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• Unpealing the Onion: Growing up in a tough neighborhood in South Africa March 21, 2010
  My next comments will be on John Grisham , whom, I believe that I have read every single book, but will admit that I wait for the paper back. His new book, Appeal is a blockbuster. The next article is going to cover the following links, so be prepared. http://www.flag-sa.org/blog/2007/07/us-government-busts-monsanto-for_28.html#links http://www.villagevoice. […]
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• Stop riding genetically modified Two-Trick Pony! March 17, 2010
  There are only two commercially grown genetically modified food crops. Maize(corn) and Soya. Of these there are those that contain the Bt gene which constantly exudes a crystal toxin which kills insect larvae and a gene which makes the plan resistant to the companies brand of herbicide. Plenty of drought-and flood-resistant traditional crop varieties already […]
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• United States Farmer gets $1.3 million for Bayer’s deliberate GM rice contamination March 14, 2010
  Global Food Security Act, which increases desperately needed funding for agricultural research in the developing world. Unfortunately, the bill also requires investment in genetically engineered crops favored by a handful of companies like Monsanto. Farmers and governments in the developing world have the right to make their own choices about genetically eng […]
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• Act of aggression plants Mexican seeds of rebellion March 8, 2010
  The IAASDT was sponsored by the FAO. It was adopted on Johannesburg in 2009. The only significant dissenting parties to the report were Monsanto and the United States who walked out when priority was not given to their handful of industry experts who believed that large scale industrial planting of GM crops was the answer to climate change.. It is clear that […]
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• Scandalous pro GMO conference in Mexico March 7, 2010
  Genetic engineering is a technology in search of a problem, an expensive and risky distraction from real solutions to address problems of hunger, poverty and the impending challenges of climate change. […]
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• Low Carbon Agriculture March 7, 2010
  Intensive crop production (often based on monocultures and high productivity) depends greatly on external inputs such as mineral fertilizers and pesticides. Sustainable agricultural practices, such as organic agriculture, strongly reduce the reliance on external inputs by: ° recycling wastes as nutrient source, ° using nitrogen-fixing plants, ° improving cro […]
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• Major U.S. Companies Drop GM Foods in Europe. Are South Africans guinea pigs? February 26, 2010
  Bohlen noted that legislation to ban or to label genetically engineered foods has been introduced in several states including Minnesota, California, Vermont and Maine, and just last week, the Boston City Council voted unanimously in favor of a resolution to ban GM foods until they are labeled and subject to safety testing. […]
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• Open Letter: Policies and actions to eradicate hunger and malnutrition / Summary February 17, 2010
  The working document provides proposals for policies and actions to eradicate hunger and malnutrition. It is based on the experiences and political work of social movements, non governmental organisations (NGOs) and others from all over the world during past decades and currently. It is based largely on the food sovereignty framework that embraces the human […]
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• Unexpected Ecological Malfunction of GM crops causes India to call for more tests February 16, 2010
  Trevor Wells of the Farmer`s Legal Action Group in South Africa, takes a further look at the threats to life of reckless science. […]
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