NEWS and READS

• Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip from Leo Murray on Vimeo. "This really isn’t about polar bears any more. At this very moment, the fate of civilization itself hangs in the balance."
  
  
  
   
• GMO-Compass
• Roots from the chicory plant reduce boar taint and can make castration of male pigs redundant. More (pdf)
• The University of Georgia compared multiple varieties of commercially available cotton, including non-GE cotton and GE cotton in regards to yields and profits. More (pdf)
• Who benefits from GM crops? The rise in pesticide use, January 2008. (pdf) Friends of Earth International
• The Case For A GM-Free Sustainable World, Independent Science Panel (read the report, pdf)
• KIVA: Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can "sponsor a business" and help the world's working poor make great strides towards economic independence.
• Plant Update Antibiotics: Routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock may be contaminating the environment (pdf)
• One continent - one goal? See the North America's SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc. and the North American Union (pdf)
• The Tyee, British Columbia's online source for News, Views, and Culture, published weekdays
• The Non-GMO Project is a nonprofit organization dedicated to enabling the public to make informed choices with regard to the consumption of genetically modified food products.
• No Patents on Seeds: For several years, patents on genetically modified seeds and animals have been granted worldwide. The damaging impacts on farmers, who are deprived of their rights to save their seeds, and on breeders who can no longer use the patented seeds freely for further breeding, are well known.