A report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation (”Blackwater’s Black Ops,” 9/15/2010) revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (now called Xe Services) clandestine intelligence services was sold to the multinational Monsanto. Blackwater was renamed in 2009 after becoming famous in the world with numerous reports of abuses in Iraq, including massacres [...]

Food inflation is here and it’s here to stay. We can see it getting worse every time we buy groceries. Basic food commodities like wheat, corn, soybeans, and rice have been skyrocketing since July, 2010 to record highs. These sustained price increases are only expected to continue as food production shortfalls really begin to take [...]

GMOs, or genetically modified organisms, are becoming a lot more prevalent in North American food and due to the lack of GMO labeling, consumers have difficulty avoiding foods that contain genetically modified ingredients.
Unfortunately, an estimated 70% of the food in North American stores contain bio-engineered elements and that number is only expected to increase as [...]

Just in case you thought it was fine to eat Genetically Modified foods (better identified as “FrankenFoods”), along comes a study which makes it clear that you are eating this make believe non-food at your own peril and, worse yet, you are feeding it to your kids at their peril as well.
It is important [...]

Barroso, Sarkozy, Brown, Merkel and other European leaders are secretly preparing an unprecedented campaign to spread GM crops and foods throughout the continent, confidential documents obtained by The Independent on Sunday reveal.
The documents — minutes of a series of private meetings of representatives of 27 governments — disclose plans to “speed up” the introduction of [...]