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Neonic Pesticides Lawsuit: Canadian Beekeepers Seek Damages

Amber

Damages and losses sought from Bayer and Syngenta tally some $450 million CAD. It’s about time someone did something besides talk and file reports on the plight of bees in the face of neonictinoid pesticides. A class action lawsuit was filed on Sept. 2nd in London, Ontario on behalf of all Canadian beekeepers, including Canada’s…

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Real Food: Farmers Market Growth Explosion

Forget Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Randazzo’s, and other chain or local farm markets that buy their fresh products from area and regional farmers. They aren’t true farmers markets, but retailers of farm-produced goods. Some of them buy the food they sell from the same people who supply grocery stores. If they have stock boys, warehouses,…
September 12, 2014
Tammy Clayton

Monsanto’s Seed Monopoly Expanding

The ball lands in tomatoland again, but this is a totally different development than Monsanto’s fraudulent claim on the patent application for a seed bank tomato variety earlier this summer. Were you surprised that they tampered with the paperwork necessary to file for a patent? Shame on you. But that’s old news… from June. This…
August 22, 2014
Tammy Clayton

The Water Wars: Essence of Life vs. Profit

So, how much do you spend a day on bottled water? It might be time to stop buying it and haul it from your tap at home. Rinse out the bottles and refill them, because the sheer volume of bottled water sold in the U.S. becomes corporate profit, which in turn gives them the power…
August 9, 2014
Amber

You’re Too Stupid for GMO Labeling

And if you are part of the movement demanding to know exactly what is in your food, you are a fear monger hell bent on scaring people away from GM foods. That’s exactly what the experts who want GMO labeling banned in the US told the congressional panel last week. They labeled you as an…
July 18, 2014
Amber

3 Breakthrough USDA Inventions

Some people seem to think so anyway. My right eyebrow popped up in the air when I first saw them though. They’re nested nicely in a list of other accomplishments being talked up here and there lately. Not all of them appear cause for concern though, like chardonnay flour which they claim will help you…
July 4, 2014
Tammy Clayton