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By gollies, when the economic going gets tough for America's workaday people, you can always count on our tough-minded political leaders to get going! Get going, as in: rush like hell to find some gimmick to make it look like they're doing something without actually, you know, doing anything.
Frankenfood
Monsanto the "humanitarian"
By Monsanto and other U.S. manufacturers of genetically altered crops literally have come a cropper in trying to sell their Frankenfoods in Europe, where they've been banned, and in our country, where a growing consumer rebellion has spooked retailers and processors... [read more]
Taco bell's mystery corn
In the most recent chapter in the wondrous tale of high-tech globaliza- tion, the Mexi-mush fast- food chain Taco Bell has had its bell rung thanks to genetic contamination of its taco shells.
Follow the bouncing ball as we review... [read more]
Taco bell's mystery corn
In the most recent chapter in the wondrous tale of high-tech globaliza- tion, the Mexi-mush fast- food chain Taco Bell has had its bell rung thanks to genetic contamination of its taco shells.
Follow the bouncing ball as we review... [read more]
Do something!
Saturday, July 1, 2000 | Posted by Jim Hightower
AGITATE: Call your legislators (Capitol switchboard: 888-449-3511), and tell them to get moving on a law requiring mandatory labeling of genetically engineered food. We don't want to be the guinea pigs for the "life science" corporation's Frankenfood research.
Save the butterflies!... [read more]
The fowlest u.s. factories
The chicken has become the most dangerous animal in the U.S. This humble bird is now subjected to such an inhumane, industrialized processing system that it now commonly comes to your table contaminated with such bacterial killers as salmonella and... [read more]
Saying no the the frankenspud
Monsanto Corpotation, now owned by the drug giant Pharmacia, has long conspired with politicians to doctor the DNA of our dinner in ways that have not been tested for health and environmental consequences. It then sells these Frankenfoods to us... [read more]
Stop hiding the frankenfoods!
Does Texas get hot in August? Does a bear squat in the woods? Does Quaker have a lot of oats?
Now add this one to the list of questions that answer themselves: "Do Americans want to require corporations to label their... [read more]