Game Beware: It's the Return of the Poacher

Nov. 17, 2008 As times get harder in Britain's cities, armed gangs are heading for the countryside – and stealing deer, salmon and rabbits to feed a burgeoning black market in food. Andy McSmith reports Once, the poacher was a man with big pockets in his raincoat sneaking on to an aristocrat's land to steal game for his family pot. Now he is likely to be part of a gang from town, in it for hard cash, rampaging through the countryside with guns, crossbows or snares. Police in rural areas across Britain are reporting a dramatic increase in poaching, as the rise in food prices and the reality of recession increases the temptation to deal in stolen venison, salmon, or rarer meat and fish.. » read more

Colony Collapse Disorder Debunked: Pesticides Cause Bee Deaths

Tuesday, July 22, 2008 (NaturalNews) The great mystery of bee deaths has been solved. Colony Collapse Disorder is poisoning with a known insect neurotoxin. Clothianidin, a pesticide manufactured by Bayer, has been clearly linked to die offs in Germany and France. Although the bee die offs that have occurred recently are more severe, there have been many in the past from the same and similar products. In North Dakota, a lawsuit is pending against Bayer for the loss of their bees in 1995, the result of spraying rapeseed with Imidacloprid.. » read more

No Organic Bee Losses

May 10, 2008 "Sharon Labchuk is a longtime environmental activist and part-time organic beekeeper from Prince Edward Island. She has twice run for a seat in Ottawa's House of Commons, making strong showings around 5% for Canada's fledgling Green Party. She is also leader of the provincial wing of her party. In a widely circulated email, she wrote:   I'm on an organic beekeeping list of about 1,000 people, mostly Americans, and no one in the organic beekeeping world, including commercial beekeepers, is reporting colony collapse on this list. The problem with the big commercial guys is that they put pesticides in their hives to fumigate for varroa mites, and they feed antibiotics to the bees.. » read more

Ten-Year Probe Reveals Oceans in Peril

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 UXBRIDGE, Canada - A thousand points of light are being shone into the dark ocean depths as scientists from 82 countries work to complete the decade-long global research effort called the Census of Marine Life. Corals are seen at the Great Barrier Reef in this January 2002 handout photo. During the eight years the census has run so far, scientists have documented that more than 90 percent of the oceans' top predators -- large sharks, tunas, swordfish, cod and others -- are now gone(REUTERS/Centre for Marine Studies/Handout) "It's been a remarkable time of exciting new discoveries and frightening revelations of how quickly the oceans are changing," said Canadian deep-sea biologist Paul Snelgrove, a leader of a team integrating findings from all 17 census projects. "We were startled to discover small crustaceans never seen by scientists before completely blanketing the seafloor at 500 metres in the Gulf of Mexico," Snelgrove told IPS. And during the eight years the census has run so far, scientists have documented that more than 90 percent of the oceans' top predators -- large sharks, tunas, swordfish, cod and others -- are now gone and those remaining are in serious trouble.. » read more

Melissa Gragg and Jason Miller interview Derrick Jensen

Nov. 10, 2008   11/8/08 “Top priorities may not be any of those five. It may be continuing to stabilize the financial system. We don’t know yet what’s going to happen in January. And none of this can be accomplished if we continue to see a potential meltdown in the banking system or the financial system.. » read more

Real Life Bambi & Thumper

Posted Nov. 4, 2008  VIEW VIDEO AT: http://www.charliephillips.net/Video/Theater3/ RealLifeBambiThumper/tabid/859/Default.aspx. » read more

Genetically Unique Plants Matter Most in Current Mass Extinction

Tuesday 21 October 2008  Santa Barbara, California - The sixth mass extinction of both plants and animals is underway, scientists say, warning that nearly 50 percent of all species could disappear within the lifetimes of people now living on Earth. Scientists say the sixth mass extinction of both plants and animals is underway. The buttercup is a unique species, evolutionarily, that if lost would have a much bigger impact on the system than losing a daisy or a sunflower. (Photo: Scott_RTW)     Some species are more critical than others in preserving the functions of ecosystems and scientists researching grasslands around the world have found that the most valuable species are those that are genetically unique.     "The current extinction event is due to human activity, paving the planet, creating pollution, many of the things that we are doing today," said scientist Bradley Cardinale, assistant professor of ecology, evolution and marine biology at the University of California-Santa Barbara.. » read more

‘Sticking it to the Man,’ 21st Century style…..

Oct. 27, 2008 Paul Watson interviewed by Jason Miller 10/27/08 “Well, as usual, you people have everything all upside down and turned around and back to front.” –Mel Gibson as Martin Riggs in Lethal Weapon 2 As a species of beings that reflexively and unequivocally identifies itself as “superior,” we human animals have taken self-deception to a level of inimitable brilliance. And we Americans who have self-servingly cast ourselves in the role of moral beacon to the world (while engaging in industrialized wholesale violence against humans, animals, and the Earth on a breath-taking scale) are the living embodiments of the word hypocrisy. Need proof of the systemic rot eroding the very cores of our souls? Look no further than the meteoric rise of the grossly under-qualified, hyper-ambitious, morally retarded narcissist who still has a realistic chance to be one heart-beat away from ostensibly ruling the most powerful nation in the world.. » read more

Hog Hell: Investigators Uncover Shocking Abuse AT Pig Farm

Oct.  16, 2008 Every time PETA has sent an undercover investigator into a factory farm or slaughterhouse, we’ve found egregious animal abuse. Our latest case is no exception. Raising and killing animals for food is an ugly business even under the best of circumstances, but only a sadist could swallow what PETA’s investigators saw at a Greene County, Iowa, farm that produces piglets destined for Hormel and other pork companies.   Supervisors and workers were caught beating pigs with metal bars, kicking them repeatedly, shocking them in the face and spraying paint into their nostrils and all over their faces.. » read more

Migrating Alaskan Pollock Are Creating the Potential for New Dispute with Russia (with video)

Oct. 19, 2008 The popular fish appear to be moving to higher latitudes as waters warm. A billion-dollar industry is at stake. DUTCH HARBOR, ALASKA -- America's biggest catch lands here and at nearby ports every year: more than 2 billion pounds of Alaskan pollock to feed a global appetite for fish sticks, fast-food sandwiches and imitation crabmeat. Email Picture Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times A deckhand shovels pollock into the hold of the trawler Aurora in Alaska.. » read more

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