NOTE: “screen capture” of Oxitec’s “Team” (March 26, 2017) is at bottom. It’s a marriage made-in-heaven for the biotech industry (biotech big Pharma AND biotech Agriculture). http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=22757167 Company Overview Oxitec Ltd. operates as a biotechnology company that provides solutions for controlling insects that spread diseases and damage crops. It offers Aedes aegypti OX513A, a bisex […]
Note: the tour includes a location near Orillia ON. Saturday, May 23rd is the next international March Against Monsanto. A list of the Canadian events and links to other information is at http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=9497 Back to Neil Young: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-recording-new-album-with-willie-nelsons-sons-20150108 Neil Young will bring Willie Nelson’s sons Lukas (pictured) and Micah to promote their new album ‘The […]
Have a listen, music video, the rockin’ party music for May 23rd . You’ll like it, even if you can’t march! Time to get groups up and going. Doesn’t take much. Ask, if you need help. A call to some friends, name a date, time and place for people to congregate for the March. Keep […]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gmdebate/Story/0,2763,1083640,00.html Cabinet papers warn Canada off GM crops Farmers fear long-term threat to food exports Paul Brown, environment correspondent Thursday November 13, 2003 The Guardian (UK) A secret briefing to the Canadian government has warned that the country’s massive food exports are at risk from its continued use of GM crops. The paper, which has […]
Kudos! to Larry Powell for his excellent, humorous rebuttal to the new President of Croplife Canada, Ted Menzies, former MP. Blogger Responds to Accusations from CropLife Canada. http://www.planetinperil.ca/2014/09/blogger-responds-to-accusations-from.html (I appended a copy, in case the above URL becomes invalid.) PRIOR TO MENZIES, LORNE HEPWORTH was 20-YEAR PRESIDENT OF CROP-LIFE, WHAT ABOUT HIM? 1. […]
A comprehensive article (below), excellent info. ASIDE: Biotech stocks have been plummeting. Wall Street Journal. The biotech ETF has dropped 23% since peaking in late February. Attributed to being “oversold”. http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/04/15/biotech-stocks-take-out-key-technical-level-as-plummet-continues/ The next March Against Monsanto (MAM) is May 24, 2014. Is there one in your community? I have added a couple of new Canadian […]
With many organizations now putting out lengthy lists of “good news stories” I have the impression of a rapidly mobilizing, empowered citizenry. It’s like spring has arrived; there is new life shooting up everywhere around us! I selected just a few examples. Can’t celebrate if we don’t know about them! 1. 2014-04-17 Monsanto and Big Food […]
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25721241 I think I’ll start raising my own pigs! This newscast reminds me that the Chinese have bought Smithfield Foods in the U.S. – one of the largest American meat producers, remembered from the battles over intensive livestock operations and the decimation of farmers. You can see this next wave in the industrialized food supply, […]
Hi Kimberly, Many thanks for the film Unacceptable Levels. (Trailer at http://www.unacceptablelevels.com/) You address an issue near and dear to my heart. I can tell from the trailer that it covers the bases. I’m looking forward to viewing the film. You help empower people by presenting the film. They will help spread the word. For […]
By JIM ROBBINS ON the first of November, when Mexicans celebrate a holiday called the Day of the Dead, some also celebrate the millions of monarch butterflies that, without fail, fly to the mountainous fir forests of central Mexico on that day. They are believed to be souls of the dead, returned. This year, for or […]