Category: #FoodWorldOrder
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GM Salmon, Genetic Engineering of Farm Animals to Arrive in Summer 2013 Despite Public Opposition
from NaturalSociety.com: By summer of 2013, US governing bodies, or, the alphabet soup of corruption (USDA, FDA, etc.) are expected to grant permission for scientists to roll out genetically modified salmon and allow for genetic engineering in farm animals for human consumption. These ‘foods’ are grown using growth hormone genes taken from sterile fish. The…
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#MarchAgainstMonsanto: The Grassroots Uprising
from The Corbett Report and GRTV.ca: Monsanto is a company feared and reviled by the public in equal measure. But whatever cases Monsanto has lost in the court of public opinion it has made up for in the courts of justice thanks to its revolving door with the upper reaches of Washington. Now, a new…
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Top 10 reasons to join the March Against Monsanto on Saturday, May 25
from NaturalNews.com: The global March Against Monsanto happens tomorrow! Nearly three hundred cities will host what’s sure to be hundreds of thousands of protesters and activists around the globe who are taking a stand against Monsanto and GMOs. YOU can join in the activities, too! Check this site to see if there’s a march planned…
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Study Finds Frogs And Other Amphibians Declining Around US At Alarming Rate
from foxnews.com: A new study has determined for the first time just how quickly frogs and other amphibians are disappearing around the United States, and the news is not good. The U.S. Geological Study says populations of frogs, salamanders and toads have been vanishing from occupied sites at a rate of 3.7 percent a year.…
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CDC Still ‘Investigating’ Alabama Mystery Illness As Cases Climb
from myfoxal.com: The number of mystery illness cases affecting Alabama is growing. Wednesday, Alabama Department of Public Health spokeswoman Dr. Mary McIntyre confirmed the number rose to ten overnight from a previous report of seven. Two people have died. “Since we sent out the alert to providers last night, we have had three additional patients/cases,”…
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UK health officials threw away £74m of bird flu ‘wonder-drug’
from RT.com: UK’s Department of Health threw away £74m worth of Tamiflu, the antiviral drug, before its expiry date, due to unsafe storage procedures. In total the country has spent £600 million since 2006 on drugs to fight a flu pandemic that has not materialized. The figures, revealed by the National Audit Office (NAO), demonstrate…
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The war against the organic mafia
from presseurop.eu: Fraud in the organic farming sector has become a thriving international industry made up of a complex network of companies that bears all the marks of traditional organised crime. Earlier, in the supposedly good old days, lone farmers or traders in the organic business stooped to cheating at their worst. Here, they sprayed…
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Monsanto Declares a Sneaky Social Media War Against Protesters
from ActivistPost.com: One of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of the grass roots food freedom fight is social media. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and many more networks allow people to instantly connect and provide a platform for information to be passed on exponentially. Facebook and Google are the two biggest websites in the…
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‘Like hardened criminals’: UK police sample DNA from 120,000 children in 2 years
from RT.com: British police collected the DNA of more than 120,000 children in just two years, with a thousand of them aged 10 at the time of the swab. Most of the youngsters have committed no punishable crime, but their DNA data will be stored for years. “It is disappointing to see valuable crime-fighting resources…
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Researcher “Mapping The Food Genome” Of What Americans Eat
from cbsnews.com: Do your kids love chocolate milk? It may have more calories on average than you thought. Same goes for soda. Until now, the only way to find out what people in the United States eat and how many calories they consume has been government data, which can lag behind the rapidly expanding and…
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Vermont Pushing To Be First State To Mandate GMO Labeling
from undergroundhealth.com: Vermont seemed more likely than ever to become the first US state to mandate the labeling of genetically modified food (GMO) after a bill passed the state house, though legislators worry about a lawsuit threat from biotech giant Monsanto. Similar bills seeking to provide consumers with labels at the grocery store that highlight…
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New Buycott App Lets You Take Control Of Your Food Choices
from undergroundhealth.com: Buycott app lets you vote with your wallet in the supermarket. A new app scans grocery barcodes and more for information about the brand’s parent companies and where those companies spend their money. Know which companies support GMO and where their money is going. The app takes knowing where your food comes from…
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Venezuela President: Food Shortages Due to ‘Economic Warfare’
from venezuelanalysis.com: During a speech on Saturday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro blamed food shortages on an “economic war” from the Venezuelan private sector, and assured the government is taking measures to resolve the issue. Shortages of basic food items have been felt across the country in recent months, with Venezuela’s Central Bank reporting for the…
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Sci-Fi Apocalypse: ‘Soylent Green’
Oh, by the way, don’t forget your Soylent Green Crackers, if they don’t taste bad – at least they’re in bad taste!
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Colorado House Unanimously Votes for Industrial Hemp
The Colorado state house today voted to approve SB13-241, a bill that would legalize the farming and production of “industrial hemp” within the state.