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My Interview with Michael Pollan

Waylon Lewis | Posted 07.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Farmers' Market, Video, Michael Pollan Interview, Michael Pollan, Green, Food, Foodie, Alice Waters, Eco, Waylon Lewis, Organic, Gmo, Monsanto, Green News

Even if your idea of being a foodie is, like me, putting together some organic veggie nachos, you'll dig how eloquently, warmly and straightforwardly Michael Pollan communicates to the masses.

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You Are What You Eat: Food Inc. Brings Food to the Forefront

Tracy Hepler | Posted 07.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Matters, Gmos, You Are What You Eat, Food Inc., Factory Farms, Fast Food Nation, Alice Waters, Fast Food Industry, Monsanto, Green News

Looking at today's society it seems clear that when it comes to our food and nutrition, our priorities are out of whack. We need a wake up call and Food, Inc. is just that.

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Big Agriculture Wants To Plow Under Climate Bill

Grist | Posted 07.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Climate Legislation, Gmo, Monsanto, Climate Bill, Green News

If the ag giants get their way, they could seriously compromise the legislation's ability to mitigate climate change. Few deny that changes in agricul...

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Protecting the Rights of Mother Earth

Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Monsanto, Family Planning, Population Control, Earth Friendly, Overpopulation, Mother Earth, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Farming, Planned Parenthood, Green News

A Monsanto ad really set me off with their "sustainable agriculture" full pager in the New York Times last week. How about answering the Earth's ple...

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FRESH Director Ana Joanes Blazes A Trail To Greener Pastures

Kerry Trueman | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Dr. Marion Nestle, Monsanto, Michelle Obama, Michael Pollan, Food Inc., Fresh, Will Allen, Organic, Ana Joanes, Barack Obama, Green News

FRESH, which premieres this week in New York, Boston and DC, "celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system."

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Message to Obama: Bust-up the Agribusiness Trusts

Paula Crossfield | Posted 06.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Anti-Trust, Gmos, Trust-Busting, Factory Farms, Agribusiness, Food Safety, Barack Obama, Monsanto, Green News

Cargill, ADM, Monsanto, Tyson and Smithfield are probably breaking the law, and that law needs to be enforced.

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Monsanto Forced Fox TV to Censor Coverage of Dangerous Milk Drug

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: rbST. Corporate Manipulation, Fox TV, Fraudulent Research, Bob Collier, Jane Akre, Recombinant Bovine Somatotropin, Steve Wilson, Rbgh, Roger Ailes, Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone, FDA Policy, Fox Television, Politics News, Monsanto, Milk Production, Animal Welfare, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Genetic Engineering, Kansas Legislature, Increased Risk of Cancer, Growth Hormones, Robert Collier, Food Safety, Genetically Engineered, Milk, Kansas HB2121., Bovine Growth Hormone, Whistleblower, Governor Kathleen Sebelius, Politics News

The following is the third in a series called Get Our Milk Off Drugs, written in response to pending legislation that would interfere with dairies lab...

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"HR 875" Myth Sows Terror Among Organic Gardeners

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.10.2009 | Green

Rep. Rosa DeLauro knew she had a problem when her colleagues began asking her on the House floor about her bill that was going to put small farmers ou...

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The Most Evil Corporations, Industries and Orgs

Rob Kall | Posted 04.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Corporate Crime, Nationalization, Newscorp, Exxon Mobil, Fox News, Imf, Evil, Corporate Greed, Government Ownership, Monsanto, Business News

In these trying economic times, when new ideas and approaches must be developed, maybe it is time we identify and deal with the real enemies of the good, of humanity and the earth.

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Fedco Seeds: The David To Monsanto's Goliath

Kerry Trueman | Posted 04.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Grow Your Own Food, C.R. Lawn, Fedco Seeds, Monsanto, Green News

Seed money for start-ups may be evaporating faster than California's dwindling reservoirs, but this rocky economy's proving to be fertile ground for the seed industry.

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Naughty, Naughty Boys and the Collateralized Commodity Bailout

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 04.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Food Commodities, Goldman Sachs, Commodities, Bailout, Lehman Brothers, Paulson, Aig, Nicholas Kristof, Monsanto, Scott Kilman, Bailout Outrage, Business News

A hot new trend among traders is betting on packages of energy and agricultural futures. Kind of like the bankers bet on subprime mortgages, traders recently invented Collateralized Commodity Obligations.

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The Tale of rBGH, Milk, Monsanto and the Organic Backlash

Christine Escobar | Posted 04.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Sauget Illinois, Monsanto, Growth Hormone in Milk, FDA and Organic Milk, Green Parent Chicago, USDA Organic Milk Regulations, Benefits of Organic Milk, Rgbh, Michael R. Taylor, Organic Milk and Kids, Organic Milk, Christine Escobar, Lilly, Health, Green News

RGBH was first developed by the agricultural biotech corporation Monsanto to increase milk output in dairy cows. Monsanto's production history includes the notoriously dangerous Agent Orange.

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Who Owns Our Food? Thoughts on a New Green Revolution

Paula Crossfield | Posted 03.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Philanthropy, Biotechnology, Nyc, Organic Food, Panel, Green-Washing, Genetically Modified Food, New Green Revolution, Tom Philpott, Monsanto, GM Seed, Raj Patel, The Green Revolution, Gates Foundation, Green News

We need to stand up for all of those voices who have no say in how their land is developed under the auspices of philanthropy.

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Poison: One Lump or Two?

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 03.15.2009 | Style

Read More: Candy, Toxic Chemicals, Valentine's Day, Pesticides, Poison, Usda, Sugar Beets, Monsanto, Style News

As with mercury levels in corn syrup, our government agencies have simply not taken the time to conduct proper research, preferring rather to push genetically modified sugar beat initiatives at the whim of Monsanto and other agribusinesses.

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Why Pastor Rick Warren Was the Wright Move

Beau Friedlander | Posted 01.21.2009 | Politics

As it stands, we've got a president-elect who is putting Rev. Jeremiah Wright behind him for good so he can deliver on some campaign promises. Stay tuned... And keep the faith.

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Maybe Vilsack Won't Suck?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Monsanto, Biofuels, Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, Obama's Cabinet, Denise O'Brien, Agribusiness, Sustainable Agriculture, Ethanol, President Obama, Obama Picks Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Iowa Governor Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Obama Cabinet, Tom Vilsack and Barack Obama, Green News

I honestly don't know what to make of the Vilsack nomination, so I asked Denise O'Brien, the organic farmer who ran for Iowa's Secretary of Agriculture in 2006, to share her invaluable Iowan insights.

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10 Ways To Prepare For A Post-Oil Society

Newsmax | James Howard Kunstler | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Food Matters, Monsanto, Alternative Energy, Oil, Renewable Energy, Environment, Governmental Policy, Conservation, Cars, Pollution, Green Policy, Global Warming, Transportation, Green News

In the public arena, essayists often are criticized for not offering solutions to our looming energy crisis. Here are some suggestions for those tired...

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Bush's Environmental Legacy on GMOs Is Irreversible

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 01.05.2009 | Green

Read More: George Bush, Genetically Engineered Foods, Invasive Species, Regulation, Genetic Roulette, Gmo, Usda, Monsanto, Biotechnology, Union of Concerned Scientists, Contamination, Extinction, Obama Transition, Environment, Field Trials, Genetically Modified Foods, Genetically Engineered Crops, Green News

After all weather effects of 21st century climate change have disappeared from the earth's surface, two destructive impacts traceable to George Bush's policies will yet remain.

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Obama's Team Includes Dangerous Biotech "Yes Men"

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 03.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Joseph Cortright, Gmos, Transition Team, Tom Vilsack, Dennis Wolff, Fda, Barack Obama, Monsanto, Rbgh, Secretary of Agriculture, Genetically Engineered Food, Michael Taylor, Unbossed, Dan Glickman, Food Safety, Genetically Modified Food, Obama Transition, Obama GMOs, Bovine Growth Hormone, Usda, Food and Drug Administration, Steven Druker, Oregon, Genetic Engineering, Rbst, Obama Usda, Green News

Instead of giving us change and hope, biotech "Yes Men" on Obama's team may prolong the hypnotic "group think" that has been institutionalized over three previous administrations.

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Will Genetically Modified Foods Make You Sick?

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 12.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Irina Ermakova, Monsanto, Genetically Engineered, Bt, Health, Morbidity, Food, Food Safety, Fertility, Animal Feeding Study, Genetically Modified, Infant Mortality, Genetic Engineering, Gmo, Green News

Two new government studies, published within days of each other, point to disturbing health hazards of genetically modified foods.

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Food on a Shtick: The Minnesota State Fair and the Republican National Convention

Elissa Altman | Posted 10.04.2008 | Living

Read More: Republican Convention, Minnesota State Fair, George Bush, Alfred E. Neuman, Monsanto, Cindy McCain, Fred Thompson, Sarah Palin, Joe Lieberman, Lou Goldstein, Foghorn Leghorn, Barbara Bush, Food on a Stick, Grossinger's, Teddy Roosevelt, Food, Living News

I'm sure I'm not alone among like-minded food professionals: watching the Republican Convention has, for me, resulted in a powerful urge to eat the mo...

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Genetically Modified Foods Proponent Makes Her Green Case

New York Times, Discovery News | Dave Burdick | Posted 09.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Monsanto, Genetically Modified Foods, GM Foods, Nina v. Fedoroff, Genetically Modified Crops, Food Politics, Politics of Food, Green News

There have been a few mentions lately on our feed readers of genetically modified foods making a bit of a PR push. The New York Times sat down with ...

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The Dead Zone Diet

Kerry Trueman | Posted 09.15.2008 | Green

Read More: Biotechnology, Agribiz, Monsanto, Hypoxia, Claire Cummings, Fish, Frances Moore Lappé, Sustainability, Industrial Agriculture, Dead Zones, Green News

Steak or salmon? Enjoy your dithering while you can, folks. It's Agribiz vs. Aquabiz, and at the moment, the farmers are beating the waders off of the fishermen.

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NPR Misses Real Story, Plants Wrong Seeds

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 09.11.2008 | Green

Read More: Genetic Modification, NPR Morning Edition, Ecology, Latin America, Food Crisis, World Hunger, Npr, Sustainable Agriculture, Food, India, Green Living, Food Prices, Wal-Mart, Monsanto, Green News

NPR chose to reinforce the myth that the only hope for poor rural people is dependency on concentrated economic power when, all over the world, poor farmers are discovering their own power.

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Scandal Surrounding The FDA, Cows' Tooting, And A Monsanto Hormone

Greenwash Brigade | Heidi Siegelbaum | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Cows Belching, Cow Fart Scandal, Cows Farting, Methane Emissions, Cows, Fda, Cornell University, Climate Change, Posilac, Posilac Paper, Monsanto, Green News

What a riot! How complex is a story about: * The genetically engineered bovine growth hormone, somatotropin, trade name Posilac... * which is...

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