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REAL CHANGE
(not small change)
Despite a constant racket from the forces of the far-out right (Fox television's yackety-yackers, just-say-no GOP know-nothings, tea-bag howlers, Sarah Palinistas, et al.), the great majority of Americans support a bold progressive agenda for our country, ranging from Medicare for all to the decentralization and re-regulation of Wall Street. Indeed, in the elections of 2006 and 2008, people voted for a fundamental break from Washington's 30-year push to enthrone a corporate kleptocracy.
DEATH BY PIE
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How's this for a tombstone? "Here lies a guy/ Killed by a pie."
The actual killers are food conglomerates that scavenge the globe in a constant search for ever-cheaper ingredients from low-wage nations that have practically no food-safety protections.
Consider the case... [read more]
CORPORATE CONTROL OF RESEARCH
Little rebellions can achieve big results, and who would've expected one from corn-insect researchers at land-grant universities. These crop-science specialists usually focus on things like rootworms, but 26 of them recently risked their own careers by daring to stand up... [read more]
PUT THE "PUBLIC" BACK IN PUBLIC SAFETY
In March 2008, the official inspector's report unequivocally concluded, "The overall food safety level of this facility was considered to be: SUPERIOR."
The facility in question was the Peanut Corporation of America's processing plant in Georgia --the very one that then... [read more]
MIGHTY MONSANTO GIVES UP
Every now and then, citizen activism defeats the forces of avarice and arrogance. Here's a story of how children, organic farmers, and cows have just triumphed over mighty Monsanto and its political handmaidens.
For years, this biotech behemoth has thrown its... [read more]
SPECULATORS AND OUR FOOD: EIEIO!
Hedge-fund schemers and Wall Street manipulators--the very characters who brought us the Great American Housing Collapse--have a new target for their fast-buck profiteering: farming. EIEIO!
Speculators have long messed with farmers by artificially manipulating prices on everything from corn to soybeans.... [read more]
THE PRICE OF SHRIMP
"Giant shrimp" is said to be an oxymoron, but it's also moronic that we've let shrimp become a giant problem in our world.
Welcome to the costly consequences of a globalized food supply. Shrimp is the most popular seafood in the... [read more]
WHY CLONING?
The latest advance of science is the cloning of animals. "We can make every cow precisely like its progenitor," exult the lab techs working for corporate cloners. "This eliminates uncertainty in meat production, for every cut can be the exact... [read more]
THE E.COLI LOOPHOLE
Step right up, consumers, and get your special USDA-approved beef with our secret ingredient of E. coli 0157:H7!
Wait. Isn't that the bacteria that lives in cow intestines and cow manure and often contaminates beef at those huge corporate slaughterhouses? A... [read more]
This is the Marx Brothers, bumbling around Animal Farm!
September 2007
EARTH DINNER
Are you up for an Earth dinner for the holidays?
No, not eating earth, but folks gathering around a table for a social occasion to celebrate the bounty of our good, green Earth.
Our dinner tells many stories, embodying our personal histories,... [read more]