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Companies Like Monsanto and DuPont Practically Own the Meal on Your Plate
Business  (tags: business, corporate, consumers, americans, farming, farms, food, Frankenfoods, GMO )

Roseann
- 37 days ago - alternet.org
Corporations have been given the power to own seeds. And they are eliminating competing varieties and crowning their own patented seeds as the only choice in the marketplace.
5 comments
Non-GMO' Seal Identifies Foods Mostly Biotech-Free
Business  (tags: business, consumers, environment, ethics, farming, marketing, GMO, labelling, food, ingredients )

Michelle
- 75 days ago - nytimes.com
Alarmed that genetically engineered crops may be finding their way into organic and natural foods, an industry group has begun a campaign to test products and label those that are largely free of biotech ingredients.
4 comments
Sign Petition: Tell Procter & Gamble to Stop Animal Testing
Business  (tags: business, money, consumers, animals, testing, Procter, Gamble, suffering, sadness, cruelty, dogs, cats, pet, food, shampoo, makeup, animalwelfare, abuse )

Tom
- 94 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Tell Procter & Gamble that you don't support their testing on animals and won't be buying their products, including Aussie, Clairol, CoverGirl, Crest, Daily Defense, Gillette, Giorgio, Herbal Essences, Iams, Max Factor, Physique, Tide, and Vick's.
41 comments
Amnesty International Attacks Oil Industry for Decades of Damage in Nigeria's Niger Delta
Business  (tags: environmental destruction, human rights violations, oil industry, Nigerian govt, Shell, Total, Agip, impunity for abuses, accountability, basic rights denied, to work, adequate living standard, health, food, access to justice, reparations, remedy )

Alba
- 140 days ago - guardian.co.uk
141-pg Amnesty report gives evidence of oil spill cover-ups, gas flaring near villages & waste dumping leading to dire pollution of wetlands & destruction of farming & fishing; in last 50 yrs 9m barrels worth of oilve leaked into land & rivers. Impunity
10 comments
Tell American Public Media to Stop Letting Monsanto Leverage Its Reputation! - Take Action!
Business  (tags: monsanto, media, bioenginneering, food, agriculture, business, corruption, corporate, cover-up, dishonesty, marketing, lies, usa, consumers, ethics, money )

Holly
- 175 days ago - capwiz.com
LIES! "Marketplace is supported by Monsanto, committed to sustainable agriculture, creating hybrid and biotech seeds designed to increase crop yields and conserve natural resources."
18 comments
A Farmer Speaks: No to GMO Wheat!
Business  (tags: food, nutrition, farming, farms, GMOs, Agribusiness )

Roseann
- 186 days ago - grist.org
According to NAWG, wheat farmers are clamoring to follow their corn and soy counterparts toward a biotech-dominated future. Todd Leake, a wheat farmer and NAWG member, has a different viewpoint.
6 comments
Sign Petition: Support AgJOBS To Help America's Farm Workers
Business  (tags: society, culture, rights, farm, workers, government, law, agjobs, poverty, wages, housing, healthcare, food, agriculture, stability, guestworker, business, economy, humans, rights )

Tom
- 189 days ago - ufwaction.org
There's a bipartisan immigration bill before Congress that could drastically improve the lives of these men and women who pick our country's food. It's called AgJOBS--The Agricultural Job Opportunities, Benefits and Security Act (S. 1038, Feinstein).
29 comments
Taxpayers Forking Out £700 Million for Factory Farming in England
Business  (tags: business, food, Sustainabililty, AnimalCruelty, cruelty, suffering, consumers, corporate, farming, government, investments )

Kim
- 197 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Taxpayers are paying hundreds of millions to Europe every year to fund a factory farming system that is wiping out rainforests and making climate change worse, environmentalists have claimed.
4 comments
King Island Brand Concern - Australia
Business  (tags: australia, king island, food, job losses, cows, cream, milk, cheese )

Chrissy
- 241 days ago - themercury.com.au
KING Island fears its world-renowned fine food brand is under threat after the shock closure of its biggest employer. King Island abattoir, which was taken over by JBS Swift less than 12 months ago, employs 98 of the Bass Strait island's population of jus
3 comments
Meet Rahinatu, a Microfinance Success Story
Business  (tags: microfinance, women, small businesses, Grameen Foundation, International Women's Day, Rahinatu, Ghana, kenkey, food, ground corn )

Blue
- 271 days ago - oxdown.firedoglake.com
Rahinatu lives in Ghana and is a teenager finishing her last year at Savelugu Senior Secondary School. She's also a successful businesswoman, all thanks to a $110 loan from local Ghanaian microfinance institution, Sinapi Aba Trust.
1 comment
Mouse Found Baked In Hot Dog Bun
Business  (tags: mice, food, contamination, americans, business, consumers, marketing )

Echo
- 384 days ago - wcnc.com
"That's our little friend right there and that clearly is a mouse," he said when we visited him in his Charlotte kitchen. The rodent's parts he says are pretty easy to make out.
3 comments
Prince Charles Warns GM Crops Risk Causing the Biggest-Ever Environmental Disaster
Business  (tags: corporate, corruption, environment, food )

Melva
- 463 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The mass development of genetically modified crops risks causing the world's worst environmental disaster, The Prince of Wales has warned.
4 comments
Sara Lee Bakery Manufacturer Sued Over "Misleading" Whole Grains Claims
Business  (tags: business, consumers, food, Sara Lee )

Michael
- 494 days ago - naturalnews.com
A non-profit organization has announced its intention to sue baked goods manufacturer Sara Lee for "misleading" claims about the whole grain nature of some of its products.
4 comments
Vegan KFC?
Business  (tags: diet, food, KFC, consumers, Canada )

Michael
- 500 days ago - thedailygreen.com
Fake meat, unchicken, a mock chicken product will now be offered at KFC's Canadian outposts. That's right: America's favorite source for buckets of finger-lickin' good will now come with a vegan option up north.
13 comments
 
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