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Organic Opponents Develop "Earth Friendly" Seal The Center for Global Food Issues, a Churchville, Va.-based project of the Hudson Institute, has announced that it is developing an “Earth Friendly, Farm Friendly” seal for dairy farmers and processors using high-production conventional agriculture practices....
Posted: Sun, Feb 1, 2004 11:42am PST
Buffalo Field Campaign Update 1/29/04 
Yesterday morning we woke at 5am, gathered in the cabin for a warm breakfast, and headed into the field to find the buffalo. Earlier in the week we'd watched a herd of 18 follow the Madison River out of the park, cross highway 191, and graze on the ecologically-rich flats below the Madison Bluffs....
Posted: Thu, Jan 29, 2004 1:02pm PST
Diane Wilson (Bhopal activist)Jailed For 4 Months And 20 Days Diane Wilson, leading Bhopal activist was jailed for her actions in the sea drift texas....
Posted: Wed, Jan 28, 2004 10:43pm PST
Millions Against Monsanto Monsanto corporation sprays glyphosate herbicide over the Putomayo rainforest in Columbia and contaminates Maize in Oaxaca with their patented Bt gene engineered corn. Stand together with millions of people who say "STOP MONSANTO!"...
Posted: Wed, Jan 28, 2004 9:46pm PST
VEGAN, organic and free from capitalism vegan and organic food free from synthetic pesticides and genetically engineered products is a right for everyone, regardless of income or social status.....
Posted: Tue, Jan 27, 2004 11:25pm PST
Buffalo Field Campaign Update 1/23/04 In this issue:
* Update from the Field
* Bison Vaccination EA - Thank you for speaking out!
* The Yellowstone Buffalo Preservation Act - Has YOUR Rep signed on?
* Thank you for supporting the BFC!
* BFC Wish List
* Last Words...
Posted: Mon, Jan 26, 2004 3:11am PST
Warning: This diet is not for everyone Finding a quarter-billion acres for adequate feed grain harvests would mean at least a 7 percent increase in cropland worldwide at a time when farmers are already using most of the better land. Much of the newly plowed acreage would likely be marginal, subject to greater erosion and requiring extra generous applications of fertilizer and pesticides....
Posted: Fri, Jan 23, 2004 9:22am PST
Seattle: FBI arrests Animal-rights activist An agent with the FBI's domestic terrorism squad arrested an animal rights activist yesterday for allegedly lying to a Seattle federal grand jury investigating an arson attack on an Olympia forest-product company....
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 11:20am PST
"We have lost 30 years": Dennis Meadows "We must develop a new concept of economics, one in which people are less interested in accumulating material things. Only then can sustainable growth be achieved..If we had begun in the seventies to develop alternatives to material growth, we could look to the future more calmly.."...
Posted: Fri, Jan 9, 2004 3:27pm PST
EPA Refuses to Protect Food Supply from Sewage Sludge On New Year's Eve, December 31, 2003, the Environmental Protection Agency denied a petition requesting that the agency ban the land application of sludge. On the same day, the agency published its review of regulations governing the use and disposal of sewage sludge......
Posted: Thu, Jan 8, 2004 9:55am PST
Wa. State Oil Spills Repeat On Dec. 30, 2003, a refueling barge near Edmonds, Wa., was OVERFILLED by 4,800 gallons. The fuel spilled into the Puget Sound in Washington State, just north of Seattle. By Dec. 31, it was a 105 square mile oil slick. Where it landed is Wa.'s last pristine coastal wetland......
Posted: Thu, Jan 1, 2004 11:28am PST
'Mad cow' prions may permanently contaminate processing plants. A modest proposal All surfaces which have been in contact with BSE contaminated animal flesh must be regarded as potential permanent reservoirs of infectious prions. This fact suggests sequestration of such surfaces may be required to protect public health. This article consists of a proposal for the creation of a national repository for the permanent storage of slaughterhouses, meatpacking plants, and other food processing facilities which have been (or may contain equipment) contmainated by BSE prions. Sugge...
Posted: Fri, Dec 26, 2003 4:46pm PST
Mad Cow Disease Hits The United States 
If you eat meat, you already have to worry about salmonella, E. coli, campylobacter, heart disease, strokes, high blood pressure, and cancer, as well as your weight. Now, add mad cow disease to the list. The U.S. government has announced that a dairy cow in Washington state was infected with mad cow disease, also called bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). Newspapers report that meat from the cow, who was killed December 9, traveled through three processing plants before the problem was di...
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 7:54pm PST
Countries Start To Ban US Beef Due To Mad Cow Disease: Aren't You Glad You Don't Eat Meat? A growing number of countries are banning imports of American beef after the US announced its first suspected case of "mad cow" disease....
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 9:24am PST
US confirms first mad cow case WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- The first US case of mad cow disease is suspected in a single cow in Washington state, US Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said Tuesday, according to a CNNreport....
Posted: Tue, Dec 23, 2003 4:59pm PST
Return to the Human Standard: Leopold Kohr "The philosopher Leopold Kohr was an early environment pioneer. Against megalomania and for reform of the modern age, he urged a return to the human standard.. A single cause stands behind all the forms of social misery: somethng has become too great.."...
Posted: Mon, Dec 22, 2003 5:43am PST
America's Food Crisis Rarely will you come across fresh fruits and vegetables, or fresh meat or milk products for sale in the poorer neighborhoods of America's cities. The right to quality food and low prices is a privilege reserved exclusively for the well-off....
Posted: Sun, Dec 21, 2003 9:55pm PST
Ecuador Indians Battle Oil Giants for Amazon-ChevronTexaco 
In the northern Ecuadorean Amazon, Indians are suing U.S. based ChevronTexaco over environmental damage they say ruined their land and made people sick. When it rains, oily pits left by Texaco continue to leak a black sludge into rivers....
Posted: Fri, Dec 19, 2003 3:25pm PST
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