Genetically Modified Corn in the US Food Supply TODAY . . . the continuing...
I just watch a video on TED.com (which is a really great site, check it out) and one of the presenters mentioned the Starlink Disaster. I was at a total loss . . . the WHAT?? A quick search turned up...
View ArticleThe Ethicurean on Mercury in High Fructose Corn Syrup
Well... I have to say, this is not surprising. High Fructose Corn Syrup and our disgusting corn industry is already a known known in making us fat, less healthy, and killing American agriculture......
View ArticleDrought-Tolerant Corn, the Latest Scam from Monsanto
There's a really easy way to understand the difference between sustainable and chemical agriculture. We can either let all of the life in the soil do the heavy lifting, or we can kill them all and...
View ArticleFood News: Vegan Pet Food? Smoke Shop Food Stamp Fraud? Two-Headed Salmon
There is a full out brouhaha going in the comment section of this story in the Huffington Post- Vegan Pet Food: Vegan Pet Food: Is It OK To Raise A Cat Vegan?Vegan pet food -- and the decision to force...
View ArticleYou Are What You Eat: My Tour Of Morris Grassfed Beef
This is the second and final part of the story of my trip to Morris Grassfed Beef. This sustainable food movement is taking off and I wanted to see first hand what nonindustrial cattle production looks...
View ArticleDo I get to do a fat diary too?
So everyone's Obese wooohooo!!! Whatever.Ladies and Gentlemen, Newsflash: we are not getting fatter because we eat less healthy food! We are getting fatter because Healthier food is getting less healthy.
View ArticleGlobal Warming is a load of BS cooked up by by Al Gore in the late 90s to...
It amazes me how naive most of the world is. I mean, he's AL GORE for Christ's sake! And yet millions of people, or maybe I should call them "sheeple", irregardless, millions of folks worldwide have...
View ArticleBackyard farming - part one.
OK, as promised, here are some pictures of my vegetable garden.http://s684.photobucket.com/...The originals are twice the size I'm showing here, so if you right-click them and select View Image, you...
View ArticleMind Blow: Farmers Giving Away Their Cows at Livestock Auctions
I just got back from the feed store. I own a couple of horses, and it is a regular deal for me to go to the local farmers' feed store and buy grain. Usually it is the grandmother running the shop, she...
View ArticleEPA Fails To Inform Public About Weed-Killer In Drinking Water (VIDEO)
One of the most widely-used weed killers in the country is coming under fire. Yesterday the New York Times and my employer, the Huffington Post Investigative Fund, published investigations into the...
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Why Do They Grow All the F*&@ing Corn?
When you visit Iowa, you're nearly guaranteed to see three things: corn, soy beans, and hog confinements. Those were the focus of the field trip I attended yesterday at the Community Food Security...
View ArticleUtopia 16: Student Driver
Ok...I give up trying to post on any particular day. Now I'll just shoot for about once a week.This is the 33rd chapter of the Utopia/Dystopia series. The story follows one character in two possible...
View ArticleWorld's First Green Tortilla
During the first half of 2010 Different Solutions Company, Ltd. established in this county, will launch the first green corn flour in the world, the same technology that is made with low water...
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The Horror Of Man-killing Monsanto GM Corn
Well actually it was rats, particularly male rats, that were harmed by eating Killer Corn.Barb Wire (AKA The Claw) is very concerned. Barb Wire is off his feed. He has stopped trying to eat my foot....
View ArticleGM foods may be the death of us all
researchers have discovered that eating genetically-modified corn causes organ damage in rats. probably works the same for humans. this does not bode well for our corn-sweetner-filled diets.
View ArticleClean energy is hard to find
Digging into Obama's answer to the energy and environment question broadcast on YouTube today. Terribly consistent with the average Illinois politician's support for more nuclear energy, coal, and...
View ArticleDo you want your food organic? Or genetically modified?
I watched "Food, Inc.," on PBS tonight, and I got so angry that I had to email most of my siblings who grew up on our Iowa farm with me some 50 years ago. I had never realized how much things have...
View ArticleI'm Missing NN10 Because of NAFTA
This is the first time I'm not going to Netroots Nation. And it's strange. I've known since it was announced that NN10 was in Vegas that I probably wouldn't go because Vegas gives me migraines with all...
View ArticleMeet deepwater drilling's doppelgänger: Corn-based ethanol
In the off chance that you were looking for yet another example of just how terribly screwed up our national energy policy is, consider this fact: as bad as BP's oil spill was, it may not have caused...
View ArticleFood Prices Cause of Unrest in Egypt?
Part 1:Dramatically higher food prices in the last couple months could be the straw that broke the camels back in Egypt and elsewhere in the world, with many countries and authoritarian leaders...
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