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Farmers Shut Down Motorways, Demanding Land Rights and a Ban on GMOs

TheWake UpCall 0 Farmers, GMO, Poland 10:22 AM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Small farmers, fed up with being sold out to foreign interests, are fighting back against GMOs and other excessive regulations in new and creative ways across the world.<br><br>Genetically modified organisms have been foisted upon countries ranging from Haiti to Iraq and everywhere in between, and now farmers in one particular agriculturally rich country in Europe are taking to the streets to make sure it doesn’t happen to them.<br><br>In this case, thousands of small farmers have closed roads and have begun picketing government offices in over dozens of locations, setting the stage for a showdown with the powers-that-be over food and farming freedom.</span><div>
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Farmers Shut Down Motorways, Demanding Land Rights and a Ban on GMOs

Small farmers, fed up with being sold out to foreign interests, are fighting back against GMOs and other excessive regulations in new and c...

Monsanto Earnings Fall 34% as Farmers Reject GMO Crops

TheWake UpCall 0 Farmers, GMO, Monsanto 4:26 PM

Monsanto Earnings Fall 34% as Farmers Reject GMO Crops

The biotech giant Monsanto, which is responsible for genetically modifying much of the nation’s and world’s crops, announced that its earni...

Why Rockefellers Aim at Destroying Farmers Worldwide

TheWake UpCall 0 Farmers, Rockefellers 3:50 PM

Why Rockefellers Aim at Destroying Farmers Worldwide

For the better part of the past century Western pop culture has systematically denigrated and devalued what should be the most honored prof...

“Free Trade” Agreements Are Criminalising Farmers’ Seeds for the Benefit of Multinational Corporations

TheWake UpCall 0 Corporations, Farmers 4:39 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What could be more routine than saving seeds from one season to the next? After all, that is how we grow crops on our farms and in our gardens. Yet from Guatemala to Ghana, from Mozambique to Malaysia, this basic practice is being turned into a criminal offence, so that half a dozen large multinational corporations can turn seeds into private property and make money from them.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But people are fighting back and in several countries popular mobilisations are already forcing governments to put seed privatisation plans on hold.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GRAIN has produced an <a href="http://www.grain.org/attachments/3247/download" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">updated dataset</a> on how so-called free trade agreements are privatising seeds across the world.</span></div>
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“Free Trade” Agreements Are Criminalising Farmers’ Seeds for the Benefit of Multinational Corporations

What could be more routine than saving seeds from one season to the next? After all, that is how we grow crops on our farms and in our gar...

4 Reasons Farmers’ Markets Should be Your Top Shopping Spot

TheWake UpCall 0 Farmers 11:13 AM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the last decade or so, hundreds if not thousands of farmers’ markets have opened their gates, creating a thriving alternative to industrially produced food and the impersonal food shopping experience. And while they haven’t totally replaced the supermarket, farmers’ markets are definitely taking a bite out of the industrial food business by offering an easy way to connect with beautiful, fresh healthy food – and I couldn’t be more delighted. With access to this healthy shopping option now easier than ever, here are four essential reasons why I believe farmers’ markets are fantastic for your body, mind and spirit – and why everyone should support them:</span></div>
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4 Reasons Farmers’ Markets Should be Your Top Shopping Spot

In the last decade or so, hundreds if not thousands of farmers’ markets have opened their gates, creating a thriving alternative to indust...

Russia food ban protest: Spanish farmers dump potatoes outside supermarket

TheWake UpCall 0 Farmers, Russia, Spanish 5:41 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spanish farmers have dumped thousands of potatoes in front of Carrefour, a major supermarket chain, in response to a move to lower prices, further squeezing suppliers, in the wake of Russian sanctions on agricultural products from the EU.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The demonstration, which was called by the Union de Pequenos Agriultores y Granaderros (UPA), took place on Thursday in Granada, southern Spain and targeted large companies like Carrefour who have taken advantage of the Russian food import ban by lowering prices, thus making it even harder for struggling suppliers.</span><br>
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Russia food ban protest: Spanish farmers dump potatoes outside supermarket

Spanish farmers have dumped thousands of potatoes in front of Carrefour, a major supermarket chain, in response to a move to lower prices,...

Ten Years of Failure, Farmers Deceived by GM Corn

TheWake UpCall 0 Farmers 11:54 AM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monsanto’s genetically modified corn has been widely adopted in the United States, but in several other countries, a different story has unfolded.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">France, Russia, Mexico and several other developed nations have rejected or banned the corn for its many health and environmental risks.</span></div>
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Ten Years of Failure, Farmers Deceived by GM Corn

Monsanto’s genetically modified corn has been widely adopted in the United States, but in several other countries, a different story has u...

How Monsanto Destroys Farming

TheWake UpCall 0 Farmers, Mon satan 5:04 AM

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Monsanto’s talk of ‘technology’ tries to hide its real objectives of control over seed where genetic engineering is a means to control seed, </span><br style="border: 0px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="border: 0px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">“Monsanto is an agricultural company. </span><br style="border: 0px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="border: 0px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">We apply innovation and technology to help farmers around the world \produce more while conserving more.” </span><br style="border: 0px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="border: 0px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">“Producing more, Conserving more, Improving farmers lives.” </span><br style="border: 0px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span><br>
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How Monsanto Destroys Farming

Monsanto’s talk of ‘technology’ tries to hide its real objectives of control over seed where genetic engineering is a means to control seed,...

U.S. Farmers Report Widespread GMO-Organic Crop Contamination

TheWake UpCall 0 Farmers 6:04 AM

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The claim by the biotech industry that GMO crops can be contained and kept away from organic farmers who have chosen not to use genetically modified ‘suicide’ seeds is being proven grossly fallacious. A third of organic growers are now reporting problems with cross contamination, according to a <a href="http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/briefs/organic-farmers-pay-the-price-for-contamination/">new survey</a>. More than <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/03/farmers-address-u-s-data-gap-gm-crop-contamination/">80% of farmers</a> who participated in the survey are ‘concerned’ about the impact of genetic seeds, and 60% are ‘very concerned.’<br><br><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinpq35ylQFOGntOkfXtQ-dY3UTvTMCSDWwXqU9mPzBMgqqzBkq4zW3-WQcXwPZf-JG1Y02iqwAmr-7UWrGcsr3lrSAoxE9krQgAEIA0egUkupO696BxYQVGcjC0hlzW2n-PIVp2-qdOCzI/s1600/download+(21)+copy.jpg"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinpq35ylQFOGntOkfXtQ-dY3UTvTMCSDWwXqU9mPzBMgqqzBkq4zW3-WQcXwPZf-JG1Y02iqwAmr-7UWrGcsr3lrSAoxE9krQgAEIA0egUkupO696BxYQVGcjC0hlzW2n-PIVp2-qdOCzI/s1600/download+(21)%2Bcopy.jpg&container=blogger&gadget=a&rewriteMime=image%2F*" width="400"></a></span>

U.S. Farmers Report Widespread GMO-Organic Crop Contamination

The claim by the biotech industry that GMO crops can be contained and kept away from organic farmers who have chosen not to use genetically ...

Farmers To Face Fines Or Prison Sentences For Selling Food Directly To Customers

TheWake UpCall 0 Farmers 9:17 AM

This would seem to embody the USDA’s advisory, “Know your farmer, know your food,” right? Not exactly.<br />
For the USDA and its sister food regulator, the FDA, there’s a problem: many of the farmers are distributing the food via private contracts like herd shares and leasing arrangements, which fall outside the regulatory system of state and local retail licenses and inspections that govern public food sales.<br />
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In response, federal and state regulators are seeking legal sanctions against farmers in Maine, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and California, among others. These sanctions include injunctions, fines, and even prison sentences.<br />
Food sold by unlicensed and uninspected farmers is potentially dangerous say the regulators, since it can carry pathogens like salmonella, campylobacter, and E.coli O157:H7, leading to mild or even serious illness.<br />
Most recently, Wisconsin’s attorney general appointed a special prosecutor to file criminal misdemeanor charges against an Amish farmer for alleged failure to have retail and dairy licenses, and the proceedings turned into a high-profile jury trial in late May that highlighted the depth of conflict: following five days of intense proceedings, the 12-person jury acquitted the farmer, Vernon Hershberger, on all the licensing charges, while convicting him of violating a 2010 holding order on his food, which he had publicly admitted.<br />
Why are hard-working normally law-abiding farmers aligning with urban and suburban consumers to flaunt well-established food safety regulations and statutes? Why are parents, who want only the best for their children, seeking out food that regulators say could be dangerous? And, why are regulators and prosecutors feeling so threatened by this trend?<br />
Members of these private food groups often buy from local farmers because they want food from animals that are treated humanely, allowed to roam on pasture, and not treated with antibiotics. “I really want food that is full of nutrients and the animals to be happy and content,” says Jenny DeLoney, a Madison, WI, mother of three young children who buys from Hershberger.<br />
To these individuals, many of whom are parents, safety means not only food free of pathogens, but food free of pesticides, antibiotic residues, and excessive processing. It means food created the old-fashioned way—from animals allowed to eat grass instead of feed made from genetically modified (GMO) grains—and sold the old-fashioned way, privately by the farmer to the consumer, who is free to visit the farm and see the animals.<br />
Many of these consumers have viewed the <a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2012/06/25/if-slaughter-houses-had-glass-walls/" style="color: #4256bd; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" title="If Slaughter Houses Had Glass Walls – A Plea for Animal Rights">secretly-made videos</a> of downer cows being prodded into slaughterhouses and chickens so crammed into coops they can barely breathe.<br />
These consumers are clearly interpreting “safety” differently than the regulators. Some of these consumers are going further than claiming contract rights—they are pushing their towns and cities to legitimize private farmer-consumer arrangements.<br />
In Maine, residents of ten coastal towns have approved so-called “food sovereignty” ordinances that legalize unregulated food sales; towns in other states, including Massachusetts and Vermont, and as far away as Santa Cruz, CA, have passed similar ordinances.<br />
The new legal offensive isn’t going over well with regulators anywhere. Aside from the Hershberger action in Wisconsin, and a similar one in Minnesota, Maine’s Department of Agriculture filed suit against a two-cow farmer, Dan Brown, in one of the food-sovereignty towns, Blue Hill, seeking fines and, in effect, to invalidate all the Maine ordinances.<br />
In April, a state court ruled against the farmer, and in effect against the towns; sentencing is due within several weeks, and the case could well be appealed.<br />

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The jury in the criminal misdemeanor case of Minnesota farmer Alvin Schlangen last September acquitted him of all charges after several hours of deliberation. But the regulators’ push against privately-distributed food continues unabated.<br />
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture has moved forward with a local prosecutor in Schlangen’s rural county, pressing similar criminal charges as the ones he was acquitted of in Minneapolis. He is scheduled to go on trial again in August. And in Wisconsin, prosecutors sought, unsuccessfully, to have Vernon Hershberger jailed for allegedly violating his jail terms since charges were filed in late 2011.<br />
At its heart, this is a struggle over a steady erosion of confidence in the integrity of our industrial food system, which has been hit by disturbing disclosures seemingly on a weekly basis. In just the last few weeks, for example, we have seen shrimp, cookies, and veggie burgers recalled by the FDA for being sold with undeclared ingredients.<br />
Also in recent weeks, members of Congress and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control have escalated warnings about the growing danger of antibiotic resistant pathogens emerging from farm animals, which consume about 80 percent of all antibiotics in the U.S. The Atlantic reported last summer that medical specialists are seeing a spike in women with urinary tract infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, likely transmitted by chicken meat.<br />
This erosion in the confidence of the food system carries serious implications. It financially threatens large corporations if long-established food brands come under prolonged and severe public questioning.<br />
It threatens economic performance if foods deemed “safe” become scarcer, and thus more expensive. And it is potentially explosive politically if too many people lose confidence in the professionalism of the food regulators who are supposed to be protecting us from tainted food, and encourages folks to exit the public food system for private solutions like the consumers in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Maine, and elsewhere.<br />
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Farmers To Face Fines Or Prison Sentences For Selling Food Directly To Customers

This would seem to embody the USDA’s advisory, “Know your farmer, know your food,” right? Not exactly. For the USDA and its sister food re...

Urban Farming - 1 Man Produced 6,000 Pounds of Food on 1/10 Acre. Here's How

TheWake UpCall 0 Farmers 12:03 PM

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">“In danger of being free.” That’s how Jules Dervaes sums up his journey from a small backyard garden to a super-productive microfarm. It’s a low input, highly efficient </span><a href="http://urbanhomestead.org/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153) !important; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">urban homestead</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"> right next to the metropolis of Los Angeles.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">Jules, his son Justin, and his two daughters Anais and Jordanne live in a 1,500 sq. ft. craftsman bungalow on 1/5 of an acre. Here they have a 1/10 acre garden and grow 350 different vegetables, herbs, fruits, and berries. The sustainable plot is complete with chickens, ducks, rabbits, goats, and honey bees.  For two years in a row they were able to produce 6,000 pounds of food.</span><br />
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 <div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; text-align: left;">“Government can’t do it and corporations won’t do it,” says Jules in the short film Homegrown Revolution."</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; text-align: left;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; text-align: left;">With a corporatocracy running the show in Washington and millions of Americans addicted to television and fast food, the Dervaes family provides a model of what can happen if we change our priorities. We don’t have to rely on a centralized industrial system that is poisoning public health and the environment more than ever with pesticide-laden, GMO food. We can get off the couch and start providing for ourselves.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; text-align: left;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; text-align: left;">Most of the Dervaes’ food production is for their own consumption, but they do sell excess harvests to local establishments and individuals, and then use that to buy other basics like flour and rice. They are truly one of the most independent family units in the country, with an ever-decreasing environmental impact.</div>

<div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; text-align: left;">Not only do they provide a model for suburban-style sustainability, but their efforts are beneficial to the community and local schools. The Front Porch Farmstand sells Dervaes’ organic produce to neighbors and restaurant chefs. They offer workshops, film screenings, and exhibits at festivals. They host school field trips at the homestead and offer school visits with their “citified” farm animals.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; text-align: left;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; text-align: left;">Source: <a href="http://www.realfarmacy.com/urban-homesteaders-produce-6000-pounds-of-food-on-110-acre/#rERpbt2PEUvpLZzE.99" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153) !important; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">RealFarmacy.com</a></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"> <a href="http://www.naturalcuresnotmedicine.com/2013/07/1-man-produced-6000-pounds-of-food-on.html#TM5wSZcA0Fse3HqY.99" style="color: #003399; text-decoration: none;">http://www.naturalcuresnotmedicine.com</a></span>  
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