtube.com Educate! Energy, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Video

Rachel Parent is a 14 year old who believes that GMO's should be labeled and picked a fight with a TV host, Kevin O'Leary at a rally. Then, she went on his show and debated him. As you will see she was well prepared, well informed and ready for O'Leary's comments; and was able to quickly respond with well informed responses. She wins the battle over labeling, and then moves to respond to claims that she is shill for environmentalists who is anti-science, she clarifies that she is neither and is not opposed to science, but it needs to be ethical.

Legacy Of Uranium Mining Continues To Destroy Indigenous Communities

August 12, 2013 Charmaine White Face and Crystal Zevon, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Environment, Food and Agriculture, Human Rights, Racism, Tar Sands

U. S. Forest Service employees in their uniforms, and some other people from Standing Rock Reservation were already at the site. We met with them and were informed that the reason for the meeting was that the U. S. Forest Service needed to build a catch pond to catch radioactive runoff from the abandoned uranium mines. What?! I was shocked! Abandoned uranium mines! Radioactive runoff! This was Harding County, the Cattle Capitol of the world. Sheep, cattle, and horses were the only things to be seen for miles and miles as they grazed on the prairie grasslands. What was this about abandoned uranium mines?

8 Ways Privatization Has Failed America

August 6, 2013 Paul Buchheit, www.commondreams.org Educate! Corporatism, Energy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Transportation, Worker Rights and Jobs

Some of America's leading news analysts are beginning to recognize the fallacy of the "free market." Said Ted Koppel, "We are privatizing ourselves into one disaster after another."Fareed Zakaria admitted, "I am a big fan of the free market...But precisely because it is so powerful, in places where it doesn't work well, it can cause huge distortions." They're right. A little analysis reveals that privatization doesn't seem to work in any of the areas vital to the American public. As summed up by US News, "Private industry is not going to step in and save people from drowning, or help them rebuild their homes without a solid profit." In order to stay afloat as a nation we need each other, not savvy businesspeople who presume to tell us all how to be rich. We can't all be rich. We just want to keep from drowning.

Wendy’s To Be Targeted By Fair Food Activists

August 2, 2013 Peter Rothberg, www.thenation.com Organize! Food and Agriculture, Worker Rights and Jobs

Of the five largest fast food corporations in the country—McDonald’s, Subway, Burger King, Taco Bell (Yum! Brands), and Wendy’s—Wendy’s stands alone as the only one who has refused to join the Fair Food Program, a unique farmworker-driven initiative consisting of a wage increase supported by a price premium paid by corporate purchasers of Florida tomatoes, and a human-rights-based Code of Conduct, applicable throughout the Florida tomato industry. That’s why the indefatigable Coalition for Immokolee Workers is staging a Wendy’s Week of Action, August 3 to 11.

Food Not Bombs Thrives Despite Repression

August 1, 2013 Keith McHenry, www.blog.foodnotbombs.net Create! Food and Agriculture, Human Rights

After spending most of the night in a holding cell at police headquarters they were released to discover that the Chronicle had published a huge photo of riot police guarding the food from the hungry with a headline proclaiming "Nine Volunteers Arrested For Feeding the Homeless at Golden Gate Park." The Food Not Bombs answering service on Polk Street was swamped with calls from people wanting to help. Offers of food, legal support, help with cooking and even commitments to risk arrest if necessary flooded in. The August 15, 1988 arrests marked a change in American societies view of the homeless and sparked a global movement. The San Francisco Police made over 1,000 arrests for the "crime" of "making a political statement" by sharing food with the hungry in public.

Monsanto Gearing Up For War Against Food Justice Activists?

July 30, 2013 Staff, www.politicalblindspot.com Educate! Corporatism, Food and Agriculture, Monsanto

The largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (later called Xe Services and more recently “Academi“) clandestine intelligence services was sold to the multinational Monsanto. Blackwater was renamed in 2009 after becoming famous in the world with numerous reports of abuses in Iraq, including massacres of civilians. It remains the largest private contractor of the U.S. Department of State “security services,” that practices state terrorism by giving the government the opportunity to deny it. Monsanto executive Kevin Wilson confirmed to The Nation that they had hired Total Intelligence in 2008 and 2009, according to Monsanto only to keep track of “public disclosure” of its opponents. He also said that Total Intelligence was a “totally separate entity from Blackwater.” It is a marriage between the two most brutal monopolies in the history of industrialism.

Popular Resistance Newsletter – Creating The New World

July 25, 2013 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Energy, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Housing, Transportation

An important component of resistance is building systems based upon our desired values and principles to replace the current dysfunctional systems. This is a powerful and positive way for communities to work together to solve local problems and meet their basic needs. People around the world are engaged in this constructive resistance. We will share some of the most recent efforts to build the world we want. Landfill Harmonic OrchraestraWe are inspired by the human potential to create, even in dire economic circumstances, illustrated by this story of children from a slum dwelling in Paraguay. Out of the trash in the landfill their community is built upon, they created the “Landfill Harmonic Orchestra.”

Troika Demands Privatization Of Greek Assets, Workers Push Back

July 25, 2013 Pablo Sanchez, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture

As part of the agreement between the Greek government and the Troika (European Commission, European Central Bank and the IMF) to receive funding, the Greek coalition government has agreed to privatise a large number of assets. These include the water companies of Thessaloniki and Athens. The workers of these companies and many local groups are opposed. In Thessaloniki that opposition also includes the municipalities, currently owners of the company. The European and international organisations support the local groups in their struggle for a publicly owned and run company. Several of the Greek, European and international organisations represent networks of groups making the action very broad based.

How Monsanto Can Be Defeated

July 22, 2013 Ronnie Cummins, www.alternet.org Organize! Food and Agriculture

The consumer, farmer and fishing community insurgency that frightens Monsanto and its allies the most is the upcoming ballot initiative (I-522) in Washington State on Nov. 5. As Monsanto and its allies, such as the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) understand, this is the most crucial battle against GMOs today. If voters pass mandatory labeling in Washington, reinforced by contingent state labeling laws already passed or in progress in Connecticut, Maine and Vermont, it could mean the end of the road for genetically engineered food in U.S. grocery stores. The Road to Victory means building up our war chest in Washington State for the Nov. 5 ballot initiative. Please spread the word. This is the most important food and farming battle in the world today. If you haven’t already made a donation to the Yes on I-522 campaign please do so now.

This Is What Fracking Really Looks Like

July 22, 2013 David Rosenberg, www.slate.com Educate! Energy, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Fracking

“What struck me very personally as an outsider was how any kind of industrial activity feels like an enormous intrusion, almost like a creature from outer space; these drills at night are almost supernatural,” Berman said. “I looked for points where the industrial activity impacted these quiet rural landscapes, and I found at night was when things came alive, so I combined those pictures with more conventional documentary [style of ]subject-driven photography about people who were having serious health impacts.” Fracking’s health impact, specifically its impact on water, is one of many controversies surrounding the process of drilling into rock in order to release gas. While some argue it is an alternative to dependence on oil, the methods of drilling involving water, sand, and chemicals to break up the rock has also been argued as the culprit for contaminated water.

Should You Be Able to Buy Food Directly From Farmers? Regulators Don’t Think So

July 19, 2013 David E Gumpert, www.alternet.org Educate! Food and Agriculture

Around the country, local farmers are selling meat, dairy products, and other dinner table staples directly to neighbors, who are increasingly flocking to the farms in search of wholesome food. This would seem to embody the USDA’s advisory, “Know your farmer, know your food,” right? Not exactly. For the USDA and its sister food regulator, the FDA, there’s a problem: many of the farmers are distributing the food via private contracts like herd shares and leasing arrangements, which fall outside the regulatory system of state and local retail licenses and inspections that govern public food sales. In response, federal and state regulators are seeking legal sanctions against farmers in Maine, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and California, among others.

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