Tag: food sovereignty
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#GoodNewsNextWeek: Throw Away Your Trash Can (Video)
Maine might become the first state to add the “Right To Food Freedom” to their constitution; Subtracting the trash can add up to zero waste; and utensils that you can eat.
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#GoodNewsNextWeek: Food Freedom, Zero Waste, Edible Utensils (Audio)
Maine might become the first state to add the “Right To Food Freedom” to their constitution; Subtracting the trash can add up to zero waste; and utensils that you can eat.
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Taxpayers Have Spent $15 Trillion on ‘War on Poverty’
from breitbart.com: Since President Lyndon Baines Johnson declared “war on poverty,” U.S. taxpayers have spent $15 trillion on so-called anti-poverty programs—a figure slightly less than the national debt. In 1969, just 2.8 million Americans received food stamps. Today, over 47 million Americans are on food stamps. The Fox News special explained that one contributing factor…
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Surprised? Monsanto Openly Wrote Own Monsanto Protection Act
How could a major corporation write its own laws and regulations, you ask?
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Regulators Discover Hidden Viral Gene in Commercial GMO Crops
EFSA has belatedly discovered that the most common genetic regulatory sequence in commercial GMOs also encodes a significant fragment of a viral gene.
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Urban Farm generates 6,000 lbs of food on 1/10th acre
from therealfoodchannel.com: Over 6,000 pounds of food per year, on 1/10 acre located just 15 minutes from downtown Los Angeles. The Dervaes family grows over 400 species of plants, 4,300 pounds of vegetable food, 900 chicken and 1,000 duck eggs, 25 lbs of honey, plus seasonal fruits throughout the year. From 1/10th of an acre,…
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Debunking GE Myths. Again.
Mark Lynas gave a long mea culpa speech at the Oxford Farming Conference, in which he apologized to the world for tearing up GE crops back in the day, and for what he described as his “anti-science environmentalism.”
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City works on code change for controversial vegetable garden
from clickorlando.com: ORLANDO, Fla. – The city of Orlando says it’s trying to work with the couple whose front yard vegetable garden has sparked controversy nationwide by passing new regulations that would require changes to their garden, a move that would affect several others in College Park. In November, Local 6 first reported the story…
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The Ultimate Freedom – Food Security: Easier than you think Students at 1-Acre Youth Farm Speak Out
from therealfoodchannel.com: Agri-business and the criminal government officials who work for them in Congress and the White House would like you to think that growing food is a difficult and hazardous process and too complicated for normal people to do safely. Common sense initiatives like the one described in this video threaten Agri-business so Monsanto…
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City Officials Are Waging a War on Gardens
from mercola.com: It’s hard to imagine what could be controversial or even illegal about planting a couple of rows of tomato plants, green peppers and a cucumber vine … but depending on where those vegetables are planted, they have been the subject of great debate – even prosecution. Across the United States and Canada a…
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Decade-Long Feeding Study Reveals Significant Health Hazards of Genetically Engineered Foods
from mercola.com: Scientists in Norway have released results from experimental feeding studies carried out over a 10-year period, and the verdict is in: If you want to avoid obesity, then avoid eating genetically engineered (GE) corn, corn-based products, and animals that are fed a diet of GE grain. As reported by Cornucopia.org, the project also…
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‘Why In The World Are They Spraying?’ Lifts Veil On Geo-Engineering
“WHY in the World are They Spraying?” lifts the veil on a major geo-engineering agenda that is at the forefront of our fight for food sovereignty. There are people who are working full time at controlling the food.
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Small West Yorkshire town aims to be first town with food self-sufficiency by growing all its own vegetables
from naturalnews.com: Different local authorities throughout the USA have been harassing homeowners for growing veggies or herbs in their front lawns. But in the small town of Todmorden, England, a grass-roots food movement has been started by one woman who grew veggies in her front yard and let neighbors pick them free. It took six…
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Nine-year-old girl’s lunch blog shames school and local politicians into making changes
from naturalnews.com: A nine-year-old Scottish girl, Martha Payne, got some help from her dad to set up her blog “Never Seconds,” in which she displayed her school’s lunches and created her own content about them. Although the photos of those meals were not flattering, Martha was not decrying her school’s food. Instead, her ratings were…
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Woman Sues City of Tulsa For Cutting Down Her Edible Garden
from foodfreedomgroup.com: A Tulsa woman is suing the city’s code enforcement officers after she said they cut down her garden with no cause. Denise Morrison said she has more than 100 plant varieties in her front and back yards and all of them are edible and have a purpose. She knows which ones will treat…