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USA science Adviser makes ass of herself

2010-01-28T20:33:00.000+02:00

Hillary Clinton`s ``science advisor`` Nina Federoff makes an ass of herselfBy Trevor WellsFarmers' Legal Action Group - South AfricaSpecial Adviser to the USA Government for Science and Technology today made some absurd and unfounded statements in New Zealand, in an article by Eloise Gibson of the New Zealand Herald.In the article headlined "GM fears may harm the needy" Hillary Clinton's science

South Africans win patent case against German Willy Wonker

2010-01-27T10:59:00.000+02:00

JOY AS PELARGONIUM PATENT REVOKEDMunich 26 January 2010.The Opposition Division of the European Patent Office (EPO) has todayrevoked a patent granted to Dr. Willmar Schwabe (Schwabe) in its entirety.The patent was opposed by the African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) fromSouth Africa acting on behalf of a rural community in Alice, in theEastern Cape, in collaboration with the Swiss anti-biopiracy

Scientific evidence to prove GM Food causes Organ Failure

2010-01-26T20:25:00.000+02:00

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Kofi Annan says no to GMO's in Africa

2010-01-26T09:01:00.000+02:00

Republished to remind Bill Gates Foundfation of their promises""We in the alliance will not incorporate GMO's in our programmes. We shall work with farmers using traditional seeds."By Trevor WellsThe Farmers' Legal Action Group-South Africa welcomes the first firm announcement that the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) will not fund Genetically Modified seeds by the new Chief

South Africa orders Monsanto to remove false safety adverts for GM food

2010-01-21T20:45:00.000+02:00

Trevor WellsFarmers Legal Action Group-South AfricaOn 26 June 2006 Farmers legal Action-South Africa published an article headed "Monsanto tells a pack of lies in South Africa". See article below. The article exposed how Monsanto had told the South African Advertising Authority (ASA) that MON 863 was not their product. MON 863 was in fact their product and had been found to cause damage to

Editors of Scientific American demand end to ban on independent research of GM crops

2010-01-13T01:01:00.000+02:00

By The EditorsScientific American August 2009Advances in agricultural technology "including, but not limited to, the genetic modification of food crops" have made fields more productive than ever. Farmers grow more crops and feed more people using less land. They are able to use fewer pesticides and to reduce the amount of tilling that leads to erosion. And within the next two years, agritech

Monsanto beats Sasol in award for worst corporate climate lobbyist

2010-01-13T00:18:00.000+02:00

THE ANGRY MERMAID WINNER IS...Monsanto wins award for worst corporate climate lobbyist in Copenhangen*****Copenhagen, December 15, 2009 - The winner of the Angry Mermaid Award 2009, announced by award-winning writer and journalist Naomi Klein at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen today is the biotech giant Monsanto with 37 per cent of the total vote [1].Oil giant Shell took second place (18 per

Obama Nominates Pesticide Pusher to Be Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the Office of the US Trade Representative

2010-01-03T23:04:00.000+02:00

Compressed for internet viewing. Takes a few seconds to load but then works fine. How CropLife tried to stop Michelle Obama from starting Organic Garden at Whitehouse.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));try {var

Obama appoints chief pesticide pusher from climate change denialists CropLife

2010-01-03T21:51:00.000+02:00

The plight of victims of endocrine disrupters (gender benders) is as high as 12% in parts of South Africa.I am republishing this (first published by me in 2007) because of the renewed distaste for in the new USA Chief Agricultural Negotiator. He is already attempting to lower standards for the use of toxic chemicals in Agriculture.by Trevor WellsFiona Macleod's revealing article ' Evidence of

2009-12-15T17:50:00.000+02:00

Concerned about AfricaBio: South Africa's genetically modified potatoTrevor Wells writes of his problems with AfricaBio's opposition to consumers knowing what they are eating and its attempts to manipulate farmers' views.I would like to raise a concern I have about SAPA's (South African Press Association) article 'GM [genetically modified] potato rejected', which was published on the iafrica.com

Agro-ecological farmer in USA leads the way for food sovereignty in Africa

2009-12-13T16:48:00.000+02:00

Helena proudly holds a non-genetically modified corn cobJim's daughter Helena holds up one of their open pollinated ears of Goliath Silo corn. This variety was developed over 100 years ago and is not a hybrid. It grew with half our normal rainfall in nothing but composted manure for fertilizer. Her father Jim Snyder says " I would like to see Monsanto try to top this with their Frankencorn!"

Hepatorenal Toxicity in 3 approved GM food crops

2009-12-11T18:35:00.000+02:00

These substances have never before been an integral part of the human or animal diet and therefore their health consequences for those who consume them, especially over long time periods are currently unknown.A new peer reviewed study by the independent Crigen Laboratories and published in the esteemed International Journal of Biological Sciences concludes that# GM crops, namely MON 863, MON 810

New Zealanders give "Thumbs Up" for Ban on GMO's

2009-12-11T10:58:00.000+02:00

Public Give "Thumbs Up'"for Ban on GMO'sFriday, 11 December 2009, 10:01 amPress Release: Jon CarapietMost people across the Auckland and Northland region want companies using Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's) to be held strictly liable for damage, and in some areas most want a ban.A poll conducted by a multi-council working group on regulation of GM organisms found that all communities

Copenhagen's Top item:Enron and Goldman Sach's proposals

2009-12-08T22:51:00.001+02:00

The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the "devils in the details" in current cap and trade proposals: free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and distraction from what's

Missouri District Court awards farmers compensation for GM contamination of their crops

2009-12-07T23:24:00.000+02:00

Dec 05, 2009, St. Louis Post-Dispatch $2 million verdict against Bayer CropScience Bayer CropScience LP must pay about $2 million for losses sustained by two Missouri farmers when an experimental variety of rice the company was testing cross-bred with their crops, a federal jury ruled. Today's verdict in St. Louis came in the first trial in what is intended to be a series of test cases

Africa's stance on UNFCC Climate Change Negotiations at Copenhagen

2009-12-06T13:05:00.000+02:00

ALLIANCE FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IN AFRICA (ASFA) Challenges African leaders on Climate Change Bole Declaration; 25th November, 2009; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia We, the ALLIANCE FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IN AFRICA (AFSA), representing small holder farmers, pastoralists, hunter/gatherers, indigenous peoples, citizens and environmentalists from Africa, salute the strong and unified approach that African

"Poor Washing" Africa. What everyone should know about AGRA

2009-12-06T00:05:00.000+02:00

Compressed for quick viewing. Anuradha Mittal tells National Lawyers Guild Conference in Seattle the way it is. Get real. Get with the program. var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _

Vandana Shiva: The Future of Food 2009 -Part 1

2009-12-03T01:13:00.000+02:00

This is more than about the safety of GM foods for humans and the environment; it's about the ability of all of us to have a choice of the foods that we eat, and for our farmers to be able to freely use their own seeds, and grow food in the manner that they choose. var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript

Build a Family Farm Biodigester for R500

2009-12-01T16:56:00.000+02:00

Listen to Make a Difference by South African Band Tucan-Tucan For expert advice on building biodigesters and agro-ecological farming contact Tarirai at the Forest-Vale Agro-Ecological Project For farming systems to be sustainable there should be a close relationship among the different components that interact in the conversion of solar energy and soil nutrients into food of animal and plant

Ten Thousand Years of Organic Agriculture in Africa

2009-11-27T21:40:00.000+02:00

The interconnectedness with the land, the ancestral spirits, the cattle, the sacred cattle kraal, the brewing of sorghum beer, the arable lands, the communal grazing areas and the ubuntu system of working in each others fields is an integral part of the system. If one spoke is missing the wheel will collapse. This video has been compressed to low resolution for faster viewing. A Thousand

Farmer's Guide To GMO's

2009-11-22T22:10:00.000+02:00

What every farmer needs to know about GM crops.Click the Link below to read moreFarmers' Legal Action Guide to GMO's 2009

GM Threats and Liability for Farmers

2009-11-22T21:45:00.000+02:00

Read the full document by clicking the link below.GMOthreats.pdf

The Great Land Grab:Threat to communal farmers.

2009-11-21T22:07:00.000+02:00

Listen to Africa's call for Help "Sizani!" by Tucan-TucanA New Report Exposes the Role of International Financial Institutions in the Expansion of Land GrabsOakland CA: In a new report, The Great Land Grab: Rush for World’s Farmland Threatens Food Security for the Poor, the Oakland Institute sounds the alarm on the threat that land grabbing poses to food security and

Super Corn-borers Threaten World Ecological and Economical Disaster

2009-06-09T15:36:00.000+02:00

Listen to Make a Difference by South African Band Tucan-Tucan By Trevor WellsFarmers' Legal Action Group-South AfricaThe naturally occurring bacillus thuriengus (Bt) is one of the most useful living organisms known to mankind.It was found that this bacteria produces a crystal insecticide (Cry toxin) which kills

Dignity in Tradition

2009-02-24T02:29:00.000+02:00