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Watch your back, the "seed police" are on patrol
On Monsanto's private security force and its anti-farmer tactics.
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http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/monsanto200805
Supply Directory, Supplier Information, Automotive, Jewelry, Electronics Supplies
SupplyBulk.com offers information and resources of supply, wholesale, manufacturer including jewelry supplies, furniture supplies, arts and crafts supplies, electronics, automotive, appar...
agriculture, apparel, automation, automobile, award, beverage, builders, buyer, candle, chemicals, More... saved by: louis23186 more details ...
http://www.supplybulk.com
Business Directory, Small Business, Travel and Recreation
SearchCandle.com is a business directory providing links to business, trade, industry, telecommunication, onlie shopping, automotive, computers, real estate, construction, transportation,...
accommodation., advertising, aerospace, agriculture, airlines, automotive, b2b, beverage, business, chemicals, More... saved by: louis23186 more details ...
http://www.searchcandle.com
Small Business Directory, The online resource for business.
SmallBizGateway.com is a business website directory related to small business, business services, software, ecommerce, law, B2B, investment, business opportunities, financial services, in...
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http://www.smallbizgateway.com
Science Web Directory, Technology, Chemistry, Biotechnology and Environment
Science6.com offers links to science, biotechnology, physics and astronomy, chemistry, environment ,ecology, technology, science resources, social sciences, mechanical engineering, earth ...
aerospace, agriculture, aquaculture, astrophysics, biology, biotechnology, chemistry, directory, ecology, electronics, More... saved by: louis23186 more details ...
http://www.science6.com
Business Directory - Economics, Import and Export, Investment
AllBrowse.com is a comprehensive business directory providing numerous links to browse for business information, trade, export, import, investment, franchise oppotunities, companies, indu...
accounting, advertising, africa, agriculture, antiques, apparel, art, asia, automotive, banks, More... saved by: louis23186 more details ...
http://www.allbrowse.com
Chinese Business Directory, Chinese Industrial Products, China Importers & Exporters, China Travel
A288.com provides links to browse for Chinese business, real estate, manufacturers, suppliers, products, apparel, footwear, finance, health, travel & tourism and much more.China, Chinese,...
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http://www.a288.com
Trade directory, business and economy, business brokers, investment, shopping, manufacturers, retail trade
Directorytrade.com is a directory of trading and business with numerous links to international business and economy, business brokers, employment, import and export, industrial goods and ...
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http://www.directorytrade.com
Reasons you should buy regular goods - The Denver Post
[Disconnection from the farmland] makes the general public highly susceptible to rumors and myths about food, and vulnerable to misleading marketing tactics designed not to improve the sa...
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http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_6474474
Milk: Let the Buyer (the Environment and the Cow) Beware
Organic milk requires 80 percent more land per gallon of milk produced, generates 20 percent more carbon dioxide [...] and produces almost double the amount of other byproducts that can l...
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http://terryetherton.org/2008/03/24/milk-let-the-buyer-the-environment-and-the-cow-beware
Change We Can Stomach - New York Times
With the price of oil at more than $120 a barrel (up from less than $30 for most of the last 50 years), small and midsize nonpolluting farms, the ones growing the healthiest and best-tast...
2008, agriculture, article, economics, food, health, nutrition, nytimes, organic saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/opinion/11barber.html
WorldChanging: International Agricultural Assessment: We Need a Paradigm Shift
A commission of international agriculture experts unveiled a series of reports on Wednesday calling for an end to "business-as-usual" farming practices to avoid widespread environmental d...
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http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007979.html
You Are What You Grow - New York Times
One of these years, the eaters of America are going to demand a place at the table, and we will have the political debate over food policy we need and deserve.
2008, agriculture, article, economics, food, government, health, nytimes, obesity, politics, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/magazine/22wwlnlede.t.html
Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler - New York Times
If Americans were to reduce meat consumption by just 20 percent it would be as if we all switched from a standard sedan — a Camry, say — to the ultra-efficient Prius.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/weekinreview/27bittman.html
The Oil Drum | The Fallacy of Reversibility
Industrial agriculture is likely to be stronger and more profitable when oil prices are high, not weaker. So the reversalist future of local food production on smaller farms with higher l...
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http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3481
Cover story: 'The real GM food scandal' by Dick Taverne | Prospect Magazine November 2007 issue 140
GM foods are safe, healthy and essential if we ever want to achieve decent living standards for the world's growing population. Misplaced moralising about them in the west is costing mill...
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http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=9876
Ending Famine, Simply by Ignoring the Experts
The secret of Malawi’s success: heavy subsidies for fertilizer, farmers say. The World Bank had pressed for their elimination
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/world/africa/02malawi.html?ex=1354770000&en=8db461899c2515...
Global food crisis looms as climate change and fuel shortages bite | Environment | The Guardian
Soaring prices for basic foods are beginning to lead to political instability, with governments being forced to step in to artificially control the cost of bread, maize, rice and dairy pr...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/nov/03/food.climatechange
Technology Review: Green Revolutionary
Four decades ago, Norman E. Borlaug developed a wheat variety that fed the world. Now he's battling a pathogen whose spread could cause starvation.
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http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/19871
A New, Global Oil Quandary: Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories
From India to Indiana, shortages and soaring prices for palm oil, soybean oil and many other types of vegetable oils are the latest, most striking example of a developing global problem: ...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/business/worldbusiness/19palmoil.html?ex=1358485200&en=67c...
Weed It and Reap
We would not need all these nutrition programs if the commodity title didn’t do such a good job making junk food and fast food so ubiquitous and cheap.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/opinion/04pollan.html?ex=1352005200&en=3376d92653ddaa09&ei...
Wired 11.04: The Green Wall Of China
Chinese officials predicted that the effort will "terminate expansion of new desertification caused by human factors" within a decade. By 2050, they claim, much of the arid land can be re...
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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.04/greenwall.html
Biofuels Are Bad for Feeding People and Combating Climate Change: Scientific American
The studies do find some benefit from biofuels but only when planted on agricultural land too dry or degraded for food production or significant tree or plant growth and only when derived...
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http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=biofuels-bad-for-people-and-climate
Policies key as ethanol 'revolution' links agriculture, energy sectors
The prices of corn and crude oil, which prior to 2007 fluctuated almost independent of one another, have become more closely linked thanks to the use of massive quantities of corn to make...
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http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2008a/080215TynerRevolution.html
The Impact of Cell Phones on Grain Markets in Africa's Niger
Cell phones reduce grain price dispersion across markets [...] and reduce intra-annual price variation [...]. Cell phones have a greater impact on price dispersion for market pairs that a...
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http://www.cellular-news.com/story/29361.php
Breakthrough: Rethinking Deforestation: Macro Drivers Plow over the Amazon
Until Brazil's vast socio-economic challenges, as well as its aspirations to economic greatness, are dealt with, more of the same can unfortunately be expected.
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http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/2008/02/rethinking_deforestation_macro.shtml
Why Eating a Big Mac is Cheaper than Eating a Salad » Celsias
Almost 75% of U.S. government subsidies go into meat and dairy production, but less than half a per cent goes into fruit and vegetable production. Talk about an upside down world!
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http://www.celsias.com/2008/02/22/why-eating-a-big-mac-is-cheaper-than-eating-a-salad
Pasona O2, Tokyo's underground farm
In a vault underneath a major Tokyo office building, there is a 1000-sq.m. organic rice and vegetable farm, utilizing LED lighting, computer-controlled temperatures, and hydroponics. Inte...
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http://marukuwato.multiply.com/journal/item/171/Tokyo_Underground_High_Tech_Urban_Organic_Fa...
School-lunch beef supplier found violating health regs
Nasty news about the U.S. beef business. Animal rights activists find employees of a major California operation forcing "downer" cows into the slaughterhouse, sometimes using a forklift t...
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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ib5V7z9A-ocCTOvoaRCq9Ohbl9SAD8USD92G0
Malawi averts famine by dropping free-market policies
Interesting story. After being pushed for years to adhere to strict free-market policies with regard to agriculture (i.e., abandon subsidies, encourage the cultivation of cash drops, and ...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/world/africa/02malawi.html