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2015 - International Year of Soils | The Biosafety Alliance 'Soil Not Oil' Campaign

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Regenerating rainforest soils. Photo courtesy of: Rain Forest Healing Center Moderator’s Note: As a biodynamic farmer, I am interested in soil conservation but I am also even more so dedicated to soil regeneration . There is a substantial difference between the two and I hope the principles of regenerative agriculture will become clearer as we share knowledge, beliefs, and practices over the coming year which the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has declared as The International Year of Soils . Yesterday,  December 5, was designated as the International Day of Soils, launching a yearlong global initiative focused on protecting and nurturing one of the most vital of all elements in our planetary life support systems. The Biosafety Alliance is launching a parallel campaign focused on the theme of “Soil Not Oil”. I am posting the announcement of this important initiative and encourage my readers and followers to tune-in to the campaign activities outlined below...
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Brian John | When scientists are anti-science

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Poster credit of David Icke Moderator’s Note: We have our fill of scientists from corporate America who insinuate themselves into governmental positions, many with considerable decision making authority. According to my research, there are more than two-dozen former Monsanto, Dow, and Syngenta scientists currently serving inside the US government with most of these attached to the FDA and the USDA (including especially APHIS and ARS). The regulatory agency-industry merry-go-round is the mark of a neoliberal regime where the regulated are also the regulators. I always thought of this as a uniquely American form of systemic corruption. Turns out that EU and European countries have the same exact problem. In this guest post, our colleague and anti-GMO activist, Brian Johns, examines recent words and actions by Anne Glover, the EU’s “Chief Scientist” who has been promoting transgenic food as safe and dismissing the growing evidence that suggests otherwise. Her relationship with the biotec...
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Monsanto in Mexico | Report on the grassroots struggle against transgenic crops in a major center of origin

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All photos courtesy of CIP Americas’ Program Moderator’s Note:   We are reposting what I consider to be the best report on the history of the struggle against Monsanto and other purveyors of transgenic crops in Mexico, which successfully defeated the ‘Gene Giants’ in Mexican courts to ban the planting of GMO corn and other transgenic crops that represent a real, proven threat to the native land race varieties in one of the world’s preeminent centers of origin for numerous domesticated crops including maize, beans, squash, and many others. The CIP Americas Program has been accompanying the grassroots movement of campesinos, indigenous communities, consumers and scientists to maintain the ban on genetically modified corn for over a decade. The pushback from Monsanto and other biotech companies has been constant, but cross-sector organization has succeeded in protecting Mexico’s native corn and campesino livelihoods from the threat. This report describes the latest developments. I...
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