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World Family is creating a space for dialogue and resource sharing between small scale farmers and all of us who value our environment and our communities. All over the world we have a common interest in opposing the take over of the food supply by agribusiness. People and the food we eat are too important to be turned into mere commodities. It is through a thousand small acts of solidarity that we can support and empower the small scale farmers to feed the world.
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The GM food debate is not an issue of science versus anti-science but about whether science serves the public good or corporate interests.
Posted on September 23, 2013 | No CommentsBioethics, Scientific Research and the GMO Debate Chaumtoli Huq Law at the Margins, September 22 2013 http://www.lawatthemargins.com/bioethics-scientific-research-and-the-gmo-debate/ Professor Huq teaches Legal Practice at New York more » -
US Farmers Continue David Vs. Goliath Battle Against Monsanto
Posted on September 8, 2013 | No CommentsGroup brings challenge to patents on Monsanto’s genetically engineered seed to Supreme Court - Andrea Germanos, staff writer Published on Friday, September 6, 2013 by Common Dreams A group of more » -
Monsanto v. Bowman: The Master’s Law
Posted on April 3, 2013 | No CommentsEric Holt Giminez, Executive Director, Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-holt-gimenez/monsanto-v-bowman-the-mas_b_2721776.html?view=print&comm_ref=false The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments for Vernon Hugh Bowman v. Monsanto Co. The 75-year-old Indiana soybean more » -
Red Alert! US State Department adviser hints at EU “food crisis” to boost GM
Posted on March 7, 2013 | No CommentsFood crisis needed for Europe to accept GM: US government adviser By Mike Stones 1st March 2013 It will take a food security crisis to make European consumers recognise the more » -
US farmers may stop planting GMOs after poor yields
Posted on February 18, 2013 | No CommentsSome US farmers are considering returning to conventional seed after increased pest resistance and crop failures meant GM crops saw smaller yields globally than their non-GM counterparts. Robyn Vinter, 6 February more » -
Sit-in and Hunger-Strike in Mexico City Against GMO Corn Plantations
Posted on February 17, 2013 | No CommentsBy Timothy Shipp Monday February 04, 2013 The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico has collected 28,000 traditional varieties of Maize. Photo: CIMMYT On Wednesday, January 23rd, regional more » -
As Challenge over Seed Rights Approaches Supreme Court, New Report Exposes Devastating Impact of Monsanto Practices on U.S. Farmers
Posted on February 17, 2013 | No CommentsCenter for Food Safety and Save Our Seeds Investigate Role of Seed Patents in Consolidating Corporate Control of Global Food Supply February 12, 2013, Washington, D.C. – Today, one week more » -
Bill Gates Leveraged Philanthropy: Corporate Profit versus Humanity
Posted on August 28, 2012 | No CommentsBy Dr Mercola July 31 2012 A recent commentary in Education Week takes a fresh look at the Gates Foundation’s philanthropy. The money it spends on all kinds of projects around more » -
THE NEW ALLIANCE FOR FOOD SECURITY AND NUTRITION: NOTHING NEW ABOUT IGNORING AFRICA’S FARMERS
Posted on June 15, 2012 | No CommentsBy Eric Giminez for Huffington Post, 23.05.2012. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-holt-gimenez/africa-food-security_b_1537279.html) President Barack Obama wants to convince the world that he is actually a liberal after all. First he not-so-hastily follows more » -
Vandals! No, not protesters trashing crops but the GM lobby still trying to force increasingly discredited Frankenstein Food down our throats
Posted on June 15, 2012 | No CommentsBy Joanna Blythman Genetic modification was supposed to be the ground-breaking science of the future. Its magic wand would feed the world and make toxic pesticides redundant. But, more »