By Jess Halliday, reprinted from FoodNavigator.com and posted 07-Feb-2011

The food industry should not rage against the idea of professionalised local food systems, nor unleash its lobbying force to uproot them before their green shoots can reach maturity. Rather, it should explore ways to benefit from local foods and, in turn, foster their development. Continue reading →

Americans love cheap food. We spend less of our incomes on food now than ever before. In 1949, we allotted 22% of our incomes to food. In 2009, that figure dropped to only 10% (about half of what the Japanese and French spend). Seems good until you correlate another set of statistics. Back in 1959, only 4% of children were overweight. Today that figure has climbed to 19%. In 1979, 28% of adults were overweight. Now it’s a shocking 64%.
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(AP) – Want an easy way to sum up how Americans ate during the first 10 years of the new century? Three words should do it:

Sushi at 7-Eleven. Continue reading →

The Associated Press just uncovered a series of confidential commercial licensing agreements that give around 200 smaller companies the right to insert Monsanto’s genes (resistant to their Roundup herbicide) in their corn and soybean plants.

This means that Monsanto will OWN and CONTROL roughly 95 percent of all soybeans and 80 percent of all corn grown in the U.S. Monsanto is blocking competition in the seed industry, forcing farmers into growing genetically modified crops, and all the while increasing seed prices. Now, when farmers buy bags of seed from obscure brand names, they are paying for Monsanto’s seeds. To read the AP article, click here.
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