Staff - MB Co-Operator -9/13/2009 Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq on Friday pledged $75 million for investments in Canada's food safety system. A woman works to sterilize meat processing and packaging equipment at the Maple Leaf Foods plant in Toronto in a file photo. Photograph by: Mark Blinch, Reuters
Mary Jo Laforest - Canadian Press. Se. 13 '09 Photo courtesy Nat'l. Geographic Alberta's oilsands produce more greenhouse gas emissions than some European...
Sep 11, 2009 - By Timothy Gardner. U.S. cracks down on mountaintop coal-mine permits . Photo courtesy Vivian Stockman - Flyover courtesy SouthWings.org NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. environmental regulators said on Friday they will scrutinize 79 applications for mountaintop coal-mine permits...
Published on Thursday, Se. 10, 2009 by Agence France Presse BANGKOK - Energy giants Total and Chevron are propping up Myanmar's junta with a gas project that has allowed the regime to stash nearly five billion dollars in Singaporean banks, a rights group said Thursday.
By Linn Cohen-Cole - OpEdNews - March 8, 2009 Monsanto's Michael Taylor is BAACC..KK ..this time to control "Food Safety" from the White House.. Court esy of Combat Monsanto ======= Ed's. Note: Barak, what were you thinking? Outrageous! l.p.
Winnipeg Free Press - By: Staff Writer - 9/09/2009 Students returning to classes across Manitoba today should not be able to buy any packaged foods or other food products containing artificial trans fat...
Adam Vaughan - guardian.co.uk Se 8 '09 Excessive consumption in rich countries 'takes food out of mouths of poor' by inflating food prices on global market... sustainablog.org/
by Dr. Atiq Rahman, Exec.-Dir. of BCAS, Dhaka and Winner of the UN's "Champion of the Earth" award - 2008 An Indonesian farmer ploughs through hardened soil on a rain-dependent rice field. Courtesy of flickr Global climate change has emerged as the greatest threat facing humankind today...
By Alexis Baden-Mayer, Esq. Organic Consumers Association, Se'09 From the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, OCA has been tracking the opportunities for Monsanto, a well-known war profiteer...