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Sustainable Farming
By: AGelbert Date: March 29, 2014, 11:36 pm
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Re: Sustainable Farming
By: AGelbert Date: April 3, 2014, 11:22 pm
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Re: Sustainable Farming: NO DIG ABUNDANCE!
By: AGelbert Date: April 3, 2014, 11:32 pm
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Vermont WON'T BE BOUGHT!
By: AGelbert Date: April 16, 2014, 9:23 pm
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The Vermont Senate today voted 28-2
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to approve legislation
that would require foods produced using genetic engineering (GE)
to be labeled in Vermont. Minor changes made by the Senate must
still be approved by the state House, which previously approved
the measure (107-37). Pending the governor’s signature, the law
would take effect July 1, 2016.
“This is a major victory for the food movement,” said Rebecca
Spector, who heads state labeling efforts at Center for Food
Safety. “Vermont will be the first state to enact a law to
protect consumers’ right to know what is in their food without
requiring other states to do so prior to implementation.
Nationwide GE labeling is not a question of if; it’s only a
question of when. And the answer is soon.”
Unlike other state labeling laws, the Vermont labeling bill (H.
112) is the first bill which will go into effect regardless of
actions by other states. Previous GE labeling bills have
required that a certain number of states enact similar
legislation before they would take effect.
Once signed into law, Vermont’s mandatory labeling policy will
likely set the stage for more states to introduce and adopt no
strings attached labeling laws.
Center for Food Safety helped draft the legislation in
consultation with state representatives and has been at the
center of the fight to inform consumers about GE foods for over
a decade. Center for Food Safety provided legal testimony before
the Vermont Legislature in 2005 and has maintained an active
presence in the state, providing resources and expert legal and
scientific advice to the citizens and lawmakers of Vermont.
Sixty-four nations including China, South Africa and all
countries in the European Union currently require GE foods to be
labeled. Rep. DeFazio (D-OR) and Sen. Boxer (D-CA) recently
introduced federal legislation that would require nationwide
labeling of GE products. That bill has 65 cosponsors.
“Unfortunately, chemical giants like Monsanto and Dow Chemical
will not accept the will of the people,” said Colin O’Neil,
director of government affairs at Center for Food Safety.
“Vermont’s initiative has spurred agrichemical industry
lobbyists to push legislation at the national level that would
eliminate states’ rights to protect their consumers. We vow to
fight them every step of the way and call out industry efforts
to keep consumers in the
dark.”
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Re: Sustainable Farming
By: Surly1 Date: April 20, 2014, 6:59 am
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Hooray for Vermont.
Meanwhile, rust never sleeps, and Monsanto and Syngenta's
hirelings are well on the case:
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Re: Sustainable Farming
By: AGelbert Date: April 24, 2014, 12:37 pm
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UB said, "good news is always welcome". Amen, Bro!
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Especially in the light of how rare it is these days. :(
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Edible Weeds
By: AGelbert Date: June 20, 2014, 11:39 pm
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Re: Sustainable Farming
By: AGelbert Date: June 28, 2014, 6:27 pm
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Re: Sustainable Farming
By: AGelbert Date: November 26, 2014, 8:57 pm
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You may be interested ;D in this free book about colonial
behavior available online. I am listening to it on librovox. I
just heard an interesting anecdote describing a robbery that
occurred at Benjamin Franklin's residence! The chapter (Chapter
12) Is on apparel so the author introduced it as an example of
what fairly well off people had in their houses in those days.
Of course that was over a century after 1620 but it covers that
period in detail as well. The colonists, when they first
arrived, actually lived in CAVES for a while!
Their cats and dogs were probably quite happy there (caves
provide geothermal heat insulation and enabled them to survive
for a few winters until they built dwellings).
You won't find too many history books that admit the early
colonists were CAVE MEN ;D. But nevertheless, it is a
historical fact.
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Chapter 1 of "Home Life in Colonial Days" has the details.
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You can download the book that includes DETAILED accounts of how
they grew, processed and cooked their food and manufactured all
their clothing, houses, machines, etc. in a sustainable fashion
free here:
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Re: Sustainable Farming
By: AGelbert Date: December 1, 2014, 5:40 pm
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Eva Longoria and Eric Schlosser Expose the Real Cost
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Cole Mellino | December 1, 2014 11:09 am
Farm labor today remains one of the most difficult and underpaid
jobs in America, despite the advances made for farmworkers by
groups like United Farm Workers. There’s a brilliant new movie,
Food Chains, that documents the plight of the modern farmworker
and farmworker justice movement that has formed in response to
this crisis.
The movie, produced by actress and activist Eva Longoria and
Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation and producer of Food
Inc., follows the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, which has
formed the Fair Food Program to ask large retailers to pay just
a penny more per pound of tomatoes and to refuse to buy tomatoes
from farms with human rights violations.
“The real power today is with big fast food chains, big food
service companies, and the huge supermarket chains. Pennies more
on purchases of fresh fruits and vegetables could eliminate this
problem and get rid of this misery,” said Schlosser.
Alice Waters, chef and farm-to-table pioneer, calls this movie,
“viscerally moving … [it] shows a true lens into the lives of
the very people who pick our food.” More and more people are
thinking about how their food was grown. Now they need to think
about who grew and picked it.
“I still believe agriculture is the backbone of America and when
you have an industry as big as agriculture you
have to pay attention to the labor force,” Longoria said in the
film. “People often look at farmworker issues as an immigration
issue but it’s more than an immigration issue, it’s a human
rights issue.”
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Food Chains
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