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21 07, 2018

From the Hill: Trump taps pesticide company exec to be USDA’s chief scientist

By |2018-07-21T01:25:26-04:00July 21st, 2018|Uncategorized|

  Photo by Srikanta H. U   "President Trump this week named a former Dow Chemical Company executive who worked in the company's pesticide division to be chief scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the third major hire of a Dow alumnus in his administration. Trump on Monday announced his intention

29 07, 2012

Robyn O’Brien Says Stick Your Heart Out

By |2017-11-10T21:07:02-05:00July 29th, 2012|Allergy Kids, Bill Couzens, Cancer, Chemical Companies, Couzens, Farming, Food, GMO, Less Cancer, Prevention, Robyn O'Brien, seed|

In a recent blog post in Prevention Robyn O'Brien founder of Allergy Kids had been invited to speak to a group of 400 in Montana that included farmers, parents, foodies and agriculturalists. As O'Brien reports, she opened the night to questions, reporting a farmer’s daughter spoke hesitatingly at first about seed companies and global banks.  O'Brien makes

24 07, 2012

Annie Leonard’s New Movie Story of Change

By |2017-11-10T21:07:02-05:00July 24th, 2012|Bill Couzens, Cancer, Couzens, Detroit, MIddleburg, Middleburg Virginia, Uncategorized|

I am a big fan of the "process" used in the  Story of Stuff Project. The Story of Stuff Project was founded in 2008 by Annie Leonard as response to a need  for more information and ways to get involved. The Story of Stuff Project , is a series of online movies that are, brief and easily

10 07, 2012

Can Organics be Oversized ?

By |2017-11-10T21:07:02-05:00July 10th, 2012|Uncategorized|

  The fact is, organic food has become a wildly lucrative business for Big Food and a premium-price-means-premium-profit section of the grocery store. The industry’s image — contented cows grazing on the green hills of family-owned farms — is mostly pure fantasy. Or rather, pure marketing. Big Food, it turns out, has spawned what might

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