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Why We Need to Rise up Against Industrial Agriculture (Again)
This article is adapted from Will Allen's new book The War on Bugs (Chelsea Green, 2008).With one member trimming beef in a cannery, and another working in a sausage factory, the family had a...
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The Real Cost of Cheap Food
Sometimes shoppers are confused by the differences in price between food grown organically and food grown conventionally. Usually organic loses the price war argument in comparison to what is called...
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Agriculture Is One of the Most Polluting and Dangerous Industries
The following is by Will Allen, author of The War on Bugs.Taxpayers are demanding that government enforce existing regulations and create more stringent rules to limit the excess and greed in banking,...
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From Farm to Pharma: How Animals Ended Up Living in Confined Feedlots...
We are now living in a post fast-food-awareness reality, riding on the wake of Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser's books (who rode on the wake of Wendell Berry), films like Food, Inc., renegade farmer...
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Monsanto Threatens to Sue Vermont if Legislators Pass a Bill Requiring GMO...
The world’s most hated corporation is at it again, this time in Vermont.Despite overwhelming public support and support from a clear majority of Vermont’s Agriculture Committee, Vermont legislators...
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Is Vermont's Governor Surrendering to Monsanto?
Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin has less than two weeks to either stand with the 90 percent of his constituents who support a mandatory labeling bill for genetically engineered foods -- or cave in to...
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Farmer Debunks Corporate Propaganda Against Proposed Law to Label Genetically...
I’ve been a farmer for more than 40 years. While I no longer live or farm in California, I do co-manage 120 acres of farmland in Vermont, and I know that a GMO labeling law passed in California will...
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Why Is Vermont’s Governor Peter Shumlin Bowing to Monsanto?
Shumlin has repeatedly expressed reluctance to stand up to Monsanto despite the fact that 90 percent of Vermonters support labeling genetically modified foods.After three years of trying to get a law...
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