Building the Beast System: FDA Wants GPS on Crops – Spinach Sends Email – Cow Registration Mandates

February 14, 2021 Food Freedom

By Ice Age Farmer The FDA is considering requiring GPS coordinates of every crop harvested, and data on when it was planted/harvested/chilled/packed/shipped. Not only would this put small farms OUT of business, it effectively requires robotic automation. British Columbia has mandated livestock registration for your safety “in this age of dangerous pandemics.” The technocratic takeover […]

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Canadian, US Cannabis Corporations Threaten Colombia’s Indigenous Communities

February 9, 2021 Environment

By Fernanda Sanchez Jaramillo This story was originally published on Media.coop; an edited version is published on Global Voices. In 2016, when the Peace Agreement between the Colombian government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) was signed, Colombia also introduced the legal growth, processing, and exportation of medical cannabis. To date, total investment […]

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Corporate Concentration in the US Food System Makes Food More Expensive and Less Accessible for Many Americans

February 8, 2021 Food Freedom,Video

By Philip H. Howard, Michigan State University and Mary Hendrickson, University of Missouri-Columbia Agribusiness executives and government policymakers often praise the U.S. food system for producing abundant and affordable food. In fact, however, food costs are rising, and shoppers in many parts of the U.S. have limited access to fresh, healthy products. This isn’t just […]

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Returning to the Roots of Community Resilience in Hawai’i

February 8, 2021 Food Freedom,Video

By Libby Leonard “There are four things you should know,” says David Fuertes to the youths he mentors. “You should know your origins, because your ancestors have paved the way. You should know your values and connect in those values, because that’s going to drive you to make decisions. You should know your purpose, because […]

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Bill Gates and Neo-Feudalism: A Closer Look at Farmer Bill

February 5, 2021 Food Freedom,Video

By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “Gates has a Napoleonic concept of himself, an appetite that derives from power and unalloyed success, with no leavening hard experience, no reverses.” — Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, presiding judge in the Gates/Microsoft antitrust-fraud case The global lockdowns that Bill Gates helped orchestrate and cheerlead have bankrupted more than 100,000 […]

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The Economic Value of Insect Pollinators Is Much Higher Than Previously Thought

February 3, 2021 Environment

By Maggie Pavlick The economic value of insect pollinators was $34 billion in the U.S. in 2012, much higher than previously thought, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State University. The team also found that areas that are economically most reliant on insect pollinators are the same areas where pollinator habitat […]

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Fungus That Eats Fungus Could Help Coffee Farmers

February 3, 2021 Environment

Coffee rust is a parasitic fungus and a big problem for coffee growers around the world. A study in the birthplace of coffee—Ethiopia—shows that another fungus seems to have the capacity to suppress the rust outbreaks in this landscape. “Coffee leaf rust is a fungal disease that is a problem for coffee growers around the […]

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Tanzania Blocks GMO Field Trials Again Amid Fear of Seed Instability

February 2, 2021 GMO

By Phillip Schneider Tanzania’s recently appointed Agricultural Minister has announced a second cancellation of field research trials of genetically modified maize in order to preserve local diversity of African seed. In 2018, Tanzania’s previous Agricultural Minister Mathew Mtigumwe put a temporary ban on all GMO field trials due to similar concerns. However, a leading agricultural […]

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America’s Family Owned Farms Now Face the Greatest Threat to Their Existence

January 31, 2021 Food Freedom

By Jim Mundorf “The great searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm.”— George Washington I don’t care who you voted for, or your thoughts on the election. Joe Biden is the […]

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Tests Found Levels Of Glyphosate Weedkiller In Hummus

January 31, 2021 Environment,Food Freedom

By Mayukh Saha The Environmental Working Group had recently commissioned an independent laboratory test. The test was conducted to detect the presence of the notorious weedkiller in hummus. The test results found glyphosate in over 80% of the non-organic hummus and other chickpea samples. Apart from the non-organic hummus containing weedkiller, several organic versions also […]

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Biden Attacks Farms – Comprehensive War on Global Food Supply – Engineered Famine

January 29, 2021 Food Freedom,Video

By Ice Age Farmer The Biden admin’s executive actions in the last 48 hours are attacking farms and implementing the technocratic takeover of food, accelerating a global collapse in food production by paying farmers NOT to grow food, cutting their financial support, tasking Tom Vilsack’s USDA with a Net-Zero goal, changing COVID guidance on grocery […]

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The GREATER Food Transformation — Christian Westbrook (Ice Age Farmer) at The Greater Reset Activation

January 28, 2021 Food Freedom

By Ice Age Farmer Christian Westbrook of the Ice Age Farmer broadcast speaks at The Greater Reset Activation (http://theGreaterReset.org​) on the transition to an emergent, regenerative, decentralized food system to feed and empower our families and communities into the future. https://youtu.be/j1AYJuM3UWo https://IceAgeFarmer.com​ FULL SHOW NOTES: SUBSCRIBE on BitChute: https://bitchute.com/iceagefarmer​ On Lbry.tv: https://lbry.tv/@iceagefarmer

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What Are Bill Gates’s Plans With All That Farmland?

January 28, 2021 Food Freedom

By Matt Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government […]

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“He Has Sold Us Out” – Mobs of Farmers Swarm New Delhi Protesting Modi’s New Ag Reforms

January 25, 2021 Food Freedom,Video

By Tyler Durden An angry mob of farmers, some on tractors and others marching in rank and file, are expected to enter India’s capital of New Delhi to protest unfair farming legislation passed several months ago. New Delhi Police will allow more than 12,000 farmers on tractors to enter the capital city this week to demonstrate, a […]

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Land Deals Meant to Improve Food Security May Have Hurt

January 20, 2021 Food Freedom

Large-scale land acquisitions by foreign investors, intended to improve global food security, had little to no benefit, increasing crop production in some areas while simultaneously threatening local food security in others, according to researchers who studied their effects. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and led by the University […]

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America’s Top Owner of Farmland: Bill Gates — In Control of Food

January 15, 2021 Food Freedom,Video

By Ice Age Farmer Bill Gates is the biggest owner of US farmland, having amassed 240,000 acres. His influence in the world food systems is astounding. What can we expect he will do with this inconceivable amount of control over the world’s food supply? Christian takes a deep look at the investments, motivations and goals […]

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Pandemic Sparks Call For End to Big Ag’s Control Of Seeds and Food System

January 13, 2021 Food Freedom

Kenny Stancil, Children’s Health Defense A growing number of people around the world are calling for the public ownership of seeds, which they say is essential for a more democratic and ecologically sound food system. The coronavirus-driven spike in empty supermarket shelves and the continued loss of biodiversity this year sparked a rise in the […]

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No-till Practices in Vulnerable Areas Significantly Reduce Soil Erosion

January 12, 2021 Food Freedom

Soil erosion is a major challenge in agricultural production. It affects soil quality and carries nutrient sediments that pollute waterways. While soil erosion is a naturally occurring process, agricultural activities such as conventional tilling exacerbate it. Farmers implementing no-till practices can significantly reduce soil erosion rates, a new University of Illinois study shows. Completely shifting […]

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How to Grow REAL FOOD by Mimicking Nature

January 4, 2021 Food Freedom,Video

By Natural Blaze Take this quick tour of Jared’s Real Food permaculture market farm located on only 2 1/2 acres. It’s another amazing example of just how much can be produced (and be profitable) with the right systems and techniques that will mimic nature to grow superior food. Jared also discusses the steps he has […]

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Mexico Decrees Ban on GMO Corn and Monsanto’s Glyphosate Weed Killer

January 4, 2021 GMO

By Elias Marat Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has rung in the New Year by decreeing an end to the use of glyphosate – best known as the active ingredient in Monsanto’s “Roundup” pesticides – and also ordering the phase-out out of genetically modified corn for use in the food industry, with both goals […]

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