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Toxic Agriculture and the Gates Foundation
By Colin Todhunter Source: Dissident Voice The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was launched in 2000 and has $46.8 billion in assets (December 2018). It is the largest charitable foundation in the world and distributes more aid for global health … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Empire, Environment, GMOs, Health, imperialism, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Oligarchy, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Technology
Tagged AGRA, Agrochemicals, BASF, Bayer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Biopiracy, Cargill, CGIAR, Corporate Philanthropy, Corteva, Diversity Seek, DuPont, environment, FMC, Food Security, food sovereignty, Gates Foundation, Global Justice Now, Global South, Globalization, Glyphosate, GMOs, Health, Herbicides, imperialism, Monocrops, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Poverty, Syngenta, USAID, WHO
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A New Aesthetic
By Damaris Zehner Source: Resilience There are all these good ideas – intensive agriculture, organic farming, permaculture, the local food movement. But why is most food still not grown this way, if it really is better? Why don’t farmers switch … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Environment, Health, Labor, Philosophy, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Big Ag, Economics, environment, Farming, Food, Health, Herbicides, Industrial Agriculture, Monocrops, nature, Permaculture, Pesticides, Philosophy, Profit, Round-Up, technology
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The Stomach-Churning Violence of the Agrochemical Oligopoly
By Colin Todhunter Source: OffGuardian As humans, we have evolved with the natural environment over millennia. We have learned what to eat and what not to eat, what to grow and how to grow it and our diets have developed accordingly. … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Environment, Geopolitics, Health, Neoliberalism, Science, Social Control, society, State Crime, Technology
Tagged Agrochemicals, Bayer, Big Ag, Biocides, Biotech, Corporate Globalization, environment, Food Security, Food System, geopolitics, Glyphosate, Health, Human Rights, Microbiome, Monocrops, Monsanto, Neoliberalism
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The Stomach-churning Violence of Monsanto, Bayer and the Agrochemical Oligopoly
By Colin Todhunter Source: RINF As humans, we have evolved with the natural environment over millennia. We have learned what to eat and what not to eat, what to grow and how to grow it and our diets have developed … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Environment, Health, Neoliberalism, Science, society, Technology
Tagged Agrochemicals, Big Agra, Biocides, Biotech, Corporate Globalization, Ecology, environment, Food System, Herbicides, Industrial Agriculture, Microbiome, Monocrops, Monsanto, Neoliberalism, Pesticides, Public Health
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The Globalisation of Bad Food and Poor Health: Sustainable Development or Sustainable Profits?
By Colin Todhunter Source: RINF The proportion of deaths due to cancer around the world increased from 12 percent in 1990 to 15 percent in 2013. Globally, cancer is already the second-leading cause of death after cardiovascular diseases. In India, government … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Environment, GMOs, Health, Science, society, State Crime
Tagged Agribusiness, Birth Defects, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Diabetes, Factory Farms, Fast Food, Free Trade, GE Food, Global Food System, Globalisation, GMOs, Green Revolution, Junk Food, local economies, Local Foods, Localisation, Malnutrition, Monocrops, obesity, Pesticides, pollution, Processed Foods, Soil, TTIP
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Poisoned Agriculture: Depopulation and Human Extinction
By Colin Todhunter Source: RINF There is a global depopulation agenda. The plan is to remove the ‘undesirables’, ‘the poor’ and others deemed to be ‘unworthy’ and a drain on finite resources. However, according to Rosemary Mason, the plan isn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Environment, Geopolitics, GMOs, Health, History, Science, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged Agribusiness, Agroecology, Depopulation, Eugenics, Gates Foundation, geopolitics, Glyphosate, GM Food, GMO, Green Revolution, Herbicides, Monocrops, Monoculture, Monsanto, Rockefeller Foundation, Roundup, The Royal Society
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Get Big or Get Out: Complex Systems and Reciprocal Ecocide
By Gary Gripp Source: The Hampton Institute For awhile now I have been saying that the complex systems which supposedly serve us actually serve themselves: they call the tune and we dance as directed. But I haven’t offered a whole … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, Environment, GMOs, Health, History, Science, society, Technology, war
Tagged agro-chemicals, Big Agribusiness, Gary Gripp, Genetic Engineering, GMOs, Green Revolution, Monocrops
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