GMO

How one GMO plant nearly took down the planet

Submitted by Caerus on Fri, 08/05/2016 - 10:39am

This is not click bait.
Wait til you watch and hear what Thom Hartmann has to tell us.
It was close, very close.

This hits hard. We worked hard in MA to pass a Right to Know bill. GMA ( Grocery Manufacturers of America) spent money, lots of money, lobbied hard, played the fear card, even the Democrats folded. Very sad.

Of course, this new law will also mean the much stronger VT law will eliminated. Sick. Sad. Scary!

Morning Greens Open Thread - September 8, 2015

Submitted by MarilynW on Tue, 09/08/2015 - 7:00am

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Aerial pictures reveal rampant illegal logging in Peru's Amazon forest


Only from the air is it possible to make out the scale of three illegal logging roads which have been carved into Peru’s eastern Amazon, while local authorities in the jungle Ucayali region seemingly turn a blind eye.

Huddled in a twin-engine Cessna 402, the Guardian saw as many as 20 lorries carrying tree trunks plying their way up and down three dirt roads, each estimated to measure up to 32 miles. Dotted by stockpiles of logs and workers’ camps, the roads led to barges on a dock on the Ucayali river, a major tributary of the Amazon, a few dozen miles from the regional capital Pucallpa.