GMOs | Pesticides | Water | Food Monopolies?
6/11/2024
The Future of Food
The Corbett Report
GMOs
6/17/2016
GMOs, “Biggest Fraud in the History of Science”
COUNTERPUNCH
4/10/2023
Mexico Resists U.S. GMOs, Fights for Food Sovereignty
The Conscious Resistance Network
3/18/2010
Monsanto’s GMO Corn Linked To Organ Failure
Study Reveals
HUFFPOST
6/9/2023
Canada Joins US Trade Complaint Against Mexico’s GMO Corn Ban
Bloomberg via Yahoo!Finance
Pesticides
6/28/2022
Guest column
The Roundup reckoning
Farmworkers win key glyphosate decision
“On June 17, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed what we have long known – that the EPA’s safety findings are deeply flawed. The court’s decision in Rural Coalition, et al. v. U.S. EPA overturned the agency’s determination that glyphosate is not likely to cause cancer. It also held that the EPA failed to protect species listed under the Endangered Species Act before approving glyphosate.”
Amy van Saun and Bill Frees
Center for Food Safety
THE NEW LEDE
Related from THE NEW LEDE
7/12/2022
“The 9th Circuit panel found that the EPA failed to follow established guidelines for determining cancer risk, ignored important studies, and discounted expert advice from a scientific advisory panel in officially declaring that the weed killer glyphosate was ‘not likely to be carcinogenic.'”
Carey Gillam
Appeals court overturns a Monsanto win
on Roundup cancer issue
11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
7/2/2021
Whistleblowers Expose Corruption in EPA Chemical Safety Office
EPA managers removed information about the risks posed by dozens of chemicals, according to whistleblowers.
The Intercept_
9/27/1962
Silent Spring
Book by Rachel Carson
Silent Spring began with a “fable for tomorrow” – a true story using a composite of examples drawn from many real communities where the use of DDT had caused damage to wildlife, birds, bees, agricultural animals, domestic pets, and even humans.
Utilizing her many sources in federal science and in private research, Carson spent over six years documenting her analysis that humans were misusing powerful, persistent, chemical pesticides before knowing the full extent of their potential harm to the whole biota.
She admonished her readers and audiences to ask “Who Speaks, And Why?” and therein to set the seeds of social revolution. She identified human hubris and financial self-interest as the crux of the problem and asked if we could master ourselves and our appetites to live as though we humans are an equal part of the earth’s systems and not the master of them.
Silent Spring inspired the modern environmental movement, which began in earnest a decade later. It is recognized as the environmental text that “changed the world.”
The Life and Legacy of
RACHEL CARSON
6/2/2022
‘We Have Screwed Up the Balance of Nature’
Chemical Expert Tells RFK, Jr.
“Neonicotinoids are a class of pesticides… used to coat seeds or impregnate them. They get incorporated into the leaves of the plant and any insect that eats the leaves or the stems of the plant is killed as well… The neonicotinoids don’t kill the bees, but they screw up their life function to the point that they might as well kill them…
Our dependence on bees is extraordinary because they’re the pollinators. They’re the ones that pollinate the fruit trees, the apples and the oranges and the apricots and the pears. But they also pollinate a lot of garden vegetables, a lot of grain seeds. And if we don’t have the pollinators, what are we going to do?”
Dr. David Carpenter
Director
Institute for Health and the Environment
State University of New York at Albany
the Defender
CHILDREN’S HEALTH DEFENSE
NEWS & VIEWS
Related from the Defender:
4/11/2022
EPA Ignores Own Science
Plans to Reapprove Deadly Neonicotinoid Pesticides
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to extend the registration of several neonicotinoid insecticides, despite the agency’s own findings of evidence of serious threats to pollinators, aquatic invertebrates and other wildlife.
5/15/2023
Have 80% of winged insects disappeared over the past decade? Are most songbirds insect eaters? So, that explains why birds are disappearing?
11/17/2023
Yet Another Study Links Lower Sperm Count with Pesticides
The Last American Vagabond
Related:
Sperm counts worldwide have plunged 62%
in under 50 years, Israeli-led study finds
Birth rates drop in California, San Diego
over the last decade
WE ARE NO LONGER REPLACING OURSELVES
Demographic WINTER
Pesticide Freedom with Native Plants
Water
7/23/2023
San Diego County Beaches Remain Under Water Warnings Due to High Bacteria Levels
TIMES of SAN DIEGO
7/24/2023
Is this due to sewage from Tijuana? So, this warning is just for beaches down closer to the border?
Related:
Which San Diego County Beaches Have Dangerous Bacteria Levels?
San Diego Reader
Our Border Sewage Crisis Has a Solution. SANDAG Holds it.
Food Monopolies?
3/24/2023
A Kroger-Albertsons Merger Would Be Bad for Almost Everyone
Why a coalition called Stop the Merger plans to “fight like hell” to prevent it
“As big companies keep getting bigger, their competitors disappear and prices keep going up. In fact, Food & Water Watch research found that in 2019, just four companies took in nearly 70 percent of all grocery sales in the country.”
Rebecca Wolf, Food Policy Analyst
Food & Water Watch
EATER
9/7/2024
Do farmers and farm workers pay the price when doing business with a monopoly grocery store? If consumers instead take their business to
farmers markets
or road stands, this monopoly power is avoided.
1/8/2023
Sometimes the general public needs protection from what big business does. A perfect example is Kroger trying to buy Vons/Albertsons.
Kroger pushed the COVID jabs. Now, Kroger wants to grab up their grocery store competitors that didn’t push the vaxxes? One of Kroger’s stores, Food4Less, was even posting a guard at the front of one of their nearby stores – presumably to make sure customers were wearing a mask?
As a customer, I was able to cut up my Kroger’s card and shop at other local grocery stores.
Related:
Kroger dangles incentives for consumers to get COVID-19 shots
1/8/2023
Sometimes the general public needs protection from what big business does. A perfect example is Kroger trying to buy Vons/Albertsons.
Kroger pushed the COVID jabs. Now, Kroger wants to grab up their grocery store competitors that didn’t push the vaxxes? One of Kroger’s stores, Food4Less, was even posting a guard at the front of one of their nearby stores – presumably to make sure customers were wearing a mask?
As a customer, I was able to cut up my Kroger’s card and shop at other local grocery stores.
Related:
Kroger dangles incentives for consumers to get COVID-19 shots
12/15/2021
Kroger to Charge COVID Vaccine Resistant Employees $50/Month; Cut Paid COVID-19 Sick Leave
ACTIVIST POST
8/22/2024
Kroger, Albertsons Grocery Merger
Again Highlights How
The U.S. Business Press Is
A Bunch Of Mindless Parrots
When It Comes To Consolidation
“Big companies promoting terrible mergers that cause untold layoffs and consumer and market harms — while promising none of that will actually happen — is a proud, fifty-plus year American tradition. And it requires a symbiosis with lazy, (not-coincidentally also highly consolidated) major media empires.”
Karl Bode
tech
dirt
Related:
Kroger-Albertsons merger
won’t repeat Haggen disaster
exec testifies
8/26/2024
Are merger promises usually worthless? Did Bloomberg, Reuters, and CNBC all mindlessly parrot merger promises? However, abc7 gets bonus points for this next story.
8/22/2024
Kroger, Albertsons Grocery Merger
Again Highlights How
The U.S. Business Press Is
A Bunch Of Mindless Parrots
When It Comes To Consolidation
“Big companies promoting terrible mergers that cause untold layoffs and consumer and market harms — while promising none of that will actually happen — is a proud, fifty-plus year American tradition. And it requires a symbiosis with lazy, (not-coincidentally also highly consolidated) major media empires.”
Karl Bode
tech
dirt
Related:
Kroger-Albertsons merger
won’t repeat Haggen disaster
exec testifies
8/26/2024
Are merger promises usually worthless? Did Bloomberg, Reuters, and CNBC all mindlessly parrot merger promises? However, abc7 gets bonus points for this next story.
8/3/2024
LA councilmembers introduce formal opposition
of proposed Albertsons-Kroger merger
“We’re going to oppose this merger because it’s bad for our consumers. It’s bad for our constituents. It’s bad for our families. It is certainly bad for our workers today and for the workers tomorrow.”
Councilmember Tim McOsker
abc 7
November 2021
The Economic Cost of Food Monopolies
The Grocery Cartels
“Simply put, market power
enables intermediaries like retailers and processors to
capture an ever-growing share of food dollars, at the
expense of farmers, food chain workers and eaters…
The U.S. DOJ and the FTC are supposed to
consider the impacts on market consolidation of
proposed mergers. Using these agencies’ very own
measurement, over a third of grocery categories we
surveyed exceed their ‘highly concentrated’ market
threshold. Regardless, the agencies continue to
greenlight mergers and acquisitions within these
market categories.”
Food & Water Watch
7/17/2023
This report recommends Grocery Cooperatives, Food Hubs, local food processors, decentralized/diversified food systems, and that consolidation be stopped.