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Monday, November 22, 2010

Comment on FDA Approval of GMO salmon - Also, latest update on SB 510, one post down, as of 9:15 pm 11/22


Read about The Aqua Bounty Corporation's GMO fast growing salmon made of eel and salmon genes:  http://tinyurl.com/2bhjlnx

How to take action TODAY 
More from the Center for Food Safety on the poor research, and all the information concealed from the public by for-profit Aqua Bounty on, potentially, the first genetically modified animal to be ok'd for food production - and why is this animal being put up for approval as a drug, doing an end-run around tougher food regulations?

More on that from Duke University researchers HERE. 

Legislation proposed 11/18/10 by Senators Begich (D-AK), Murkowski (I-AK), and Murray(D-AK) re: GMO salmon.
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Teach in - Movies you might like - to watch online

  • Patent for a Pig (You Tube - Part 1 of 5 parts - each about 9 min. long). Very Good.
  • King Corn
  • Flow
  • The Future of Food
  • The Real Dirt on Farmer John
  • The World According to Monsanto
  • Where is Tomorrow's Farmer?
  • It runs on water

Investment - Put Your Money into a POSITIVE Future

  • Slow Money Alliance - GREAT! A realistic plan to change the world.

Info on Organic, GMO's and Non-Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) Seed Sources

  • Eco-Farm Genetic Engineering Blog - daily update/ news on genetically modified food - Short, incredibly current, accurate articles from mainstream sources - excellent and informative.
  • New article on genetically modified organisms GMOs from Urban Gardener
  • From Scientific American - Research on genetically modified crops? Veto power on release of information held by Bioengineering and Agribusiness corporations
  • Seed Story - the blog of Matthew Dillon of Abundant Life Seeds, late of Port Townsend- full of all kinds of interesting stuff
  • Uprising Seeds - WA state's first 100% certified organic seed Co. - Acme WA
  • Fedco - GMO free seeds from Maine - your source for cold-hardy selections
  • Wild Garden Seed - Ecological Crop Improvement for & By Organic Farmers - Philomath, Oregon
  • Gathering Together Farm - 76 acres crop and seed growing farm near Philomath OR
  • Safe Seed Pledge & List of Safe Seed (GMO-free) suppliers
  • Land & Sea Slow Food post on Territorial and other seed and seed sources
  • B.C. Seeds - non GMO seed source in British Columbia
  • Owners of the world's seed supplies
  • Monsanto
  • Corporate Controls on Release of Research on GMO Food
  • Faith-based investors pull out of GMO company investments
  • Longtime farmers' testimony about Monsanto contamination of crops to Indiana state lawmakers.
  • What is a Terminator Seed (aka GURTS)
  • Maine Organic Farmers Association on the Terminator seed
  • More info on Terminator
  • The World According to Monsanto - video
  • History - read posts 7/08-10/08. Worth the time.
  • Seeds of Deception - bookstore and website
  • Very informative GMO info site - Say No To GMO's - '08 Update
  • '09 Update
  • Site for Say No To GMO's (genetically modified Organisms
  • Genetically Modified Corn in Mexico
  • Contaminated Mexican Corn
  • Order non-Gmo corn seeds to help support Chiapas farmers and their children
  • Organico de Mexico

Raising Beef - What is a CAFO? (Containment Animal Feeding Operation)

  • What is a CAFO?
  • What happens when the fertilizer made from CAFO effluent is used on your produce?

Plant & Animal Biodiversity, and the "Green Revolution" of the 50's and 60's

  • What is Monocropping? A short easy to understand explanation.
  • What are the issues with monocropping?
  • Plant & Animal Biodiversity. Why is this so important?
  • Seed Story: the blog of Matthew Dillon, of Abundant Life Seeds
  • Seed Broadcast - the Organic Seed Alliance Blog - latest news on seed integrity, in easy to read format
  • Organic Seed Growers & Trade Association (OSGATA)
  • Organic Seed Alliance

Please Watch These Very Short Films

  • Patent For A Pig - Part 1 (9:56)
  • Patent For A Pig - Part 2 (10:06) featuring American farmers
  • Patent For A Pig - Part 3 (10:03) featurig American farmers
  • Patent For A Pig - Part 4 (10:00) featuring American farmers
  • Patent For A Pig - Part 5/end (2:51) featuring American farmers
  • Take Part - Great Blog for Links to Actions, Films, etc.

SPEAK UP. You Can Have A Choice About Genetically Engineered (GMO) Food

  • House Resolution 6636 - Go Here To Support the "Genetically Engineered Food Right To Know Act" in Congress

The "Green Revolution" of the 40's, 50's & 60's - impacts and consequence

  • Explanation & consequences of the Green Revolution - from US News and World Report
  • Worldwide impact of the "Green Revolution"
  • Respected Physicist and Activist Vandana Shiva on the "Green Revolution" and impact on farmers and food supplies
  • About Vandana Shiva

Food Justice/Equal Exchange

  • GREAT source of info - Small Farmers. Big Change. Very current, incredibly good blog w/ beautiful photos

We love Hawaii!!

  • Hawaii!! What are the natives concerned about?

Mexico - the people, and the corn

  • Organico de Mexico
  • School for Chiapas - Corn
  • Order non-Gmo corn seeds to help support Chiapas farmers and their children
  • Contaminated Mexican Corn
  • More info on Terminator
  • What is a Terminator Seed (aka GURTS)

Order 81, Iraq, & Biodiversity

  • Details on Order 81, instated in Iraq beginning in 2004 by the United States headed Coalition Provisional Authority, allowing only PVP plants owned by Monsanto and other corporations, to be purchased by farmers for the next 20 - 25 years. A farming system has thrived in the region since approx. 8000 BC: in 2002, 97% of Iraqi farmers saved seed for their crops . How does this Provisional Authority order affect that?

Bill Gates/Rockefeller Foundation partnership - the "Alliance for a Green Revolution for Africa

  • Africa's wealth of seed diversity and farmer knowledge - how will AGRA affect all that?

Financial and Market background info

  • Financial Sense - great source for background on what's happening in the world financial and business sectors.

FOOD SAFETY

  • Who owns the world's seed supplies? A list
  • What is a factory farm or CAFO?
  • Cows are ruminants - they're built to eat grass. Why grain fed cows carry large numbers of the human pathogen E. coli O157:H7 and grass fed cows don't - short & to the point from Cornell University and the USDA
  • How does much harmful E coli end up in your leafy greens?
  • A short, easy to read analysis of the significance of Monsanto's purchase of Seminis and additional unregulated acquisition Dutch breeding & seed co. and tomato giant De Ruiter
  • Center for Food Safety - advocating for food safety and, with their legal arm, pursuing food safety in the courts
  • True Food Now - Center for Food Safety alternate link
  • Earth Justice - the legal team that fights and wins!
  • "Food Inc." part 2 of 2
  • "Food Inc." - link to movie online Food Inc. 1 of 2
  • Monsanto - incredible business background on one corporation obtaining most of the world seed supplies
  • The Real Dirt on Farmer John - Movie
  • Yale Sustainable Food Project
  • Canadian Farmer Percy Schmeiser
  • The World According to Monsanto - order video
  • The Future of Food - watch video here on Amazon
  • More on the "Food Safety Enhancement Act" HR 2749 from the FTCLDF - very important
  • Zachary Richard - Monthly Report - look for his posts on the history of Monsanto - Excellent, gripping, and well written!
  • Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF) - family farmers working for the legal rights of family farmers
  • HR (House Resolution) 2749, and some thorough history of US “food safety”/ 5 pages to getyou up to date, with linked references - very good
  • NAIS - the National Animal Identification System
  • Food Inc - the movie you've been hearing about

Milk - Great Information

  • the Bovine blog - up to date info on milk in US and Canada
  • CREMA
  • Organic Pastures Dairy - Mark McAfee and family
  • Weston A. Price Foundation
  • RealMilk.com
  • Real Milk - Washington state fresh, untreated milk/cheese/yogurt retailers guide
  • Fresh, Untreated (Raw) Milk Facts

2009 "Food Safety Enhancement Act" HR (House Resolution) 2749

  • Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund - staffed by farmers for defense of farmers and consumers - excellent info. You can act on this and make a difference!
  • Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance
  • Just a FYI - NAIS (National Animal Identification System). Chipping all your animals with Cargill chips, registering your premises with the government and submitting paperwork each time your animal leaves or returns to the premises (unless you're a mega-farm) - this is part of the "Food Safety Enhancement Act", HR 2749. Might want to read about it if that doesn't sound like the world's greatest idea
  • Family Farm Defenders.org

The World's Farmers and Food Supply

  • "King Corn" - Great movie
  • The Myth of GMOs to feed the world challenged in letter to Bill Gates from the Sierra Club 10 '09
  • India's serious farming issues
  • Canda & GMO wheat
  • Canada and Roundup-resistant 'Superweed'
  • Soil Fertility
  • Small Farmers. Big Change. - Equal Exchange Blog - excellent!!!
  • Brazil and poor GMO soy yields
  • South Africa - GMO crop failures
  • Argentina - GMO crop leader
  • ARGENTINA: Soy - High Profits Now, Hell to Pay Later
  • Paraguay and soy
  • Agentina and world's soy supplies raising concerns
  • Ireland Bans Genetic Modification 10 '09
  • Brazil GMO's
  • Australian farmers
  • GMOs and World Hunger - a number of articles

WATER

  • Flow - Information, links, and actions you can take to guarantee clean safe drinking water for all
  • Watch "Flow"

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