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The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition: Nothing New About Ignoring Africa's Farmers

Eric Holt Gimenez | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: G8, Hunger, Monsanto, Africa Hunger, Africa Food Crisis, New Alliance for Food and Nutrition Security, Africa Food Security, Africa Farmers, Food Security, World News

Neither governments nor global corporations bothered to consult with those who have the biggest stake in rebuilding agriculture in Africa: the farmers.

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This Is Why You're Fat: The 2012 Farm Bill and the Real Obesity Lobby

Suzanne Merkelson | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: U.S. Senate, Farm Bill, Obesity Crisis, 2012 Farm Bill, Lobbying, Obesity, Beverage Industry, Monsanto, Childhood Obesity, Food Industry, Farm Subsidies, Politics News

The food and beverage industry has been relentless in Washington lately, more than doubling their spending in Washington during the past three years, completely outpacing public interest groups looking out for children's health.

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Anti-Monsanto Activist Received Anonymous Death Threats

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Agrobussiness, Pesticides, Monsanto Farmers, Roundup, Sofia Gatica, Public Health, Environment, Glyphosate Argentina, Birth Defects, Cancer, Herbicides, Monsanto, Monsanto Soy, Glyphosate, Genetic Engineering, Green News

For 13 years Sofia Gatica has organized opposition to the aerial spraying of agrochemicals that threaten human health and the environment in Argentina...

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Will Oxford Students Speak Out to Protect the Integrity of Their University?

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Oxford University Press, Food Politics, Scholarly Standards, Environment, Democracy, Frances Moore Lappe, Journalism, Monsanto, College News

Ultimately, the question before Oxford University students right now is whether they will demand that their university's press hold to the same standards that are required of them.

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'Green News Report' - April 26, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Gas Prices, Green Jobs, Epa, Regulation, Green News Report, Green Energy, Climate Scientists, Video, Solar Energy, 2012 Presidential Election, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Dow Chemical, Anti-Science, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Carbon Dioxide, Environmentalism, Barack Obama, BRAD BLOG, Tipping Point, Green News, Sustainability, Natural Gas, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Republicans, Ice Melt, Wind Energy, Roundup, Antarctica, David Cameron, Exxonmobil, Factory Farms, Clean Energy, Herbicides, Pollution, Coal, Monsanto, Drought, Nuclear, Stephen Chu, Britain, Sea Level Rise; Chernobyl, Iea, Corn, Oil Profits, Agent Orange, Toxic Chemicals, Donald Trump, Wildfires, International Energy Agency, Ice Sheets, Jimmy Fallon, Slow Jam the News, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Just a fl...

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You Are What You Eat

Molly Fosco | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Gmos, Organic Food, Forks Over Knives, Plant-Based Diet, Documentary, Laura Poitras, May I Be Frank, Monsanto, Healthy Food, Healthy Eating, Eat Healthy, Personal Health, Healthy Diet, Healthy Living News

The theory that eating a plant-based, organic diet can make you a happier person is explored in a number of films that have affected the way I think about and consume food.

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What's the Difference Between Fox News and Oxford University Press?

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Oxford University Press, Monsanto, Book Publishing, Food, Fox News, Oxford University, Food Politics, Frances Moore Lappe, Books News

Democracy depends on honest, fair, accurate debate. Without it, we can't possibly meet today's challenges. And if academic presses don't hold the line -- when fair discourse in the wider culture is in collapse -- who will?

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Sick of Being a Guinea Pig for GE Food? Call This Guy

Wenonah Hauter | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Walmart, Gmos, Wal-Mart, Monsanto, GE Food, Walmart Controversy, Genetically Engineered Corn, Genetically Engineered Food, Organic Food, Genetically Engineered Walmart, Genetically Modified Food, Food News

If Walmart refuses to stock Monsanto's GE sweet corn, it would send a strong signal that there is no market for this genetically engineered food and could actually stop the seed before it's even planted.

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Farmers Appeal Monsanto Lawsuit Decision

Reuters | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Monsanto Farmers, Monsanto Genetically Modified Seeds, Video, Monsanto Lawsuit, Reuters, Food, Genetically Modified Food, Gmo, Monsanto, Green News

* Organic growers file notice of appeal * Ruling criticized plaintiffs for creating "controversy" By Carey Gillam ...

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Pain In The Grass: Children At Risk From Pesticides, School Bans Debated

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Public Schools, Pesticides, Roundup Herbicide, Organophosphates, Schools, Children's Health, Monsanto, Connecticut, Green News

When they started feeling woozy barely an hour into their batting practice, Alan Gorkin and his son Tristan, then 12 years old, didn't think too much ...

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Deepak Chopra and Vandana Shiva Talk Seeds and GMOs

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Healthy Food, Farming, Gmos, Sustainable Food, Alison Rose Levy, Earth, Green, Planet, Monsanto, Usda, Ecology, Water, Food Politics, Deepak Chopra, Food Supply, Environment, Food, Bullshit, Vandana Shiva, Deepakhomebasecom, Impact, Green News

By surveying the versatile ecology of cow dung, even urban dwellers, like me, can see the earthy pragmatism embedded in the Indian worship of cows (and indeed all life) as sacred.

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Monsanto Plans Biotech Crop Tests

AP | BLAKE NICHOLSON | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Drought South Drought Food, Biotech Corn Drought, Video, Drought Corn Test, Corn Drought, Monsanto Corn Test, Food, Monsanto Biotech Corn, Monsanto Seed Co, Ap, Monsanto, Biotech Corn, Green News

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Seed giant Monsanto Co. plans large-scale tests this year of the first government-approved biotech crop developed to deal with...

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"What's" the Beef?

David Fagin | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: George Bush, Exxon Mobil, Steroids, George W. Bush, Epa, Burger King, McDonald's, Pink Slime, Fda, Monsanto, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Food News

Perhaps, next time you hear someone ask, "Where's the beef?," you should tell them the correct term is, "What's the beef?"

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Scientists Warn EPA About Monsanto Corn

Reuters | Carey Gillam | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Pesticides, Farming, Corn Rootworm, Monsanto Corn Rootworm, Video, Monsanto Corn, Corn, Agriculture, Food, Genetically Modified Food, Corn Farmers, Monsanto, Green News

By Carey Gillam (Reuters) - A group of plant scientists is warning federal regulators that action is needed to mitigate a growing probl...

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Meatless Monday: The Low-Goliath Diet

Ellen Kanner | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Jbs, Walmart, Goliath, Occupy Our Food Supply, Monsanto, Tyson, Organic Trade Association, Cargill, Food, Video, Green News

Last Monday, February 27, we observed Occupy Our Food Supply, day of action against corporate food. Some of us observed it more than others. That same day, the class action suit of Organic Seed Grows and Trade Association vs. Monsanto was dismissed. Industrial Food - 1, organic farmers - 0.

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Occupy Protesters vs. Monsanto

The Huffington Post | James Gerken | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Monsanto Farmers, Video, Monsanto Protesters, Occupy Our Food Supply, Occupy Dc Monsanto, Food, Monsanto Seed Trial, Monsanto Trial, Occupy Dc, Monsanto Seeds, Monsanto, Monsanto Protests, Green News

Protesters assembled in front of the Washington, D.C. offices of agricultural biotech giant Monsanto Wednesday, in response to a federal judge's dismi...

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Why We Must Occupy Our Food Supply

Willie Nelson | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Big Food, Factory Farming, Jbs, Tyson Foods, Farmers, Cargill, Occupy BIg Food, Factory Farms, Small Farmers, Occupy Food, Monsanto, Food News

When our food is at risk we are all at risk. Over the last thirty years, we have witnessed a massive consolidation of our food system, leading to the loss of millions of family farmers, the destruction of soil fertility, the pollution of our water, and health epidemics.

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High Price of Monopoly: Why American Farmers Must Buy From Just One Seed Company

John W. Boyd Jr. | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Seeds, Iowa, Farming, Black Farmers, National Black Farmers Association, Seed Companies, Monsanto, Farmers, Monsanto Farmers, Biotechnology, Agriculture, Monopoly, Antitrust, Biotech, Monsanto Seeds, Bv-Politics, Green News

Monsanto's monopoly limits farmers' choices and threatens our livelihoods. But America's antitrust laws were enacted to protect us from this very situation. These laws are premised on the belief that competitive markets produce the best products, and they need to be enforced.

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Dow and Monsanto's Plan to Increase the Toxic Pesticides Sprayed in America's Heartland

Richard Schiffman | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Farming, Pesticides, Biotechnology, Monsanto, Corn, Dow Chemical, Beef, Roundup Herbicide, Sustainable Farming, Agent Orange, Herbicides, Industrial Agriculture, Genetic Engineering, Green News

These two biotech giants have developed a weed management program that, if successful, would go a long way toward a predicted doubling of harmful herbicide use in America's corn belt during the next decade.

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Monsanto, Planned Parenthood and Ellen

Denise Vivaldo | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Denise Vivaldo, Planned Parenthood, Ellen Degeneres, Monsanto, Impact News

I have several paying gigs and deadlines that I should be working on but with all the shit storms of last week, I can't focus on "sharing" my favorite...

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Monsanto's Great Expectations (and Not-So-Great Results)

Elliott Negin | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Farming, Pesticides, Monsanto, Genetically Engineered Food, Genetic Engineering, Food News

Given the unvarnished facts about the failures of Monsanto's products and its widespread damage to the environment, how has the company been able to convince anyone that it is, according to its latest PR effort, "improving agriculture and improving lives"?

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'Green Acres' Effect For New Farmers Seeking Better Quality Of Life

Reuters | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Video, USDA Farm Service Agency, Fsa, Tom Vilsack, Farm Service Agency, Start2farm, Reuters, Dan Pugh, Usda, Usda Farmers, New Farmers, US Farming, Monsanto, Green News

* U.S. goal is to create 100,000 new farmers * $1.8 billion in U.S. loans to beginning farmers in 2011 *...

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12 Reasons To Avoid GMOs

Maria Rodale | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Maria Rodale, Gmo Food, Monsanto, Alberto Gonzalez, Ge, GE Food, Right to Know, Organic Food, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Just Label It, Gustorganics, Gmo, Healthy Living News

by guest blogger Alberto Gonzalez, founder and CEO of GustOrganics I love talking to people about food. And these days at my restaurant, I inevi...

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50 Most Powerful People in Food? Whose Food?

Jerusha Klemperer | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: The Daily Meal, Grant Achatz, Growing Power, Tyson Foods, Cargill, Greenmarket, Slow Food USA, Bill Marler, McDonald's, Foodcorps, Will Allen, Mark Bittman, Monsanto, Josh Viertel, Food News

This duality of sustainable food advocates on one end and industrial food giants on the other shows the growing power of each of the poles of our food system.

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Just Label It! So We Know When It's GMO

Maria Rodale | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Maria Rodale, Gmo Food, Monsanto, Ge, GE Food, Right to Know, Syngenta, Organic Food, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Just Label It, Gmo, Green News

Manufacturers have decided that, if given the choice, we might not choose to buy GMO products. So, they've decided not to give us a choice, which doesn't seem very American.

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