By Rady Ananda
The British Hen Welfare Trust re-homed 20 commercial hens at HM Prison Holloway on Oct. 3, as part of the staff’s garden program offering educational and therapeutic projects to its women inmates. This is a far cry from the days when Holloway imprisoned women for agitating for the right to vote, and then tortured them.
Volunteer re-homer at the British Hen Welfare Trust (BHWT), Jean Gill, delivered the hens and spoke to prisoners about the work of the charity and advised them on hen care.
“This is a really interesting experiment and a real opportunity from the charity’s point of view,” said Gill in a press release. “It is apt and extraordinary on so many levels that some of the prisoners will be able to take care of something as vulnerable as a battery hen that has had a restricted start in life, that has been kept, literally behind bars in a small cage without access to sunlight or fresh air.”
Posted in Animals, Food & Farming, Human Rights Civil Liberties, Prisons
Tagged battery hens, British Hen Welfare Trust, factory farms, Garden Project, gardening, Health Foods, holloway prison, nutrition behavior link, NY Horticultural Society, NYC GreenHouse, prison brutality, prison farming, suffragists, UK Black Friday, US Night of Terror, Wandsworth prison, Wormword Scrubs prison
By Rady Ananda
“We need to start focusing on food production. It takes 15 years to bring a genetically engineered product to market. The clock is ticking. We need to get moving.” ~ Dr Jason Clay, Senior Vice President, World Wildlife Fund, 2010.
A 2011 film by Wilfried Huismann, The Silence of the Pandas, targets the World Wildlife Fund, the largest, most trusted, and best-funded environmental “protection” organization in the world. Its reputation does not live up to its actions, however, which green wash industries that are destroying the environment as well as indigenous cultures.
Posted in Art, Books, Music & Film, Environment, Food & Farming, Genetic Engineering
Tagged argentina, biotech, biotechnology, ecocide, ecodestruction, Environment, factory farms, farmers, Genetically Engineered Food, india, Land Rights, land theft, monopolies, Monsanto, papua, Peasants, pollution, Ranchers, scientific studies, secession, silence of the pandas, Survival Skills, Sustainable Practices, Tribes, water rights, world wildlife fund, wwf
By Rady Ananda
With all the milk raids over the past few years, you wouldn’t think that dairy is the safest type of food in the U.S., or that factory foods cause 70% of all foodborne illnesses – but that’s just what a new study by the University of Florida reveals. 
Posted in Environment, FDA, USDA, Food & Farming, Genetic Engineering
Tagged Big Pharma, biotechnology, CAFOs, CDC, codex, competitive exclusion, corpogov, factory farms, fda, Food Criminalization, Genetically Engineered Food, listeria, nacmcf, Organic, raw milk, salmonella, susan vaughn grooters, ted beals, USDA, usda tagged biotechnology, vilsack
By Rady Ananda
Review of Meat: A Benign Extravagance by Simon Fairlee (2010, 322 pp.); and
Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale Integrative Farming and Gardening by Sepp Holzer (English version 2011, 232 pp.)
Notice: PBS is rebroadcasting Food, Inc. on Tuesday, August 9 and is kicking off its new Food site. Check local listings here.
While the Bush reign may be described as a war on privacy, Obama’s is clearly a war on food freedom.* As his Monsanto administration arrests organic farmers and distributors, seizing and destroying healthy foods privately contracted and sustainably grown, this tyranny is not unique to the United States. All over the world, organic, sustainable farmers are under attack by large agribiz actors who, through government and trade agreements, are regulating them out of business and destroying the environment in the process.
Two farmers arguing against ecocidal hyper-regulation and “conventional” and “orthodox organic” farming are Simon Fairlee of England and Sepp Holzer of Austria. Both have written seminal books that should grace the bookshelves of everyone who gardens, farms or cares about the impact of agriculture on the biosphere.
Posted in Animals, Art, Books, Music & Film, Energy, Environment, FDA, USDA, Food & Farming, Genetic Engineering, Human Rights Civil Liberties, Land Grab, Resistance
Tagged aquaculture, CAFOs, corpogov, courts, eatwild.com, Environment, factory farms, fao, farmers, Films & Books, Food Criminalization, food inc, Free Range Animals, gardening, gene logsdon, ghg, greenhouse gas emissions, holy shit, joel salatin, lab cultured meat, Land Rights, meat a benign extravagance, meat diet, mike pollan, nomads, omniovers dilemma, Organic, pbs, Peasants, permaculture, Ranchers, sepp holzer, Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale Integrative Farming and Gardening, Silviculture, Simon Fairlee, Soil, subsistence farming, Sustainable Practices, terrace farming, The Contrary Farmer, transhumanism, vegan diet
By Rady Ananda
On July 16, the US Food and Drug Administration posted a libelous release linking a foodborne pathogen to a South Carolina raw dairy before confirming whether or not such a link existed. Two weeks later, the FDA determined that Tucker Adkins Dairy products were free of all contaminants but has still not issued a retraction at its webpage.
“How do we get our reputation back?” That’s what Tommy and Carolyn Adkins asked the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund. (FTCLDF)
Without a retraction at the web page, they can’t.
Posted in Art, Books, Music & Film, Big Pharma, Constitution, Environment, FDA, USDA, Food & Farming, Genetic Engineering, Human Rights Civil Liberties, Resistance
Tagged 2A, Big Pharma, biotechnology, Books, CAFOs, codex, corpogov, courts - justice system, Environment, factory farms, fda, Food Criminalization, food raid, food theft, Genetically Engineered Food, Health Foods, healthy family farms, howard zinn, rawesome raid, Second Amendment, sharon palmer, tucker adkins dairy
By Rady Ananda
Plutocrats aimed another weapon at the nation’s poor and at small and midsized farmers, this time thru the 2012 agriculture appropriations bill, H.R. 2112, which the House passed on June 16. The 82-page bill returns some federal spending to 2006 levels and others to 2008 levels.
Now being reviewed by the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, the final version of HR 2112 will lay the terrain on which the 2012 Farm Bill will be crafted. The House Agriculture Committee began preparatory hearings on the 2012 Farm Bill this week, reports NSAC.
Key sections provide deep cuts to domestic food programs, threatening food banks, low-income seniors, women and children, and farmers markets supported by WIC vouchers issued thru the Women, Infants and Children program.
Posted in Economy Economics, FDA, USDA, Food & Farming, Genetic Engineering, Women
Tagged antitrust rules, banksters, biotechnology, cftc, commodity futures, commodity futures trading commission, corpogov, dodd-frank act, economics, factory farms, farmers, farmers markets, fda, federal food aid, food legislation, food sovereignty, futures speculation, ge salmon, Genetically Engineered Food, gipsa, hr 2112, local food system, meat industry concentration, monopolies, Ranchers, USDA, wall street, wic
Graph: Data compiled by GRAIN from government and UN sources, 2008-2010 (except Australia=2005)
By Rady Ananda
A research group that supports community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems, GRAIN, has released a global report, Food Safety for Whom? Corporate Wealth vs. Peoples’ Health, showing how governments and corporations use “food safety” to manipulate market access and control. Rather than making food safer, domestic and trade rules “force open markets, or backdoor ways to limit market access.”
Posted in Animals, Bioweaponry, Environment, FDA, USDA, Food & Farming, Genetic Engineering, Human Rights Civil Liberties, Obama and Company, Resistance
Tagged australia, bayer crop science, biotechnology, CAFOs, canada, corpogov, corporate food system, dupont, factory farms, farmers, fda, Food Criminalization, food freedom, Food Safety for Whom? Corporate Wealth vs. Peoples’ Health, food safety modernization act, food sovereignty, GATT, Genetically Engineered Food, gmo label, GRAIN, Health Foods, india, korea, maine, monopolies, Monsanto, Organic, paul noble, Peasants, pollution, Ranchers, sick food, Sustainable Practices, syngenta, US, WalMart, wikileaks, WTO
By Rady Ananda
Another armed food raid – this time on a company that provides nutritional supplements primarily for autism spectrum disorders and Alzheimer’s disease – another day under the Food Safety Modernization Act. As predicted, the FSMA is turning out to be a deliberate plan to wipe out small (under a million dollars a year in sales) and medium-sized (under $10 million a year) producers of natural, wholesome food and supplements. This is what happens when corporations run governments.
The concept of “food safety” in corpogov-speak is really just food fascism, according to Vandana Shiva:
“Risk Assessment in the hands of centralized corruptible agencies is no protection for consumers as the disease and health epidemic in the U.S. linked to over processed, industrial foods show. Even while the U.S. is at the epicenter of the food related public health crises, the U.S. government is trying to export its Food laws which deregulate the industry and over regulate ordinary citizens and small enterprise. This deregulation of the big and toxic and over regulation of the small and ecological is at the core of Food Fascism.” [emphasis added]
Small scale producers of meat, raw dairy and veggies, and dietary supplements are under continual attack by food giants who have placed their former employees in positions of power and authority.
Posted in Big Pharma, FDA, USDA, Food & Farming
Tagged Big Pharma, class war, corpogov, decoster eggs, Diana DeGette, factory farms, fda, fda raid, food control, Food Criminalization, food freedom, food legislation, food raids, food safety modernization act, fsma, haccp, Maxam Nutraceutics, rawesome raid
By Rady Ananda
While industries continue to pollute the planet with their toxic chemicals, toxic waste and toxic spills, Earth’s pollinators sing a swan song that leaves no doubt as to the folly of modern civilization. Our ability to hear and appropriately respond to the crisis of declining pollinators will determine humanity’s survival.
“In 1923, Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian scientist, philosopher and social innovator, predicted that in 80 to 100 years honeybees would collapse.” Queen of the Sun
Steiner believed the industrialization of bees would lead to their demise. It looks like he was right. In recent years, the United States has lost between 100 and 300 billion bees, and the problem has spread to Europe and beyond. While industrialized beekeeping operations do kill millions of bees each year, several other factors contribute to their massive die-off.
Posted in Bioweaponry, Genetic Engineering
Tagged age of mammals, apiculture, apis mellfera, biotechnology, colony collapse disorder, Evolution, factory farms, Genetically Engineered Food, global bee colony disorders, gm crops, hfcs, high fructose corn syrup, keystone species, mass die-off, monoculture, north american bats, Pesticides, pollution, queen of the sun, scientific studies, Sustainable Practices, taggart siegel, unep, white nose syndrome, wns
After a vibrant life, Joe Bageant died on March 27 following a four-month struggle with cancer. He was 64. Joe is survived by his wife, Barbara, his three children, Timothy, Patrick and Elizabeth, and thousands of friends and admirers. He is also survived by his work and ideas. According to Joe’s wishes, he will be cremated. His family will hold a private memorial service.
Here’s his last post, on January 4, 2011, announcing his cancer.
Some Fight Back
A Review of Joe Bageant’s Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir
By Michael Donnelly
This book is all about the post WWII shift from Maw and Pap’s agrarian democracy to the urban-dominated/techno/bureaucratic/ military/security/consumer Empire of today, showing how that shift and the resulting class stratification has led us to the brink of economic and ecological collapse, writes Donnelly.
Posted in Art, Books, Music & Film, Economy Economics, Environment, Food & Farming, Genetic Engineering, Healthcare, Labor, Land Grab
Tagged agrarian democracy, agribiz, biotechnology, CAFOs, corporatism, eco-destruction, economics, Environment, factory farms, factory foods, health crisis, joe bageant, Labor, Monsanto, rainbow pie a redneck memoir, subsistence
By Rady Ananda
Need a good laugh? Check out the bizarre reasoning offered in support of the Patriot Act for Food (S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act), which the U.S. Senate will vote on shortly (likely Monday). From a need to stop food smuggling, to the law is too old, to the terrorists are gonna get us, elites sure are shy on brains when it comes to credible propaganda. They must be drinking fluoridated water and smoking Monsanto marijuana, or hoping you are.
Posted in Big Pharma, Bioweaponry, Economy Economics, Energy, Environment, FDA, USDA, Food & Farming, Genetic Engineering, Obama and Company
Tagged agent orange, aspartame, Big Pharma, biotechnology, bioterrorism lab, BPA, chlorinated chicken, codex, corpogov, ddt, dhs, Environment, factory farms, farmers, fda, food control, food freedom, food legislation, food safety propaganda, food smuggling, food terrorism, Genetically Engineered Food, Glyphosate, Homeland Security, katrina, monopolies, Monsanto, PCB, Peasants, pollution, Ranchers, Rbst, S 510, scientific studies
By Rady Ananda
Another massive egg recall, another tie to scofflaw Jack DeCoster.
Nearly 300,000 eggs have been recalled, affecting eight states, after Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. got word on Friday from the FDA that eggs from one of its suppliers, Ohio Fresh Eggs, tested positive for Salmonella Enteritidis (SE). Cal-Maine processed and packaged 24,000 dozen eggs in its Green Forest, Arkansas facility under the Sunny Meadow, Springfield Grocer, Sun Valley and James Farm labels.
Cartons bearing plant number P1457 with Julian dates of 282, 284 and 285 are being recalled. The Julian date follows the plant number, for example: P1457-282.
11/9 UPDATE: An additional 120 dozen shell eggs that have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis (SE), were added today to the products included in this recall.
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Posted in FDA, USDA, Food & Farming
Tagged CAFOs, cal-maine foods, egg recall, factory farms, fda, Food Supply, Free Range Animals, jack decoster, ohio fresh eggs
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By Rady Ananda
This 80-minute interview by Dr. Mercola of Dr. Shiv Chopra, author of Corrupt to the Core, significantly contributes to the global movement to end hunger. Take the “most toxic food system” on Earth — that of the US and Canada, he says — and let it die a natural death because we no longer buy its product. Instead, implement his “five pillars of food safety.” Stop complaining to the fox that there are not enough chickens in the henhouse. “The fox is not listening.” Take matters into your own hands. I’m not going to give up the secret – listen to the entire interview.
Posted in Big Pharma, Education, Environment, FDA, USDA, Food & Farming, Genetic Engineering, Healthcare, Human Rights Civil Liberties, Resistance
Tagged animal tracing, antibiotics, Big Pharma, biotechnology, CAFOs, codex, corpogov, corrupt to the core, economic collapse, factory farms, five pillars of food safety, food sovereignty, Genetically Engineered Food, gmo, hormones, industrial food, monopolies, NAIS, Pesticides, pollution, Premises ID, shiv chopra 2010, slaughterhouse waste
By Meryl Williamson
Those promoting genetic engineering have claimed it is the cutting edge of science. Those in opposition are treated as ill-informed. African scientists who reject genetic engineering are treated as a needy, backward underclass and “starved for science.” Vaccines are considered the greatest gift of modern medicine and those opposed are said to be putting others’ lives at risk.
But whatever high ground the biotech and vaccine industries have claimed for themselves scientifically is crumbling. Both paradigms are beginning to collapse.
Posted in Big Pharma, Bioweaponry, Censorship, Economy Economics, Environment, Food & Farming, Genetic Engineering, Guest Blogger, Healthcare, NWO, Obama and Company, Swine Flu H1N1
Tagged Big Pharma, BRAI, cartagena protocol, CDC, corpogov, corruption, Environment, factory farms, farmers, fda, food control, food legislation, Food Safety, Genetical Engineering, gmo, Land Rights, Organic, Peasants, Population control, Ranchers, vaccine theory, WHO
Guest Blogged by Annette Fisher
Happy Trails Farm
From Chesney’s story we can imagine the conditions in CAFOs, as Ms. Fisher implores: “Think of the animals such as those on factory farms — chickens in battery cages, pigs in gestation crates, geese being force-fed with tubes on foi gras farms, small baby calves used for veal and chained to small calf hutches, and so on.” There is a better, healthier, kinder way to eat or to entertain ourselves.
Posted in Animals, Environment, Food & Farming, Guest Blogger
Tagged animal cruelty, annette fisher, CAFOs, chesney tribute former cockfighting rooster, chicken fights, cockfighting, factory farms, homo sapiens insanitus
By The Yes Men
A legal complaint from agribusiness giant ADM has resulted in the removal from Youtube of a fake video of ADM’s CEO making over-honest pronouncements. (The video is still available here and here.)
Posted in 4th Estate, Censorship, Environment, Food & Farming, Genetic Engineering, Land Grab, Resistance
Tagged 4th Estate, ADM, agribusiness, archer daniels midland, CAFOs, class war, corpogov, Environment, factory farms, food freedom, Food News, Genetical Engineering, greed, humor, Sustainable Practices, Take Down Order
NO on Issue 2
By Rady Ananda
A radical reach for power, Issue 2 grants a politically appointed Livestock Care Standards Board autonomous authority over the Ohio Dept of Agriculture, the Ohio EPA, other state agencies and the state legislature. Ohioans are now voting on the Issue through Nov. 3rd.
Spending millions of ad dollars on bolstering support for Issue 2, industry giants are confident they’ll win. The initiative thwarts a growing national movement to enforce more humane, and fewer, CAFOs – concentrated animal feeding operations. Continue reading
Posted in Big Pharma, Food & Farming, Genetic Engineering, Human Rights Civil Liberties, Land Grab
Tagged Big Ag, Big Meat, CAFO vs free range livestock, CAFOs, corpogov, democratic debate, factory farms, Farmers Ranchers, food legislation, Free Range Animals, Health Foods, NAIS, Ohio Issue 2 Livestock Board