April 2012
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Drilling Down on Hydraulic Fracturing; EPA... →
By James A. Pardo and Brandon H. Barnes, April 13, 2012
The practice of hydraulic fracturing (fracing) for natural gas is arguably the most visible and controversial energy/environmental issue of the day. Federal, state and local regulators across the country are racing each other to regulate. Academic, industry, environmental, community and a myriad of other interest groups and non-governmental...
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This essay is so late I don't even know why I'm... →
fromtheplant:
Monsanto is the leading global chemical producer for agricultural products. They produce several herbicides with their best selling product being a herbicide by the name of RoundUp. Recent studies have caused uproar amongst researchers as more and more evidence of the effects of Monsanto’s herbicides are coming to light. This paper will focus on several of the many negative effects...
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#Monsanto and #GenePatenting →
kaiamar:
An informative article on the subject: http://redgreenandblue.org/2012/04/12/should-monsanto-be-able-to-patent-genes-supreme-court-may-take-up-the-case-in-part/ No matter how many different ways you argue it, Monsanto didn’t create the genes in question – they found them. They did create the technique for inserting them into different organisms, and that technique is patented. But the...
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#US GMO Labeling petition
pdxhomesteading:
Please sign a petition for the White House to support the mandatory labeling of Genetically Modified Foods. You will need an account to do so. They are halfway towards the required 25,000 signatures needed.
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/support-mandatory-labeling-genetically-engineered-foods-gmos/nkWHZ2Vm
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#Australian protestor visited by 'intelligence' →
12 April, 2012
A protester who chained himself to a Bacchus Marsh drill rig in February claims he has been visited by two ‘security intelligence’ officers, who asked him about his involvement with a green group.
The campaigner and spokesperson for the activist organisation Quit Coal, Paul Connor, told 774 Melbourne’s Rafael Epstein that an unmarked car approached his house as...
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Millions Against Monsanto: The Food Fight of Our... →
Finally, public opinion around the biotech industry’s contamination of our food supply and destruction of our environment has reached the tipping point. We’re fighting back.
April 11, 2012
“If you put a label on genetically engineered food you might as well put a skull and crossbones on it.” — Norman Braksick, president of Asgrow Seed Co., a subsidiary of Monsanto,...
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EPA OKs Pesticide; Major Increase in Use Expected... →
independently-my-own:
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This week, the U.S. EPA may have opened the door to a major expansion in the use of a pesticide known as 2,4-D, by denying a 2008 petition from NRDC to ban the dangerous chemical. The EPA sat on the petition for over three years, and finally reached a decision that fails to give adequate weight to dozens of studies linking 2,4-D exposure to cancer and...
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Freud and the Frankfurt School #waronmen... →
by Michael Minnicino
Chorus: B’nai B’rith networks will have a devastating impact on the culture of the twentieth century. Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, will be a leading member of the B’nai B’rith lodge in Vienna, Austria, during the twilight of the Hapsburg Empire. Freud later will cordially thank the members of that lodge for their support during his...
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#Poland to issue “complete ban” on #Monsanto’s... →
h4x0r3d:
Poland will impose a complete ban on growing the MON810 genetically modified strain of maize made by US company Monsanto on its territory, Agriculture Minister Marek Sawicki said Wednesday.
“The decree is in the works. It introduces a complete ban on the MON810 strain of maize in Poland,” Sawicki told reporters, adding that pollen of this strain could have a harmful effect on bees.
On...
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Monsanto Threatens to Sue Vermont if Legislators... →
April 4, 2012 | By Will Allen and Ronnie Cummins | via @CyranoNymous
The world’s most hated corporation is at it again, this time in Vermont.
Despite overwhelming public support and support from a clear majority of Vermont’s Agriculture Committee, Vermont legislators are dragging their feet on a proposed GMO labeling bill. Why? Because Monsanto has threatened to sue the state if the bill...
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8.5 Million Pounds of Toxic Chemicals Dumped into... →
04-04-2012, Delaware Riverkeeper Network
Industrial facilities dumped 8.5 million pounds of toxic chemicals into New Jersey’s waterways, making New Jersey’s waterways the 12th worst in the nation, according to a new report released by Environment New Jersey. Wasting Our Waterways: Industrial Toxic Pollution and the Unfulfilled Promise of the Clean Water Act also reports that 226 million pounds...
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