BRAVO AGAIN TO THE YES MEN!!!! STICKIN' IT TO DA "ADM MAN"

Leave it to THE YES MEN to produce this brutally honest report on Arthur Daniels Midland.

ADM Tries to Take Down Funny Video; Big Business Has No Solutions; Now What?
CLICK TO SEE VIDEO REPORT:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbz89k_davos-annual-meeting-2010-adm-ceo-p_news

NATIONWIDE - February 4 - A legal complaint from agribusiness giant ADM has resulted in the removal from Youtube of a fake video of ADM's CEO making over-honest pronouncements. (The video is still available here, here, and, for download and reposting, here.)

Last week, the filmmaking team behind The End of Poverty? partnered with the Yes Men to create a parallel, imaginary World Economic Forum in which world leaders came up with real solutions to poverty. The leaders seemed, in a series of videos, to be supporting a set of initiatives based on 10 Solutions to End Poverty, a petition for which the filmmakers are trying to get ten million signatures by the end of 2010.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 4, 2010
9:02 AM

CONTACT: The Yes Men
scurrilous@theyesmen.org, bportello@cinemalibrestudio.com

WILL OHIO LEAD THE WAY FOR COMPASSIONATE FARMS?

Ohioans for Humane Farms Petitions to Put Measure on November Ballot Protecting Animal Welfare, Food Safety, Family Farmers and the Environment
COLUMBUS, Ohio - February 1 - Ohioans for Humane Farms submitted a petition-including signatures from Ohio voters in 48 counties, demonstrating broad and regionally diverse support-to Ohio's Attorney General in support of placing an anti-cruelty measure on the statewide November ballot. The proposed measure would allow voters to require the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board to adopt certain minimum standards that will prevent the cruel and inhumane treatment of farm animals, enhance food safety, protect the environment and strengthen Ohio family farms.

Utilizing a large volunteer base, the group will seek to collect more than 600,000 signatures of registered Ohio voters upon approval of the petition forms by the Secretary of State. The ballot measure is backed by The Humane Society of the United States, Farm Sanctuary, Ohio SPCA, Toledo Area Humane Society, Geauga Humane Society, Ohio League of Humane Voters, Center for Food Safety, United Farm Workers, Consumer Federation of America, Center for Science in the Public Interest, and a growing list of organizations.
Full Text: http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/02/01-12
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 1, 2010
8:19 PM
CONTACT: Farm Sanctuary
Erin Williams, The HSUS, 301-721-6446, ewilliams@humanesociety.org
Meredith Turner, Farm Sanctuary, 646-369-6212, mturner@farmsanctuary.or

MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD- BY FEBRUARY 16, 2010!

Who's protecting farmers and consumers from GE contamination? Not USDA

USDA has released for public comment its draft environmental impact statement (EIS) on Monsanto’s genetically engineered, Roudup Ready alfalfa, and unfortunately, USDA has not done its job. USDA has ignored the real-life concerns of non-GE alfalfa farmers, dairies, exporters, retailers and consumers. Despite public outcry, USDA’s determination is to once again approve GE alfalfa without any limitations or protections for consumers, the environment, or farmers’ right to sow the crop of their choice without fear of contamination and rejection of their products. Incredibly, USDA claims that consumers don’t care if organic and conventional farmers’ crops are contaminated!
In 2006, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) sued the Department of Agriculture (USDA) on behalf of farmers and others for its illegal approval of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready alfalfa and won, banning GE alfalfa until the USDA fully analyzed its impacts on the environment, farmers, and the public. However, the resulting EIS is woefully inadequate, leaving farmers and consumers unprotected while Monsanto goes on with business as usual.

This is the first time the USDA has done this type of analysis for any GE crop, so the final decision will have broad implications for all GE crops and for the future of organic agriculture—that is why it’s so important that USDA hear from YOU. USDA is only accepting comments on this EIS through February 16, 2010, so please take action today!
SEND YOUR COMMENTS: http://ga3.org/campaign/alfalfaEIS2/e5dwixs4fjet3jjm?

CALLING FOR A MORATORIUM ON GM FOODS!! THE U.S. ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS!

The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has just issued a call for an immediate moratorium on Genetically Manipulated (GMO) Foods.

In a just-released position paper on GMO foods, the AAEM states that ‘GM foods pose a serious health risk’ and calls for a moratorium on GMO foods. Citing several animal studies, the AAEM concludes ‘there is more than a casual association between GMO foods and adverse health effects’ and that ‘GM foods pose a serious health risk in the areas of toxicology, allergy and immune function, reproductive health, and metabolic, physiologic and genetic health.’ The report is a devastating blow to the multibillion dollar international agribusiness industry, most especially to Monsanto Corporation, the world’s leading purveyor of GMO seeds and related herbicides.

In a press release dated May 19, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, which describes itself as ‘an international association of physicians and other professionals dedicated to addressing the clinical aspects of environmental health,’ called immediately for the following emergency measures to be taken regarding human consumption of GMO foods:

* A moratorium on GMO food; implementation of immediate long term safety testing and labelling of GMO food.
* Physicians to educate their patients, the medical community and the public to avoid GMO foods.
* Physicians to consider the role of GMO foods in their patients’ disease processes.
* More independent long term scientific studies to begin gathering data to investigate the role of GMO foods on human health.

Full Text: http://www.citizens.org/?p=1841

MONSANTO & DUPONT DUKE IT OUT - DUPONT VOWS TO PRESS ON WITH ANTI-TRUST SUIT!

from: St. Louis Business Journal - by Kelsey Volkmann January 18, 2010 (excerpts)
U.S. District Court Judge Richard Webber decided that license agreements between the two companies contain an implied term that prohibits DuPont from stacking one if its proprietary genetic trait products, called Optimum GAT, with Monsanto’s Roundup Ready trait in soybeans or corn.

DuPont said its separate antitrust and patent fraud claims filed against Monsanto in June 2009 aren’t affected by Friday’s ruling and will proceed.

“This litigation is just the beginning. We will now vigorously pursue our antitrust, license and patent fraud claims,” DuPont Senior Vice President and General Counsel Thomas Sager said in a statement Saturday. “Monsanto’s efforts in the litigation make its intent crystal-clear: to deny independent seed companies and America’s farmers the ability to create and plant the seeds that work best for them.”
Full Text: http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2010/01/18/daily5.html

WELLNESS CITY CHALLENGE!!! KICKOFF FEB 5, 2010

GALA EVENT TO KICK OFF THE OFFICIAL
WELLNESS CITY CHALLENGE!
February 5th, 2010
19 Cities Join the 5-year Model Challenge Kick-Off with Northern California. East Bay's Contra Costa/Martinez city challenge leads the District in an all-Martinez-Schools-included healthy eating campaign to wipe out childhood obesity and childhood diabetes...Puttin' On The Glitz!


http://wellnesscitychallenge.com/
http://puttinontheglitz.eventbrite.com/%C2%A0
http://augustwolf.com/publicmedia/

OBAMA: STOP MONSANTO! WE BELIEVE IN GMO-FREE FOOD NOW!!

Obama USDA Poised to Take Away Our Right to GMO-Free Food
-by Ronnie Cummins, Founder, Director of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA)
Huffington Post January 21, 2010

Don't believe Monsanto's green-washing. Genetically modified organisms (GMOs), aren't meant to feed the world or survive the evermore frequent droughts and floods brought on by global warming - they're designed to sell Monsanto's herbicide Roundup and the patented "Roundup Ready" genes now spliced into millions of acres of corn, cotton, soy, canola, sugar beets and alfalfa. A 2009 study showed that, in 13 years, Roundup Ready crops increased herbicide use by 383 million pounds.

During the Bush administration, the movement to stop GMOs was making progress. Reflecting public concern over GMOs, in 2007, a Federal court ruled that the Bush USDA's approval of Roundup Ready alfalfa violated the law because it failed to analyze risks such as the contamination of conventional and organic alfalfa and the development of "super-weeds." The court banned the planting of GM alfalfa until USDA completed a rigorous analysis of these impacts. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals twice affirmed the national ban on Roundup Ready alfalfa planting, but Monsanto is appealing. They're taking organic alfalfa farmers all the way to the Supreme Court!

We must stop the Obama administration from taking away our right to grow and consume organic and GMO-free food. http://capwiz.com/grassrootsnetroots/mailapp/
The "change we believe in" is a healthy and sustainable future based upon organic food and farming and a green economy.

Read Full Text:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ronnie-cummins/obama-usda-poised-to-take_b_432185.html