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Argentina: Disappearing Farmers, Disappearing Food
Oct. 29, 2009 Worldwide, industrial mono-culture farming has displaced traditional food production and farmers, wreaking havoc on food prices and food sovereignty. This is particularly true for the global south, where land has been concentrated for crops destined for biodiesel and animal feed. In response, peasants and small farmers organized actions in more than 53 countries on October 15 for International Food Day as an initiative of Via Campesina, one of the largest independent social movement organizations, representing nearly 150 million people globally. The National Indigenous Campesino Movement of Argentina joined the protests taking place on around the world by organizing a march in Buenos Aires for International Food Day.. » read more
The Global Land Grab
13-17 November. Farmers organisations and social movements converging on Rome - ROME - 16 November 2009 at 10h00 - Venue: Food Sovereignty Tent in the park across the street from the FAO building - Interview opportunities with people directly involved in this fight. - Organised by La Via Campesina and GRAIN Last year’s elephant in the room at the FAO’s World Summit on Food Security was the outrageous profits corporate agribusiness were amassing during the peak of the global food crisis, while over a billion people went hungry. This year it is the global farmland grab. Investors are colluding with governments to take control of tens of millions of hectares of prime farmland in Asia, Africa and Latin America.. » read more
*****USDA Declares Half Of Midwest As Agricultural Disaster Area*****
Nov. 13, 2009 The graphic below shows counties designated as disaster areas by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (data comes directly from the USDA. See http://www.. » read more
Floods In Missouri And Illinois Leave Soy And Corn Crops Sitting Idle
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The "Free" Enterprise System
Oct. 31, 2009 Free enterprise, also called free market, is an economy governed by the laws of supply and demand, not restrained by government interference, regulation or subsidy. Command economy is basically a slave enterprise where supply and price are regulated by the government rather than market forces. The only thing I will agree with about the “law of supply and demand” is that supply at a downward-manipulated price, can create demand. Downward manipulation is an uneconomic aberration first discovered in the precious metals market by the noted silver analyst, Ted Butler.. » read more
Argentina: Disappearing Farmers, Disappearing Food
Oct. 30, 2009 Worldwide, industrial mono-culture farming has displaced traditional food production and farmers, wreaking havoc on food prices and food sovereignty. This is particularly true for the global south, where land has been concentrated for crops destined for biodiesel and animal feed. In response, peasants and small farmers organized actions in more than 53 countries on October 15 for International Food Day as an initiative of Via Campesina, one of the largest independent social movement organizations, representing nearly 150 million people globally. The National Indigenous Campesino Movement of Argentina joined the protests taking place on around the world by organizing a march in Buenos Aires for International Food Day.. » read more
Low milk prices have dairy farmers killing cows
October 27, 2009 12:27:00 AM DES MOINES, Iowa -- ] A Holstein cow from a local dairy stands in puddle of water. (Adrian Mendoza / Modesto Bee Photo) - - After burning through $1 million in savings and seeing no end to their losses, dairy farmers Jake and Lori Slegers figured they didn't have much choice - they had to kill the cows. So one day last summer their sons tagged all 1,571 cows, loaded them onto trailers at their farm south of Fresno, Calif., and watched them rumble away to a slaughterhouse. Lori Slegers said her husband came into the house and broke down.. » read more
Action Alert -- New Senate Bill Threatens Small Farmers
Oct. 13, 2009 On July 29, 2009, the House of Representatives passed HR 2749, the Food Safety Modernization Act, and the next step in the process will be the Senate. Although it is not certain, the Senate will probably focus its food safety discussions on S. 510, sponsored by Senator Durbin of Illinois. S.. » read more
Why are Monsanto Insiders Now Appointed to Protect Your Food Safety?
Oct. 10, 2009 As I write this I am in Washington DC for the International Vaccine Conference and I just did a 12 hour amazing tour of the Capitol that I will describe later, along with pictures that I will post on Facebook. So politics and patriotism is fresh in my mind. When President Obama took office, many Americans welcomed what was supposed to be an era of much needed change not only for the economy but also for the food industry and U.S.. » read more
BIG GREEN MILITARY HELICOPTERS Spray Over Homes - (with comment)
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