Global Warming Causes Severe Storms

Research Meteorologists See More Severe Storms Ahead: The Culprit -- Global Warming

ScienceDaily - January 1, 2009 — Research Meteorologists found that the temperature changes brought on by global warming are significant enough to cause an increase in the occurrence of severe storms.
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Biodiesel Plant Planned for Lloydminster

July 15, 2009 - By Jay Whetter - FarmForum.ca

Canadian Bioenergy is working with Archer Daniels Midland to integrate a biodiesel production plant in with ADM’s canola crush plant at Lloydminster, Alta. Click headline for more.

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Editors' note - And the beat goes on. It matters not that, at least this "current generation" of fuels made from food, fails society in so many ways:
Not to mention its tendency to make the world food crisis even worse. As long as giant corporations like ADM can continue to profit mightily from government grants and government "mandates" which require us to buy their products whether we like it or not, that seems to be all that matters.
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Strategic Blueprint Foresees Slimmed-Down Hog Industry

Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION - By: Laura Rance - 11/07/2009

Pork council angles for government help to ease transition... Click headline for more.



Kichiro Sato

The Parent Company of "Silk Soy Milk" Throws American Farmers Under the Bus

By Ari LeVaux, AlterNet. Posted July 9, 2009.

Since Dean Foods acquired Silk it has ditched support of domestic organic farms.
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Editor's Note - I have been chided in past for suggesting that certifying bodies ought to deal harshly with large corporations when they step out of line. Please read this story and let me know if I am wrong.
Let's boycott Silk! L.P.

Glyphosate Herbicide Could Cause Birth Defects

Argentina Considers Ban

Dr. Mae-Wan Ho - Institute of Science in Society.

Glyphosate herbicide causes malformations in amphibian embryos, scientists in Argentina reveal in their as yet unpublished study.

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What if our Politicians Ruled as if Ecology Matters?

What If...

18 June, 2009 | William E. Rees - Alternatives Journal

LET'S FACE IT – the really inconvenient truth is that the age of unconstrained exuberance is over.
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