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25.01.2022 Ultra-processed foods use cheap, low nutrition, often GM, ingredients - starches, vege oils, fat, salt and sugars with fake colours, flavours and emulsifiers to... make the sludge look, smell and taste ok. Such so-called foods wreck health, yet people eat more than before, driven by food addictions, poverty and global Big Food's aggressive marketing and lobbying in ever more places. Some Latin American countries are calling a halt on junk foods. so should we. https://theconversation.com/the-rise-of-ultra-processed-foo Research paper https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/12/7/1955 See more
22.01.2022 Louise Sales from Friends of the Earth's Emerging Tech Project talks to Dirt Radio's John Langer about the risky experiments with GM cattle and geoengineering that are going on in our backyard. https://www.3cr.org.au//miracle-cows-cloud-brightening-pat
22.01.2022 The authors, Juan Munoz, Tammy Bleak and Gloria Calaf, each affiliated with the University of Tarapacá in Chile, said their paper is the first review to consolidate the mechanistic evidence on glyphosate as an endocrine-disrupting chemical
22.01.2022 Watch ABC Landline. Europe will pay a $100 premium for non-GM canola but it must be grown without toxins banned in the EU, even though they are approved here. T...o stay on the grain export gravy train, Australian agriculture must clean up its act. https://www.abc.net.au//canola-chemical-ban:-warn/12633818 See more
21.01.2022 Big Ag is continuing its quest to take over our food supply.
21.01.2022 Local and diverse food systems work best when they have community infrastructure and community ownership. Food Connect has been building their community-based e...nterprise in Brisbane for 15 years, and last year established the first community-owned food hub in Australia. We're catching up with Rob and Emma-Kate next week 12 August for our next Solidarity Session, to talk about the Food Connect model and the importance of community-owned supply chains. This is so relevant right now as parts of Australia continue to grapple with the problems of centralised, corporate-owned, industrialised supply chains. Come along and find out more about how Food Connect has achieved this, and what community-owned supply chains could look like in your community. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/115315455632
20.01.2022 Watch SGRN's webinar "From Gates to your plates: How the corporatization of agriculture worsened the food crisis amid COVID 19" now! Please leave a comment for ...your questions and reactions. We will try to accommodate as many as we can in the open forum. Use the hashtag #DefendOurRice #FightForOurRights #FoodSecurityForAll for your social media posts.
19.01.2022 A mouse is injected with a genetically manipulated human pandemic virus in a high security lab, for research purposes. Then the infected mouse bites a researche...r. This is not a Hollywood plot but real events at the University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill, in April or May 2020. https://www.independentsciencenews.org//engineered-covid-/ Cause for concern about our own Level 4 lab, the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) in Geelong Vic? https://www.csiro.au/en/Research/Facilities/ACDP See more
18.01.2022 While food additives that cause hyperactivity in children have pretty much been removed from the food supply in Europe, our food regulator Food Standards Austra...lia New Zealand (FSANZ) has failed to take any action. No wonder we are #fedupwithfsanz https://www.fedup.com.au///food-colours-shame-on-you-fsanz See more
18.01.2022 We'll drink to that! Onkaparinga Council which governs the iconic McLaren Vale food and wine region voted last night to apply to Minister David Basham - Member ...for Finniss to declare the region a GM free crop zone. The wine industry says lifting the GM crop moratorium would cost the region millions. https://indaily.com.au//key-sa-wine-region-leads-push-to-/ Please tell the Minister to back GM-free. T: 08 8552 2152 E: [email protected] See more
17.01.2022 BREAKING: Watch the trailer for the film, "Don't Let The Gene Out of the Bottle." This film exposes the world-altering effects of genetic engineering, featuring... chilling testimony from experts: Dr. Elaine Ingham, Dr. Jonathan Latham, Claire Robinson, and Jim Thomas. https://protectnaturenow.com/shortfilm See more
16.01.2022 Find out how Farmer Incubator is growing Australia's future farmers with a focus on food sovereignty, quality, and security.
13.01.2022 This book tells the story of the small-scale farming and fishing communities who provide 70% of the food we eat, in harmony with the lands and waters that sustain us.
13.01.2022 A US District Court in California rules that when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved plans to grow and commercialize GM salmon in the USA it ignore...d the full extent of serious environmental impacts, nationally and globally. The court said this violated the National Environmental Policy Act. The FDA’s unilateral decision that GM salmon could not affect highly-endangered, wild Atlantic salmon was also wrong and violated the Endangered Species Act. FDA must now reanalyze the full impacts of a GM salmon escape into the wild. https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org//2020-10-05-ecf-285--o See more
12.01.2022 EOFY 2020 Tax Appeal Please Donate by 30 JUNE for The GM-Free True Food Guide...Continue reading
09.01.2022 Next up in Solidarity Sessions - fostering food communities in the city and building a stronger urban food system with community gardens,. We're talking to Cul...tivating Community about 22 years of empowering communities to access food, build connections and share culture. We'll also be talking how that strength of community mobilised during the pandemic to provide food relief through Moving Feast. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/afsa-solidarity-session-8-e
06.01.2022 GM-Free labelling is essential for consumer rights and consumer protection!
04.01.2022 The global pandemic has exposed the flaws in our current highly concentrated, inequitable, industrial food system. At this moment, we stand at the crossroads wi...th two starkly different, and fundamentally incompatible, visions for the future of food. One leads us to resilience, regeneration, and justice for communities, biodiversity, and our climate. The other entrenches current health, social and economic inequities, and worsens our climate and biodiversity crises. http://emergingtech.foe.org.au/what-will-be-the-future-of-/ See more
03.01.2022 This week our pesticides regulator the APVMA doubled the level of glyphosate residues deemed safe in barley. But there is good news for those of us wanting to get glyphosate out of our bodies.
