Superweed Explosion Threatens Monsanto Heartland

By CLEA CAULCUTT - France 24 - SUNDAY 19 APRIL 2009



“Superweeds” are plaguing high-tech Monsanto crops in southern US states, driving farmers to use more herbicides, return to conventional crops or even abandon their farms.
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Artist Paul Hoppe

The Swine Flu Scare Lays Bare the Meat Industry's Monstrous Power

By *Mike Davis. Posted April 28, 2009.

(Photo courtesy of "Centre for Research on Globaliziation")

Animal husbandry now more closely resembles the petrochemical industry than the happy family farm. Click on title for more ...
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Please also read - Flying Pigs, Tamiflu and Factory Farms - by F. William Engdahl
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Swine Flu Is Related to Virus Born on U.S. Hog Factories in 1998
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A FOOD SYSTEM THAT KILLS
New from GRAIN - April 2009

SWINE FLU IS MEAT INDUSTRY'S LATEST PLAGUE

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COMMENT:
Johanne Dion said...

Very few seem to want to ask the question: how do these epidemics start and what can we do to avoid them? Seems to me that factory farming is just begging for these new virus mutations while creating pools of superbugs by using micro-dosing of antibiotics.

A productive thing than anybody in an industrialized country can do is to buy pork and ham that comes from a family size, almost organic pig farm, and avoid all prepared meats that come from big mainstream companies that have promoted these intensive, packed inhuman factory farms. The only way to get companies like Smithfields to change their ways is through their wallet.

Anybody who lives in a small village like mine that has had a 5,800 pig farm imposed upon them, like I have, will agree with me. Ask the people of La Gloria, Mexico.

Johanne Dion
Richelieu,
Province of Quebec,
Canada

April 30, 2009 4:07 PM
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Johanne Dion said...

You might like to read and add this interesting article on the subject:

April 30, 2009 4:38 PM