Why Is the Gates Foundation Helping Monsanto Push Genetically Modified Food?
NAIROBI, Kenya—In the sprawling hills of the Kangundo district in Kenya’s Eastern Province, just a few hours outside of capital city Nairobi, Fred Kiambaa has been farming the same small, steep plot of land for more than 20 years.
Born and raised just outside Kathiini Village in Kangundo, Kiambaa knows the ups and downs of agriculture in this semi-arid region. He walks up a set of switchbacks to Kangundo’s plateaus to tend his fields each morning and seldom travels further than a few miles from his plot.
Right now, all that remains of his maize crop are rows of dry husks. Harvest season finished just two weeks ago, and the haul was meager this time around.
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7 REASONS TO NEVER EAT GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS
With the increased awareness about Genetically Modified Food or GMOs, people are increasingly started to know the hazards of GM free food for health and other reasons. But besides these reasons there are other few which are critical enough to convince us from staying away from GMOs. Let discuss a few of them.
State of Indian Dairy Cows.
Sometimes I’m moved to write about the burning issues of today on Environment, energy crisis , Food insecurity , population explosion , vegetarianism and at other times, about the social scenario of debasing education standards, corruption, teenage suicides , breaking families ,woman and child abuse. But taking the emergency of today world environment seems to steal my intellect.
UNLABELLED FOOD TESTS POSITIVE FOR GM
African Centre for Biosafety, 13 March 2011
Johannesburg, South Africa – The African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) is outraged that several food products, including baby cereal, maize meal consumed as a staple, a renown and heavily promoted dietary supplement for active sports people and wheat free cereal, have tested positive for GM- yet are all unlabelled.
Alternative Natural Sweetners.
When it comes to sweet foods one cannot resist the temptation of savouring such delicacies. People in the older times seldom had the abundant choices in sweet alternatives which the people at our times have. This exponential rise in sweet savouries has been attributed to the rise in alternative artificial sweeteners that are available in market today.
Some of the notable ones are HFCS ( High Fructose corn syrup), Aspartame , Agave nectar etc. Since we all need an optimal requirement of glucose to drive the metabolism a excess of the same can be hazardous to the body. This could lead to increased sugar level in blood and insulin resistance, triggering fat accumulation, and cellular inflammation.
Besides other forms of sugar like fructose has got its own baggage of ill effects when consumed in excess within the body. This fructose is the mostly found in natural sweeteners in balanced amounts conveying nature’s own way of administering the right amount to living creatures.
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Quick way to quit smoking – Organic Tobacco.
The end of year brings about numerous resolutions in men for a transformative year ahead. Some vowing with mixed feelings and others out rightly decide to give away some of the powerful habits they have nurtured for years. Self-inspection is inevitable in such cases when they fail to meet up with their resolutions the very next year. When it comes to smoking things, are not too different.
American organic farmers in court against contamination by GMOs
A rally in Foley Square in Manhattan in support of a suit by farmers who say they cannot keep genetically modified crops from their fields.
SILENT in flannel shirts and ponytails, farmers from Saskatchewan and South Dakota, Mississippi and Massachusetts lined the walls of a packed federal courtroom in Manhattan last week, as their lawyers told a judge that they were no longer able to keep genetically modified crops from their fields.
The hearing is part of a debate that is coming to life around the country, in courtrooms and Occupy sites, in boardrooms and online, with new petitions, ballot initiatives and lawsuits from California to Maine.
GM foods a complete flop in Europe.
The Annual industry figures to be released on Tuesday on the European Union agriculture report has confirmed the commercial failure of genetically modified (GM) food in Europe. This was reported by Greenpeace.It stated that only 0.06% of the EU’s agricultural land was used in 2011 to grow GM crops , the report which was prepared by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA), a group funded by the biotech industry to promote GM crops categorically reported this.
Honeybee population issue getting close to a ‘critical point’
Unusual honeybee die-offs have become so serious that some US beekeepers will be eligible for a catastrophe comfort funds
Anyone who’s been stung by a bee knows they can create an outsized discomfort for such small bugs. It creates an uncommon type of feeling, then, that their decline would create an outsized issue for the meals system by putting the more than 70 plants [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_crop_plants_pollinated_by_bees] they pollinate — from nuts to celery to your — in risk.
GMO News
Mumbai, November 12, 2011:
