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This is the time of year when people decide on or announce what their New Year’s Resolutions will be. You may already have a few in mind but right now I’d like to suggest a few that center on your food- and no, none of these resolutions are “lose weight”. As you decide what will […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
VIDEO: The Harvest/La Cosecha Tells The Story Of The Children Who Feed America
on October 24th, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhen we Americans think of dingy factories where ten year olds toil for fifty cents a day, we think of places far from here. But we’d be wrong. The recent documentary The Harvest/La Cosecha by Enrique Lopetegui exposes child labor right here at home. The Harvest/La Cosecha is produced by Shine Global, a non-profit, whose […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In Hot Water? Monsanto To Be Investigated By The Securities and Exchange Commission
on July 22nd, 2011 at 12:00 pmMonsanto, the US agricultural biotechnology titan, is cooperating with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s probe into some of its questionable business practices. The probe covers documents pertaining to the sale of its glyphosate products in fiscal year 2009 and 2010. Monsanto recently reported a 77% leap in net income which, can be attributed to its […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
VIDEO: Brazilian Tradition of Eating Ants Threatened By Pesticides
on January 11th, 2011 at 12:01 pmThe Environmental Protection Agency has introduced a searchable database for safe pesticides to get rid of bedbugs and practical steps to prevent infestation. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
New York City is experiencing a bedbug infestation epidemic that’s even threatening our public schools. I wondered what the environmental causes and costs of this would be. Here’s what I found. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
For some reason when people think of pesticides they think of huge fields of fruits or vegetables far from city life, being sprayed down or having to wash their produce before they eat it. Maybe they even think of eating organic to avoid at least some of that, but here’s something people don’t think about […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Niketown, 5th Floor I lifted the box spring, and I would estimate there were 10,000 bedbugs there.” ~Rutgers professor Dr. Changlu Wang described helping a neighbor In the movie King Kong a giant ape climbing the side of the building, threatening everyone around. Now in real life the threat comes from a much smaller animal […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Long live native seeds” Down with Monsanto. Down with GMO and hybrid seeds.” Those were the chants of the peasants who protested against genetically modified seed “donator” Monsanto. Their one harvest seeds would spell disaster for the still ailing nation, plunging the farmers into a kind of “green slavery” and destroying the nations ability to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
