agribusiness

Just when you thought that IG Farbensanto couldn't possibly stoop any lower, a story will come along which reaffirms one's faith in the utter…
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Monsanto herbicides are prepared prior to being sprayed on food crops. (Photo from the USDA via Wikimedia Commons)

Well, the mandarins at the Environmental Pollution Agency have done it again, ensuring that your food supply will be contaminated with the very latest…
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It appears that big "agribusiness" - which we less-than-lovingly refer to here on this website as I.G. Farbensanto - is at it once again,…
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A woman works a field near the Tanzanian town of Arusha. (AP/Karel Prinsloo)
MINNEAPOLIS– A “development assistance” initiative launched five years ago by the G8, an inter-governmental political forum of the world’s most industrialized nations that consider themselves democracies, is holding Tanzania hostage to the benefit of agribusiness and the detriment of small-scale Tanzanian farmers.

Remember the glorious promise of agribusiness in the 1950s? Or even more importantly, the glorious and breathtakingly exciting days of the Administration of George…
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by Jonathan Latham, PhD The GMO labeling issue has quieted down some but there is still plenty to discuss. Just this week the USDA proposed to redefine GMOs with new loopholes for gene editing. However, ...

...Yes, you read that correctly: the World Bank is now formulating agricultural policy for, well, just about everyone, and (surprise surprise) it thinks GMOs…
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5/5 (11) Here's one that so many sent me I've simply got to blog about it, especially since we track the GMO issues from time to time on this website. In this case, this one is…
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5/5 (14) Over the previous years of covering the GMO issue on this website, I've been advancing the idea that if the BRICSA bloc were smart, they would make GMOs a geopolitical issue, along the lines…
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