'After researching the health hazards of GM foods and associated herbicides, Pederson decided to stop feeding his 450 sows with GM soybean, replacing them with fishmeal and non-GM soybean instead. He began to notice health benefits after two days of a GM-free diet. The farmer’s account has since been published in an English dossier compiled by scientist Brian John of GM-free Cymru (Wales), with collaboration from Pederson, published online by GM Watch'
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'Recently followers of Food Freedom or FarmWars or PPJ would have read of the insane and Unexplained rush to eradicate a whole lot of Old Breed and Heritage Pigs in certain AmeriKKan states by the USDA swat teams.
No sane explanations given as to why the sudden rush to remove everything they can that isn’t in a CAFO and an inbred weak pink piggy.
The sheer insanity of culling what are precious rare breeds with hugely valuable gene pools, and yeah, okay, some mongrel crosses, but owned and constrained and cared for none the less. But this campaign seemed ONLY to be targeting well cared for owned and small farmed breeders.'Read more...
'Monsanto’s Food and Drug Administration can’t close down small dairies and private food clubs fast enough, bursting on the scene with guns drawn as if the criminalized right to contract for natural foods we’ve consumed for millennia deserves SWAT attention.
Now, Obama has the Dept. of Justice going after small farmers under the post-911 “Bank Secrecy Act” which makes it a crime to deposit less than $10,000 when you earned more than that.“The level we deposited was what it was and it was about the same every week,” Randy Sowers told Frederick News. The Sowers own and run South Mountain Creamery in Middletown, Maryland.Admittedly, when the Sowers earned over $10,000 in February, and learned they’d have to fill out paperwork at the bank for such large deposits, they simply rolled the deposits over to keep them below the none-of-your-fucking-business amount, rather than waste time on bureaucratic red tape aimed at flagging terrorism or other illegal activities.'Read more...
