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  If you haven't already seen it, you should read Let Them Eat Cash. I really think you will not want to have missed it.On Worldwatch gets $1.3 million Gates grant to look at sustainable ag in Africa posted 4 months, 1 week ago 3 Responses

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  For a week or so now depleted uranium tainted dust/sand has been blowing all over Kurdistan and even reaching up to Tehran... so... I'm thinking maybe we deserve to be terrified of our food and food czars....

  Maybe I just need a nap.

  On Monsanto's man Taylor returns to FDA in food-czar role posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago 14 Responses

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  Thank you.

  On Uncomfortable facts about the swine flu outbreak posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago 8 Responses

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  Time #4!  I just finished having my little fit about it before I came here.  Thanks.

  On Obama: what swine flu? posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago 2 Responses

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  I don't know. I'm always wary of both the people who sound too hysterical and the people who sound too level-headed in these sorts of situations. I think Tom's post struck just the right tone when we are faced with a corporate megalith that has very obviously been trying to sit on the people rather than solve the problem. The slowness to deal appropriately with this has heavily to do with pressure from the factory farm owners, and so it is vital that their influence be countered with extreme pressure from the rest of us. Maybe there is another cause than the outrageously unhygienic mess they've made of the Perote Valley, and the appalling pig corpses laying around, but the factory farm is the most likely source by far.

  I guess I'm trying to say that this doesn't seem to be taking into account the kind of perfidies that can be, and I think have been, brought to bear on any investigation of this matter, and a too ready willingness to just sit back and wait for the agencies involved to make their eventual determination sounds like a promise to just take at face value whatever they may be pressured into reporting... in this world, and in this day and age, not exactly likely to be the facts, but rather more likely to be what they think we will swallow.

  Plus, it seems to me it was reported here, also by Tom, that Smithfield is in the middle of trying to sell itself to a Chinese megalith, which makes it the more likely they will fight to the death to keep any chance of liability for this covered up.  It already feels like it with all the squirrelly stuff coming out of DHS, CDC, and WHO.  So, by all means, this should be investigated right down to the last DNA strand, but it will not resolve in the public's favor unless there is intense pressure.  I'm thinking that Russia and China riding WHO may be our best chance to see this gets tracked down and addressed properly.

  On Don't jump to conclusions on swine flu and pork production posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago 6 Responses