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US-Japan agree to make it easier to import each other’s organic products
The Associated Press announces a new US-Japan deal that could lead to more organic options. The United States and Japan have agreed to make it easier to import each other’s organic products, the latest step in a global effort that could give consumers access to more — and cheaper — organic food. The Agriculture Department…
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Are GMOs worth their weight in gold? To farmers, not exactly
Grist always seems to have the most even-handed coverage of the GM vs. non GM debate.
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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (September 23, 2013): Never Give Up
Originally posted on Teilhard de Chardin: “Never give up: try to attack it from another angle, the correct angle—where success is in proportion not to the extension of the individual but to the constancy in the effort to make the world around God less harsh and more human. If the pressure of events can induce…
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Corporate lobbyists shamelessly use poverty, hunger as cover story to pillage African agriculture
Ethan A. Huff alerts the public to Monsanto’s massive GMO push in Africa at Natural News.com: Europe has all but banned GMOs, with the exception of imported animal feed, and the U.S. is growing more and more resistant to GMOs with each passing day. So the biotech industry is shifting its focus to Africa, much of…
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Cooperatives Responsible for 3% of GDP in New Zealand
Scoop Business Independent News reports on the contributions cooperatives make to New Zealand’s economy: Showing a combined annual revenue of $41,129,034,964 for the year 2011-12, the Top 40 cooperatives in New Zealand ranged from Fonterra Cooperative Group and Foodstuffs at the top through Southern Cross Healthcare Society and Mitre10 to Ashburton Trading Society, the Dairy Goat…
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GMO Label Risk, Organic Food Cut into ConAgra Foods Profits
Stock Traders Daily has bad news for ConAgra Foods: ConAgra Foods, Inc. (NYSE:CAG), the maker of Chef Boyardee, Healthy Choice and Peter Pan, reported disappointing earnings last week, as the company said its net income for the first quarter was $144.3 million or $0.34 per share, down from $250.1 million or $0.61 per share in the…
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Dominican Republic Records 30 Percent Increase in Organic Food Production
From the Fresh Plaza website: The Dominican Republic recorded in the past six years a steady 30 percent increase in the production of organic food, with which it has established itself as one of the world leaders in the marketing of these items. The Ministry of Agriculture expressed in a statement today that the country…
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For Your Enjoyment
Sorry for the bad quality of this video, but this Aztec folk dance by Nawezari is just awesome! Here’s another you might enjoy.
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Some Things Look Like Other Things on Google Earth
A while back, ‘Diane9247′ posted a great series of images in the Google Earth Community of “Some things that look like other things“. Here is one of the amazing items she found: Dominoes. Saudi Arabia (1/09)
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Wednesday’s Poem
Canto XII from The Heights of Macchu Picchu Arise to birth with me, my brother. Give me your hand out of the depths sown by your sorrows. You will not return from these stone fastnesses. You will not emerge from subterranean time. Your rasping voice will not come back, nor your pierced eyes rise from…
The Village Market 