29 States Pass a Gag Order on Local Seed Laws, In Favor of Big Agra
Proponents say that we simple folk don’t have the “science” it takes to make these agricultural decisions and that local seed laws “complicate” things.
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15 Diverse Superfoods that Fight Inflammation
Inflammation is believed to be the cause of many illnesses, including cancer, but we can easily fight inflammation with these nutrient-rich foods and spices.
Monsanto and Big Ag Colonizing Africa, Criminalizing Traditional Seed Exchanges
Alex Pietrowski – Farmers face heavy fines and even prison time for violating the intellectual property rights of agrichemicals companies.
The World’s Food Seeds are Going Extinct, but You Can Help
Alex Pietrowski – In a very real sense, seeds are life itself, yet we are rapidly losing them.
10 Amazing Health Benefits of Pumpkin Seeds
Meme – Pumpkin seeds are a great way to add protein, iron, zinc and especially magnesium to your diet, which can have some amazing health benefits.
How to Pick the Best Organic Seeds & Avoid GMO Seed Varieties
Christina Sarich – “Biotech would like us to believe that genetically modified organisms have been around for ages…”
The Top 10 Healthiest Seeds on Earth
John Summerly – A seed is life. It is a living food. It is impossible to eat a raw seed and not derive nutrition.
Respected Analyst Says GMOs Could Destroy Life on the Planet
Marco Torres, Prevent Disease Waking Times Invoking the risk of famine as a justification for GMOs is “a deceitful strategy, no different from…Russian roulette,” according to a statistician and professor at New York University. Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a scholar, statistician, Wall Street analyst and advisor, professor at New York University, and the bestselling author of Fooled by …
Ten Reasons To Buy Local Food
Brenton Johnson, Guest Waking Times 1. Locally grown food tastes better. Food grown in your own community is usually picked within the past day or two. It’s crisp, sweet, and loaded with flavor. Produce flown or trucked in from Florida, Chile, Mexico, or Holland is, quite understandably, much older. Several studies have shown that the …
A List of Over 100 Heirloom Seed Suppliers
Waking Times Below is one of the most extensive lists of heirloom seed suppliers from around the world, combiled by our hardworking friends at Off Grid Info. In this list you will find all types of heirloom, non-GMO and organic seeds for a wide variety of plants. Feel free to contribute to this list with …
Genetically Engineered “Terminator Seeds” – Death and Destruction of Agriculture
Colin Todhunter, Green Med Info Waking Times The widely held belief is that genetically modified ‘terminator seeds‘ are not available on the commercial market anywhere. Since 2001, there has been a de facto worldwide moratorium on the use of terminator technology (UN Convention on Biological Diversity). By definition, such seeds are genetically engineered to make …
Civil Disobedience or Death by Design
Julian Rose, Contributor Waking Times Friends. How much time do we have left? By my clock it’s five minutes past midnight. We are into unchartered territory. Territory where only bravery and vision can hope to cut through the torpor and stupor which is bringing about the designed obsolescence of the human race and the transgenic …
Why We Must Fight To Label GMOs
Peggy Gannon, Green Med Info Waking Times Since 1994 there’s been an unnatural new player on our grocery store shelves. GMO is short for “genetically modified organism.” It describes foods grown from seeds that have been altered through biotechnology to express certain desirable traits, such as pest resistance. Increasing concerns over genetically modified crops have prompted legislation …
Heirloom Seed Banks Come to Public Libraries
Waking Times It’a an idea whose time has come, as many people are re-discovering the importance of gardening and the importance of heirloom, non-GMO seed. NPR recently reported on an interesting new phenomenon of heirloom seeds being checked out like books through public libraries. The program which has expanded to over 12 public libraries works …
Where is All the Food?
Wayne Weiseman, Guest Writer Waking Times When a product enters the marketplace it is doomed to be bandied about, prodded, poked and eventually, if it is a “valuable” commodity, confiscated, manipulated, packaged, politicized, corporatized, chained to will-o’-the-wisp market forces and forever relegated to the dungeon of the landfill, what’s left of it. The pharaohs of …