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Boris Johnson, GMOs and Glyphosate: Irresponsible, Negligent and Criminal?
Boris Johnson, GMOs and Glyphosate: Irresponsible, Negligent and Criminal? In his first speech to parliament as British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson said: “Let’s start now to liberate the UK’s extraordinary bioscience sector from anti-genetic modification rules and let’s develop the blight-resistant crops that will feed the world.” Johnson reads from a well-rehearsed script. The ‘GM […]
Small farms don’t produce most the of the worlds food – but they could produce all
Small farms don’t produce most the of the worlds food – but they could produce all Recently, I wrote an article about how difficult it is to survive as a commercial smallholder and floated some ideas of why that is and what can be done about it. I want to follow up with two articles. This one […]
Towards a landscape diet and communal landscape management
Towards a landscape diet and communal landscape management Lately I have read two articles which both claim that small scale farming is (self)exploitive and that even with direct marketing such as farmers markets, there is no profit, hardly even survival. What nobody told me about small farming: I can’t make a living, by Jaclyn Moyer […]
Scientists work to solve phosphate shortage – the dwindling resource required to grow food
Scientists work to solve phosphate shortage – the dwindling resource required to grow food By 2030, the world’s population is projected to be about 8.5 billion people. Global food security is a major concern for governments – zero hunger is the second most important of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. However, there is a severe conflict between […]
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Future History
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Future History In Donald Trump’s go-back-to-where-you-didn’t-come-from America, where the fear of immigrants (as well as their grotesque mistreatment) still seems on the rise, just wait. There’s so much more to come. Climate change has barely begun to hit this planet big time and yet, while there’s much writing about the grim circumstances (including gangs, drugs, and […]
Climate crisis needs radical food changes
Climate crisis needs radical food changes The entire food system needs to change, researchers say. From farm to fork, agriculture fuels global heating. Can the world eat well, but stay a little cooler? That will need radical food changes. LONDON, 3 July, 2019 – To feed 9 billion people by 2050, and keep planet Earth from […]
The Next 8.6-Year Wave will be Inflationary
The Next 8.6-Year Wave will be Inflationary All the real science is warning that there is a reasonable chance that we are headed into a much colder period ahead. This will have an impact on food prices and out computer models have been warning that the next wave of the Economic Confidence Model should be […]
Fake Food, Fake Meat: Big Food’s Desperate Attempt to Further the Industrialisation of Food
Fake Food, Fake Meat: Big Food’s Desperate Attempt to Further the Industrialisation of Food Photograph Source: Mattes – CC BY-SA The ontology and ecology of food Food is not a commodity, it is not “stuff” put together mechanically and artificially in labs and factories. Food is life. Food holds the contributions of all beings that make […]
Midwest Flooding Will Cause Shortages of THESE FOODS
Midwest Flooding Will Cause Shortages of THESE FOODS Floods are dangerous natural disasters. People and animals can be swept away and easily drown. Floods can carry bacteria and pollutants great distances. Floods can bust through levees and tear down bridges. Floods can also lead to food shortages when they destroy farms, like the recent floods […]
U.S. Farms Are Facing Their Worst Crisis In A Generation – And Now Here Comes Another Monster Storm
U.S. Farms Are Facing Their Worst Crisis In A Generation – And Now Here Comes Another Monster Storm The combination of the wettest planting season in U.S. history, a catastrophic trade war with China and economic conditions that are brutal for small farms has produced a “perfect storm” for U.S. farmers. Farm bankruptcies have already […]
Do We Face a Global Food Disaster?
Do We Face a Global Food Disaster? No, this is not at all an endorsement of the apocalyptic scenarios of AOC or that famous young Swedish climate expert, Greta. It is, however, a look at unusual weather disasters in several key growing regions from the USA to Australia, the Philippines and beyond that could dramatically […]
Due To Cataclysmic Flooding, Millions Upon Millions Of Acres Of U.S. Farmland Will Not Be Planted With Crops This Year
Due To Cataclysmic Flooding, Millions Upon Millions Of Acres Of U.S. Farmland Will Not Be Planted With Crops This Year It looks like 2019 could be the worst year for U.S. agriculture in modern American history by a very wide margin. As you will see below, millions upon millions of acres of U.S. farmland will […]
American Soil Is Being Globalized: Nearly 30 Million Acres Of U.S. Farmland Is Now Owned By Foreigners
American Soil Is Being Globalized: Nearly 30 Million Acres Of U.S. Farmland Is Now Owned By Foreigners All across America, U.S. farmland is being gobbled up by foreign interests. So when we refer to “the heartland of America”, the truth is that vast stretches of that “heartland” is now owned by foreigners, and most Americans […]
Crop Catastrophe In The Midwest – Latest USDA Crop Progress Report Indicates That A Nightmare Scenario Is Upon Us
Crop Catastrophe In The Midwest – Latest USDA Crop Progress Report Indicates That A Nightmare Scenario Is Upon Us The last 12 months have been the wettest in all of U.S. history, and this has created absolutely horrific conditions for U.S. farmers. Thanks to endless rain and historic flooding that has stretched on for months, many […]
