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Strategic Blueprint Foresees Slimmed-Down Hog Industry

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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. Click here for full story. ======= 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 Glyphosate herbicide causes malformations in amphibian embryos, scientists in Argentina reveal in their as yet unpublished study. Click headline for full story. Read related story here.

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. Click headline for more.

Science Matters - Are your vegetables green enough?

Here's your weekly Science Matters column by David Suzuki with Faisal Moola. Are your vegetables green enough? Monsanto doesn't think so! Click headline for more. Click here for related story.

Worldwatch Institute Launches Initiative to Assess Agricultural Methods’ Impacts on Sustainability, Productivity

July 8, 2009 Washington, D.C.-The Worldwatch Institute is launching a two-year project to point the world toward innovations in agriculture that can nourish people as well as the planet, supported by a $1.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Click headline for more.

Factory Farms & the Flu. Who Says They're Not Related!

By Larry Powell Sadly, politicians are again placing the interests of a failing industry ahead of science, the public interest and possibly even human health. 
Manitoba and Ottawa are doling out another 37 million dollars -good money after bad - to factory hog producers in this province. 
Both the Manitoba government and the "Feds" have swallowed, hook, line and sinker the siren song of the industry; that it is being unjustly connected to the current outbreak of swine flu and is suffering financial hardship as a result. 
In announcing this latest welfare payment, the Minister of Agriculture, Rosann Wowchuk, cites what she calls "the false connection to H1N1 flu" as one of the factors hurting the industry today. 
This rush to judgement and readiness to be a cheerleader rather than an even-handed lawmaker, does a disservice to Manitobans. 
In contrast, the Green Party of Manitoba has taken a position based on reality and science, as opposed to political ex