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Ariel Schwartz Fast Company via Organic Consumers Association 4/25/2011 Monsanto, enemy of organic farmers and anti-GMO advocates alike, will likely be allowed to conduct its own environmental studies as part of a two-year USDA experiment. But there is no good that can possibly come of an experiment where the company behind nearly every genetically modified […] April 27th, 2011 | Tags: biotechnology, Environmental Impact Statement, genetically modified crops | Category: Agriculture and Food Production, Government programs, USDA | Comments are closed
Scott Kilman The Wall Street Journal 2/24/2011 Putting food on the table is about to become more expensive. Food prices, which rose in 2010 by the mildest rate since 1962, will jump between 3% and 4% this year, according to a forecast released Thursday by the U.S. Agriculture Department at its annual outlook conference in […] February 24th, 2011 | Tags: commodities, Inflation | Category: Agriculture and Food Production, Economy, Energy, USDA | Comments are closed
Ed Morrissey HotAir.com 1/31/2011 On Saturday while at the Americans for Prosperity conference in San Diego, I got a few minutes to talk to Andrew Breitbart about the story and the scandal of the Pigford settlements. It’s a very complicated story, as Andrew explains in this 20-minute interview just before an hour-long presentation to the […] January 31st, 2011 | Tags: Andrew Breitbart, Pigford Farms case, Pigford I, Pigford II | Category: Agriculture and Food Production, Congress, corruption, FBI, Georgia, Racism, USDA, Video | Comments are closed
Jack H. Barnes Confessions of a Macro Contrarian Business Insider 1/24/2011 The world is closer to a major famine today than it has been in decades. In the current era, there have been smaller cases of famine in the world such as Niger in ‘05 and again in 2010. The western African region is exposed […] January 24th, 2011 | Tags: "Great Leap Forward", El Nino, famine, La Nina, weather patterns | Category: Agriculture and Food Production, Australia, California, China, Russia, USDA | Comments are closed
~That government is best which governs least~ * * * Congress sticks it to U.S. farmers with passage of food safety bill that will actually cause fresh produce to be more dangerous Mike Adams Natural News 12/22/2010 The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2751 yesterday with a 216 to 144 […] December 22nd, 2010 | Tags: 'locovores', agricultural trade imbalance, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), family farms, farmers markets, food co-ops, Food Safety Modernization Act, food supply, H.R. 2751, Monsanto, New World Order, One World Government, organic farming | Category: Agriculture and Food Production, Barack Obama, Congress, corruption, Economy, Food and Drug Administration, Marxism, unemployment, USDA | Comments are closed
Alexander Bolton The Hill 12/19/2010 The Senate unexpectedly approved food safety legislation by voice vote Sunday evening, rescuing a bill that floated in limbo for weeks because of a clerical error. The Senate passed the Food Safety and Modernization Act on Nov. 30 by a vote of 73-25. But the bill was later invalidated by […] December 20th, 2010 | Tags: "food czar" Michael Taylor, "food safety", Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act, Food Safety and Modernization Act, H.R. 2751, H.R. 3082, Kathleen Sebelius, lame duck session, Monsanto, S. 510, Sen. Harry Reid, Sen. Mitch McConnell, Sen. Tom Coburn MD | Category: Agriculture and Food Production, Barack Obama, Congress, corruption, federal regulations, Federal spending, Food and Drug Administration, Marxism, Property rights, TAKE ACTION!, Taxes, Tea Parties, US Constitution, USDA | Comments are closed
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