Beware of the Tomato Tamperers
By Jim Hightower Some people are too smart for your own good. Food geneticists, for example. These technicians have the smarts to tinker with the inner workings of Momma Nature’s own good foods — but...
View ArticleMonsanto Declares All Their GMO Crops Organic
By James Israel ‘We only splice organic genes’ says Monsanto CEO The biotech giant Monsanto today declared that all of their GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) crops are officially organic. “Since we...
View ArticleNation’s Top Food Makers and Agrichemical Companies Oppose Honest Food Labeling
By humortimes PepsiCo, Nestlé, Coca Cola, and Kellogg working to defeat California’s GMO food labeling measure (Sacramento, Calif.) — The latest round of funding just reported to the California...
View ArticleNightmare, With Angels
By The Town Scryer Looking at the drought withered corn belt and the shrinking polar ice cap on the net while we wait to vote on GMO labeling in our food my mind keeps turning back to a poem by...
View ArticleDenounced: Corporate GMO Disinformation Campaign on California’s Prop 37
By humortimes Groups Launch National Initiative to Help Americans Take Action on Genetically Engineered Foods (GMOs) A new coalition, focused on the right to know whether or not foods are genetically...
View ArticleIn Battling Monsanto’s Greed, Tenacity Matters
By Jim Hightower Monsanto, a bad actor Remember the 1950s horror movie “The Bad Seed”? Any remake should cast Monsanto in the title role, because whenever something scary is being done to our food, you...
View ArticleIt’s Alive! GMO Wheat Stage Million Grain March on Capitol
By James Israel Recently escaped from the lab, GMO wheat is ‘occupying’ farmland — as well as Washington — and demanding its rights Ever since unapproved GMO wheat was found sprouting in April on an...
View ArticleThe Poor Tortured Tomato of Agribusiness
By Jim HightowerTomato tinkerers go back to the drawing board Warning: Agribusiness is in the lab again, molesting the “molecular machineries” of Mother Nature’s tomato. Actually, it’s the...
View ArticleMonsanto Buys a Food Prize
By Jim HightowerNot agri-Culture, just agri-Business: Monsanto As Lily Tomlin has noted, “No matter how cynical you get, it’s almost impossible to keep up.” For example, imagine if a prestigious group...
View ArticlePeeking Under the Big Top at This Year’s Three-Ring Election Circus
By Jim HightowerThe 2013 election circus was at least entertaining Election days can be dizzying — like trying to absorb a three-ring circus with all three acts going at once. In last week’s elections,...
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