Black Gold Bankruptcy: 4 Things to Beware Of

27Apr09

Wrecking good soil is like wrecking the foundations of your house. It’s costly and it’s dangerous (not to mention the possibility of having the roof collapse on your head). The destruction of healthy, nutritious soil costs US agriculture $20 billion a year [1]. Topsoil (the stuff you get when you jab your hand into the first 6 inches of dirt) is vanishing faster than you can say, “Duh” in a third of the world’s food growing land.[1]

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Tags: Agriculture, chemical, Compost, conventional, crisis, environmental, erosion, organic, Soil Management, tillage, topsoil, waste

Keep GE Corn for Ethanol Refineries Out of My Cornflakes!

22Jan09

The United States Department of Agriculture is considering a petition from Syngenta Seeds seeking nonregulated status for a new genetically engineered corn seed that is modified to produce an enzyme that facilitates ethanol production. This new industrial GE corn could pose significant threats to the human food supply.

Filed under: Agriculture, Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO), GMOs, petition   |  2 Comments
Tags: action, biofuel, controversy, conventional, ethanol, GE, genetic engineering, genetically modified organisms, GMOs, industrial, LMOs, Seeds, Syngenta

Peanut Butter Scares in Over 40 States!

22Jan09

Peanut butter products continued to disappear from store shelves Tuesday as more grocery chains and specialty companies joined a growing list of precautionary recalls.

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Tags: butter, centralization, contamination, conventional, crackers, distribution, factory, Food Safety, health, industrial, packaging, paste, peanut, processing, salmonella, scares, sourcing

The Store Wars – Organic food versus chemicals and GMOs

26Dec08

“A small and very funny animation of a parody of star wars, made to alert people about some of the serious problems of producing and eating food using dangerous synthetic chemicals, Genetically Modified Organisms, allowing big corporation interests control the food chain, and other problems that helps to destroy nature and the health of people. As this animation shows, producing and buying organic food on smaller and more ethical stores is the best solution for many of these problems.
BUY ORGANIC, FOR YOU, FOR OTHERS AND FOR NATURE.”

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Tags: Agriculture, chemical, conventional, farm, Food, fume, genetic engineering, gmo, industrial, lethal, modification, organic, poison, sustainable, toxin

BLASTED: Study on Organics vs. Conventional

09Nov08

A previous study on the health benefits between organic and your usual supermarket produce may have got it all wrong! They found no different – the problem was that they did the test on soil that was previously organically managed which would have made both conventional or organic crops about the same!

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Tags: Agriculture, comparison, conventional, design, Food, industrial, method, methodology, organic, production, research