S. 510: Small Farms Under Attack AGAIN Posted on January 8th, 2010
LEARN MORE:
Read the bill at OpenCongress
How to Fix S 510 – A Sustainable Ag Perspective
Monsanto’s Baby: S 510
What is NAIS?
On Wikipedia
NAIS: http://nonais.org/
From an email:
Right now, huge numbers of small farms across France which were known worldwide for their cheeses, are gone. The were to sell cheeses their families had profitably sold for generations because they suddenly couldn’t meet the new corporate EU “food safety” standards, (See the PBS show “The Cheese Nun” for a view of this.) Those standards were arranged carefully by corporations specifically to get rid of farmers and S 510 is designed to “harmonize” with those EU laws.
Here’s what the EU is doing and what S 510 would do
TAKE ACTION:
Contact your representatives AND local newspaper
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Are You Eating GMO Foods? Posted on August 23rd, 2009
I uploaded the following video as part of a contest entry for Shelly Roche’s Bytestyle.tv. It’s informative, useful, and she’s nice to look at. So check it out and spread it around!
5 Simple Ways to Save Money in a Recession Posted on August 12th, 2009
From my friend Shelly Roche at Bytestyle.tv comes this great video. Visit the page it’s from to read the 5 things in detail and more great suggestions from commenters.
Top 6 Ways to Identify & Avoid GMO Foods Posted on July 29th, 2009
Recent polls across the world have consistently shown that, if they had a choice, 90% of people would actively seek to avoid GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in their food.
Unfortunately, GMOs are taking over our farmland so quickly, it is virtually impossible to avoid eating GM foods… unless you know what to look for:
For the complete list, go to the original article on Shelly’s website by clicking here.
Plenticulture and Cool T-Shirts Posted on July 20th, 2009
My friend Shelly Roche over at Bytestyle.tv has a website called Plenticulture.com, which I’ve talked about here before. At any rate, she’s come up with some great t-shirt designs and is selling them there to raise money to finish work on the site (among other things).
The shirts are really cool. I think my favorite is this “Eat me, I’m local and organic” one:
Go over to plenticulture.com and check out these awesome shirts and get one (or five) for yourself!
