by Heather Callaghan What do you say to your friends and family who want to know why you are passionate about growing your own, buying local organic, and refusing genetically modified ingredients? What do you say to the increasing amount of pro-GMO activists who call…
by Heather Callaghan Places like Wal-mart brag that they eliminate the middle man; but they haven’t seen the likes of The Farmery. What if your food was grown at your store – and it’s not even picked yet until you come by to cut the…
by Heather Callaghan Are farmers getting disillusioned? In the Midwest states like Minnesota, Nebraska, Illinois and Iowa farmers are baffled by a resurgence of corn rootworm that Monsanto technology promised to protect against. New insight comes from independent farm consultant Dan Steiner whose phone rings…
By Marco Torres The word is out and the scientific bodies of manipulation can no longer contain the growing resistance against GMO. The more corrupt studies that attempt to find no harm in the consumption of genetically modified foods, the more an increasingly aware public…
by Alex Pietrowski There are days that Monsanto’s efforts to dominate the food supply by patenting GMO seeds seem so malicious and abhorrent, that any possibility of regular people and family farms regaining control over agriculture and our food source appears insurmountable. Yet, there are…
By Eric Draven Every day, more and more people are waking up and discovering that Monsanto and their many products are being found to be a hazard to human health. It does not matter how much PR money Monsanto spends, people all over the world…
By Reinhard Kirchner By GreenMedInfo In the 1990s, a bunch of gene jockeys brought the first genetically engineered food to market. The business crashed but biotech science has flourished far beyond the produce aisle. In May 1994, a tomato appeared on supermarket shelves across the…
By Heather Callaghan A farmers’ market in Mount Jackson, Virginia is causing an uproar by saying, “Yes, we’re suing the town.” This little market bought an unoccupied former business building in Mount Jackson in an effort to improve the town and provide a fun place…
By Heather Callaghan The 4th Annual Hemp History Week still has a day left, and you still have time to join in some events. That isn’t to say hemp happenings don’t take place at other times of the year. I stumbled on the blog of…
by Catherine J. Frompovich Dan Flynn, Editor-in-chief at Food Safety News, wrote something that resonated with me and which I could not help but comment about. In Flynn’s June 6, 2013 article “Oregon’s Isolated Plantings of GM Wheat Has Consequences” [1] the following remarks about…
by Catherine J. Frompovich One of the more poignant lines former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Tip O’Neill is famous for having uttered, “All politics is local,” certainly applies to what happened in the little, but mighty, State of Connecticut over the weekend…
By Dylan Charles This past Saturday, May 25th, 2013, millions of people worldwide publicly protested against Monsanto, the corporation that has become the driving force and the figurehead behind the effort to monopolize control of food and to genetically modify staple crops to become dependent…
By Brad Jordan Fight for your right to eat food Tired of not being able to trust your food? Tired of all the food deserts in this country, where there’s no choice other than which nasty fast-food place to drive-thru? Tired of federal regulators banning…
By Heather Callaghan Nick Bernabe, Emilie Rensick, and Tami Monroe Canal’s organizational and social media directing gifts have been pivotal in garnering support for one of the largest worldwide peaceful protests to date. Initiative from hundreds of activist organizers online, activist media writers and tens of thousands…
Facing 2+ Years Jailtime & 10K Fines over raw milk- Extreme? By Brad Jordan Will the jury uphold our right to consume raw milk and other real farm foods? The milk Gestapo is at it again, this time in Wisconsin. Vernon Hershberger, an Amish farmer,…
By Fritz Kreiss Well, what a hectic week. Everyone we know has been lobbying hard, and thanks to the hundreds of thousands of people who have been emailing and writing about this, there were some important last-minute changes to the proposed law, even as late…
By Heather Callaghan Last week, Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Peter DeFazio (D-OR) introduced the Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act, a bipartisan legislation that would require the FDA to clearly label all genetically engineered foods to better help consumers make informed decisions. This bill or act…
By Heather Callaghan Canada’s Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has targeted rare heritage sheep at Wholearth Farmstudio owned by Montana Jones for years now. Shropshire sheep are among the rarest – and CFIA could aid in their extinction with their recent eradication efforts over unfounded fears…
By Brad Jordan Young people are waking up to real food; junk food companies are scrambling to get us back Bah dah, dah, dah, dah, dah… I’m not loving it, and trends show neither do other 18 to 36-year-old adults. According to market research, McDonald’s…
By Heather Callaghan Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund is reporting a story that is quite incredible – start to finish. How far would your lawyer go to make sure your baby was fed during your arrest and raise a storm to get you out? Something we…
