The Veggie Thread...for news items regarding ALL aspects of food production.
June 14, 2013 at 1:26 am
(This post was last modified: June 14, 2013 at 1:27 am by KichigaiNeko.)
This thread is created to make it easier to put any food production news items in one spot. With the current alarm over food security and the useage of GMO I find many items in my news feeds that may be of interest to others on this forum....
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http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?Ne...bn1J5XKPzI
This is 2 years old.
UN expert makes case for ecological farming practices to boost food production
I have put this in the Monsanto thread but thought it could also go here.
http://grist.org/food/look-whos-squealin...sick-pigs/
By Tom Laskawy 13 June 2013
Look who’s squealing now: GMO lovers freak over new study of sick pigs
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http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?Ne...bn1J5XKPzI
This is 2 years old.
UN expert makes case for ecological farming practices to boost food production
Quote:8 March 2011 – Small-scale farmers can double food production in a decade by using simple ecological methods, according to the findings of a new United Nations study released today, which calls for a fundamental shift towards agroecology as a poverty alleviation measure.
“To feed 9 billion people in 2050, we urgently need to adopt the most efficient farming techniques available,” says Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food and author of the report, entitled “Agro-ecology and the right to food.”
I have put this in the Monsanto thread but thought it could also go here.
http://grist.org/food/look-whos-squealin...sick-pigs/
By Tom Laskawy 13 June 2013
Look who’s squealing now: GMO lovers freak over new study of sick pigs
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