At first, it was just the whisperings of a few who could easily be dismissed as crazies, but now it has become too big to ignore. The United Nations has confirmed that honey-bee colonies are mysteriously disappearing across the globe. After first being noticed in the US and Europe, the disappearance of managed bee colonies has spread to China, Japan and Egypt. Why are bees important? They are pollinators and they are even more crucial now when there are mounting concerns about food sufficiency.
Mar 162011
Watch Cuke lead the organic rebellion to free Princess Lettuce from the clutches of the evil Darth (GM) Potato. May the (organic) Farm be with you!
Dec 262010
Cables released by Wikileaks have exposed United State diplomatic efforts to strongly back the corporate push for GM crops to be accepted in Europe and elsewhere. Not only that, the US diplomats under the Bush administration recommended retaliatory action against a list of ‘targets’ in Europe for failing to embrace GMOs. In a leaked cable, US Ambassador to France Craig Stapleton wrote: Country team Paris recommends that we calibrate a target retaliation list that causes some pain across the EU since this is a collective responsibility, but that also focuses in part on the worst culprits. The list should be measured rather than vicious and must be sustainable over the long term, since we should not expect an early victory.