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Why does our food have serial numbers?
Public Group active 1 year, 8 months agoCommentary about corporate agriculture and its effects on smaller farms, and those of us who eat.
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Michael posted on the forum topic Monsanto and the threat to organic gardeners and dairies in the group Why does our food have serial numbers?: 1 year, 8 months ago
Awesome job, thank you very much for all of your help and vigilance. Much love, Michael
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Lara started the forum topic Monsanto and the threat to organic gardeners and dairies in the group Why does our food have serial numbers?: 1 year, 8 months ago
This article is reprinted from Twilight Earth and is vital to understanding what is going on in the corporate agri-businesses. We will have much more to say about Monsanto as soon as the documents relative to their operation are received from the company and the USDA. Peace Alfalfa at the Eleventh Hour Red Clover (Trifolium [...]
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Lara started the forum topic Smallest Farmers Key To Feeding World's Poorest in the group Why does our food have serial numbers?: 1 year, 8 months ago
Post by Michael » Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:33 pm Writing in the journal Science, researchers note that helping developing countries’ small farmers find ways to make better use of marginal land and cope with overfarmed fields is key to feeings the world’s poorest people. Cynthia Graber reports. “How can we feed the world? It’s [...]
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Michael joined the group Why does our food have serial numbers? 1 year, 9 months ago
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Lara posted an update in the group Why does our food have serial numbers?: 1 year, 9 months ago
While on the road to Kentucky we saw several signs from different agricultural corporations (that phrase seems a little oxymoronic, or at the very least, paradoxical) beside crops ranging from corn to soybeans to cotton. What I found weird was that all the crops were designated by alphanumeric sequences of one sort or another, not names. My…[Read more]
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Lara posted an update in the group Why does our food have serial numbers?: 1 year, 9 months ago
Why is it that each of those corporate farm signs is followed closely by a corporate ‘No Trespassing’ sign–not a personal one? Does that mean that it, the corporation, owns the land?
If so, then is the farmer who works those fields reduced to being essentially a tenant farmer on what was, until recently, his family’s land? If that’s…[Read more] -
Lara created the group Why does our food have serial numbers? 1 year, 9 months ago
