Sunday, May 26, 2013
Chile Fines Barrick Gold $16m for Pascua-Lama Mine
BBC News
Chilean authorities have fined the world's largest gold mining company, Barrick Gold Corp. of CANADA, more than $16m for environmental offences. Details here.
PLT: A fine, Canadian "role-model" for the world - poisoning Earth for profit and bling!
PLT: A fine, Canadian "role-model" for the world - poisoning Earth for profit and bling!
Saturday, May 25, 2013
You Need Phosphorus to Live—and We're Running Out
Mother Jones
Pesticide sprayer on a farm in Manitoba, Canada. PLT photo.
Industrial farming has played a part in sucking this critical element out of our soil.
Hungary Won't Tolerate GMO Seeds, Burns 1,000 Acres of Corn
Think you can plant genetically modified seeds with your crop and no one will notice? Better not try it in Hungary, where agriculture officials literally took a scorched-Earth approach to GMO seeds...Details here.
Friday, May 24, 2013
Toronto Star Investigation: Drugged Canadian Horses Slipping Through ‘Inadequate’ Food System
thestar.com
The horse “passport” Canada relies on to keep toxic meat off dinner tables around the world is open to fraud and error, a Star investigation has found, confirming the findings of an international audit. Full story here.
PLT photo.
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