This Modernization Will NOT Provide REAL Food Safety!!!! Senate Bill S510, the dangerous and misleading Food Safety Modernization Act, is getting close to a vote on the heels of the half-million egg recall from the industrial food supply chain. Act NOW!!! NHFA urges you to immediately write your Senators and oppose S. 510. [...]
Archive for August, 2010
Take Action Now! Oppose S. 510 The “Food Safety Modernization Act”
Posted in CODEX, corruption, Government, tagged agribusiness, big-AG, CHF, CODEX, corporate takeover, FDA, GATT, NHFA, S.510 fake food safety, SPS, unlawful trade agreements, USDA, WTO on August 31, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Fighting Honey Laundering
Posted in FARMING & FOOD, tagged antibacterial, Astrid Sabo, beekeeping, bees, Chinese honey, chloramphenicol, fatal aplastic anemia, honey, honey laundering, Illinois Beekeeper Assoc., Mike Sabo, Philadelphia on August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Live Link: Zester Daily By Terra Brockman | Monday, 23 August 2010 I was a teenage beekeeper. And a geeky one at that. I knew that one bee, in her brief lifetime, collected nectar enough for only a half teaspoon of finished honey. I knew that she and her sisters together flew more than 50,000 miles, [...]
Turning cops into robbers
Posted in 4th Amendment, 5th Amendment, Constitution, tagged 4th amendment, 5th Amendment, civil forfeiture, confiscating property, cops, DownsizeDC, drug war, equitabale sharing, law enforcement, legalized theft, robbers on August 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
D o w n s i z e r – D i s p a t c h The “civil asset forfeiture” laws are inherently corrupt. They empower law enforcement officers to take and keep your property, even if they haven’t charged you with a crime. It gets worse. It’s your property that’s actually charged [...]
Police Begin “Guns Drawn” Raids on Organic Food Stores in California
Posted in FARMING & FOOD, tagged agricultural police state, food police, food sovereingnty, Organics, raids on food, S 510 on August 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Think this isn’t what S.510 is about? This is happening across the country in every state as individual food producers are raided and attacked by local police.
Too stupid to be allowed to vote?
Posted in corruption, Government, tagged congressional corruption, Constitution, democrats, global economy, manufacturing, Marti Oakley, Patriot acts, republicans, rights/liberties, surveillance, voting on August 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Marti Oakley (c)copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved ____________________________________________________ “Sometimes it is mind numbing to consider just how gullible and easily duped we can be. Are we really just going to change the center stage actors and believe that by doing so we will affect change? Or, that anything will actually change? Are we that stupid? [...]
Africa: up for grabs The scale and impact of land grabbing for agrofuels
Posted in land theft, tagged Africa, Agenda 21, agrofuels, bio-pirates, Energy, environment, EU, farming, food soverneignty, gmo crops, gmo trees, land grabbing, starvation on August 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Friends of the Earth Africa and Friends of the Earth Europe | 30 August 2010 The farming system developed shall respect ecological limits, not lead to climate changing emissions, depletion of the soil and prevent the exhaustion of water supplies. Such systems naturally forbid the use of genetically modified crops or trees. Executive summary Access [...]
Buying Africa for a song
Posted in CORPORATIONS, tagged Africa, agriculture, FAO, Food crisis, global farmland grab, Gulf states, united nations, World Bank on August 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Guardian News & Media (Johannesburg) | Aug 27 2010 KATIE ALLEN If dodgy emails offering millions in return for your down payment to repatriate a stranded Nigerian astronaut do not tempt you, then maybe this will appeal to your speculative side — a hectare of fertile African land on a 99-year lease — for [...]
Unconstitutional laws and the courts
Posted in Constitution, tagged civil rights, Constitution, courts, law, statutes, unconstitutional law on August 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Since an unconstitutional law is void, the general principals follow that it imposes no duties, confers no rights, creates no office, bestows no power or authority on anyone, affords no protection, and justifies no acts performed under it.. Consider this opinion of the Supreme Court: “The general misconception is that any statute passed by [...]
Developed nations’ food imports threaten world water supplies
Posted in WATER, tagged agricultural water use, corporate water rights, food supplies, UK, water rights, water theft on August 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
DAIRY REPORTER By Caroline Scott-Thomas, 19-Apr-2010 The UK and other developed countries’ food supplies could be badly affected by global water shortages – and exacerbate the problem, according to a new report from an alliance of engineering bodies.