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Those accusing the Japanese government of failure in its basic duty to tell the truth about the potential health consequences from the nuclear plant disaster at Fukushima will not be surprised to read this from today’s NY Times. Although Tokyo is a long way from Fukushima, and most people have been comforted by official announcements that [...]  There’s a debate in British Columbia involving the Agricultural Land Reserve. Farm-friendly people say the ALR is being tromped on by speculators who will buy a farmland-designated property, then erect the permitted dwelling as a McMansion with more appeal to the rich non-farmer than a real grower producing real food. The ALR is North America’s best [...] Who knew? Not the Canadian Cancer Society. Nor the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. They think dosing our yards (and thus our children and everyone else) with poison is a bad idea. So who likes it? Crop Life, the pesticide lobby group funded by corporations which make millions convincing people to lace their own environments [...] Everything about this story is bizarre: from a woman being criminalized for growing food in her front yard, to the comment at 2:02 from a man with women’s ankles, to the fact that this important urban agriculture story is appearing on Fox News. YouTube – Woman Facing 93 Days In Jail For Growing Organic Vegetable Garden! [...] Holy crap. Bt toxins, widely used in genetically modified crops, have been found in human blood for the first time. Because this news comes from a Canadian study out of the University of Sherbrooke, you can imagine how this is the top story making huge headlines all over Canada. Not. I only learned it this morning by reading a [...] Some analysts are saying the Tunisian masses who just turfed their president are a warning to other undemocratic Arab leaders. Perhaps, but the masses seem primarily concerned about something more important: food. A hungry mob is an angry mob. The protests in Jordan, and indeed in Tunisia and Algeria, came after the UN [...] Dang, another one of those thousands-of-years-of-life-about-to-end tales. This one is about the venerable bristlecone pines of high Colorado California. They’ve evolved to withstand almost every harsh condition there is, dating back to before the time of Alexander the Great, but not the kind of crap our own era puts out. It looks like a double [...] Marilyn Tower, owner of Abbotsford’s Tower Foods, with some of the products seized from Vancouver’s Home Grow-In Grocer by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency due to alleged inadequate labelling. Credit: Doug Shanks — From the Weekender Home Grow-In, that cool little corner store on Columbia and 18th Ave that Spring Gillard and I podcasted about [...] I did not just fall off the turnip truck. But these turnips did. A whole whacking pile of them, silently reeking away at an obscure street end in Ladner outside Vancouver. Why? What does it all mean? Is is nefarious? Is someone dumping turnips illegally? Are the producers trying to cut supply to drive up [...] Watch your land carefully, folks in countries with room to grow. The wealthy want your soil. “Food security will dwarf climate change as the world’s most pressing issue in the next few decades, and New Zealand may have seen the first signs of rich or powerful nations trying to secure food supplies for their people.” NZ feels [...] |
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