World-News

Jill Richardson, AlterNet: Monsanto controls our food, poisons our land and influences all three branches of government. By 2000, the company had undergone such a sea change from its founding a century before that it claims it is almost a different company.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/15856-how-monsanto-went-from-selling-aspirin-to-controlling-our-food-supply



Don t Let Monsanto Kill the Humble but Wholesome Dandelion

Phreddy Wischusen, The Michigan Citizen: The Dandelion is often pegged as a weed, especially by Monsanto and home/lawn owners in the United States, but the flower is actually an incredibly nutritious food.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/15982-dont-let-monsanto-kill-the-humble-but-wholesome-dandelion

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Peru says no to GMO

Christian Science Monitor

04/25/13

There isn t much local Chef Pedro Miguel Schiaffino won t eat. His highly accliamed Amaz restaurant is devoted to finding and using Amazonian food native to the country, like a 600-pound freshwater fish or a little-known fruit nicknamed 'cannonball' that tastes like a cross between a guava, coconut, and melon. But a year ago Mr. Schiaffino stopped eating supermarket tomatoes. Even though Peru is the birthplace of the crop, it s difficult to find anything other than hard, pale Roma tomatoes in supermarkets, and Schiaffino says that worried him...

http://tinyurl.com/bhwby7x


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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New GM Nightmares with RNA
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/New_GM_nightmares_with_RNA.php



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