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The David against Monsanto's Goliath
Last Saturday, spud! proudly sponsored a food event in support of a 79 year old farmer named Percy Schmeiser who has spent more than a decade fighting to protect his rights and the rights of all farmers to own their own seed. Over 120 people attended the event and we were all eager . . . → Read More: Feisty farmer fights for farmer's rights We did a quick poll in the right hand column of this blog regarding topics you’d like to read about and the highest votes were for articles on our food system. We are happy to oblige and will include a variety of articles on food policy and the food system this year. You’d think that something as . . . → Read More: Food security finally getting government focus It’s Halloween and I’m feeling spooked by the thought of our rising production of “Franken Foods”. Promoters of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) have long touted them as a key solution to meet the food demands of our rapidly growing world population. However, a new study by the Union of Concerned Scientists, called Failure to Yield reveals . . . → Read More: GMOs are not the solution to world hunger I found it lying on the living room coffee table one day when I arrived home from work recently. It was a book called, “The End of Food – How the food industry is destroying our food and what you can do about it.” My wife had been assigned to read it with her book club. . . . → Read More: Contemplating the end of food |
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