The G8 scheme does nothing to address the problems that are at the core of hunger and malnutrition but will serve only to further poverty and inequality. By Jill Richardson, reposted by permission from the author from Alternet Driving through Ngong Hills, not far from Nairobi, Kenya, the corn on one side of the road […]
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The Daily Show and Colbert Report Bite Back against the Pesticide Industry
After the pesticide industry “shuddered” at the thought of an organic garden on the White House lawn, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart have exposed the laughability of their reaction through a couple clips on their nightly satire shows. Monstanto, the Mid-America Croplife Association (whose funders include BASF, Bayer, Dow Chemical, DuPont, Monsanto, and Syngenta), and […]