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Farmers, consumers pushing farm-to-table concept

This concept would not only bring more environmental safety and health, but economic shots in the arms to many states in the form... more

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Forest of Ecstasy

Deep in a remote Cambodian rainforest, criminals are setting up illegal factories to produce safrole oil, the raw ingredient for... more

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Groups and environmentalists protest Obama agriculture trade nominee Siddiqui

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How To Start An Organic Garden

If grown properly, your organic garden will produce higher quality, healthier foods '" and will be good for the... more

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Secrets The Produce Aisle Keeps - Technology Induced Transparency

@kpix.dayport.com Companies Like Top 10 Produce LLC and Harvestmark are putting technology in place to read the small stickers... more

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Tell rbgh profiteers why you buy organic to avoid GM bovine growth hormones

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Weekly Spiritual Infusion

This is the weekly feature of the Sustainable Agriculture group where we reflect on our Earth and the gifts she brings us. This is... more

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Stop selling out science to commerce

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Celebrating Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin's 2009 Grape Harvest

Like Miami during Art Basel or Milan during Fashion Week, the town of Reims, France was buzzing with activity during its most... more

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Codex Alimentarius Report 2009: mandating global illness

How do you keep the pharmaceutical and medical industries rolling in profits? Well, you use organinizations like WHO and FAO to... more

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NY Times article against Siddiqui

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How About Them Apples? Is there an app for that?

Insightful musing from Tom Karst, a National Editor at The Packer, a Vance Publication. The Produce Industry seems to be waking... more

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Agriculture and Global Warming

VOA NEWS: Agriculture Both Global Warming Victim and Contributor: FAO report says soil conser.. http://bit.ly/1A8KdZ... more

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A message from Dr. Vandana Shiva: help us fight for the truth

ttp://truefoodnow.org/campaigns/messagefromvandanashiv/

Have you seen this advertisement? Couched deep within the green-washed rhetoric of a recent Monsanto ad is an egregious claim:

Producing more. Conserving more. Improving farmers’ lives. That’s sustainable agriculture. And that’s what Monsanto is all about.

Oh, really?

While the mainstream media and Big Ag pundits seem all too happy to watch how Monsanto and other biotech companies spin and co-opt the term “sustainability,” we at the Center for Food Safety (CFS) are on the front lines fighting against the corporate take-over of our food, farms, and future; advocating for REAL, sustainable, solutions to the problems of the biotech industrial agriculture model.

Over the next month, CFS will be bringing you videos from some experts with whom we work closely in the trenches—Michael Pollan, Vandana Shiva, Anna Lappé, and CFS’s Executive Director Andrew Kimbrell—to help us tell you the real truth about the false claims put forth by Monsanto and other biotech companies. We’ll share with you why these leading activists support the work of the Center for Food Safety.

CFS has been fighting on your behalf since 1997. We have accomplished a lot – we’ve stopped GMO crops including wheat, rice, and alfalfa, and also dangerous pharmaceutical-producing crops. We’ve beat Monsanto in the courts, but they have the substantial resources to continue to challenge CFS; just this week, they asked for the U.S. Supreme Court to consider yet another appeal of our successful lawsuit stopping GMO alfalfa.

We can only accomplish these victories with the support of members like you. Please join Vandana Shiva in supporting our work, to raise the funds we need to continue to fight Monsanto in the courts, and to combat the twisted version of “sustainability” biotech company marketers are trying to foist on the world. We need your help, right now, to raise our goal of $100,000 this Fall — less than the amount Monsanto spent on just ONE AD on the back page of The New Yorker (about $140,000), to support our important workttp://truefoodnow.org/campaigns/messagefromvandanashiv/ Have you seen this advertisement? Couched deep within the green-washed... more