You may have heard that the last omnibus funding bill included electronic ID, which is unfortunately true … but it still hinges on the USDA rule going into effect. So we can still stop it if Congress takes action in the Farm Bill!
Food
FDA Opens Floodgates to Gen2 Frankenfoods
The agency has released “guidance” to the biotech industry about how to get foods from gene-edited (GE) plants onto your dinner plate, doubling down on bad policies that treat GE foods the same as any other type of food—even though they are anything but. Action Alert!
UK Agency wants to fast-track and greenlight lab-grown meat
In the US where regulations are already more relaxed, only two lab-grown products have so far gone through the approval process and, despite gaining approval, neither is currently available to buy.
Food inflation: Math doesn’t add up, factoring in corporate power
This combination of monopoly power and unregulated activity in financial markets allows agricultural commodity traders, big agribusiness and food companies to make huge profits from food price rises.
Sick to Death: Unhealthy Food and Failed Technologies
Industry narratives have nothing to say about the food system itself, which sees ‘food’ as just another commodity to be rinsed for profit regardless of the impacts on human health or the environment.
US Fast Food Testing Reveals Glyphosate in All Samples
100% of Top Twenty ( +1) Fast Food brands contained alarming glyphosate residues.
Fast-Food Graveyard – Sickened for Profit
For the likes of BlackRock, which invests in both food and pharma, fuelling a system increasingly based on ultra processed food (UPF) with its cheap and unhealthy ingredients is a sure-fire money spinner.
The New Colonialist Food Economy
How Bill Gates and agribusiness giants are throttling small farmers in Africa and the Global South.
Resisting Genetically Mutilated Food and Eco-Modern Nightmare
A wealthy financial-digital-corporate elite funds The Science, determines what should be studied, how it should be studied and how the findings are disseminated and how the technology produced is to be used.
Vandana Shiva: ‘Farming Without Farmers, Food Without Farms’
On the latest episode of Russell Brand’s “Stay Free,” scholar, environmental activist and food sovereignty advocate Vandana Shiva, Ph.D., discussed food fascism, the power of “philanthropy,” digital enslavement and how people can free themselves from this system.
Let Them Eat Bugs: The WEF’s Corporate-Driven Food Reset
The UN has climbed into bed with the WEF and unaccountable corporate agrifood and big data giants, which have no time for democratic governance.
Lessons in Freedom: Agroecology, Localisation & Food Sovereignty
A decentralised system of food production with access to local markets supported by proper roads, storage and other infrastructure must take priority ahead of exploitative international markets dominated and designed to serve the needs of global capital.
