Monsanto’s Roundup Faces European Politics and U.S. Lawsuits, NY Times October 4
Ongoing litigation against Monsanto over Roundup, and its connection to cancer
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Legal Marijuana is almost here. If only pot farmers were on board, Sept 9, 2017
California, which by one estimate produces seven times more marijuana than it consumes, will probably continue to be a major exporter — illegally — to other states. In part, that is because of the huge incentive to stay in the black market: marijuana on the East Coast sells for several times more than in California.
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Quiet Epidemic of Suicide Claims France’s Farmers, NY Times Aug 20, 2017
But falling milk prices, accumulating debts, depression and worries about his health in middle age became too much to bear.
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Fighting Eviction, a Gardener Turns to Organic Industry Giants for Help- April, 2017
A community garden in Los Angeles that is threatened with eviction has gained the support of some high-profile leaders from the organic and natural food movements.
Now, the heads of Annie’s Homegrown, a division of General Mills, and other food companies have taken to social media to help raise the $500,000 needed to buy the property that Mr. Finley rents and uses to grow a variety of fruits, vegetables and flowers for his neighborhood.
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Medical detectives in western Uganda recently discovered that the wrong culprit had been blamed for an outbreak of crippling elephantiasis — legs so swollen that they resemble those of an elephant.
As it turned out, one rare, neglected tropical disease had been mistaken for another.
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How Ants figured out Farming Millions of years before Humans- April 12, 2017
We humans think we’re pretty smart because we invented farming. But we didn’t.
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A Woman’s Death sorting Grapes Exposes Italy’s Slavery- April 11, 2017
After months of investigation, this year the authorities arrested six people, accusing them of using their recruiting and transportation agencies to extort wages from women so poor and desperate they dared not speak up and worked under extreme conditions.
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A Staten Island Urban Farmer- NY Times Mar 10, 2017
Formerly farmers at Happy Acres Farm in Sherman as Empress Greens. Very happy to read that they are doing well in Staten Island:
Zaro Bates operates and lives on a 5,000-square-foot farm on Staten Island, which may make her the city’s only commercial farmer-in-residence. But instead of a shingled farmhouse surrounded by acres of fields, Ms. Bates lives in a second-floor studio in a midrise apartment complex built on the site of a former naval base overlooking New York Bay. Read more here.
Got Almond Milk? Dairy Farms Protest Milk Label on Nondairy Drinks, Feb. 13, 17, New York Times
If milk comes from a plant, can you still call it milk?
Not according to the dairy industry. Facing growing competition from dairy alternatives like almond, soy and coconut milk, the nation’s dairy farmers are fighting back, with an assist from Congress. Their goal: to stop companies from calling their plant-based products yogurt, milk or cheese. Dairy farmers say the practice misleads consumers into thinking that nondairy milk is nutritionally similar to cow’s milk.
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