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Humane Society and Oregon Wild Join Coalition to Stop Gillnetting

Chief petitioners are David Schamp, Fred Girod and Rod Monroe.

(PORTLAND, OR) - Two nonprofit groups today announced their support for a proposed ballot measure to stop commercial gillnet fishing on the lower Columbia.

The Humane Society of the United States and Oregon Wild endorsed the measure sponsored by the Stop Gillnetting Now coalition, which is headed for the November ballot.

What Is Food? - NYTimes.com

Is Bittman aware that corporations have actually redefined food as "stuff?"

(NEW YORK CITY) - Bittman's is correct that the drinks with sugar don't qualify as food - but much more extensively, in terms of being pervasive, GMOs don't qualify as food.

Bittman leaves off the fact that artificial sweeteners are as dangerous, if not more so, or that the "nanny" government isn't just telling people what they can or can't do for their own good...

WFP Humanitarian Convoy Attacked in Parwan, Province

It's the first time a WFP-marked convoy was directly attacked in Afghanistan.

(KABUL, Afghanistan) - A convoy of WFP trucks carrying humanitarian food supplies was attacked by unknown assailants, 4 June.

The drivers are safe, but three of the trucks and their contents were burned.

13th Annual Bites for Rights to be held June 21st

BRO’s most delicious fundraiser of the year hopes to hit 100 spots across Oregon.

(PORTLAND, OR) - Restaurants, coffee shops, carts, bars and bakeries around the state will donate a generous percentage of their day’s proceeds to Basic Rights Oregon on June 21st.

“This is one of the most fun – and easy – fundraisers we have all year,” said Basic Rights Oregon’s development Director Juan Martinez.

Government Scientists Won`t Stop Field-Testing of BT Eggplant

Philippines- the battle over GMO food.

(MANILA, Philippines PhilStar) - Government scientists will continue field testing a genetically modified eggplant in the Philippines.

This, despite the Supreme Court’s (SC) issuance of a writ of kalikasan against its commercial production.

FNS News: Bleak News for Rio Grande Irrigators

The May 2012 Water Supply Forecast for New Mexico cited unseasonal temperatures that could impact farmers later in the growing season.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - Rio Grande irrigators in the Paso del Norte borderland are in for more bad news.

Experts have noted that spring runoff forecasts for the Rio Grande into New Mexico’s Elephant Butte Reservoir are only 21 percent of normal flows.

Biotech 2, Vermont 0

The biotech industry has had to use corruption and threats to keep secret what they continue to claim is safe and "substantially equivalent" to normal food.

(MONTPELIER, VT) - Vermonters was slammed by the biotech industry twice this month.

They were hit the first time when 90% of the population wanted GMOs in their food labeled but the governor would not sign a bill requiring this because the biotech giant Monsanto threatened to sue the state.

Rising Gas Prices- What Media Will Not Tell You

A failed and foolish foreign policy towards Iran, along with looking the other way while allowing Wall Street speculators to gain control of such things as oil and gas, are the two primary reasons for suffering at the pump.

(JAMESTOWN, RI) - Another of the many failures of mainstream media is its unwillingness to explain to the American public the causes for rising gas prices.

There is no current shortage of gas and oil, world demand is down, current US demand is lowest since 1977, and supplies are relatively high, so what gives?

GM Maize: Nepal`s Food Security Threatened

The sole purpose of genetic engineering of seeds is control over seed supply and global food availability. This weaponization of food system is being implemented by a few American and European multinational firms.

(NEW DELHI) - Not only Nepal’s but the entire Himalayan region is under threat.

Genetically Engineered seeds are weapons of mass culling. The Nepalese Government’s foolishness in inviting USAID and Monsanto for ‘agricultural development’ through genetically engineered maize will destroy the quality of its livestock and humans.

4,000K Walk for Diabetes Awareness Urges Return to Traditional Food Sources

Historic walk because of diabetes crisis, and for a return to traditional sources of food

(WASHINGTON DC) - The story from Survival International involves the devastating impact of corporate food on an indigenous community.

It relates very directly to what is happening right now in the US as the corporate food industry is using government to destroy traditional sources of food...