Late Snack: Land Grab Edition
Raiding the internet fridge ...
- Maywa Montenegro writes more on wealthier countries buying the farmland of poorer countries, as 50 million acres of farmland disappear each year.
- Yes, it really is accurate to call it swine flu, so says CDC virologist Ruben Donis.
- The global power of the livestock industry has politically protected its massive farms as they jump started the evolution of microbial disease.
- Bon Appetit cafes will no longer serve tomatoes picked by slave labor, going toe to toe with Florida growers who have refused to pass on previously agreed wage increases to their workers.
- Debt slavery for agricultural workers is on the rise in Brazil.
- Indeed, I am unmoved by vitamin-boosted GMO corn. The safety testing just isn't there and no one knows what else they futz up when they blast DNA into plant embryos to be picked up at random points.
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