Warning: ‘Keys Of The Food System’ Being Handed Over To Big Tech
Nick Jacobs – A misguided technological revolution is about to sweep through food systems.
TAG: agriculture
Palm Oil Industry Continues to Bring Deforestation, Pollution To Amazon
Karla Mendes – Producers say their supply chains are green and sustainable, but prosecutors cite a long record of land grabbing, deforestation, pollution, and human rights violations.
Regenerative Food and Farming: The Road Forward
Dr. Mercola – Regenerative agriculture and animal husbandry are the next and higher stage of organic food and farming.
Cocaine production Driving Deforestation Into Colombian National Park
René Mora – The illegal cultivation of coca and its manufacture into cocaine appears to be coming at the cost of the world’s forests.
Mexico Decree Bans On GMO Corn And Monsanto’s Glyphosate Weed Killer
Elias Marat – The move has been widely hailed by organic food producers.
Mountain Of Evidence Confirms Common Pesticide Hazardous To Children’s Health
Stacy Malkan – Chlorpyrifos, a known neurotoxin, is used on apples, oranges, strawberries, corn, wheat, citrus and other foods children eat daily.
EPA Reapproves Dozens Of Pesticides, Despite Evidence Of Harm To People, Wildlife
Center for Biological Diversity – This is being viewed by many as a serious step in the wrong direction.
Brazilian Amazon Protected Areas ‘In Flames’ as Land-Grabbers Invade
Ana Ionova – The number of fires has soared. Over the last two months, NASA satellites picked up 3,842 fire alerts in the territory.
Save the Insects, Save the Farmers, Save Ourselves: New Global Report Calls for End of Industrial Agriculture
Andrea Germanos – The evidence is clear: pesticide use is wiping out insect populations and ecosystems around the world, and threatening food production.
New Data Show World Lost a Switzerland-Size Area of Primary Rainforest in 2019
Morgan Erickson-Davis – Researchers are also worried about how the COVID-19 crisis could affect forests in 2020.
Hemp Is Economically And Environmentally Sustainable
Steven Maxwell – As the world continues to reel from the economic impact of widespread lockdown, people are trying to understand what a “new normal” economy will look like.
Monsanto Secretly Funded Glyphosate Studies, Watchdog Finds
Jordan Davidson – A new investigation revealed that Monsanto funneled money to academic studies warning of catastrophic consequences if glyphosate was banned in the UK.
Rare trees are disappearing as ‘wood pirates’ log Bolivian national parks
Eduardo Franco Berton – Spread too thin and threatened with violence, park authorities say they’re powerless to stop the onslaught.
What Would a Monsanto-Bayer Merger Really Grow?
Courtney Lindwal – A megamerger between two of the world’s biggest agricultural corporations looms on the horizon.
Genetic Engineering In Antiquity
Dr. Rita Louise – Why did our ancestors abandoned their hunter/gatherer lifestyle for an agrarian one?
All Life Depends on Soil
Dr. Vandana Shiva – Bringing the soil to the center of our consciousness and our planning is vital for the life of the soil, but also for the future of our society.
Why 80 Percent of People Worldwide Will Soon Stop Eating Wheat
Natasha Longo – The future of wheat is certain, and it’s toxic. There are as many health risks associated with the consumption of wheat as there are nutritional benefits claimed by the wheat industry.
Half of the World’s Food Is Thrown Away
Dr. Mercola Waking Times That old bunch of carrots or pot of soup that sat for too long in your fridge, then ended up in your trash, doesn’t seem like much. But when multiplied over an entire year and expanded globally, the problem of food waste becomes one of epic proportions. A report about food waste …
The Future Is the Farmer
Julian Rose, Contributor Waking Times At a farmer’s fair in Krakow, South Poland, in early May, I spoke to a Romanian peasant. He was demonstrating clay pot making using a foot treadle to spin the plate upon which the pots were being formed by his deft hands. I remarked how attractive I found this technology …
Farmers Abandoning GMO Seeds And The Reason Will Surprise You
Daniel Jennings, Off The Grid News Waking Times A growing number of farmers are abandoning genetically modified seeds, but it’s not because they are ideologically opposed to the industry. Simply put, they say non-GMO crops are more productive and profitable. Modern Farmer magazine discovered that there is a movement among farmers abandoning genetically modified organisms (GMO) because of …